Christmas

Hello! Yes I'm still alive. We've had a WONDERFUL Christmas! I was sick this past week so I didn't get to work on my WIP as much as I'd have liked, but that's ok. I'm not going to go on and on because if I do, I'll never accomplish my goal for today, which is to get addresses and letters perfected to query out my first book :) I"m going to leave you with my current word count :)
8436 :) :) :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

poor attempt

It's been so long................I miss blogging :( But the good news is I have been writing this past week :) Every day! I have a 45 minute lunch break at work and I spend it scarfing down food and writing. I only wish I had more time to write! I"m not getting very many words out a day, 300-450, but that's better than nothing. I find it a little hard to switch gears from my very uncreative work to the creative act of writing which gives me a slow start each writing period. But again, I'm just happy to be writing again. My word count it somewhere between 6,500 and 7000, but I"m not sure specifically because I"m not on my laptop right now.
As for my poor attempt...I tried to blog on my phone, which is a backflip but it's too hard. I can type in a title just fine, but when it comes to this part, the actual blog, it's hard to make my phone type in the box rather than pulling up it's automatic search box. And when I was able to get it to type(I'm not sure how I did) I couldn't do certain punctuations(my "shift" key didn't work like when I'm texting). May be I'll get my hubby to play with it and figure it out. *shrugs*
A quick update on life in general is: The house is feeling more like ours and baby's mess certainly helps. As for baby, he's 18 months, but the terrible two's started several months ago. Hubby and my duties changed a little bit since I've started working, but for the most part everything has fallen into place. I can't wait for Christmas and I have gotten half, maybe more, of my shopping done!
*Wipes brow*Ok, that was a very compact update from the last time, almost a month ago, that I posted. Hopefully I'll figure out how to post from my phone despite my hatred for typing long paragraphs on a keyboard smaller than my hand. If not, hopefully I'll be at my in law's in the next week or two and I'll have another writing update :) Keep on writing and reading!

Sabatical

Not willingly I assure you. Life has taken over and writing and querying and blogging has taken a backseat to it. I may have mentioned it but again, I don't have internet at my new place :( I have truely missed it! So here's a recap of what you've missed this past week:
1. Got sick Fri. night.
2. Moved on Sat.
3. Spent Sunday on the couch sleeping.
4. Started a new job on Monday.
5. Worked, unpacked and took care of baby for the remainder of the week.
6. :( I've queried 5 agents by email and gotten 3 rejections, 1 out of office, and 1 we received your query and will respond within the next 6 weeks if we like it :(
This next week at work will be the next big learning step for me and I'm not done unpacking and cleaning our new place, so writing and querying will probably take the backseat for another week. Oh, plus there's Thanksgiving! Yay, I love Thanksgiving! Anyways, I will be scarce in blogging for a while which makes me sad, but I can't afford internet right now(because even though I actually live closer to town, I'm considered living in the boonies.) Makes no sense! Ok, I"m off to explore the 'net :) ....Oh, one last question for me? Where am I at right now that I have internet? Sunday dinner at the in-laws :)

10:42 at night

Word count: 4,951
I still have more to type but I'm so tired the flow of words is trickling to a stop despite the rest of the scene in my head.
Just to let you know, we're moving this weekend to a place that doesn't have internet and I start a new job Monday; so I'm afraid my blogging might slow down, but hopefully not for long. I love blogging; it's my public declaration of accomplishment and humiliation and helps motivate me :)
Anyway, see*wink* you soon! Have a great weekend!

Never Think sung by Robert Pattinson

Never think
What's in your heart
What's in our home
So I won't

You'll learn to hate me
But still call me baby
Oh Love
So call me by my name

And save your soul
save your soul
Before you're too far gone
Before nothing can be done

I'll try to decide when
She'll lie in the end
I ain't got no fight in me
In this whole damn world
Telling you to hold off
She said hold on
It's the one thing that I've known
Once I put my coat on
And how I know it's all wrong
She's standing outside holding me
Saying oh please
I'm in love
I'm in love

Girl save your soul
Save your soul
Before you're too far gone
And before nothing can be done

'Cause without me
You got it all
So hold on
Without me you got it all
So hold on
Without me you got it all
Without me you got it all
So hold on
Without me you got it all
So hold on
Without me you got it all
So hold on
Hold on

I find that so far for this WIP I'm leaning on the same music; mostly the Twilight soundtrack for now, but I'm sure that will vary to include more of New Moon and probably Eclipse after the dvd comes out. I love how Robert sings this song and the lyrics. They are perfect for Twilight.
More importantly :) word count is currently at 2,814 and I am more happy with what I added to chapter one to round it out :)

Yesterday

Yesterday I substituted and managed to write during the teacher's planning hour. My word count is now 2,118. I also wrote out a tentative outline and then tried to put it together better last night. I didn't do a great job :(
As for the rest of life, I'm having to switch baby sitter's because of my new hours once I start my new job next week. I'm meeting her tomorrow; let's hope we all click *crosses fingers*. What else? Sorry, nothing more for today. Hopefully I'll get some more words down and have another word count update :) Have a great day!

Rush

974 words down today! *(I'm ammending that to 1,536)*Yup, that's right, I've started my new WIP and for right now I'm riding the high of starting a book. I know the hard work is coming (can you say detailed outline 'cause I like to know kind of how I'm going to get where I want to go) but for right now, I've got the first part of this WIP on Word.

In other news I finished Need by Carrie Jones in one day. Yup, it was that good :) Ok, I"m off to continue to reward my writing and 2 hours of cleaning at the new house with some more internet time :)

Keep writing, even if you think it's crap, you can always fix it later. If the page is blank, there's nothing to fix!