Things are bumping along. Smooth is not a word that I’m allowed to use this week, I don’t think, in relation to anything, so I think I’ll just stop aiming for that to happen. Here’s what is, has and seems to be happening instead:
- Shorts: Too many ideas. Too much desire to write them down. I’m sure it’s all because I’ve told myself that I can’t. Thus…me want! Will ignore that.
- Proposals: The various proposals are moving along. I’m co-writing one of the proposals and we’ve been doing it via Zoho collaborative editing and online chat. After a few glitches (the least of which was that the landlord arrived right in the middle of our first “meeting” and needed to turn the power off), we seem to have figured out how to do it. I love working with her, and we have very similar ideas about how to move forward, present the proposal and set deadlines. I see a long future of working with her and it makes me delighted.
- Novel: Hmm…sexy. I’ve given myself free rein to sex it up. My First Reader is either going to hate me or love me when she gets it. I have no idea which. I’m even creating a soundtrack to write to, a first (speaking of which: got some super-sexy country song that you love? Tell me! I need a few more).
- Freelance: I seem to have caught up. Maybe? It’s hard to tell sometimes. I have a number of big projects that are supposed to arrive on my desk next week, but who knows if they’ll be on time.
- Readings: I have some cool readings coming up (see the cool new sidebar to the right for all the details). Plus, I just got a yes from Powell’s for sometime in March. Woot!
- How to make yourself feel good: ask all of the great writers you know if they’ll write a blurb about you for your web site/proposals. The amazing response from people has made me nearly cry. Such nice, kind, thoughtful things–I’m really learning a lot about what people perceive as my strengths, not to mention that I’m feeling especially well-loved and held by everyone’s amazing responses.
- How pole-dancing is like writing. This is a post in itself, and I’m going to make it as soon as I check a few more things off my to-do list.
How’s Week 2 going for the rest of you out there? Sounds like Nikki’s novel has taken a turn for the ha-ha. Susie Bright has signed on to give us her memoir. What’s in your computer?
“How’s Week 2 going for the rest of you out there?”
I think this just about sums it up…
Oh, crap. That’s a bad one. I just transitioned to a new external hard drive back up system, and I have this panic that nothing’s really on there, just because I can’t see it (I’ve used thumb drive backs up previously, where you could actually check and see all the pretty little files).
Hey, how are you liking Heart Shaped Box? I just finished it a while back…
You know Bonnie Prince Billy, right? I think it’s classed ‘alt country’, but if you’re looking for sexy in a rough and maudlin kind of way, he’s your man!
Oh, I don’t know him, but I knew you’d come up with something good! Thank you
Best, s.
I must have put a track on your CD?! The one about the fireman and the unfaithful wife?
Oh, yeah, that’s him! I was just listening to him on U-Tube, and I thought, “huh, I have heard this guy before.” I should have known…
Best, s.
I have two thumb drives as well, that get backed up regularly because one always leaves the house with me (in case of burglarly or catastrophic house fire), but given that I messed up one backup that night, I probably would have messed up that, too.
Heart-Shaped Box was…okay. I see a lot of his father in his writing, but he’s not quite there yet. I’ve decided not to finish it, although if I were stuck on a plane or something, I’d happily keep reading. I just looked at my 100+ books in my TBR bookcase and had more interest reading some of those!
Yep, I had the same reaction to Heart Shaped Box! Picked it up and put it down a lot. I thought it was better by the time I got to the last third, but it took me a long time to get that far. I bet his next one is going to rock though…
Best, s.