Category: Daily Life

To-Done, Q1 2016

April 1, 2016

My To-Done 2016 (Work Version) thus far includes finishing the REDEEMER rough draft, revising ATLANTIS FALLEN (twice, and am partway through a third), launching MAGIC & MANNERS, writing 3 short stories, and revising one short story. Somehow it doesn’t seem like very much when I write it down like that, and that just seems unfair. It’s felt like a huge amount of work. It’s BEEN a huge amount of work. It just doesn’t…look very impressive. Anyway, that really is quite a lot to have gotten done, isn’t it? (Please, she…

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an unlikely knitting conviction

March 30, 2016

I apparently have some kind of conviction that I’m going to knit something, because I keep stopping and staring avariciously at yarn. I don’t knit. I mean, I knitted something once. A scarf. It turned out well! But…I don’t knit. Despite that, today I came across this really pretty inexpensive dark blue sparkly yarn and…folded. I bought four skeins and two of black sparkly yarn and I have vague thoughts of a matching hat and scarf. And then since I was on the road to hell anyway I got some…

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Kit’s Busy Day Out

March 24, 2016

I went out to write today, and wrote an entire Old Races short story, 5700 words, which…pretty nearly did my brain in. I’m going to have to take a revision pass at it in a few days, because I’m not sure how coherent it is. At about 5K my brain dried up and I went to ask Twitter to cheer me on so I could finish it, and cheer they did. Good peeps, are Tweeps. :) I dropped by Chapters Bookstore, too, to see if they had MAGIC & MANNERS…

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thinks to do, easter break edition

March 22, 2016

maybe if i write it all down i’ll get it done. housecleaning – living room » vacuum » perhaps wash windows ahahahah » put laundry away » deal with random trash – kitchen » vacuum » windows » put laundry away » deal with random trash » wash floors – library » vacuum » windows » deal with random trash » deal with random *stuff* – vacuum stairs – our bedroom » vacuum » clear off dresser » change sheets – guest room » vacuum » change sheets » put…

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life’s a show…

March 20, 2016

We’re watching a tv show where one of the storylines is set in India. In the second episode there was a spontaneous song and dance routine. Ted said, “I’m pretty sure people in India don’t actually spontaneously burst into song and dance all the time, but if they do, we’re really living in the wrong country.” I then got into a discussion on Twitter about how movies from America in the 1950s also suggest that Americans drop into song and dance at the drop of a hat. A friend said…

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