You’ve heard the advice. Set goals. Write them down. Post them somewhere. Sometimes the advisor will expand it with “make tangible goals” or “set goals, and then establish smaller steps to reach them.” And often there’s “set goals you can control.” You can’t make yourself write a bestseller. You can make yourself write book after […]
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I’m trying to find some balance in my life. I’ve always chased after whatever I was interested in at the time, to the exclusion of other things. When I fell into Weiss fandom (my first forays into slash, ahh, nostalgia…), I stalked eBay for everything Weiss. Art books, DVDs, concert videos…I got ’em all. I
This year it looks like I’ll only have about two weeks off work. (I know–only?) That may, possibly, be enough time to edit one novel, but it certainly isn’t time enough for more than one. So, alas, no Doomy Summer of Editing DOOM this year. It’s not DOOM if it’s only one novel. Geez. I
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Tonight I went out with a friend for a quick bite. I hadn’t seen her in a while, and was looking forward to catching up. Except… I just sent a story off two days ago. Do you think I could think of a dang thing besides that to talk about? Seriously, I’m horrible at small
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And no, I don’t mean a sewer, though anyone who’s been around me a while knows I spend lots of time in the gutter. I was thinking of this today as I stumbled about YouTube looking for the music that Kolya will blast when he needs to escape. If you’re wondering why I’m poking at
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So Vistaprint.com will send me 250 cards for free (though it’ll cost me $2 to keep them from printing their ad on the back, and $7 postage.) Anyone know a reason I shouldn’t go for it? Critiques of the card also appreciated!