I’ve had a worrisome few weeks. Sherbert had a health scare. Let me lead with she’s okay. (Yes, I know I’m spoiling my post, but I also know a lot of people are sensitive to animals in pain/peril. She’s fat and sassy and feeling fine and will be for the foreseeable future.) Sherbert has always […]
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I’m proud of my word output, minuscule though it may be. I’ve written over 8,400 words in the last two weeks. I know that doesn’t sound like a lot for most professional writers. In fact, I know it’s not a lot. I listen to podcasts where people talk about a daily output of 1,000 to
My writing has been somewhat sidetracked for the last month, but this has been a worse week. During the cold itself I wasn’t able to write much. Instead of words, I was creating random keyboard strikes while coughing. One of the stories I’m co-writing I’ve had problems dredging up enthusiasm for. I was banging my head
So just when I thought life would calm down a bit, it slapped me across the face. Two weeks ago, Sherbert started showing signs of being sick. Cats are referred to as ‘stoic in nature’ when it comes to pain. Since my mother is home more than I am, she noticed it first. Sherbert was
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I’m not updating my blog about anything too deep this week. I was told last minute about an unexpected visitor. That required me me to clean the house during the first half. The second half was taken up by Sherbert having a mystery illness requiring a vet visit. She’s fine, but Mom and I were
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Dear Kitten, One final note. Once in a while you might see a little red dot. I’m going to tell you this right now. It is real and it can be caught. I did it once. I held it for a full minute. But when I lifted my paws, it was gone. – The Cat
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Dear Post-NaNoWri-Mo Sheryl, You didn’t complete a rewrite that came out to 50,000 words. You didn’t “win” NaNoWriMo. And that’s okay. You did complete over 25,000 words, which is still quite a lot. You got sidetracked by someone opening to submissions, requiring you to rewrite a short story to fit it. You also got ideas
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This week has been overtaken by kitten related duties. Julius and Sherbert are settling in and slowly learning that we aren’t huge monsters about to eat them, no matter how we nibble on their adorable little paws or snorgle their soft bellies. Popsicle has obtained and surpassed her spay weight and will go in for
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This year, I made it as far as the 14th before I decided to drop out of NaNoWriMo. It’s not because I was horribly behind or ran headlong into writer’s block, or I decided I hate the story. I have four good reasons to stop at this point. Reason #1: I am working on a
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