Thanks to all for being patient while I disappeared last week with the whole carpet/entertainment center/party prep chaos. It was an insane six days, and Sunday we crashed hard, barely mustering the energy to get food and clean up the party leftovers that might start stinking if we didn’t. My least favorite part of the whole week was having to admit defeat, and give up writing for the duration. A writer used to writing daily who is suddenly forced to quit for a few days is a pretty unhappy writer. Or maybe it’s just me. But writing is cathartic for me – and one of my favorite things to do, so it made me pretty crabby to have to give it up. Thankfully, this week it’s back to the regular schedule for the most part, so back to the writing as of tomorrow night.

Naturally, I’m back to blogging this week too, which I also missed more than I probably should have. What can I say? I’ve been blogging a long, long time (long before I thought I’d publish books), so it’s a pretty deeply ingrained habit now.

This Week on The Variety Pages

Monday: News & Goals
Wednesday: Writing Notes – On Publishing
Friday: Ch. 23 of Falling in Public

Other Posts to Check Out This Week

Monday:
Excerpt from The Box by Carol R. Ward at Rattles Flash Fiction
Tuesday:
- After Party Triage & Restoration at Routinely Yours
- Ch. 23 of The Minister’s Maid at FantasyRanchNovels.com
- Ch. 6 of The Paramedic at TrinityMarlow.com (NSFW, Adults only)
Wednesday:
Ch. 2 of Animal at AlexWesthaven.com
Thursday:
- Publishing Others at Beyond the Words
- Ch. 7 of The Paramedic at TrinityMarlow.com

Goal Reports

Yeah, let’s not, and say we did, okay? My goals quickly got whittled down to “get ready for the party, throw a great party, clean up anything that could smell later”. And we managed to do all that (barely), so we’ll call that good and move on this week.

Goals for the Week

Writing

• 5 serial scenes

• Write Rattles flash story

• Finish Attic Toys flash submission

Business

• Read/respond to all current Rattles submissions

• Spend a few hours on bookkeeping

• Update back matter on a few ebook titles

• Check pub schedule and make sure everything is on track to the end of the year

Personal

• Catch up at the day job

• Party clean-up

• Put up the graveyard outside for the kids on Halloween

• Make goodie bags for trick-or-treaters

That’s it for this week...plenty, I think. Anything exciting going on in your world? Any parties to attend? Costumes to wear?

Here’s to a good and productive week for us all...

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