I know. It's been forever and a day since I posted here. On the bright side...I've been journaling more since the New Year (and by "more" I mean...more or less once a week...but coming from someone who hasn't kept a journal in probably a good decade, that's pretty impressive), so I haven't been completely idle.
It's been a rather busy start to the New Year, which is why I haven't gotten around to writing an update post on this blog until now. In my non-writing life, it's been a blur of my day job, family stuff, friend stuff, HPA stuff, hanging out with the boyfriend, Irish dancing, stupid weather, and meetings meetings meetings. Or that's what it feels like. I've been on the move practically the entire start of this year, so I'm having a lot of trouble processing the fact that it's already mid-February. Time flies.
In my writing life, however, I kind of highlighted the big three things going on in the title, so how about I highlight them down in the actual post as well? Sound good? Yes? Awesome.
Write Stuff
I'm going back to the Write Stuff conference again in March. This will be my second year attending and I'll be doing some of the pre-conference stuff this year, so I'm pretty excited about that. Granted, I haven't actually gone yet, seeing as how it's not for another month, so really all the time it's taken up thus far has to do with me picking out what I wanted to do and then registering...and then booking flights and hotel. Always an adventure. If I can just avoid last year's travel nightmare, I'll be a happy camper!
ABNA 2013
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm entered in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest for the second year. In the weekend before entries opened, I was scrambling to clean up my novel more (meaning I reread and did minor tweaks on it for literally six hours the Sunday before entries opened). However, now we're in that wonderful stage of waiting. We're in limbo. And all of us are just commiserating with each other over on the ABNA forums and counting down. The cuts for Round 2 are announced on Wednesday of this week, so the panic has set in pretty effectively by now. I should probably make sure I have some antacids at home.
Revisions
I've been a crazy person and trying to revise multiple projects at a time. Which might account for the fact that little has gotten done on any of them. I think of these revisions I should be doing and my brain seizes up and I quickly get distracted by shiny objects. It's an entertaining, if highly unproductive, process. I should probably just focus on one project to revise right now, but they're all so wonderful. I can't choose between my babies. In any case, the procrastination monkey is mostly what's been going on on the revisions side of things (and pretty much every other side of things writing-wise too...I'm surrounded by procrastination monkeys). However, I have novel documents open on my computer at home...so...step in the right direction, yes?
There's your update for now. I'll hopefully update again in the next few days. But tonight? Tonight I'm going to a Harry and the Potters concert and will be nerding it out hardcore with my fellow Potterheads. All is right in the world for tonight.
Stay awesome!
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