kelly | February 24, 2010
“It wasn’t my fault,” I’d say to St. Peter if he called me on how well I did this first week.
“I was in Vegas for the first few days. I tried, but there was so much–”
“Sin?” he’d ask with one eyebrow arched as he jotted a note down with his quill on [...]
kelly | February 17, 2010
There are lots of things I could go without for a while. A few weeks ago I realized that I’d let the Internet take hold of me and considered another 40 day purge. This produced a surprising reaction in a few friends who reminded me that at the end of it I was [...]
kelly | January 11, 2010
I’m in a foul mood because I’m filled the the sense that something needs to drastically change. And I hate change, so I try to dig in my heels to avoid it until there’s so much “stuff” in the way (mentally and physically) that a pre-change outburst is immanent.
Fine. Call it a temper-tantrum. [...]
kelly | December 8, 2009
While I think blogging about your dreams is one of the most narcissistic of past times, I had a dream a few weeks ago that just refuses to let go of me. In the hopes of “taming” it by talking about it, I’m going to share it with you. It’s also possible this [...]
kelly | November 11, 2009
A funny thing happened on the way to my 2009 Nanonovel: Life. Literally.
I’m a little bit pregnant, and unfortunately for nanowrimo, it’s the stage of pregnancy where I’m at my most exhausted and my most unmotivated. To say nothing of the 24/7 nausea that prevents me from doing much of anything except willing it [...]
kelly | October 31, 2009
NaNoWriMo Eve is upon me and I find myself in a rather curious predicament. I’ve been spending the last couple of weeks talking up the novel-writing extravaganza on twitter, podcasts (okay, just the one), and via a prep article on murmur. There is no question in my mind that anyone who thinks it [...]
kelly | October 4, 2009
So, I’m stuck.
This happens every so often. I start craving a specific type of story and I can’t let it go. If whatever I’m currently reading doesn’t fit the bill, I can’t focus on it. I’ve started three books in the last few days, questing for the “right” combination of voice, plot, [...]
kelly | September 16, 2009
This crazy thing happened a few weeks ago on murmur: I was invited to partake in the podcasting portion of the site. Well, that’s not quite true. Every couple of weeks one of the staff members sends an email to the rest of us and asks who might be interested in joining the [...]
kelly | August 30, 2009
I quit World of Warcraft again.
It was past the point that my polite husband wanted to stage an intervention because he recognizes how fruitless that can be. The voices in my head were surreptitiously building a megaphone behind a Rita Hayworth picture and scattering the bits of scraps out in the garden. [...]
kelly | April 15, 2009
Today at Starbucks I found a man who might have been my father. He was too young by almost a decade, the wrong height, and his pale skin was more like mine than my father’s year-round tan. My father never would have ordered a white chocolate mocha, either. They did share the [...]
