Anju Gattani's Blog - Posts Tagged "puppy"
Fried Brain
Hi,
OK... it's Friday and I was hoping to jump back in Bk III and pick up from where I last left off. Except things aren't quite going as planned.
I read and edited the last chapter, fixed things a little here and there, and can't seem to move on. I've got work to do on Twitter (learn stuff), take Scruffy puppy for his puppy bath and trim at 6pm... and am miserable!
So, I've decided to stick to working out the twitter thing, finalizing the author bio for Decatur Book Festival and trying to jump back in the story on Monday. Unless I'm real lucky and start clicking away today itself!
Any one else ever have scruffy days?
OK... it's Friday and I was hoping to jump back in Bk III and pick up from where I last left off. Except things aren't quite going as planned.
I read and edited the last chapter, fixed things a little here and there, and can't seem to move on. I've got work to do on Twitter (learn stuff), take Scruffy puppy for his puppy bath and trim at 6pm... and am miserable!
So, I've decided to stick to working out the twitter thing, finalizing the author bio for Decatur Book Festival and trying to jump back in the story on Monday. Unless I'm real lucky and start clicking away today itself!
Any one else ever have scruffy days?
Fall Clean-Up N Fiction
Hi,
I spent yesterday evening celebrating fall clean-up with my son. The yard was a mess! Dried-up, cruncy leaves were strewn all over the ground and we could barely see the grass. This has been going on for a while now and yesterday we finally decided to do something about it. Thanks to good ol' rakes we were able to collect the scattered leaves into piles. The next step was dumping them in lawn bags. Needless to say we filled 5 bags and ran short... that's where trash bags come in handy!
The blower was next! With me behind its controls, I made sure to get as many leaves out the way - until I pointed it in the wrong direction... OOPS!
We had 3 huge piles and as I started bagging them, my 12-year old son decided to jump in with Scruffy the puppy... OOPS! It's not actually as bad as you think. The worse part was pulling the leaves out Scruffy's fur - he's a Shih-Tzu! But we did leave a few leaves. They look good.
We bagged. We dragged the bags to the kerb. We were finally done!
And now I'm back to looking at a critique from my wonderful friend and editor. She's got me thinking. Hard. I knew the chapter was finally done. But I hadn't realized it wasn't working the way I'd intended it to. So I'm scraping all the dried up words. Piling them into heaps - to scatter them all over the place so they're not all in one heap. And I've got to bag them so I have a clean surface to work from. Let's see how this goes...
Oh yes... there's still the back yard 'to do'!!
I spent yesterday evening celebrating fall clean-up with my son. The yard was a mess! Dried-up, cruncy leaves were strewn all over the ground and we could barely see the grass. This has been going on for a while now and yesterday we finally decided to do something about it. Thanks to good ol' rakes we were able to collect the scattered leaves into piles. The next step was dumping them in lawn bags. Needless to say we filled 5 bags and ran short... that's where trash bags come in handy!
The blower was next! With me behind its controls, I made sure to get as many leaves out the way - until I pointed it in the wrong direction... OOPS!
We had 3 huge piles and as I started bagging them, my 12-year old son decided to jump in with Scruffy the puppy... OOPS! It's not actually as bad as you think. The worse part was pulling the leaves out Scruffy's fur - he's a Shih-Tzu! But we did leave a few leaves. They look good.
We bagged. We dragged the bags to the kerb. We were finally done!
And now I'm back to looking at a critique from my wonderful friend and editor. She's got me thinking. Hard. I knew the chapter was finally done. But I hadn't realized it wasn't working the way I'd intended it to. So I'm scraping all the dried up words. Piling them into heaps - to scatter them all over the place so they're not all in one heap. And I've got to bag them so I have a clean surface to work from. Let's see how this goes...
Oh yes... there's still the back yard 'to do'!!
