Elizabeth Schechter's Blog, page 16
June 14, 2021
Busy Rest of the Year!
I just updated my Appearances widget over there —->.
Starting in July, I have something every month for the rest of the year.
I don’t normally book myself that hard, but… ummm… yeah… I think I overdid it just a bit.
Starting in July, you can find me…
RWA Retreat
Nashville, TN
July 14-17, 2021
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Orlando Reads Books
Orlando, FL
August 26 – 29, 2021
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NecronomiCon
Tampa, FL
September 24 – 26th, 2021
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Books at the Beach
Clearwater Beach, FL
October 21 – 24th, 2021
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June 7, 2021
Writing is a Solitary Profession
Most of the time, we’re alone in our rooms, banging our heads on the keyboard and drinking something caffeinated. Or, if you’re writing later in the day, non-caffeinated. Perhaps alcoholic. Or maybe not. I’m so not judging your choice of libations. Right now? I’m drinking water and writing this blog, and thinking about the next thing that’ll happen in Heir to the Firstborn. (Owyn is in trouble. Again. When is Owyn not in trouble?)
Heir to the Firstborn(Heir to the Firstborn, book 5)100240 /...May 31, 2021
Wait… June? Where did May Go?
It’s June tomorrow. Was it just me, or did May just fly on past?
Granted, I’ve been busy. Between my own writing and Pen to Paper and RWA stuff and every other thing, I’ve barely had time to blink. And now it’s JUNE?
Write faster, Liz! There’s so much left to do!
Heir to the Firstborn(Heir to the Firstborn, book 5)95828 / 150000 (63.89%)I hit the pivot point on Heir to the Firstborn last night. And there is an entire chapter written that comes after that pivot point, so while this book is...
May 24, 2021
How to Get an Whole Week into One Day…
First, start with a Monday…
Today has been a very productive day, in all ways but one…
Got Teen Boy off on time to his second to last day of finals. (okay, I made sure he was in front of his computer…)Worked outHad a brief training on how to conduct an interview via Zoom — best video settings, that sort of thing.Scheduled three Zoom interviews.Prepped three different sets of questions for those interviews.Reviewed Units 6 and 10 of Pen to Paper for two of those three sets of questionsSent...May 17, 2021
Things Fall to the Wayside
The other night, my husband asked me if I was going to get started reading the T.Kingfisher books that have been piling up on my side of the bed. He’s read them all, and he wants to talk to me about them, but I have a firm rule about spoilers.
And I realized that my leisure reading has come to a near-standstill. I’m so busy, so being pulled in so many directions that I do not have the attention span for reading. Graphic novels? Sure. I just recently shotgunned the entire Girl Genius series, foll...
May 10, 2021
Busy, Busy, Busy!
If it’s not one thing, it’s two things. Or six. These days, it’s usually six.
I’m working on Pen to Paper, and writing Heir to the Firstborn, and doing the usual Mom things. And it seems like I don’t stop working from the time I get up to the time I fall over. Which… I suppose counts as a usual Mom thing? I mean, I just recently saw something that said that the sob of “stay-at-home Mom” is the equivalent of two and a half full time jobs outside the house. Add in RWA Director-at-large, and Pen...
May 3, 2021
(Insert May Song Reference Here)
I can think of at least three songs about the month of May, and have heard all three references at least once a day for the past three days. So pick your favorite and sing out!
The Sooper Sekrit project for the RWA as formally announced last week on Wednesday and Friday.
From the official announcement:
Pen to Paper: Guide to Writing Romance is an immersive seven-month romance writing program designed to ground you in writing romances so strongly that your inner critic will be forc...
April 26, 2021
WordPress is about as much fun as root canal.
This lovely blog is built on a WordPress engine, which I usually like, because it’s fairly easy (for me, anyway). But sometimes… yeah, sometimes.
There’s something going on under the hood with WordPress, where my desktop site will update, but those same changes won’t deliver to the mobile site if I pull it up on my phone. And if I don’t notice (which I don’t always), there will be weeks where my website goes unchanged if you look at it on mobile, even though I update it at least once a week r...
April 19, 2021
What a Week!!!!
Last week was… wow. Just… whiplash week!
It started Tuesday, when my computer crashed because of an Microsoft update that didn’t go as planned. Yes, that happens. I know. When I finally got the computer straightened out and go everything back up, part of chapter 17 and all of chapter 18 of Heir to the Firstborn were missing.
That’s when I learned that something else wasn’t going as planned.
My automatic saves to Dropbox weren’t saving. And hadn’t been, for about a week.
Now, my editing files are...
April 14, 2021
OMG!!!!
I had a doctor appointment first thing. Horrible timing, I KNOW. But it was scheduled when Vivian Day was still the 7th.
Got home, handed my phone to my husband, and went to take a shower. Neglected to take off my Fitbit (which is waterproof, so no big). I am shampooing my hair when my wrist goes off. I look at this blurry, wet screen, see LaQuette’s name, and I start crying. Because I know that LaQuette makes NO calls before 11AM, because writing time is scared. So there’s only one reason she’l...
