Archived Posts from: February, 2007

A Message from a Friend

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I sometimes love–sometimes even weep–over how things come together. Earlier this evening, I got an email about sending in a copy of a book for the basket giveaway that the Love Inspired Authors site does every quarter. I’m going to send one in, but I thought I’d throw in one of the little prayer books [...]

Accountability

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Our craft sessions for the retreat were conducted by Candace Havens, who presented an abbreviated version of her online workshops on Fast Drafts (aka, a book in two weeks) and Revision Hell (what happens after you do a book in two weeks). Mighty fine. Candy has more credentials that many of the speakers I’ve heard [...]

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Although….anyone who thinks a writer’s retreat is relaxing either has never been to one – or isn’t taking advantage of it. The body may be in a chair, or a bed, or on a bench by the lake, but the mind is in furious high gear. One of our morning exercises was to come up [...]

Out of It…Again

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The last weekend of February is the annual retreat for the local RWA group – the Music City Romance Writers. This year, we’re at Natchez Trace State Park, which, as with many of the Tennessee parks, is both chock full of history as well as beauty. Despite my resolve to stay away from agents until [...]

…yawn…

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It’s 5:30 am and I am so NOT a morning person. I get up at 5 during the week to give Rachel meds and coffee, so both have time to get into her system before we really have to start about 5:50 or so. Just wasn’t sure if I’d have time to blog much today, [...]

Stanislavski vs. Saturday Night Live

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Ah, Marti, your insights are remarkable! (Folks, see the comment below, if you haven’t checked it out.) For some reason, your ADD vs NonADD ways of working got me to thinking about acting. In college, I studied the Stanislavski Method, but didn’t quite take to it. For a while, I thought I was just a [...]

Procrastinating again

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I swear, sometimes I have procrastination down to a fine art. I’m pretty much on an even keel again at work, and I’m well. The house is…well…not condemnable, and the laundry is caught up. Rachel is bathed…you get the picture. My freelance is done, and all I have left are some contest entries I have [...]

Aging Recess

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I feel as if I’ve had a two-day recess, back when “recess” involved a bunch of kids running around a playground with bare supervision, no matter what the weather, so that when you returned to the schoolroom, grinning wildly and smelling strongly of a the sweat of a dozen of your closest friends, you were [...]

Regaining My Footing

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For the past few weeks, I’ve felt as if I were engaged in a battle against myself. Deadlines at work, at home. A trip which I probably shouldn’t have taken, money I could have used better elsewhere. Stress on the job for a project that is finally, finally coming to an end. Sickness…Rachel and I [...]

Swamped

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It has been a day of paddling fast in a chicken-wire canoe. In fact, much of the week has been like that. Sales conference prep, plus the other stuff…I didn’t realize until Tuesday that I was still a zombie from Chicago, so I tried to get some extra rest Tuesday and Wednesday. “Extra” being a [...]