Windblown
You know it's really windy when you're in your car, stopped at a light, and swaying enough for motion sickness. That is my city today. More than one cardboard box has found its way from the dumpster across the alley up onto my second floor balcony. Good thing we don't have a professional NFL team trying to play outside today.
My first deadline is creeping closer. This is the first writing contest I've entered since I was a high school student. If you know me you know how long that's been. If you don't, well let's just say it's has been a really long time. My story is chosen out of the massive pile and been through a couple of edits. I'm going to fire it off to a couple of readers for any last minute comments before I submit next week. Distractions have been enough lately to keep back the nerves. Besides, it's not as if I'm submitting anything under my 'real' name so no one can tear me apart to my face. Right?
Speaking of my alter egos, under another I've signed up for a challenge. NaNoWriMo. For those of you who are not familiar with this, it stands for National Novel Writing Month. The challenge is to write a novel in 30 days... November 1 to November 30. For purposes of the challenge a novel is defined as 50,000 words. This is all pre-editing and all that jazz. Just serious amounts of creativity. I've been preparing for this excursion... stocked up on tea and chocolate, reading and watching tv/movies a lot to get the 'what if' mentality going, getting vet appointments out of the way. Dozer got hurt bunny-chasing a few weeks ago so here's hoping that's out of his system for a while. He's now snoozing on a dog bed beside me while Moof has managed to fold himself under my desk. Evidently he thinks he's Fuzzybutt who lived with us for a few months but is half his size so fits at my feet easier.
That's all the updates on me. Work is still in reorg transition limbo so I don't have anything to report there. When it stresses me, I'm trying to focus that into my writing. Job insecurity turned motivation to change my career. Here's hoping it works.
SK
My first deadline is creeping closer. This is the first writing contest I've entered since I was a high school student. If you know me you know how long that's been. If you don't, well let's just say it's has been a really long time. My story is chosen out of the massive pile and been through a couple of edits. I'm going to fire it off to a couple of readers for any last minute comments before I submit next week. Distractions have been enough lately to keep back the nerves. Besides, it's not as if I'm submitting anything under my 'real' name so no one can tear me apart to my face. Right?
Speaking of my alter egos, under another I've signed up for a challenge. NaNoWriMo. For those of you who are not familiar with this, it stands for National Novel Writing Month. The challenge is to write a novel in 30 days... November 1 to November 30. For purposes of the challenge a novel is defined as 50,000 words. This is all pre-editing and all that jazz. Just serious amounts of creativity. I've been preparing for this excursion... stocked up on tea and chocolate, reading and watching tv/movies a lot to get the 'what if' mentality going, getting vet appointments out of the way. Dozer got hurt bunny-chasing a few weeks ago so here's hoping that's out of his system for a while. He's now snoozing on a dog bed beside me while Moof has managed to fold himself under my desk. Evidently he thinks he's Fuzzybutt who lived with us for a few months but is half his size so fits at my feet easier.
That's all the updates on me. Work is still in reorg transition limbo so I don't have anything to report there. When it stresses me, I'm trying to focus that into my writing. Job insecurity turned motivation to change my career. Here's hoping it works.
SK
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