I enjoyed the blog vacation. It’s amazing how little time it takes to fall out of the habit completely. Writing this seems vaguely foreign to me right now.
I gorged myself on Thursday, lay around on Friday reading books, spent most of Saturday out and about with various friends, and did more reading, research, and movie watching on Sunday. I’ve now finished my book-a-week goal for 2006, so everything from here on out is gravy. Have a few inching their way to the top of the TBR pile that I’m super excited about, including Surviving Demon Island.
Writing? No. But I look at it as “refilling the well.” And without getting into too much detail, my well? She brims. I won’t be “winning” NaNo this year, but I did do 30k that I’m very proud of. It’s possible I may write a few more k this week. But there’s this new proposal that I’ve been itching to start, so I may work on that this month instead. I’m also taking two trips to Florida, which will be mostly consumed by partying, wedding planning, partying, and celebrating my incredibly talented friend Cheryl Wilson’s long awaited first-sale, at auction, in a two-book deal. (I hope we shall soon be celebrating the launch of her website). These books are amazing, folks. I’ve been in love with them ever since I first read them in 2003.
Some things I may be discussing on my blog sometime soon:
* All those dehydrated horses standing right by the water.
* Why agents won’t tell you what they’re looking for.
* The Knife’s Edge of Bridal Insanity
* Titles, or We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ English
* More on POV
* Dear Writing Santa
* Dear Regular Santa
* Diana’s New Year’s Resolutions
* What is “Done” in YA
And of course, more Veronica Mars than you can shake an incredibly convenient and variably charged taser gun at.
Some things I probably won’t be discussing on the blog any time soon
* Under the Rose Spoiler Thread (wait ’til June)
* Titles for SSG3 (wait ’til further developments are afoot)
* Diana’s favorite books of the year (mostly to avoid the endemic comment encouraging the addition of a particular title — man, those fangirls are out in force!)
* My trip to Rome (mostly because I’m not taking one)
And an Ode to Piz.
November 27th, 2006 at 10:21 am
I so wish I understood what to avoid the endemic comment encouraging the addition of a particular title — man, those fangirls are out in force! meant. It’s not the words. It’s the allusion.
Need tea.
BTW–for the longest time you’ve had this bit of broken HTML:
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just sitting under where it asks if we want to comment (I added the spaces).
And another BTW–I haven’t been blogging much either, and I’ve also moved my blog, so if you’re looking for me, I’m here. Sorry but this means your sidebar is wrong.
I just had to move it for…er…various reasons.
Good to hear you had a nice holiday weekend.
Looking forward to your upcoming topics.
November 27th, 2006 at 10:28 am
I’m looking forward to the
“What’s DONE in YA” blog post.
Glad you had a happy holiday.
November 27th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Nothing like a relaxing few days off to recharge, is there? I did the same. Shopped, ate, actually went to a movie (Denzel makes me drool *g*) and did not work on writing one bit. And I loved it.
I’m so glad you’re exited about reading my book! Thank you
November 27th, 2006 at 11:31 am
I’m looking forward to more Veronica Mars talk…because of YOU, my dear, I have season 1 sitting on my DVD shelf
Have a great holiday season D!
November 27th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Looks like some good topics coming up. Always fun to tune in with what you have to say.
I was a movie hound all weekend, too. Went to see STRANGER THAN FICTION (which I thought was wonderful) and I ended up watching IN HER SHOES, in which I wanted Cameron Diaz’s character to die a slow, painful death.
Also re-watched THE TERMINATOR (ahhh…Kyle…), ONLY YOU (which I know you hate, but I loved seeing Rome again), FRENCH KISS (will never get enough of that movie, especially now that I’ve been to Cannes), SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL (such a classic), a couple of Doris Day flicks and a whole glut of GENERAL HOSPITAL re-runs from 1981 on SoapNet, replaying Luke and Laura’s wedding.
Too bad I had to go back to work today.
Marley = )
November 27th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Thanks for the preview of coming attractions! Am thinking of putting it on the refrigerator to help remind me why I get out of bed every morning, and how great a writer’s life is: every day is an adventure in the magic kingdom of wordsmithing. Yours, by the way, seems to just keep getting better and better by the blog!
(Oops - split infinitive alert - I know I should move the “just” but I kinda like it where it is; some things just gotta be emphasized (like the excellence of your wordsmithing), and to hell with the rhetoricians. To paraphrase Churchill, theirs is (occasionally) the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.
November 27th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
I can’t wait to read what you think about the YA situation. Those topics sound great!
November 27th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
I don’t think I knew about Cheryl’s news!!!! That’s amazing. Huge congrats to her.