Celestial Chicken Blog

I started reworking my circus novel two days ago.  I’m going to be trying to write every day, at least a little, to try to get back on track with it.  I’ve let it lay fallow way too long. I’m finally learning to love the advantages of the wide-screen monitor on my desktop computer at [...]

I tried to get started with yWriter today.  I thought maybe if I had some sort of organization tool it would keep me on track.  I entered some characters, then started a chapter, but couldn’t figure out where it would let me actually TYPE the chapter.  I probably wasted an hour playing with it.  And [...]

Okay, I’ve been working, or trying to work, on my Circus novel again.  I have finally, I think, found the direction I should have been going on along.  I needed a thread to hold the whole thing together and I just hadn’t found that yet.  I have now, and I want to get the story [...]

We had our first post-Nano “Creative Night” at Borders in Sunset Hills here in St. Louis.  I think we all needed a bit of a boost after being so busy over the holidays.  As I told LR, I think I need the creative outlet to keep me from going insane this time of year at [...]

No, I’m not talking about my hair, although I am about a month past when I should have colored my hair last. No, I’m back writing off-site.  It seems to be the only time I can get anything done.  My blogs I can write in any time, no problem, but actual writing is difficult at [...]

LR and I have decided that we need a post-Nano meetup with some of the Write-In people that gathered with us in November.  So, the date and time is set. This will be more of a “social” event and the creativity doesn’t have to be writing.  Bring something you’re working on, whether it be writing [...]