canadiansuzanne ([info]canadiansuzanne) wrote,
@ 2009-04-21 22:14:00
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Current location:in bed
Current mood: exhausted
Current music:the sound of kids snoring
Entry tags:personal, travel, writing

Home, for a change
I have been extremely busy of late. Things I have done:

- drove to Arlington for [info]reddherring1955's mom's funeral
- drove to Toronto for my cousin Jonathan's wedding
- drove to St Catharine's to help my sister pack up her life for the move
- with my mother's help, finished the rough draft of my income tax return (will take the pack to my accountant tomorrow)
- had one wickedly nasty bout of stomach flu (or food poisoning? either way, BLEH!)

I've also been reading David Morrell's The Successful Novelist, and though I'm not far in, it's been useful already. It actually guilted me back into writing again. I've done a couple of days of Club 100 which isn't much, but considering how little time I've actually been home (and not behind the wheel of my car), it's a miracle, IMHO.

The kids are in bed, and my sister is hanging with me at the moment. She goes back to Alberta soon, which is a total drag.

I will now return to burying my head under a pile of "to-do".




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[info]reddherring1955
2009-04-22 09:43 pm UTC (link)
Thanks again so much to your Mom and you for being with us at Arlington.

Hope the wedding was wonderful and the packing successful. I know you're going to miss your sister. How sad.

Glad you've got the taxes and the flu out of your system.

Morrell's book is pretty darn good, eh? Keep writing. I'm looking for an idea for SS@$ right now, having dissed my original concepts, sigh.

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[info]canadiansuzanne
2009-04-29 02:01 pm UTC (link)
You're very welcome.

As for the writing...I'm trying the conversation with myself technique Morrell talks about.

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[info]reddherring1955
2009-04-25 03:56 pm UTC (link)
Still to-do-ing? My week wasn't much more productive. Looking forward to hearing some writing news . . .

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[info]canadiansuzanne
2009-04-29 02:01 pm UTC (link)
So much to-doing. It's hard to describe.

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