Jeannie Lin's Blog, page 32

Reality TV and Random Skills

Hubby and I watched every episode of the Celebrity Apprentice this season. It became our Sunday ritual and we'd discuss who should be fired and who were the strongest players. Both of us agreed that Holly and Brett were the top candidates and agreed that Brett Michaels in the course of the show really came out as a creative, hard-working, and decent fellow.

Hubby is probably mortified that I'm outing him here. He only watches reality shows when I ask for television time as is my due. He...

What have I been doing?

What has Jeannie been up to?

I've experienced a sudden productivity spike, which I attribute to a couple of things. First of all, the day job is picking up. This means I can't lollygag all day. So with less time to write, I write more.

Second, I'm still riding the adrenaline high from the new contract for two novels and two shorts. See how smoothly I worked that in?

1) I hit "The End" on a 10K-ish short for Undone just this Saturday. I'm really happy how it turned out. And I wrote a whole story ...

A "deep" thought for Friday morning

First off, I want to confess that I'm breaking the fourth wall here. Angie Fox gave me wonderful advice about how she doesn't want her readers to even realize the grunt work that goes into writing. She doesn't talk about how hard it is on her blog or her facebook.

"That's brilliant!" I exclaimed. "Never let them see you sweat."

Guess I'm breaking that rule with this post. I'm working on this short story/novella and thinking of how every new story feels like I'm learning everything all over...