It’s taken me the better part of a week to get re-acclimated to life at home. It’s so good to be with my family again, but there was the laundry and the putting-away-of-stuff and the ordering of more books and the reading of more books and the writing of novel notes that needed to be [...]
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Re-entry
Posted in Housekeeping on July 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Day 11 - Retrospective
Posted in Housekeeping on July 25, 2008 | No Comments »
The day started early with a lecture by Ellen Howard on Sacred Silence. A self-styled luddite, Howard eschews the use of technology whenever possible - she uses a typewriter (albeit with 1 page memory) and a copy machine. That’s it. No email, no internet, no cel phone.
She inhabits this space in order to give [...]
Somewhere in the Middle
Posted in Housekeeping on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Being assigned to Martine Leavitt and knowing that I would be able to work on my novel rejuvenated and inspired me in so many ways, not the least of which was finishing a long overdue project for Galatea Resurrects.
Eileen had sent me a copy of Bob Marcacci’s chapbook “Beijing Background” last year and it [...]
Day 4 - Retrospective Pt 1
Posted in Housekeeping, Practicing Risk on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
This day was the day I have most looked forward to and the one I was most nervous about - the first real day of lectures and workshop. I’ve described the residency to others as a two-week conference and it has a lot of those markers with the exception that we’re all focused in the [...]
Day 3 - Retrospective
Posted in Artists and Visionaries, Backstory, Housekeeping on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Orientation was scheduled for 9am this day and I actually got up on my own at about 6:30am (which is amazing considering that would be 3:30 home time *gah*). The day was proving to be a hot one again and after my shower, I put up my hair Mrs. Olsen-style (okay, how many remember the [...]
Two Weeks and Counting
Posted in Housekeeping, Practicing Risk, lists on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I sometimes wonder if trying to keep up my blogs is counter-productive to keeping up with the whole full-time mom/full-time editor/full-time MFA student thing. Already I’m seeing things drop away as I hone in on the perfect schedule - an illusion, really, since I’m not actually doing all three things, just the usual two and [...]
Catching Up
Posted in Backstory, Housekeeping on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s been busy, which doesn’t bode well for surviving and thriving this summer, but I guess it’s just safe to say that if I’m not writing here, that means I’ve been choosing to do my writing projects and reading for school.
A list of books I’ve been reading can be found on my Goodreads blog:
I’ve also [...]
Timeliness
Posted in Housekeeping, Practicing Risk, tagged FilAm Lit, Goals, Time on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
There are four — and only four — general measures of output. These four are Quality, Quantity, Cost, and Timeliness. Notice that the last measure is “timeliness,” not “time.” That’s because in measuring output, it’s more useful to focus on timeliness — adherence to schedule, meeting deadlines — than it is to think about clock [...]
Run-Up to SCBWI Western Washington
Posted in Housekeeping on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Headed out this weekend to attend SCBWI Western Washington Conference…which I see is sold out. Whoa. I’m glad I got my reg. in a few weeks back.
I want to pitch a couple of picture books, but I registered late and didn’t get any pitch appointments with agents/eds. I feel like I need to bring /something/ [...]
