Yippee! This blog now has 100 followers! Yay! Thank you to everyone who visits, links, or comments. I appreciate every one of you, and I hope you take the time to comment. I’d love to get to know you.
If someone were to ask me what my sign was this week, it would be Out of Order. NaNo has sucked me dry of any potential free time I might have when I’m not pushing back deadlines. I’m up to a respectable 34K words, but I’m about to spend a holiday week without time to write. Egad. And I’m tired. Too many writing miles traveled this week.
A client got in touch last night and what he had to say confirmed that I am indeed following the right line of thinking. He said his company had had some unpleasant interactions with writers in the last month and he said it prompted his company to come up with extra funding for a “professional” writer. I mentioned that people were coming back after leaving due to price, and he said he could understand why. It would seem that the client world is tiring quickly of substandard, cheap writing. Amen.
I’ll spend today and tomorrow finishing up work before my trip. I’m outta here next week, so don’t look for me. I wanted to get some guest posts lined up, but work got in the way. How would it be if I left some writing prompts or discussion questions?
How are you spending the holiday week? How’s your NaNo writing going?
Congrats!
I'll be going to my borhter's house for Thanksgiving. He only lives an hour away, so traveling will be great. 🙂
That IS great, Jennifer! I'm actually home for the holiday, but off to Vegas for some fun. 🙂
I just got back from DC, have deadlines to clear off before going to Maine, and didn't do Nano, although I have a myriad of fiction deadlines to handle.
Maine for Thanksgiving, as usual, with the 50+ people and no arguments — love that!
Sounds like a great time, Devon. I miss the Gallagher-Widmer holidays with 5 of my grandmother's siblings and their spouses/kids showing up at Gramma's house where it smelled like culinary heaven on earth. We always piled into separate rooms (there just wasn't enough room for us all), and we ate with abandon and lots of laughter.
This year, three of us. It's just not the same.
This year my cousin and his wife in Madison are hosting, so all I need to do is make a vegetable. I'll make it a spectacular vegetable, a vegetable that will entice even my veggie-hating cousin and my picky 6-year old nephew to try! (Well, there might not be any veggies quite *that* enticing.)
Thanksgiving through Christmas is emotional for my family. My dad died the Sunday after Thanksgiving in 1996, my aunt died the Monday after Thanksgiving in 2001, my grandma died a week and one day after Thanksgiving in 1991, my first dog (yes, dogs count – they're family members, too) died the Saturday after Thanksgiving one year, and my best-dog-ever died December 23, 2000. We also had a second cousin die on Christmas Day, and one of my uncles died in November. As my sister and I say, "It's not a safe time of year to belong to our family."
That said, I try not to let it get to me. I won't put the tree up until after December 6, since I like to pretend Dad and Grandma didn't die during the holidays. (FYI: poinsettias should be banned at funerals.) So this year I plan to put up my Christmas village the weekend after Thanksgiving so I don't wait too long like last year. The same weekend I also plan to put up and decorate the tree of an elderly friend and put my exterior lights up.