Monthly Archives: March 2013

Mar
27

AwesomeCon

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Just a quick post to mention that it looks like I’m probably going to be attending AwesomeCon on April 20-21. It’s a smaller con from what I can gather, so I’m not sure what to expect, but small cons can be more fun than the larger ones in some ways. (I was NOT fond of being stepped on at NYCC last year – definitely a crazy time!) It looks pretty inexpensive, so if you’re in the area think about stopping by!  (I’ll post more details about the panel once I know them, but I think it will probably be early afternoon on Saturday.) Hope to see you there!… Read more
Mar
25

Monday Morning Updates

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I hate the fact that I didn’t blog but once last week. There are a number of reasons for this. New job stuff has left my brain a pile of mush for much of the time, and while it’s good stuff that I’m learning, I am running out of energy at the end of the day to do much more than attempt to recover enough to get some writing done.  And the writing needs to come first right now. 78k in…and no end in sight. >_< (Yes, I’m reposting an image Aimo drew for me last year when I was hurting. No, I wouldn’t turn down a Fenris oil massage right now. At all. It’s just one of those sorts of days.) I find the lack of blogging irritating though, since for several years I’ve managed to blog every day about *something* – even if it’s not the hot topic… Read more
Mar
19

The Sweet Smell of Success

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Well. If success smelled like unicorn farts, anyway. For all I know, it does – though it’s an awful lot like spearmint, from what I can tell. (You can purchase some fabulous Unicorn Farts chapstick yourself at this delightful etsy store. Go on. You know you want to.) That being said, I guess today’s post is about success and how one defines it. But that’s really all relative, isn’t it? Sort of like income. When I first got out of college and had a tiny one bedroom apartment and made $25k a year, I was feeling pretty awesome. After all, I’d only had hourly jobs before, so having a steady paycheck and a place I could afford and all the ramen I could eat was a good deal. And I thought I’d never need anything more. But years go by and salaries increase…and so do expenses. Funny how that works… Read more
Mar
15

Redirection

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A little site update here. A few months ago I had mentioned that I was probably going to look at moving the RSS feeds from Feedburner to Feedblitz. I started that process last night (and I’m doing the same for all my other sites as well.) So bear with me if you are a subscriber and you get duplicates for a day or so – hopefully not. >_< I’m giving a mega shout-out to Phil over at Feedblitz for 1) having perfect directions set up and 2) helping me to troubleshoot when I had some issues. I think this is going to be a great product and I’m very appreciative at having such great response time. Anyway, I’ve got some redirections in place, but should you wish to move over on your own power, this is the new RSS feed URL: https://feeds.feedblitz.com/HeartoftheDreaming Mail subscribers should have been moved over to the… Read more
Mar
13

Stuck

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Last night was a miserable night for writing. I was already in an ugly mood for reasons I can’t quite figure out. Maybe it’s the time change. Maybe it’s the pain meds. Maybe I’m just grumpy. Anyway. Stuck on a scene in this new book. Been stuck on it for about a week. It’s an important scene – one of the major turning points for the story. And I know where I want it to go…but my characters are balking. It’s always a bad sign when they just start posturing at each other and flapping their gums. It’s also bad when the main character decides she wants to use her hammer to cave in the head of the possible future love interest instead of talking to him, but I digress. Normally I’d take a few days away from it and maybe go write something else, or read or play games…but… Read more