Birthday recap: breakfast! I got dressed in something pretty (for the first time in weeks, summer is mostly grubby gardening / cleaning / crafting clothes here) and even put on jewelry (pretty ring a friend bought me in Santa Fe, made by local indigenous folks at a store vetted by Emily Mah Tippetts as actually […]
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Hey, folks! Just a quick note that it’s my birthday — I’m 51! — and if you’d like to give me something, the best gift would be a donation of any size to my non-profit, the SLF. Donations go directly to helping us bridge to paid staff (the big goal for this year), which means
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Sent final cancer memoir manuscript to publisher just now. Feel bludgeoned. After finishing writing the book, I’m not sure what I did for most of the afternoon and evening. Watched Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness with Kevin and Anand (silly, fun), but the rest of the day is a bit of a blur.
Cancer log 222. Doing the final pass on the cancer log manuscript, which involves skimming all the comments people posted, to make sure I integrate some of the useful advice they gave. I thought I’d be able to just whip through that by dinnertime, but there are more than 200 entries, and literally thousands upon
Just learned that Eric Flint, author of alternate histories and humorous fantasy, died yesterday. I didn’t know Eric well, but we saw each other often at conventions, and he was kind and welcoming to me, even when I was a baby writer. He did a lot of early work in pushing for DRM-free ebooks, with
One of my goals for this summer is to try to re-establish good writing habits. For me, what’s worked best is going out to the shed in the morning. Some mornings I get there later, rather than sooner, but if I get out there at all, odds are, I’m going to write more than I
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Finished the first pass draft of the cancer log, finally. Woot! It took me much longer to do this than I expected. Edits were only about 15-20 hours of actual work, but I think I needed to be in a pretty emotionally stable place to work on this book, and it’s been a long pandemic,
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Writing first: I spent Saturday morning working on the cancer log — almost finished the draft, but got a little stuck when I got to the end, because I wasn’t sure where the end should be. I mean, I still make posts to it on occasion! But I think I’ll rewind a few entries back,
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I took a break from memoir revision to work on drafting some course guidelines for the SLF. We’re getting more and more requests for writing classes, which is great. I’m not sure how quickly we can implement these, but possibly as soon as this fall. ***** I’ve been envisioning a three-tier model for instruction at
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Little bits of yesterday and today. Lunch with Roshani at Sen Sushi was delicious as usual, and a good chance to vent / decompress. Mostly this month I’m living in grubby gardening clothes, but I took a shower and dressed up a bit for lunch, just for a change, and was pleased that my gorgeous
