Okay, I'm back

Instead of posting a bunch of individual entries for all my missing pics, I'll just give you an overview of the past week.

I spent most of my time working the graveyard shift (here's some recent pictures of the construction, obviously not taken during the graveyard shift):





recuperating from said graveyard shifts (aside...I made all three quilts on my bed):



and writing:



But there were some other things going on as well. My daughter had a sleepover that left the house a complete wreck:



With careful recycling, we usually average only 2 bags of garbage each week for a family of four. I cheated and bought paper plates/cups for the sleepover. Two bags of trash in just 16 hours:



One of the mom's brought me ten yards of this funky material when she came to pick up her daughter. Whoo-hoo!



I spent some time in my garden, too. The blueberries are really starting to ripen:



Once "God of Speed" arrived from Australia on Saturday morning...



...I spent the rest of my weekend reading in my garden:

Purely shameless plug

I'm excited to announce that Readers and Writers Blog will begin serializing
Waiting for Spring tomorrow,
Sunday, May 11.

Readers and Writers Blog was founded by a gentleman by the name of Sid Leavitt, a retired newspaper editor who once worked at the Portland* Press Herald. The site's official description: "a combination website-weblog that promotes good writing. We give writers a place to publish their nonfiction, fiction or poetry of any length at no cost and give readers a place to comment on that work." But what it is, really, is a haven for writers and a treasure trove for readers.

Currently posted work includes Gerard Jones' Ginny Good; Disconnected by J. Cafesin; and Leavitt's own Adrift in America. Needless to say I'm rather humbled by my own pending inclusion in this company, and would have touted this website even if my novel had not been accepted. The fact that it was makes it all the sweeter. So check out Waiting for Spring beginning tomorrow, along with the other very excellent writing available there.

[Note: the copy of WFS in the photo is one I had self-published at Lulu.com for my own editing purposes.]

* Maine, not Oregon

Semi-organized chaos

Otherwise known as my desk. (Yes, that's right...I'm a Sims 2 geek.)

What's a gal to do when the power goes out...

...during a horrible ice storm?

Well, she's gonna write...naturally.

Script Frenzy kicks off in 26 days. I'm going to spend the month of April adapting my novel, Waiting For Spring, into a screenplay. Which means I'll spend the next 26 days making an extensive outline for said screenplay. Here is everything I need for that:

1.) A detailed outline of my novel.
2.) My lucky writing sweater.
3.) Pencil, pens, highlighting markers.
4.) Notebook.
5.) Flashlight. (Did I mention that the power was out when I took this photo?)

Kel's reading list

Peer pressure, that's what this is. So many of my fellow 365 bloggers have been posting photos of their latest reading material, so I'm finally caving in and doing it, too. Just please, y'all, don't go jumpin' of any bridges.

First up:

Rachel Carson, The Life of the Author of Silent Spring--by Linda Lear.

For research on my new novel. I've been meaning to read this book for several years, and now I have an excuse.

And:

The Stand--by Stephen King.

Because it's been awhile. And because the author's photo on the back flap was so cheesily 70's that it made me laugh.

My Mighty Red Pen

I'm editing my book. Again. I wonder if I'll ever be able to just read the damn thing?