Vacation
 Due to the upcoming holiday week/weekend, family participation in a play at a community theater (if you’re one of my Maine peeps, check out the Belfast Maskers website for ticket information!!!), and third shift workery, I probably won’t be around online too much until the beginning of December. I know how disappointin

Rant…
…of Exhaustion, Frustration, and Some Other Word That Ends In “-tion.” Friday night, I was told by an author I’d never heard of that her ultimate goals when she began writing were to see her book in a bookstore and to sell a lot of books. She further informed me that because her book had found an agent and a publisher and was now sitting in a bookstore that it was a “real” book. My book, not falling into that category, is – naturally - not “real.” I wanted to tell her that my ultimate goal when I began writing was to write a good book. An awesome book. A book that, when people read it, they’

Ketchup post
I’ve been hideously neglectful of Da Blog, and there’s lots of stuff to catch up on. 1. NaNowriMo update: Word count:  53,744 This means I ‘won’ NaNoWriMo. It’s actually my fourth time winning, which is very cool. (Waiting For Spring was the product of my first NaNo.) I’m not quite halfway through the story, though, and then I’ll have the editing, but I’m still pretty psyched that I made the wordcount goal in so short a time. I’m also relieved that – this time – something with a cohesive story is coming out of it. 2. Cheryl Anne Gardner’s

Ugh
Swine flu. I gots it. So here’s the brief NaNoWriMo update (as stolen from last night’s Facebook status update): Word count: 35343. Crap factor: much lower than expected. Still shooting for mid-to-late summer 2010 release. Coming soon: a rant about the nasty emails I get from irate readers on both side of the abortion issue regarding ‘Waiting For Spring.’

NaNoWriMo Update
I’ve neglected my updates for the past few days. I can’t remember which day of NaNoWriting this is. But I’m up to 27367 words, about 9000 words ahead of schedule. And for those of you who are curious, here’s an excerpt. (Chosen because it’s the closest thing to polished writing I’ve got right now.) WARNING: If you haven’t read ‘Waiting For Spring,’ there’s a pretty major spoiler here. And I hate spoilers. Seriously. If you haven’t read WFS yet, close this window and go read something else. But for those of you who have read it, here you go:   ______________________