Elizabeth Schechter's Blog, page 56
January 26, 2012
Beginnings of resolution
Finally had the biopsy this morning. Interesting procedure, this. I apparently have sooper speshul tits, and needed to have a very specialized biopsy — a Stereotactic breast biopsy,(which you can actually watch on youtube! Wish I'd known that beforehand!)
The anticipation was MUCH worse than the actual procedure. And now I'm sore, and I have an interesting hole in my breast.
And, more importantly, I'll have an answer by Tuesday at the latest.
January 19, 2012
Really, this can stop anytime now…
Yesterday was just a FESTIVAL of suck.
To start off with, the biopsy that was supposed to be done. by the breast specialist that my GYN INSISTED I see? Yeah, she doesn't do that kind of biopsy. So she's sending me to the facility that the initial radiologist wanted to send me to in the first place, the one my GYN WOULD NOT LET ME GO TO BECAUSE I HAD TO SEE THE BREAST SPECIALIST!!!!!
Do I even have to say that my GYN is FIRED?
Then, when I got home and had my head clear enough to pay bills, I...
January 17, 2012
Darkness
Tomorrow, I will be joining in the internet blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA. Please DO contact your representatives and tell them that these bills are dangerously ignorant and need to be stopped!
January 16, 2012
Better news
I've been very busy this weekend, and so haven't had a chance to update. The fit that I pitched last week paid off, and Friday morning I received a call from a specialist, who will be performing a biopsy this coming Wednesday.
January 10, 2012
I could use a little boring right now…
I've decided that 2012 is more than likely going to be sacked within the next couple of weeks. And the medical community in Central Florida seems to be heavily influenced by the 1960s Batman.
Why?
Well, let's just say that the first two weeks of this year have been a HELL of a lot more interesting than I could ever have wanted. And this is not interesting in a good way.
Being 40 (yes, there's my real age out on the internet), I should have had a baseline mammogram done a couple of years ago...
December 18, 2011
An update is in order
Since I finished Heart's Master, I need to update the to-do list. So here's the queue, going in to 2012.
I'm bumping Tales from the Arena down to the outline list, because I need to figure out where that story is coming from and where it is going. Which means that my first 2012 project will either be the YA romance The Willow Sword, or diving back into Sea Prince with Danielle (who I worked with on Nomad's Moon).
And I might spend the holiday break doing the outline for Holy Orders, which...
December 17, 2011
That's a draft!
Heart's Master is complete! Well, the first draft is complete. And, just for grins, I went back into my files to take a look at when my first notes date from, and I realized that I've been working on this in one form or another for almost six years!
Final word count: 98,403
December 16, 2011
Holiday Cheer
In honor of the holidays (whatever holiday you celebrate), here's a holiday story that I wrote, and that appeared last year as part of the Circlet Press Advent Calendar. The main characters, Steven and Nick, are two of my favorites – the stars of my short story The Hand You're Dealt, and of Heart's Master, the novel that I will be finishing today (Deus volent and the creek don't rise…)
Have a happy whatever-you-celebrate!
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Snowbound
Elizabeth Schechter
(copyright 2010)
"It's coming down...
December 11, 2011
Santa Baby…
I wrote these a couple of years ago for a Mom's group — we were talking about Santa and someone asked where Santa came from.
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Way too much information on Santa Claus!
All right. Here goes (I can't just let research lay and wait…)
Nicholas of Myra was a 4th century Greek Christian bishop in Turkey, who was renowned for his generosity. The famous example is when he broke into the house of a poor, pious man in order to leave dowries for the man's three daughters. Without the dowries, the...
November 28, 2011
To-Dos and Ta-Das.
Time for the round-up.
Sold in 2011
Princes of Air (novel)
House of Sable Locks (novel)
Fools Rush in (short story)
Silk Skin (short story)
Rejections:
Coffee (poem) – once
Bread/Knife (poem) – once
Nomad's Moon (novel) – twice
Princes of Air (novel) – once
Revise and Resubmit:
Holy Palmer's Kiss (short story)
Still out in the wild
Coffee (poem)
Bread/Knife (poem)
Nomad's Moon (novel)
Infernal Machine (short story, reprint)
This is the object lesson — KEEP ON PLUGGING ALONG! Keep on writing...
