Laptop stil dying.

I am still sad.


So..... how are you?

Oh No!

My laptop is in pieces on the desk.
Scott, my hubby/laptop mechanic, has to work all weekend.
It rained off and on all day today.
Which made me sleepy.
I am a little less than a thousand words in the hole for my NaNoWriMo novel.
Tomorrow I will be old.

ON THE FLIP SIDE
I have a laptop.
Hubby has a job. He also has a desk top 'puter that I can use.
The trees looked pretty in the rain.
I have a warm, comfy waterbed.
There is always tomorrow to try and catch up with the word count.
I'll still be older tomorrow, but my 44th year looks to be exciting. More on that tomorrow.

Goodnight.

NaNoWriMo Participant

Yep.  I signed up.  And I've met today's word count goal!  Oh yeah!!!

And I've fended off the nefarious plot bunnies today, too.  One tried to sneak up and lay a whole new story on me at lunch today.  I scribbled the story premise down in a small notebook and put it away promptly before it ould breed more madness!

Later!

HAPPY NOVEMBER! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Today is Hubby's birthday.  Congratulations on his 48th trip around the sun!  May he have many, many more!  His request?  German chocolate cake, of course.  I'll be baking it shortly.

Today is also the beginning of NaNoWriMo.  In case you don't know -- that's National Novel Writing Month.  I have participated in that madness for years.  Wondering if I want to jump in this year.

And

if I do....

Will I use it to jump start a slowly moving new Alabama Girls novel?  The whole novel won't meet the 50K required to 'win' NaNoWriMo, but it would be a way to kick myself in the seat and give me a tough goal.

Or

I could use this time to write out an idea that has been niggling my brain lately.

Or

I could write both at the same time and thus double my chances of reaching 50K. 

But that might not even be 'legal'.  Decisions. Decisions.

Any advice?

Still sick.

Not me. My poor PC.  I've had lots of advice on things to do. Scott and I have tried some of them but so far nothing has worked.  I think I'll cart the poor thing over to a friend's house today.  They have some background with these electronical gizmos. Wish us luck.

In the meantime, I managed to create a business card. It looks pretty good if I do say so myself.    Wouldn't you love to have one?  :)

Later

Good news and bad news

The good news is: I got the official logo for Alabama Girls from my wonderful editor!  Now I'm busy trying to create a business card.  Yay!

The bad news: My laptop is in pieces on my desk.  I'm using hubby's computer while he works on my poor baby.  It doesn't know it has a hard drive.   :(  

And it's raining.

That is all.

I'm baaaaaack!

And I have lots to blog about.

The weekend of October 15-16, I attended Southern Breeze's WIK conference down in Birmingham.  Met lots of nice folks, reconnected with others, and learned a lot.  A special thank you to Lisa Yee and her writing excercises.  Loved them!

Waiting on an afterward from a local archivist for Huntsville, 1892 Clara. Then, it's off to the press for my novel!  Not the final printing.  I'm getting ARCs!  Want one?  :P  And when some nice people provide some nice blurbs, then the book goes off for a final printing.  Hurray!  The end is in sight!

And so is the beginning.... I AM NOW UNDER CONTRACT FOR A SECOND ALABAMA GIRL NOVEL!!!!!!!!

Yep.  Birmingham, 1933 Alice is being written as I type. Well, not really, because I can't type a blog and a novel at the same time.  Anyway...  More details to follow.

Met the librarian of Lacey's Spring Elementary school.  She wants me to visit her kids and tell them all about Clara.  Imagine that!  I have a school visit before I have a book in hand!  I'll get to see them all in March if everything goes as planned.

In the meanwhile, life goes on and so do I.  Can't wait to share more of my journey with you.