no time like the present

Destiny, John William Waterhouse 

Started reading Michelle Rowen’s Stakes and Stilettos last night, found myself laughing out loud and enjoying it as much as I did her first book.

Lisa Gates is offering two free introductory calls in December to give people a taste of the group telecoaching process:

Tuesday, December 4 at 5 p.m. PST

Friday, December 7 at 12 Noon PST

 

and complete information on the two groups is available here:

Group Telecoaching Info

As I mentioned a little while ago, I did the 20 big questions for writers at her site and it was good for me. If you want to write but can’t figure out how to create the space and time or if you are writing and wrestling with the doubt demons and the frustration devils, or if there’s something creative you want to do, or if you’re trying to find a new direction, I recommend giving Lisa a chance to help you achieve your dream.

Happy writing, d:)

vaporized

Moonlight After Rain, John Atkinson Grimshaw

The weekend vanished, vaporized by a storm of mundanities that swallowed every hour. I had writing plans; yes I did, but Saturday disappeared without my ever opening the manuscript doc and Sunday–I promised myself that Sunday I’d get something done–but no; it too got zapped by the tedious time-suck activities that HAD TO BE DONE.

However I managed to send off a query for a freelance opportunity, got a response, and responded myself with the requested information. I’ve got two others lined up to query, but it’s already after nine so I won’t be getting those done tonight. I guess today was not a total loss, writing-wise.

sunglow

Lute-Player, Orazio Gentileschi 

So…that brilliant idea of mine…breaking into freelance writing…yeah…still brilliant…still hanging fire…didn’t even add it to my June goals…

Number 6 on the June goals list:

Get moving on design and development of freelance writing website.

Let’s see now, what does that mean? Action is key to getting things done! So this weekend I’ll take a look at Apple’s iWeb and see if that’ll work for me.

I recommended the book I read The Well-Fed Writer to my friend Janet and she’s already got her freelance writing website up while I lollygag along. But I’ve been checking the boards at The Golden Pencil and other freelance writing  job sites, looking for the right sort of job–one I can actually do. I’m being careful ’cause whatever I decide to take on has got to fit into the few hours I have left after the day job.

Sun’s out today; it popped up first thing this morning, burned off the gray–it’s been late to work for several weeks. I’m glad to see it; maybe I can leave my coat at home now?

Hello WordPress!

Proserpine, Gabriel Dante Rossetti

So, first off, I’ve made a change from Blogger to WordPress. Pendrifter, my online writer’s journal, has a new place to hang. Don’t like the “New Blogger.” The sign-in process for posting on friends’ blogs is annoying. I don’t like having to be signed in to my blog before I can post on somebody else’s blog. I don’t like having to try to log in repeatedly because for some reason Blogger doesn’t respond the first time or the second time or the third time. And the whole Google thing irritates me.

So, I’ve got to add my links and figure out WordPress’s bells and whistles, but here’s my first post—a duplicate of this morning’s pendrifter post at Blogger:

It’s 8:33 a.m. The dishwasher’s busy making its water-sloshing fuss cleaning last night’s, last year’s dishes.

New Year’s Eve Menu
Chinese Scallops in Garlic Cream Sauce over Papardelle Pasta
Spinach Salad with Pecans and Dried Cherries
Gingered Carrots
Cherries and Blackberries in Rum Sauce with Cream
Coffee
Viognier 2005
Piper Heidseick ChampagneAnd now it’s time to face the music of a new year. A Lamentation of Swans waits in its boxes. One of my 2007 resolutions is to set monthly and quarterly writing goals. For January…

Create “Swanology”, in the fashion of Candlewick Press’s ‘ology series of picture books. Definitely a geeky thing to do, but I love those books, have 3 of them (Dragonology, Wizardology, and Fairyopolis). It’ll be fun creating one for ALS. My way of getting back into the story.

Revise the Candalas scene in A Lamentation of Swans
Non-fiction book: finish Parasite Rex
Write next scene on Face From Kanadrios

Quarterly objectives:
Organize ALS materials. Toss duplicate mss. Get it down to one file box.
Read Boxiana (Georgian novel research)
Read The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, by Robert Asprey

Happy New Year!