Piss on all Mondays! They suck worse than a broken vacuum cleaner in a mud hole!
Well, with that out of the way allow me to apologize for my silence over the last few days. The end of last week snuck up on me (gently smacking me in the back of the skull with a hammer!) and I barely had time to breathe, much less post here. I found out last minute that I was traveling all day Friday for work, so Thursday was a mad dash of preparation and re-scheduling. To top it off, when I got home that night, the boy and I had to run out shopping for supplies and fishing gear for our weekend campout (which I barely made it back in time for Friday!) It was a tad hectic.
The good thing is that the weekend was fantastic! We went canoeing and fishing in one of the state parks down in southern NJ and had a blast. There are few things funnier than watching thirty 11-14 year old kids trying to get canoes over sand bars in a low-water river. Not only that but the boys managed to swamp their boats more times than I could count and/or ram them into the mud banks at the edge of the river where they couldn't get free. I spent more time in the water helping the boys than I did in my own canoe. That's alright though, it was still a lot of fun. Weather was perfect: not a cloud in the sky and temps in the mid 70's (low 50's at night) You can't ask for better when you're camping!
As for writing: nothing doing. Didn't touch a thing. Hopefully tonight (lunch today is locked up with a new trainee and errands for Scouts I need to run) but even that is questionable. We finally (I think!) have a contractor for the renovations and he may be coming by tonight to sign the final contract. (I hope!)
Anyway, Monday is all over me (and it so . . . icky!!!) so I have to run. I'll try to be better with the posts this week.
Later!
6 comments:
Hey hey, its Lee...Just popping in to say hi, how was your summer and how do you feel about getting our crit circle up and running again in the fall sometime?
I don't have any recently new material but I am working on a new story and its looks pretty good so far. Let me know what you think and if you know how to get into contact with mel. You can email me at:
freespirit1000@hotmail.com
or you can leave a message in our crit circle.
thanks
-Eleah
Hey Lee. This is one of the blogs I read daily, so you can always contact me here. As long as Jim doesn't mind us taking over his comments ;).
Anyway, I've finished the first draft of my new novel, and am about a chapter into the second draft. It's not perfect (what is?), but good enough that I wouldn't mind you guys ripping it to shreds, if I get a few days to fix a couple of things.
So I'm happy with restarting the circle anytime from now.
You two are welcome to use my comments as much as you wish! :-)
I'm up for a restart of the Circle. This week is going to be a little nuts, but what say we hit it this coming Monday 10/3? I have a WIP that I'd love to get some feedback on as I go (if you don't mind a 1st draft!) I'm about 40k into it and I don't think it'll be a problem staying ahead of you. (not as long-winded as I am!)
I'll pop in over at FM next week, if one of you wants to post up before then feel free!
Later!
Yikes....that means I better really get working on it....
1st Confession: I wrote next to nothing this summer.
2nd Confession: I am going through tremendous writer's block and am trying to stay ahead of it all.
On the upside, they are having a convention up here that I can actually go to. The surrey international writer's convention.
www.siwc.ca
I think I am going to go. My biggest problem as of late is being too critical on myself. Yesterday I rewrote my first paragraph over and over again over the course of an hour. I didn't even get 1 page written. Think I need to try something like NaNo to just get the words out on paper. They can always be fixed later, right?
Do you want to put off restarting the crit circle for a bit, then, Lee? I'm okay either way.
By the way, I was completely confused for a moment by what you were saying about the surrey international writer's convention. I didn't realise there was a Surrey in Canada, and was wondering why you'd be flying to the UK for a convention ;).
There is a surrey in british columbia, canada.... you can check out the above mentioned website.
Lol... i forgot there was one in the UK too....thats probably where we named it from...
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