Celestial Chicken Blog

Well, I am winding up for the big day, the start of Nano!
I’ve checked my supply of hot cocoa (not enough), tea bags (plenty), freezer-to-table meals (none – ack), and hard drive space (should be good to go).
I have loaded my iPod with every piece of music I or my kids own.
I’m as ready as [...]

I get asked fairly often how I find time to do what I do. I raise my kids, I homeschool my kids, I work full-time, I perform wedding ceremonies as an ordained minister, I sometimes clown around for pay with my husband. And I write. A LOT. I maintain three blogs regularly, and am working [...]

Okay, just shy of 8 days, but that’s good enough for me! I’m really looking forward to getting the process started. I have most of my story worked out, although I should spend some quality time this week trying to build a character profile for both my FMC and my MMC. I often start out [...]

We have just about two weeks until Nano starts. Okay, it’s 15 days and something as I write this, but that’s close enough. Time to wind up our writing engines and hope they hold out for the month of November. Do we have our outlines done? Or at least some semblance of a plot and [...]

Twenty-one some-odd days until Nano starts.
I’m getting anxious, and beginning to plan some of my strategy for writing.
LR (chthonicgoof) and I have set up Wednesday write-ins in Sunset Hills at the Borders Bookstare.
I will miss the first write-in as I will be in Colorado then.
But LR and I will be at the Borders on November [...]

I was piddling around looking at some writing forums.
And like all such things, I stumbled onto more bad than good.
For places that were supposedly about writing, there was an awful lot of insults flying.
Complete with profanity and strange usernames of a sexual or disturbing nature. Makes me wonder where they learned to write.
Or talk to [...]

Something is bugging me. I’ve been hanging out on the Nano Forums getting ready for this year’s Nano (when the site is up, that is – there’ve been some technical difficulties). In the Romance Genre forum, there is a post called “Clean Romance.” “Clean” as in “no sex.” The inference being, really, that sex is [...]

As forewarned is forearmed, or something, I will be working on the layout of this theme over the next few days.
That is, after I figger out how to work with CSS and Wordpress.
Because it is sooooo not my language. And they said that Wordpress is sooooo easy.
I’ve had no trouble figuring out Blogspot, and LiveJournal, [...]

This post originally posted on October 2, 2007.
Nano starts in less than a month.
I decided that I needed a new writing blog to take the place of last year’s blog.
I want to keep “Without-a-Net“, last year’s blog, active for continued work on that novel, which is still at least a year from completion. It’s easy [...]