Random Acts of Writing

OMG! I just had a cup of tea and realised I have not updated this since people stopped clapping and Tinkerbell died... You would not believe how tidy my house now is. But I'm sorry you'll just have to take my word for it..

I am lost in a sea of pseudo-olde-english with setting fire to people wearing Crocs, hoping you haven't found other blogs, just generally being not online in order to recognise my children again, my day sprawls from crawling out of bed at 6.30 to midnight. I am not complaining though. it will be fun fun fun till they take my TBird away.

I won't promise anything to you but I will make more of an effort to blog more often. No, really! What do you mean you don't believe me?.

Ok, so I delegated.

Normally, I don't like the advice of the little Microsoft paperclip. But lately, he's getting better...

I got a new full time job this past fall, and one of the reasons I took it was that is was 40% documentation. Like I have to spend that much of my time writing about what I did with the rest of my time. Which means non work writing is a bit thin. That's what i had heard about the problem with writing for a living and trying to write fiction on the side. The good thing is that I have lots of new characters to draw from. People you'd never think really existed do exist and call me on the phone several times a week and ask me to do impossible things. Like believe whatever lies they're telling me at th moment. Good thing I have a built in BS meter. Although the way it's been red-lining lately, I may need to get it re-calibrated.

Nothing I didn't know already!

In other news, I'm about 16K into the new book. Then I hit a snag in that one of the characters decided to write a diet book, and may lead a couple others down her dark, eating disordered world with it. I do need to stop researching and get writing...

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And Erin has a good explanation...Decompressing Faith

I know, it's not writing, but creatvity like this should be passed on and celebrated, right?

since I last blogged here??

Have several things going on. The Summer Fiction Fest is in full swing at Random Acts of Reading. We're going along at a fairly good clip so far. It's just June 2, so who knows? The goal of the Summer Fiction Fest is to read as much fiction as possible before September 1st. Hopefully, that'll put the yearly number close to 75, making it much easier to reach 100 by December 31.

So, if you have suggestions for the reading list, feel free to leave the in the comment trail. I have a pile to start with, but some of them aren't fiction, like the Great Influenza, a history of the flu in the early 1900's. Also have Jonathan Franzen's memoir, and I'm looking for Flannery O'Conner's Mystery and Manners.

After that, who knows?