Susan Adrian

There have been a lot of inspirational posts in blogland lately. Alison Kent started a challenge called "Seventy Days of Sweat" ...

I'm {cough} down another 2000 words in wordcount. This is depressing because you know I want to keep that sidebar going up, making progr...

Renee tagged me--it's been so long since I've blogged regularly that I've very nearly forgotten what a tag is--so look! A post! ...

Well, I started revising the first half yesterday. I'll admit I was scared. I spent almost half my lunchtime yesterday staring at the pr...

Wow, and whew. I wrote 1066 words today. I'm at 50%. {beam} I also came up with a ton of what-I-think-are-good ideas last night for deep...

Conversation I just had with Child at dinner: Child: Do you know what my bread just said to me? It told me to have bad manners. That's w...

Happy Friday, all! Today we have a special guest blogger, one you've all heard me talk about (over and over and over and…). She wants to...

I cleaned up the good scene from yesterday, and am still happy with it. Today's isn't as strong, but I'm still not quite sure wh...

And then that turned into one of the best, strongest scenes in a while. Perseverance pays off, as always. And if you haven't read it tod...

Humph. Struggling with the writing today. I don't know what the problem is, but it's annoying. Actually, I do know what the problem ...

I managed to squeeze some writing in yesterday even though it turned out to be a lunch-with-hubby day, so it's all good. Mexican food _a...

Child's first sleepover was great...without much sleeping, but I did rather expect that. I did NOT expect them to bounce back up at 6:30...

I was excited yesterday because JENNA is really starting to take off on its own, in a direction I hadn't quite expected. Still within t...

Things I've learned over the past week: --Setting up a fish tank for the first time is rather a blur of filters, and conditioners, and c...

Note progress meter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> {big grin}

Well, that was a scraper. As is well known in writer's circles, you should write every day, even on weekends, to keep momentum going. As...

Sorry for not blogging, but my head's been down with the writing, and I just haven't felt like it. My goal was 24,000 by the end of ...

It hit me this morning, the perfect word about raising kids. In fact, I think this word was made to describe the experience of raising kids...

Yay, I made my goal for today! Over 20,000--30%. Must keep on at this pace tomorrow. I'm into the real meat of the story, so this part...

I just got my grades in: all As. You're shocked, aren't you? {listening} Hmmm. Not hearing a lot of shock out there. You're all ...