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Antsy

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So I have time to write this morning but now I don't want to invest in the bodyguard book if I just have this AM and tomorrow to work on it before NaNo starts. I'm afraid to diffuse the excitement I have for the NaNo book. But I haven't written in 3 days. Three. Days.
I got everything done yesterday but had no down-time. Was really counting on down-time. Today is a day from hell. In 14 hours I hope to be on my couch watching Trick 'R Treat, which I got from...

Stressing, and Preparing

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I've been up since 4 working on progress reports. The website crashed about 10 minutes ago, as I was writing in missing assignments to explain the low grades. This is after staying an hour late yesterday to catch up on grading (but ended up having 2 parent conferences.) When I get to school, I need to get the kids' Halloween treats together, do my newsletter and write the district assessment grades on the progress reports. Today is like our Friday because...

Soundtrack

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It's bad that I keep thinking today is Thursday. Part of the reason is that Friday is a field trip and the carnival, so everything I need to get done at school this week needs to get done by tomorrow. That includes progress reports and lesson plans. We have a meeting during planning time today, so gah.
I realized last night that three of my four NaNo books all have the same model for a hero. What does this say, I'm not willing to give him more than a month?
I...

Now It Can Be Revealed

My new cover! GORGEOUS, isn't it?

Meanness

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There is a lot of meanness around lately. Everyone seems to have a short fuse, eager to jump to conclusions, twist words, insulting each other and talk before they think. WTH? Most of the evidence I've seen is on the internet where people seem actually anxious to misconstrue words as an insult. I am afraid to post anything on certain blogs, certain that I'll end up being a target as so many have been this weekend.
The news is an angry place, the internet is a...

Goals for the Week of Halloween

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My booksigning was less eventful than I'd hoped, though I did see a lot of friends and talked to a lot of people.
Yesterday I found a group on Facebook from my elementary school. Most of the people in the group are from my time. So much fun going down memory lane!
For the next 3 weeks, there will be at least one rough day. This week we have a field trip and carnival the same day. Next week when we have another field trip on the same day as Open House and beg...

More Dreams, Fictionwise and Submitting

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Why my subconscious is taunting me, I don't know. Last night I dreamed I'd written a series. I saw the covers and everything. They were GORGEOUS. One was a deep apple green with a cowboy leaning against the wall, his head lowered so all you saw was his body and the top of his hat. Another was red with a cowboy hat in the bottom corner. They were contemporary westerns, about a gentleman rancher, and from what I could tell, they were more women's fiction than...

Dreams

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Last weekend I dreamed that another teacher and I didn't go back to work after lunch and we didn't bother to call. Night before last, I had a dream with a plot--a guy who ran a drug distribution plant (or whatever. It was the middle of the jungle) decided to go on the straight and narrow, only his boss wouldn't let him and I rescued him from being blown up in a car bomb. After that I dreamed I didn't sell one book at my booksigning.
This morning (after the dog...

Goals for Week of my Booksigning

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1) Booksigning Saturday at an event held by my district. I hope this isn't a big mistake.

2) Mail Rita books

3) Finish cutting down STTA, submit

4) Work on short story

5) Edits on other short story

6) Blog at Wet Noodle Posse

7) Play with ideas for NaNo

8) District Assessment

9) Faculty Meeting

10) Keep up house (been doing good with this!)

11) Exercise (not so much)

NaNo Thinking

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I'm thinking about what I'm going to write for NaNo. I thought I knew. I'm considering writing a pregnant heroine. I've never written one of those before. I don't even read many. The best one I ever read was Emily McKay's first book, Baby, Be Mine. Have you read any you'd recommend?
I have an idea for a series (another first) but the idea is out there, and I actually only have the mystery for the third book in mind. Definitely needs more planning.
I also have...