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Dec
18
Winter Weather
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While I love the look of winter, I absolutely hate the cold. It makes my hands hurt. The only good thing about the cold, in my opinion, is cuddling with people I love, and sitting in front of the fireplace with a nice fire going. Unfortunately, we don’t have a fireplace.
The kids had a snow day yesterday, and that threw my routine for a loop. We got about six inches of snow, and with the really strong winds there were drifts up to two feet high in places.
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Dec
13
Slowly Catching Up
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Man, I’m really falling behind on things, especially posting here. This sucks. It all goes back to my stopping using Simple-ology. I wasn’t using it faithfully, or the way it is “designed” to be used, but it did keep me on track and I got stuff done. I have to start using it again or I’m never going reach my goals.
I’m incredibly behind in doing crits for my writing group. Again. I have legitimate reasons why, but I still feel guilty about it. Today’s crits owed count is 2 down, 11 to go. It’s not normally so many, but everyone is trying to get their novels (or big sections of them) done before the year is over.
To help me get back on track for my writing, and so that I don’t have so many problems with my hands, I bought a new headset and mike. It’s much better than the one that came with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I’m not having nearly the problems I had when I first used the program a couple of years ago. I wonder how much of that was just the sucky mic, or if it was because this time I had it scan through files on my computer to get a getter idea of what I write to flesh out the dictionary.
Oh yeah. Something else I picked up to help with my trying to meet my goals is Holly Lisle’s Holly Lisle’s How To Find Your Writing Discipline. I haven’t read it yet, but I hope I’ll find something useful in it.
Finally, I managed to get Chapter 5 of TMA out the door yesterday to my writing group. It’s not finished. There’s a section in it that’s really just notes about part of the scene that I just couldn’t figure out how to write. I just couldn’t get past it, so I finally said enough and moved on. By the time I get back to it, I’ll hopefully have figured it out.
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Nov
26
Computer Woes
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My desktop computer died last night. The guy at the repair shop says he thinks it’s the power supply, and that’s the cheapest thing to replace. I should have it back in a day or two, powers that be willing.
However, I’ve got my old laptop, so I’ve been able to get some writing done, but not for the novel. I’m about half done a new Avanced Class for The Kandris Seal (Modern d20). Hopefully it’ll be done tomorrow and I can release it into the wilds.
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Aug
12
This Week’s Update
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Yeah, well, so much for my intention to blog every day.
However, I got a bunch of stuff accomplished this weekend, including getting some paid work out the door a week early. Hooray me. It’s not going to get me paid any faster, but I knew that if I left it until the last minute, something would happen to screw things up. Now, the finished work is on its way to my client.
I also put together most of another page for the webcomic (working on the coloring now), did the off-day update for next weekend, and I did up this week’s podcast. It was a busy weekend.
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Jul
25
Work, work, work.
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Things have been really busy here. No progress on the novel, but lots of progress on the layout for the d20 version of The Kandris Seal. I’ve been in contact with several artists about doing some artwork for the upcoming books, and I’m in the planning stages for the future books I’ll be writing. I think that, at least for now, I’ll be concentrating on d20 stuff. I can produce that stuff faster, and don’t have to worry about getting products approved.
The Domino Girls webcomic continues to update on schedule. Tomorrow’s page completes the first “book”. The second book starts next week. That reminds me. I need to get working on putting together a bunch of pages.
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