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My Weekend

General Stuff, My Book Stuff

24 hours with a 4 year old (o.m.g. I’m tired). The kidlet spent the night Saturday. Fun stuff. But I’m tired.

Went to 4 year old’s soccer game
Went out for pizza for #1 son’s birthday
Made 2 loaves of home made bread
Made a birthday cake for #1 son’s birthday – said 4 year old helped decorate cake
Made baked sweet potatoes – with marshmallows
Baked a ham
Worked on galleys for The Darkest Touch
Worked on writing for The Darkest Temptation (no, not taking weekends off right now. Deadline crunch time)
Hid easter eggs
Finished reading a book (I’ll tell you which book soon. :giggle: )
:laundry:
Dinner with familiy on Easter
Did lots of dishes. Lots. Of. Dishes.

I’m tired. And now it’s Monday which means more galley reading, more writing. Busy week ahead. :titanic:

Hope you all had a fun, relaxing weekend.

It’s Friday!

General Stuff

Happy Friday! I hope some of you have the day off today. (I don’t. One of the drawbacks of the self-employed 😥 )

I ordered $50 worth of books at Amazon yesterday. I think I had books accumulating in my shopping cart for about 2 months. I figured it was time to hit the ‘buy’ button. :giggle: Do you ever do that? Either make a really long list and then buy at once, or let your online bookstore list accumulate then just do a mass buy? Or are you a one book at a time person?

Yes, It’s Friday, Writing Challenge, Shiny Things and Television

Life in Motion, 70 Days of Sweat Writing Challenge, General Stuff, Writing & Publishing

I actually had to ask this morning what day it was. Think it’s been a long week? :doh:

For all you writers out there, have you signed up for the 70 Day Writing Challenge yet? Come on, Sweat with Sven. You know you want to. I’m one of the sponsors again, along with Shiloh Walker, Lauren Dane, HelenKay Dimon, Diana Peterfreund, Larissa Ione and Portia Da Costa. It’s fun to suffer en masse. :giggle: It begins on March 1st so there’s still time to sign up. I’ve actually already started with my self-imposed 2000 words a day writing goal. I’ve hit that goal every day so far, though some days it’s late into the night before I hit it. But I have deadlines. Ugly deadlines. In order to meet those deadlines I know exactly how much I have to write every day to have each book finished within a certain time period. For The Darkest Temptation, the Demon Hunters book I’m working on now, it’s 2000 words a day. No excuses. I can’t wait for the challenge to begin so others will suffer with me. :devil:

Admittedly, hitting 2000 words a day isn’t that difficult for me. I’m just easily distracted by shiny things, like blog hopping, General Hospital, chatting online with friends, reality TV. Plus there always seems to be a million other things I need to do besides writing. I’m judging an RWA contest for example. That takes time. And I’m always working on promotion angles for my books, both current and upcoming. Did I mention television? I love television. This season for some reason I’m really hooked on reality tv. I love American Idol, of course, found the first week kind of meh as far as the talent. I also love Project Runway, Make Me A Supermodel, can’t wait for America’s Next Top Model to start again (I didn’t miss it did I?), and don’t even get me started on all the fun shows on TruTV, like Cops, The Investigators and Forensic Files. Um, I call all those ‘research’.

I know, I know. Less TV, more hitting word count goal. :badgirl: . Now that the writer’s strike is over, I’m going to be royally screwed when my favorite shows come back. I might as well give up sleeping.

Are you a tv watcher? Are you hooked on any reality tv like me? If so, what? If not, what do you watch? Tell me I’m not alone in my addiction.

Oh, and does anyone besides me watch General Hospital? I have so much to bitch about with the current storylines…..

Off to make word count for the day. Shiny things are calling to me. :glee: