It is a happy Monday for me. I slept again last night! Whoohoo!
I’m blogging about rewards over at Fat Chicks Running and I’m blogging about myself over at Fictionistas.
That’s it for today. At least for right now. I’ve got a busy day, so I’ll probably be twittering via my phone here and there, but no more blogging. Of course, you know as well as I do that can change…
Love y’all. Mean it.
Mondays are always so busy!
I’m over at Fictionistas, talking about the sense of smell.
I’ll be blogging at Fat Chicks Running later today. I went to the gym TWICE this weekend. I know, you’re shocked. So am I. I’m also planning another video blog this week…if I can somehow manage to hide my Cartman chin. I’d also like to change my voice. Am I the only one who hates to hear my recorded self?
This weekend was a bit of a whirlwind. I swear it was just Friday. And now, Christmas is a week away and I’m trying to figure out when it became December. I swear I was just in my bathing suit, allowing the sun to worship me. Honestly, am I the only one who thinks time is flying by at warp speed? (look! Cartman chin is gone! Maybe I should Vlog looking up…)
Time flies when you’re growing old?
Speaking of old: A shout out to my niece Zzer (zeezer–nickname for Elizabeth) who turns 13 today.
Oh and just to give y’all proper notice, Fishdog turns 40 tomorrow. Yes. He’s gonna beat me to the big 4-0. Nothing makes me happier.
It’s a busy week here at Chez Francis. I’ll be writing my fingers to the bone. I have a lofty page goal for the week, I’ll keep you posted on that. Also, we’re supposed to get iced in tonight. Love Arkansas weather. It was 65 degrees yesterday. It’s 33 now.
While I’m at the gym, why don’t y’all tell me about your weekend?
I’m at Ficitonistas this morning, talking about research papers.
The weekend was busy. I finished my copy edits. It was a whirlwind process since I didn’t receive them until Thursday and editor needed them on her desk by Tuesday. But I did it. I had some difficulty with a few of the edits. Like marking the ‘s’ off of backwards, making it backward. Both uses of the word are correct–but here in the south, backwards is how we say it–so that’s how the character says it. I didn’t STET it because it could just be house style and I felt like there were more important things for me to STET.
My good friend and big time author stud, Ace Atkins, advised me to make color copies of my copy edits and then use them as a reference when I get my first pass pages. So I made copies (just not color. Holy cow! Money is a little tight to be spending that kinda cash on copies, even if it is a write off) The color wasn’t really necessary because the copy edits were in Track Changes in the doc, so my hand-written changes will be easy to find.
So now it’s back to writing LOVE SUCKS! I’m going to power through a rough draft and spend the last half of December and first part of January revising. Wish me luck!
See me over at Fictionistas today. I’m talking about Too Much Family…
We didn’t decorate this weekend we were too tired from all that eating on Thursday.
I did some writing–which I will be doing a whole lot of over the next few weeks. Deadline is end of January so I need to get moving.
Hope y’all had a great holiday and a relaxing weekend. Did you decorate? Overeat? Get lots of sleep?
Talk amongst yourselves while I’m busy making stuff up today.
I’m over at Fictionistas today talking about what I’m thankful for. Don’t go thinking this is a typical post… Click the banner.
This was a good weekend. I did some writing, watched some movies, Fishdog came home after a long week in Oxford and went to the Metallica concert then he and the boys raked up 30 bags of leaves from the backyard.
This week I’ll be writing and cleaning and decorating the house. We’re hosting Thanksgiving and should have quite the crowd.
I’m head down in my manuscript today.
I blogged about Books to TV/Movie over at Ficitonistas. Pop by and chime in.
See y’all tomorrow.
Anything I post here today will just depress you. I’ll see if I can come up with something much more inspiring later.
I’ve blogged at Fictionistas and FatChicksRunning! today. Pop by for a visit.
Come see what I’m up to at Fictionistas!
To catch you up on the open house…
We are just going to ride out this bad economy storm and hope that maybe things will turn around in the spring. The good news is, we can write our losses off for the year, so that will help.
Something that cheered me up this weekend?
My friends Dana Belfry and Eden Bradley (pictured) thought of me while they were hanging out together. Hmmm, wonder what made them think of me?
I’m plowing onward and upward with LOVE SUX!SUCKS! (still not used to writing it that way) I’ve had a scene bouncing around in my head all weekend long that I can’t stop thinking about, so I think I’m going to write it today to see what happens. I am usually a very linear writer, but every once in a while a scene just needs to be written out of sequence. I’ll let you know how that ends up.
And finally, I’m blogging about music over at Fictionistas today. Click the banner below!
Anyone else singing the theme song from Welcome Back, Kotter? How about now?
Bitchin' Fiction: Musings by author Melissa McKenzie / Melissa Francis 