Posted in What I've Learned, musings, novel, tagged writing, editing, test readers, chitties, musings, The Edge of Memory, what's up with that?, blog chain on July 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
So, my lovely gang of QueryTracker peeps and I agreed to start a blog chain.
I will concede that I did, indeed, agree to join the chain and to post on the topics at hand.
I did NOT anticipate the lengths those cheeky, sneaky things would go to to outshine me…
Not only did they post [...]
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Posted in musings, tagged family, musings on July 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday was the memorial service for my Aunt Sue. The service was held in a church near Chicago, as she is buried near here (she’d been living in California for the last 20 years or so, but before that she lived here for over 60 years).
Since she was not a member of the [...]
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Fridays often do not mean the start of party time for me. Like many in healthcare (and retail, real estate, publishing, and many other industries) the weekend doesn’t necessarily mean time off.
So I’ve decided since I can’t really get into the I’m-Thankful-Its-Friday mentality, I will instead embrace It’s Friday… I’m thankful.
Meaning every Friday, I [...]
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Well, another mystery solved here on Trying To Do the Write Thing.
A couple of days ago, we received a UPS tag on our front door that they had attempted a delivery.
Neither my husband nor I had ordered anything. It isn’t our birthdays/anniversary. No friends or relations admitted to sending us surprises. We [...]
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Posted in What I've Learned, musings, novel, tagged agents, music, musings, novel, pitching, publishing, queries, What I've Learned on July 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Well, that title is a bit misleading… I’m new to writing and publishing and don’t know “everything I need to know” by a long stretch.
The inspiration for this blog post came when a quote from Willy Wonka popped into my head and seemed to fit my quest for publication.
“There’s a hundred billion people in this [...]
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Posted in musings, tagged family, musings on July 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I got word today that my great-aunt Isabelle “Sue” Dyer passed away last night.
It wasn’t unexpected; her health had been in decline for quite some time. I haven’t seen her since before my husband and I got married, but I still miss her.
Never married, she lived with my great-uncle (my godfather) until he passed [...]
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Yesterday I took my husband to his physical therapy appointment. Normally, while he is doing his session, I sit in the lobby and read. But yesterday, having been chastised that morning for reading too much and ignoring my husband, I had no book with me.
So naturally, my attention turned to my [...]
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Flying Sperm!
Okay, this is not really my story to tell, but it is on my mind almost daily, so here goes.
My mother attended an all-girls Catholic high school. One of the mousiest, most nervous and awkward nuns was assigned the unwelcome duty of providing sex education.
This nun decided that to minimize embarrassment, she would place [...]
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An internet friend of mine recently shared the story of how her sister rescued a mouse from a glue trap. The story is not really mine to tell, but I wanted to give you this important bit of information:
“It’s harder than you think to wash a mouse.”
Good to get that fact out to the general [...]
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Since I first started writing The Edge of Memory in October, I have spent virtually every minute I’m alone in the car working on it in my head. I commute 75 minutes each way. So that’s a lot of time.
But I think I’m really done now with editing, until/unless an agent or editor [...]
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Posted in musings, tagged lasik, musings on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Back in December, you may remember that I had LASIK surgery.
I’m still loving it.
There are unexpected pros and cons, though. Most of them occurring in the shower. My myopic peeps will appreciate.
Unexpected Con: My backside is no longer the vague shape I’ve been lathering up for the last 25 years or so since I first [...]
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Things that amused me in the last week:
An eight-year-old boy in a basketball jersery seriously rocking out to Donna Summer’s “On the Radio” at our local pizza parlor. Head bobbing, palms slapping the vinyl booth seat– totally into it.
A new restaurant called “The View” which faces a busy street and backs up to a [...]
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Last night I officially had the crap scared out of me. I was working a shift when I received a call from my father.
“Your mother’s been in an accident,” he said. “She hit a deer. She’s bleeding but she doesn’t know from where.”
Needless to say, I was careening towards full-blown panic. I [...]
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I’m thirty-something. When I was a kid, we took it for granted that the weather forecast was a guess. Often, not even a best guess.
Like Marty McFly said in Back to the Future, “Since when can weathermen predict the weather, let alone the future?”
Well, since the ’90’s really. Sometime during high school/college the weathermen started [...]
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I do most of my creative thinking in my car when I’m commuting. The rest of my life is just packed with too many distractions.
Lately, having plateaued on edits for The Edge of Memory, and patiently waiting for partials to be reviewed, I’ve been spending time thinking about my next novel, which will be more [...]
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