Stuck in a mystery

August 31, 2010 (originally posted on LiveJournal)



http://halfcent.livejournal.com/3843.html


Okay, for this post I had to just leave a link to the original on LiveJournal, because apparentl it's too big to 'load' onto blogger, and for some reason, blogger won't let me c&p.

Here's the overview- it's about a series of books I've been reading by Janet Evonovich. It's the Stephanie Plum numbers series.

A Nothing Day

August 27, 2010 (originally posted on LiveJournal)


Today has been a day of nothing. Slept late, sat around, didn't even write. Watched reruns of House and NCIS. Still need to do the laundry, but I'm catching myself wondering if I have just one more set of clothes hidden somewhere that can be scrounged up so I can put laundry off until tomorrow- again.
The answer to that question is depressing. Prognosis: I'd better do laundry TODAY.

I'm actually starting to get into a writing mood (after all, the perfect substitution for doing laundry, right?). Most likely I'll be getting to work soon, and will also work on it into the night, minus the laundry break in a couple of hours. I'm still inclined to concentrate on Little Boy Blue and it's going well, but I also need to get back to His Sister's Keeper. That one is actually posted, and I know I have readers waiting for it. I got a review just today, in fact.

Well, time to turn this nothing day into at least a little bit of something.

Now to go see if I can accomplish something so the day is not a total waste!

Meeting my goal for the week

August 26, 2010 (originally posted on LiveJournal)



Having fits with the internet connection but it's working for the time being. I'm meeting the writing goal I set for myself this week. Been concentrating on one story instead of altrnating, but I'm almost finished with my fifth chapter of this week.....the second since I posted last about wanting to finish at least two more chapters. In the last two days I've topped 4068 words on the two chapters, one of which I'm not actually finished with. Not totally impressive, but a good run for me since part of the time was taken up with working, then a few hours sleep, then an overnight clean fest. I feel like I've accomplished something with that total.

It sure beats the weeks I don't do any writing!

But beyond the past two days writing, my total for the week and all the cahps I've written this week: 9,015.

Still not an extremely impressive number for almost five chapters, but I'm satisfied with it. Some of the time was taken up with re-reading and editing the work, and the time and effort that takes can't be measured in numbers, yet it's completely necessary.

Here's to hoping the internet continues to hold out! I think I'll start posting some of the chapters Of Little Boy Blue on my Halfcent's site, maybe tonight or tomorrow. It's kind of a test to determine the traffic and readership to the site, which I'm sure is nothing, but maybe posting my fics there before the ff sites will draw some of my readers there.

We shall see, I suppose!"

Today's Productivity

August 23, 2010 (Originally posted on LiveJournal)


Unfortunately I haven't been very productive today, writing-wise (or anything else-wise!). I actually got no writing done today at all, and that was after churning out three consecutive chapters yesterday on Little Boy Blue, one of the Moonlight fics in progress. I'm in the process of chapter five, but didn't get to it today. Since I've got to work tomorrow, it's likely I might not then either, but who knows. I tend to do most of my writing late in the evening, at night, and the wee hours of the morning. The later hours tomorrow might still hold some suprises for me.

I've decided that if I get a couple more chapters written this week (and it looks promising because this is only Tuesday), then I will post a teaser chapter here and on my writing site www.halfcentsplace.weebly.com

Maybe on the fiction sites, as well, but I really don't want to start posting there until I'm ready to do it regularly, and that will be after I've finished completely. That said, I really do need to be working on His Sister's Keeper, the NCIS fic I've had in progress for way too long and not posting on anywhere near often enough.

Today

Unfortunately I haven't been very productive today, writing-wise (or anything else-wise!). I actually got no writing done today at all, and that was after churning out three consecutive chapters yesterday on Little Boy Blue, one of the Moonlight fics in progress. I'm in the process of chapter five, but didn't get to it today. Since I've got to work tomorrow, it's likely I might not then either, but who knows. I tend to do most of my writing late in the evening, at night, and the wee hours of the morning. The later hours tomorrow might still hold some suprises for me.

I've decided that if I get a couple more chapters written this week (and it looks promising because this is only Tuesday), then I will post a teaser chapter here and on my writing site www.halfcentsplace.weebly.com

Maybe on the fiction sites, as well, but I really don't want to start posting there until I'm ready to do it regularly, and that will be after I've finished completely. That said, I really do need to be working on His Sister's Keeper, the NCIS fic I've had in progress for way too long and not posting on anywhere near often enough.

Uh Oh!

Okay, here's the thing......It's been a long time since I posted on my blogs! Too long, I guess. I've recently re-started regular posting on my LiveJournal, but the blogs have been slipping my mind. Sooooo.......

I'm gonna do something crazy. Since I just go back to regular posting on LiveJournal recenty, I don't have that many. I'm going to post all of them on my blogs right now to catch up. I'll put the date above them (so ignore the automated date on those that have another one in the subject line and heading) to indicate the day it was originally posted (on LiveJournal). I have no idea why I'm doing this, since I'm fairly confident that no one is reading this, but it will make me feel like I've done something. Not every blog I write is in LiveJournal, because my LiveJournl account is predominantly about writing and such, but I have no problem putting the LiveJournal stuff in my blogs, since I don't always have something to blog about.

Miep Geis dies at age 100.
Anyone that knows of the Anne Frank story should read this.

Miep Gies did what she could to hold on to humanity during a time and in a place that it was all but gone.

Here's the link.

http://http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34814027/ns/world_news-europe//

Ice Skating and nostalgia

Something about watching televised ice skating and gymnastics makes me nostalgic. I don't know what it is, but I do know that it ties in with some of the best times of my childhood and some wonderful memories, which aren't always easy to access. It brings back memories, even the skating of the non-competitive variety, which is what I'm currently watching.
It's been a while, though, and I don't know m any of the up-and-comers. My loyalties still mostly rest with the old timers, m any of whom are no longer in the sport. Those like Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan, Brian Boitano, Michelle Kwan, Elvis Stoiko, Dorothy Hamill, the teams fo Tanith Belbin/Benjamin Agosto and Ekaterina Gordeeva/Sergei Grinkov, Sasha Kohen, Victor Petrenko. There are several more, but they escape my memory right now- and some I simply can't spell or pronounce correctly! Some o fthem are a bit more recent than others, of course.
And of course, I've saved the very best for last- my very favorite skater, Scott Hamilton! I don't think anyone is as great as him, and I was devastated when I heard he was sick, and then later, retiring. Every dog has thier day, though, and all good things must come to an end. Some of my best memories are of watching Scott Hamilton do things on the ice that the other skaters- even the best- could only dream of doing.
These days, I don't watch the skating- or gymnastics- as much as I used to, but when I do I am always taken back to those days of memory. I will always treasure what these unknown strangers have given to me. I don't think many of them realize or understand what part they play in the lives and memories of so many people, as opposed to the movies stars and starlets, tv actors and actresses, and the music stars.

Happy New Year, Everyone!

Out with the old, in with the new!

Not only are we beginning a new year, once again.......
but we are beginning a new decad, as well.

I hope the new year, and the new decade, is kind and full of blessings for each and every one of you!