Procrastination or just life?

mood: frustrated
music: none
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Thus far, of the four stories I planned to edit this month I've done...one. I'm trying to work on another but, wow, it's hard going. Am I procrastinating because I don't feel right about the story? Is my subconscious trying to tell me something? Or am I just plain lazy? I don't know, but it's making me annoyed.

Here's something cute. Have you ever used Yahoo maps? You know the ones that give you detailed directions to just about anywhere? Here's a link to Frodo's map.

Oh, a rejection arrived yesterday--first one of the New Year. And even though I'd decided in retrospect that it wasn't a very desirable market (they wanted exclusivity for five years)...it was still a rejection. Sigh.

However, I'm not as blue as I was last January. So we'll be thankful for small mercies.

Back to work! Myself and anyone procrastinating by reading this blog!

Catching up...

mood: contemplative
music: Summer by George Winston
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So, it's been almost a month since I've 'blogged', which is not unusual considering my past history of journal-keeping. But maybe I'll do better in the new year. No, that's not a New Year's Resolution!

I *did* manage to write, edit and submit a story before the December 31st deadline for an anthology--and I didn't start writing it until December 10th. That's a personal best for me, as I usually let stories sit a lot longer than that before I go back to edit them. We'll see how it fares, but at least I feel good about getting it done.

So on to January. I have several stories that need editing and a new one I'd like to try to write, and the rewrite of my NaNo novel, which I'm kind of looking forward to...unless I start reading over it and find that it's total garbage.;-) Having a lot of neck pain which seems to have settled into the muscles there, so I'll be off to the doctor this week about that. It comes and goes but it's been pretty persistent the last week.

I'd like to de-clutter my office some this month but it's hard to know where to start since it isn't that big and I wouldn't know where to cut down. I need to do some serious thinking about that, I guess.

The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is on Mars and sending back pictures, some of which can be viewed here. But when are we going to get there in person?