Category Archives: Life in Motion

Monday, Monday…..

Life in Motion, Writing & Publishing

An uneventful weekend.

Fighting a stomach bug that’s relentless and won’t go away. Dammit. It’s digging into my productivity and I have work to do. Bleh.

But good weekend to sit on my butt on the couch and watch basketball (Go Jayhawks!) and Nascar. And take naps. Oh man did I sleep a lot. Decadent napping, one of my favorite pasttimes.

So last week I got all the projects out of the way – finished a book, finished revisions, finished galleys. Now this week I dive into a new project–Dare To Love, my Samhain book that’s releasing in July. I only have about 20K more to write on it for it to be finished, so hopefully I can get it done within the next two weeks and out the door.

Wish me luck!

What’s on your agenda this week?

Ahhhhh

Life in Motion

So after the crisis that was my week, I knuckled down and did a bunch of work this weekend.

Saturday night, Biker Dude decided I needed a break. He made me step away from the revisions and told me he was taking me out to dinner. By ‘taking me out to dinner’, he meant take a nice 2 hour drive down south to a little Italian town where we could have some authentic Italian food. We ate at this great restaurant where we even had a private room all our own. I had a great class of Chianti, we had tons of food (they serve everyone family style, which meant salad, bread, spaghetti, meatballs, ravioli, antipasto in addition to your main course!). I was stuffed. Then another leisurely 2 hour drive home. It was heavenly. Relaxing, lots of quiet time alone with my babe, and very stress relieving. I needed it and he knew it. That’s why I love him. :heart:

Things are going well here with the revisions. Should have them knocked out within a few days and be back on schedule for April. :boobie:

This and That

70 Days of Sweat Writing Challenge, Life in Motion

Today I’m over at the 70 Days of Sweat blogging about Comparisons. It’s hard for a writer not to compare his or herself to others, but really, try to avoid this!

So I made bread last night (yeah, with my current schedule I’ve got time for that, right?) But Angie bought this great cookbook called Aristan Bread in Five Minutes A Day (the link to the book…pic included) is on the sidebar of Angie’s blog) and told me about it and Biker Dude and I love homemade bread so I just had to try it out. Loved it. It’s a little bit of work but not the kneading and rising and more kneading kind. And it tasted awesome and looked beautiful so I’m really pleased how it turned out. I’m really not the gourmet chef kind of person, but I do love to cook…as long as it’s easy. :giggle: Anyway, trust me when I say this is easy. If it’s complicated, I don’t do it. Heh.

So this week I have to work both on my daily writing goal and on galleys for The Darkest Touch. I’m not fond of juggling multiple projects. I’m a one project at a time kind of writer. But sometimes I have no choice. I can’t set aside the writing to work on the galleys because I have a drop dead deadline on this book I’m writing, which means I have to write every day. And the galleys are due back next week, which means I have to work on those every day, too. So I juggle. 😥 Sometimes you just gotta make it work.

Anyone watch American Idol this week? What did you think? I think Kristi really needs to go home. And what the hell was Carly doing in the bottom 3?