Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Waxing Moon
Pluto Retrograde
Jupiter Retrograde
Sunny and pleasant

My Derby wrap-up article is here:

My pre-:Preakness article should go up sometime this week. On Friday, I’ll handicap all of Saturday’s card again for Racing Ink, and the Preakness wrap-up will appear on FemmeFan the following week.

Didn’t get as much done as I wanted to yesterday, but that’s okay. I had to help my mom with something; we thought it would take twenty minutes and it took two hours. Oh, well, that’s the way it goes sometimes.

Caught up on correspondence, caught up on some blogs, came up with an idea for an article for a magazine I loved as a kid, so I have to figure out a great query letter for it. Had a great weight-training session last night.

Did some work on the Maine project I’m having trouble with titles lately – they seem to choose themselves at some point during the first draft. Had a great session this morning on the adaptation – wrote nearly two whole chapters.

I’m waiting for the new bookcase’s delivery, and I’m catching up on everything that didn’t get done. I have a massive headache this morning for some reason – I took something, and I’m hoping it will ease up. My mom’s fine again – must have been one of those 24 hour bugs. So at least that’s one worry less.

My grandmother found my missing sunglasses (they were custom and expensive, since I have a complicated prescription and it’s hard to find sunglasses that fit my glasses). They’d fallen out of my purse while I was in Maine, and she managed to find them. She mailed them back in a clever way – a box shaped like a small trunk filled with stationary and then the glasses well-wrapped. What fun!

I have to answer some questions from someone who wants to quote something I said in a speech he’s giving soon in DC – I’m flattered. And I’ve got some negotiations to work on before I can get back to the deadlined work. Hopefully, it will be reasonably quiet most of the day, so I can really push and get a lot done.

Nothing exciting, and right now, that’s a GOOD thing!

Devon

Adaptation – 33,099 words out of est. 90,000

33 / 90 (36.8%)

Devon’s Bookstore:

5 in 10: Create 5 Short Stories in Ten Weeks by Devon Ellington. This ebooklet takes you from inspiration to writing to revision to marketing. By the end of ten weeks, you will have either 5 short stories or a good chunk of a novella complete. And it’s only 50 cents, USD. Here.

Writing Rituals: Ideas to Support Creativity by Cerridwen Iris Shea. This ebooklet contains several rituals to help you start writing, get you through writer’s block, and help send your work on its way. It’s only 39 cents USD. (Note: Cerridwen Iris Shea is one of the six names under which I publish). Here.

Full Circle: An Ars Concordia Anthology. Edited by Colin Galbraith. This is a collection of short stories, poems, and other pieces by a writers’ group of which I am a member. My story is “Pauvre Bob”, set at Arlington Race Track in Illinois. You can download it free here: