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Thursday, August 28, 2008

28 August 2008, Thursday

Okay, I give up! I can't get the widget to sit in the middle of the page. Being the fastidious person I am, I just know it's going to niggle at me until I know how to do it. Anywhoos, I saw this at the BB and thought it would be fun to post up the widget and be part of this promo event (no,it's not for the contest, it's a bit late isn't it?!). After all, you never know how many sites you bump into who will also be sporting this widget. It's pretty cool, really.

Okay, I got it to sit on the left side. I still can't figure out how to get it to be in the middle, but at least now I'm still not poring over this post.




Other books I'm waiting on are:
August 2008 - Acheron; Sherrilyn Kenyon
September30 - Seduce Me At Sunrise; Lisa Kleypas
September30 - Mr. Cavendish, I Presume; Julia Quinn
October14 - A Wall Flower Christmas; Lisa Kleypas
November04 - One Silent Night; Sherrilyn Kenyon
November25 - When The Duke Returns; Eloisa James
Fall 2008 - Melting Stones; Tamora Pierce

The Unleash Your Story: Make a Difference fund raising event is about to start this coming September. It's a great way to write to keep to your goal as well as help raise money to find a cure for cystic fibrosis. I'm about to join up but I'm sure I won't be able to keep to my goal!


I now work six days a week. I have one day a week off (although that day changes every week so I don't know which day that may be) and I work from 5am-530pm - not including my waking up hours and driving to or madly home hours or hours I stay behind to clean up. Any hopes of being able to write have been nicely dashed away.

I have been severely getting writing withdrawal symptoms again. Worse, I'm SO irritable that I want to snap out at everyone. I really feel bad afterwards, but while I'm at it, I feel just fine. It's terrible. It's a hard choice between taking two hours of my sleeping time to write, or to have more sleep and not write. I mean, I don't think I can survive a fifteen hour work day on six hours of sleep.

Since I started working for longer hours, I have written exactly one paragraph. It's a devastation. I'm hoping that after I finish all my chores today I will have the time to sit down and get some substantial writing done to tide me through the next week of work.

I at last got a USB to save my work on. My laptop still regularly scares me and shuts down suddenly, but at least now I have my writing backed up else where. I gotta start my chores now or I'll never get anything done.

Everybody, good luck with your writing!

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

19 August 2008, Tuesday

Hello Everyone,

I just got home from tennis lessons. I ache in places I didn't even know existed. I'm heaps tired. And it is winter, freezing cold, and I was prancing around in my shorts and tee because I simply refuse to wear long pants or shirts. Stubborn you say? nuh-uh. I say I'm just being ME.

Yesterday night my laptop gave me a scare when the whole screen turned white and I had to shut it down - YAY for me and my unsaved work. I really need to get a USB and save my work there. My laptop is becoming an unreliable source with bad habits of shutting down out of no where! But I lost my last USB with all my writing in it, so I think it's just as bad as a computer!

My writing is in dire need of a critique. I would like to enter it into the Golden Pen for feedback. I heard it's got great critiques and useful advice. However, with all my work and no time to sleep, I'm afraid that I won't have time to revise it to send it in. I don't know if it is a good thing to enter a half finished, unrevised draft into a serious contest just so I can get feed back. I feel it's also unfair to send in a second rate piece of work for judges to view. I'm still undecided and time is running out. Oh well... "maybe next year". That's becoming quite a familiar quote to me now.