Book Buzz Tag
by Lynn Daniels on Monday, August 25, 2008 at 3:01 pm
The lovely Nadia tagged me before I could run away! I’m at a little bit of a disadvantage with this one, as I haven’t been reading as much or keeping up with what’s out there. But I’m going to do the best I can. I’m also working really hard to restrain myself from adding extra comments as I usually would. It’s that constant need to explain myself, I guess.
Anyway, here goes!
Tsk, Tsk.
by Lynn Daniels on Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I’ve been lazy today.
Laid in bed all morning (after the kids went to school and SoundGuy went to work, of course) sleeping and reading on and off. Didn’t shower until noon. And you know what?
It was AWESOME! 
Digging into the Treasure Chest
by Lynn Daniels on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 11:31 am
I mentioned that I spent some time with Tess last Friday night. Of course, we always have fun, but this past Friday was a little different. No bar, no loud rock n’ roll, no really old guys trying to pick us up. The plan was to hang out in Tess’s living room and do a little brainstorming and writing stuff. So, like a good little girl, along with the snacks, I brought my SR binder (SR’s been giving me a bit of a fit. I think I know why, but I still need to figure out how to overcome it. *making notes to discuss this in a future post*).
But Friday night, for me, was A Night of Treasures.
You Know it’s a Literary Novel When…
by Lynn Daniels on Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 9:19 am
(shamelessly lifted from Lisa Kleypas’ keynote speech at the 2007 RWA National conference)
- …it has no plot.
- …the main character probably has no name.
- …the main character is probably dead.
- …the main relationship isn’t really a relationship, but a symbol for something else.
- …the ending is completely unsatisfying.
- …the book took six years to write.
- …the cover is beige with a motif of an empty swingset.
- …you use punctuation in interesting ways and you can make all the grammatical errors you want and the copy editor never gets to fix them because it’s all part of your ironic style.
- …there are sex scenes, but the woman’s orgasm is never described.
- …it seems bent on convincing us our problems will never really be resolved and everything is ambiguous and if you are happy or you think you will be happy someday you are lying to yourself.
Shoot for the Stop Sign
by Lynn Daniels on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 8:27 am
I’m still reading and highlighting Body Language by Julius Fast. It’s my reward for finally subbing IH.
That’s almost sick, isn’t it? My reward for finishing a book is research.
ANYHOO….I’m about halfway through — probably would’ve been done by now if I hadn’t stopped to read that Baby Blues book. My dilemma is what to do when I finish Body Language. I can finish editing BMO, since I was so recently in that editing frame of mind. Alternatively, I can get started on the SR rewrite (again!) and maybe finally put that baby to bed.
The Aftermath
by Lynn Daniels on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 8:30 am
Let’s review my past few days.
I submitted IH Friday and promptly wanted to hurl. Saturday and Sunday, MiniMe had a soccer tournament about a 45 minute drive away. Two games Saturday — they tied the first game, won the second. They had a third game on Sunday, but MiniMe woke up and promptly vomited (sympathy nausea?), so we stayed home.
She’s better now, by the way.
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NaNoWriMo
