Posted in Writing, Writing Blues, Writing Rants on October 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Oh, boy! My first rant!
Normally, I like to keep the Cafe rant free, but this really got to me, and I realized that it’s better to write about it than go charging out with a pitchfork and torch towards the nearest newspaper stand. That wouldn’t go over well, considering that I’m Christian, black and a [...]
Posted in Weeping of the Willows, Writing, Writing Blues, Writing Conferences, tagged Kaleidotrope, Midwest Literary Festival, The Muse, The Muse Online Writer's Conference, Writing on October 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
October already, huh?
It amazes me how time simultaneously crawls and speeds. When Kaleidotrope sent me the acceptance note for my story “Click” back in April, I didn’t think I could wait until October for it to be published. And now, here it is, October 1, and it feels a little weird.
It’s not just a new [...]
Posted in Writing, Writing Blues on August 25, 2007 | No Comments »
On Thursday, we got ourselves a pretty wild storm, wild enough to knock down a tree branch. As thunder grumbled above our house, I settled down after we put Daniel down to bed to surf the web and check my email. Lo and behold, I got a response for a story I sent a couple [...]
Posted in General Musings, Writing, Writing Blues on August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s been raining a lot these past few days. It means that I don’t have to water my “garden”, which is nice, though what constitutes my garden this years happens to be several of yellow pear tomatoes plants spilling profusely over the backyard lawn (thus showing the need, or rather disregard, for tomato cages), a [...]
Posted in Weeping of the Willows, Writing Blues on June 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Critics and naysayers may say that NaNoWriMo is silly. That it’s not what real writers do when they sit down to write a book. That sitting down and hashing out a bunch of nonsense words doesn’t automatically make you a writer–there’s also planning and plot and structure to consider, etc. and so forth.
However, having gone [...]
Posted in Writing Blues, Writing Conferences on June 1, 2007 | No Comments »
What a week so far! Hanging out with hubby’s relatives’ on Sunday, spending time with PopPop on Monday before taking him to the airport on Tuesday. And on Wednesday, a simple letter that I thought wouldn’t take more than an hour blossomed into taking up the entire day…and some of the night!
Granted, it’s an important [...]
Posted in Weeping of the Willows, Writing Blues on May 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The month of May has been FUN for us.
In-law visits, a new roof being put in, Daniel’s birthday, Mother’s Day. Things have been pretty busy around here. So much so that I realized that I may need to curtail my writing activities. I didn’t feel completely bad about it. I knew I wanted to take [...]
Posted in Weeping of the Willows, Writing Blues on May 2, 2007 | 4 Comments »
April has been a bad month for Willow. Birthdays, trips to Michigan, snotty noses, other stories suddenly becoming priority. I think throughout the entire month of April, I only worked did three chapters, when normally I do 6. And most of that was rewrites.
It’s something I grew very concerned about because I had just done [...]
Posted in Writing Blues on April 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I read a blog article on Dealing with Disappointment from the Urban Muse, which was being featured on The Writer’s Block Carnival. Although the Urban Muse has it geared towards freelance writing, I could totally understand where she was coming from. She gives a few pointers on dealing with rejection that became quite timely [...]
Posted in Computer stuff, Writing Blues, tagged Microsoft software on April 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Being April 1st, I had a joke all set up for today. Had it all planned–was going to turn the Cafe into a squirrel’s paradise. All squirrels, all the time. I had pictures of squirrels doing all sorts of tricks, water-skiing, wearing little crochet hats. I was going to replace Daniel’s Word of the Month [...]
