Celestial Chicken Blog

I have a strange form of insomnia.  I can go to sleep at night, no problem.  I go right to sleep, as long as it’s after 9 and before 11.  I stay asleep until sometime mid-early-morning.  Sometimes this is as early as 2:30, and sometimes as late as 5 a.m.
Thursday morning came at 3:30 a.m.  [...]

Sheesh, I should look over my work a bit better before I hit “publish.”  Going to have to fix all the typos and bad grammar in that last post and put it back up.  And I like to tell people I have a minor in English…butchering of the English language, it appears!
But, to the subject [...]

Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava, Emily, Madison, Abigail, Chloe and Mia
These are this year’s most popular baby names for girls.  And I have a problem.  A big problem.
Three of the names on this top-ten list are the names of FMC’s in the stories I’m working on right now.  All three of them have been [...]

As I continue on my Circus novel, I find myself bogging down in the details, the building of the story and the characters.  I write so slowly, this stuff is just…boring.
And I worry, if it’s boring to write, is it going to be boring to read?
So, to get myself energized again, I picked a scene [...]

So, this week I decided that I should close and hide both of the open circus story files, and start from scratch.  I know I risk losing some great wordage in there, but the fact is, I was never going to be able to combine the two documents without a whole lot of work, and [...]

I had hand surgery on March 17th. I have bad carpal tunnels. All messed up. So I had the right one “released,” and am in the middle of the healing process. The surgery went well, but the recovery has been slower than I would have liked. Not being able to [...]

Unfortunately, for all my grumbling about not having an agent, and not having this, and not having that, all of that is my own fault. My own damned fault. I just have not put the time into it that I should. How can I realistically think I can sell any of my [...]

One of the hardest things about the end of Nano is finding personal motivation to keep going in December. Never mind January. Here it is December 15th, and I’ve barely touched my novel since November 30th, only adding a couple thousand words to what I already had. This is a ridiculous state [...]

There are less than two days of NaNoWriMo left for 2009. I will finish above 50K this year, as I always have. The story will not be finished at a measly 50,000 words, which is also per usual. Most of my stories worth reading are around 90K.
This one should be close to [...]

I like hanging out on the forums over at the NaNoWriMo website, but I sure don’t like all the whining. The whines I’ve heard/read just today:
1. I lost my file when my computer crashed, lost 5K words.
2. I’m never going to make my word count!
3. I’m so busy, I can’t ever [...]