It’s the month of harvest. I have no idea when that happened. Only yesterday someone mentioned it was 6 months until Yule… August has always been a fairly nice month for me — it’s my birthday month, and was always a …
The Role of Story — Reflection on Wounds
On Saturday, my hair was cut — much shorter than I anticipated. For some reason, this bothered me way more than I expected, and I spent the next week trying to reflect — to understand why I felt so wounded. ~ For those of …
Weekend WIP #3: Copy Editing (for Content)
Thursday night, after 3 weeks ‘in the drawer’, I took Planes Shifter out and began to read through it – with a new ally: Track Changes. This is a tool I’ve avoided because it’s not particularly elegant, cuts your writing into …
Weekend WIP #2: Keeping Track of Projects
Many writers find ways to procrastinate from actual writing, and I’m certainly one of them. Finishing Average My most recent affliction is completing statistics about my projects; beginning with Chuck Wendig‘s Finishing Average. This is the number of finished novels, …
June Update: Goals
Six months passed. June was so busy that July seemed to begin with a whimper. At the beginning of the year I set myself four goals: track my daily wordcount, write a minimum of once a week, “sort out” Resilience, …
Liebster Survey :: A Blog Prompt
Last week (or likely three weeks ago now) I was nominated by Janna for the Liebster Award. Thank you very much for thinking of me. I always have a 50:50 feeling about participating in these things, which probably comes across as rudeness since I …