Mel’s rules for spiders: Addendum
As previously discussed, I'm not a fan of spiders. I'd rather swim with sharks than let some big hairy spider crawl on me. If I'd been in that first Indiana Jones movie and had to have tarantulas on me, you'd still be hearing me scream. The winter and spring here were...
Yay!
I made the final five of Karin Tabke's first line comp, so I get to send ten pages to Hilary Teeman at St Martin's Press. After some revising. It was a very interesting comp, you post one line each week if you're not eliminated. I managed to tighten my opening a lot...
Clarity
I don't know whether it's a change in the weather (cool again after a couple of HOT days and nights), the dream I had last night where my life was a musical (which was FUN, not sure what that says about me) or just the compounding effects of two weeks off but I woke...
A good start
The lulus are starting the year well with Carolyn scoring an agent (yipppeeeeee!) and Keri scoring a RT nomination for career achievement, so all is good. In other yay news, the grey cat has put on 600g since her operation (which would be like me putting on 15kg or...
Unwinding
Three days left in my vacation? Oh no! I had plans for this break. I was going to tidy the house and garden and do..stuff. I should've known better I guess. I was pretty tired before finishing work and coming home to the flood just made that worse. So apparently the...
Start as you mean to go on
I managed a little bit of writing yesterday, not a lot but a bit. But every bit helps. My biggest problem at the moment is settling to one project. My brain has this whirling, jumping, 'gotta write everything NOW', thing going on. And I can't come up with a logical...
Books read in 2008
Okay, I'm going to do this in a post this year...so the link will be in the sidebar after this disappears off the main page. And I guess the first book is half 2007 and half 2008 given I started it in one year and finished it this morning. Most recent at top, oldest...
Happy 2008
Well, we watched beautiful fireworks in the hotty, hot, hot, hot night (twice, catching both the early show and the much more spectacular midnight version), but otherwise New Year's Eve was quiet and fun. And hot. It was still 35ish while those fireworks was going on...
Another year in books
It's going to be 42 here in Melbourne for the last day of the year. That is what is officially known as hot, hot, hot, hotty, hot. Not the weather for doing anything much other than floating in a well shaded pool or staying inside with the aircon on and reading. So as...
Resolving
It's the day before New Year's Eve...how did that happen? I'm reserving my actual New Year's Eve post for the "I'm making it a tradition year in books post", so I guess today has to be the resolution post. This week has been all about doing whatever I felt like which...
