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Yup. Thursday’s looking good. Maybe even as early as Wednesday.

Catherine

A good friend has managed to pull off the supreme act of writing marketing. She has procurred for herself, after much angst, an agent. I am pleased.

I can see the light at the end of the summer tunnel. Sometimes I wonder what possessed me to take on a new supervisory position at work. Then I know the truth, and it sets me free. Most writers don’t get to go to Japan every other year. Most writers live on ramen. My teaching career is fulfilling in ways my writing career can not be. Vice versa is also true, but it’s too much for me to expect to carry every burden successfully. I put the writing one down for a bit. I’ll write some curriculum, get some fall classes going, and pick it back up.

You know, I am patient. I am a patient person. All things will come in their time.

Today I believe that. Tomorrow? 🙂

Getting things set up for my reading at The Witching Hour today. In the realms of writing, all but dead right now…curse the new job and all.

I am reading. So, I’m getting the soil ready. Right now, though, it’s all about sewing and working.

So, what am I reading? A YA book by Suzy McKee Charnas about faeries. Making me think about Gossamer.

Some day I’ll just get tired of not writing and write. Like I did today at the office with applications. I decided to call all of my prospects, out of the blue.

Well. Here’s hoping for a more active fall in this regard.

Catherine

Just spent a couple of hours talking to a writing class about writing. It was interesting, but strange.

Considering that it was a Fiction Lit class and not a writing class, it was odd. The teacher was a little odd too. My fellow writer, Hope and I, left the class, squinting at each other, saying, “That was weird.”

I felt sorriest for the students. They were captive and bored. I hope it’s not like that every day for them. Yes, I was charming, and tried to entertain them, and yes, that worked. It wasn’t enough. Anyway, they received six pages of Gossamer and Viridian as a bonus, if they want to read it.

Well. Let’s hope the next time we do that, it’s a little different.

Catherine

Substance of Shadows will be read at The Witching Hour. For 25 minutes.

Yeah, baby.

Catherine

I’ve scheduled time to write this week. Actually scheduled it, and so it goes.

I’ve also recently joined an organization for women writers called Broad Universe, which looks like another way to talk about writing, and seems a good resource for learning the trade. I’m sort of pumped about it.

I hope to have an actual content update this week. That would be a first for a while.

Catherine

Well, the charity auction is over, as are my writing obligations to it. Wiscon was a revitalizing experience. I’m really ready to begin writing again, and I hope to get to that very soon.

I understand now that play is a very important part of my writing process. 🙂

Catherine

Breakfast is done and off to its owner.

Now, to get something around for Wiscon!

Catherine

Two pages of Breakfast done. Hope to have entirely finished and ready for revision by end of day, and then off to Katy.

Catherine

Sorry. The new promotion at work has proven to be somewhat overwhelming. I’ve been bitching about that elsewhere, but suffice it to say that since March, that’s where my brain’s been, in one way or another.

I will be working on a small Klarion outtake for a friend who won the Cystic Fibrosis auction I’m involved with, and then will write a Maggie/Roddy outtake for the same auction.

I am still here, I am still interested, and I still have ideas. Maybe absence is wisest to make the heart grow fonder, and instead of bitching about my writing, I will begin to appreciate whatever time and energy I have for it.

I’ll be back.

Catherine