Why writers are boring
Saturday, April 18th, 2009 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniI got nothing but word count. What're y'all doing this weekend, you interesting people, you? Tell, tell!
Progress on Mouse and Dragon
"Aelliana, this is Clarence O'Berin. You may hear him referred to as 'Boss O'Berin,' or only as 'Boss.'"
edited to fix the spelling of Clarence's name, sigh
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"Aelliana, this is Clarence O'Berin. You may hear him referred to as 'Boss O'Berin,' or only as 'Boss.'"
edited to fix the spelling of Clarence's name, sigh
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Date: 2009-04-18 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 12:04 am (UTC)Tomorrow I am going to visit my friends with the new twins and hold babies.
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Date: 2009-04-19 12:07 am (UTC)Am boring, me.
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Date: 2009-04-19 12:33 am (UTC)I'm waiting for the plumber
Date: 2009-04-19 01:39 am (UTC)Re: I'm waiting for the plumber
Date: 2009-04-19 05:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 12:41 am (UTC)I am reading your blog as a method of further procrastination. My brother and sister-in-law arrive tomorrow night and MUCH more shoveling-out of the house is needed.
On another subject entirely, you might be interested in dropping by CJ Cherryh's blog one of these days http://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore/ and seeing if she and Lynn Rosen and Jane Fancher have gotten their e-book offers up and running. They have retrieved the rights to some of their long out-of-print backlist and are aiming to make them available. Sort of a personal version of Webscriptions. All part of the movement of authors taking back their livelihoods from publishers who no longer seem to even be literate. (SRM and Baen excepted)
Abigail
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Date: 2009-04-19 01:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 01:27 am (UTC)Saturday - sleep, try to recover from a cold, Minn-StF Board Meeting at 12N, back home to pick up
Sunday - up at 5am to work 7am-7pm (Sunday is my Monday).
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Date: 2009-04-19 01:39 am (UTC)Sunday, visiting a Green Bay Akita breeder. Puppies!
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Date: 2009-04-19 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 02:10 am (UTC)Mon 13 Apr: Burial, homeplace.
Tues 14 Apr: Adoption of 8 month old female puppy, Humane Society.
Monday: scheduled Vet visit.
Forseeable future: Puppy training.
Eta
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Date: 2009-04-19 02:31 am (UTC)Sunday: planting and related activities
Next two weeks: praying that the DC area misses it's usual late April frost because I am sick of winter and am pushing the envelope.
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Date: 2009-04-19 02:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 03:20 am (UTC)We've got a houseful of kids (20-something kids) for tonight, and breakfast tomorrow.
Pancakes. Sausage. Bacon. Fruit.
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Date: 2009-04-19 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 04:22 am (UTC)Milo, the 5 months old got a Best of Breed and a 2nd Best of Breed in a class of 16 Maine Coon kittens (and a bunch of them were older than him and he had two 7 months old in his color class to get by first) and he got a 2nd best Allbreed kitten final and an 8th best Allbreed final! Yay!
And to put icing on the cake one of my 4 months old, Tip aka Firemountain Calm Skies, who is a really funky color aka cameo tabby with white, possibly shaded, for those in the know, got a 2nd Best of Breed in one ring over pretty much every other cat who was older than him.
I'm mighty proud and the 7 hours spent bathing and the 7 hour drive there and now the other 4 1/2 left to get home tomorrow were well worth it. :)
And we get to do it all over again next week, hopefully with another good show at the end of it.
Exhausted but happy with 5 kittens gamboling about... I'm off to bed.
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Date: 2009-04-29 01:26 am (UTC)It depends upon how you define "boring"...
Date: 2009-04-19 04:22 am (UTC)Me, I'm writing! Big surprise, that.
I've discovered that I have to generate more minor characters to get the story moving where I want it to go.
I know not about anyone else, but I'm having a ball!
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Date: 2009-04-19 09:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 11:31 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-04-19 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 04:25 pm (UTC)I had an author from Fairfax, VA in for a book release/signing Saturday. It's a debut novel and he was just overjoyed to be here. I'd already sold one of his books to Barb (who couldn't be here that day) and as I handed it to him to sign, he said, "First bookstore sale! Yay!" The only time I noticed how nice and warm it was, was the moment I went out to have my picture taken with the author in front of the Author Signing Today sign. That signing was the highlight of the weekend, sigh.
Lots of paperwork/bookkeeping, sold a few books, made coffee, bought take-out and ate it, fell asleep on the sofa instead of finishing my videos.
I have to say - your word-count accretion at least shows accomplishment/closure. Baby steps and all that.
Lauretta@ Constellation Books
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Date: 2009-04-19 04:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 07:47 pm (UTC)Spent yesterday giving teenage daughter her birthday present -- a shopping trip and makeover at the posh mall upstate. Best part was halfway through the haircut when she got the unmistakable "Okay, that's ENOUGH girly fussing!" look on her face, so we skipped out for pizza and ice cream and the rest of the afternoon at the bookstore.
Today laundry and theodicy. Not necessarily in that order.
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Date: 2009-04-19 09:41 pm (UTC)Now I'm getting ready to mow. Whee.
On the plus side, Matt brought home a couple more suet cages and a small case of suet, and we planted more stuff. Plus, we've got a visiting redwinged blackbird, which was a nice surprise - this year is the first time I've seen him. No hummingbirds, but we just put out the syrup, so they probably haven't found us yet.
I also saw a woodpecker earlier this week, which was totally cool. It's only the second one I've seen in the thirteen years I've lived here.
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Date: 2009-04-19 11:02 pm (UTC)Sue Hrizuk in South Carolina
Boring???
Date: 2009-04-19 11:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 08:01 am (UTC)Music, Music, Music
Date: 2009-04-20 05:16 pm (UTC)- Laura