A brief post bout why there haven’t been other posts (in other words, an “excuses” post)\u00a0 and why next week will be blank too–but I promise to prepare a snippet or two and get them off before the next wholly blank week.<\/p>\n
Last week was difficult with the death of friends, news of the serious illness of others, and the inability to “write through” the bad news.\u00a0\u00a0 It was “wading in glue” where limbering the mind was concerned, and toward the end we were preparing our son for his dental surgery on Monday.\u00a0\u00a0 (Which went very well, and he’s now minus four wisdom teeth and recovering up here rather than in the city.)<\/p>\n
This week started with the dental surgery and more bad news from\/about friends, more idiocy from politicians, and what first seemed to be a cold and turned into a gut thing.\u00a0\u00a0 We have had rain (too late for some things, just in time for others)\u00a0 which is good, but has raised the mosquito count higher than the toads, frogs, and dragonflies can immediately deal with, and we’re in an area with rising cases of West Nile (not as bad as up near Dallas, but it’s killed someone in this county recently.)<\/p>\n
I seem to be OK today, and certainly intend to write like a fiend all day…but you never know.<\/p>\n
Next week I leave for ChiCon7 (AKA WorldCon) on the train on Tuesday and won’t return until the foll0wing Wednesday.\u00a0\u00a0 (For those not familiar, it’s an overnight trip.\u00a0\u00a0 Better than flying.)\u00a0\u00a0 If I can persuade the netbook to work, I’ll have (maybe) internet capability.\u00a0\u00a0 If I can’t, then…no.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have a fairly busy schedule at WorldCon, and discovered yesterday that they’ve added something to the schedule they sent me before.\u00a0\u00a0 Eeep.\u00a0 Writers’ schedules at a major convention include not only what’s on official programming but the business stuff they’re there for: meetings with agent, editor(s), podcasters, writer groups they’re in, etc.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If, like me, they’re associated with the next worldcon committee, and want to help out there, then another several hours are taken up with that.<\/p>\n
Anyway…hens’ teeth will be more prominent here than I will\u00a0 for awhile, and I want you all to know it’s not through lack of interest in you, and your conversations (I love<\/em> many of your conversations!!) but LifeStuff both personal and professional.<\/p>\n Now to clear a space on the floor of the study to put a chair so I can change the light bulbs in here (yes, CFL, and wish it were LEDs!)\u00a0 so writing at night doesn’t mean stumbling over the various messes on the floor as I get from door to desk and back.\u00a0\u00a0 And then the usual round of chores plus finding you some nice juicy snippets.\u00a0\u00a0 If possible, I’ll squeeze in a post on craft of writing as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A brief post bout why there haven’t been other posts (in other words, an “excuses” post)\u00a0 and why next week will be blank too–but I promise to prepare a snippet or two and get them off before the next wholly blank week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}