Archive for January, 2008
Monday, January 28th, 2008
How to begin a novel: a new plan
It should be easy, starting a novel. This one is due in September, so it has the advantage of having very little time to incubate. (I posted a quote by Leonard Bernstein recently in which he said, “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”)
I definitely don’t have much […]
8 Comments » - Posted in fiction writing by sandi
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
The best start to a new year, EVER
I’ve been home from paradise for three days now, and I’m still peaceful.
Amazing.
But allow me to explain. A friend of mine turned 50, and instead of just turning to drink and despair as so many of us do at such a milestone, she decided to invite friends of hers to a four-day celebration at a […]
9 Comments » - Posted in friendship, fun, self-improvement, tea by sandi
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Great things
Today I woke up late, drove 30 miles to pick up a friend to go to a goal-setting workshop that took three hours, (my goals were not to be in such a hurry all the time), then stood in a thirty-minute line for lunch, took her back to her house, drove home, went to the […]
2 Comments » - Posted in cooking, real life, self-improvement by sandi
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
A soldier in Iraq blogs from the grave
I rarely take on issues in this blog. Mostly it’s just me, talking about my own life, showing pictures, going through the throes of writing and parenting, and talking to my friends about both of those things.
But today I got a comment on a post from Mother Pie, and since it’s always so much fun […]
5 Comments » - Posted in life and death, real life by sandi
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Start the New Year off right
Well, okay, so it’s not exactly “starting off the New Year” if it’s going to January 5 in 30 minutes, but still…
This will make all you writers out there nod in recognition, and can be shown to your non-writing friends and relatives who don’t understand why we have to do this crazy thing.
And it will […]