Alleypat / Patty Pulsar

It isn't really summer yet, but it's not really spring either. Beautiful warm day, bright yellow flowers on cactus near the creek when we walked the dogs today. Watching Canes vs Penguins now. Go Jussi! Edited 2 pieces today. No personal writing.

Enjoying Tulsa in Spring! Conestoga 12 & 3/4 (13) is going strong, without a/c in the lobby areas :(. Which has kept me in my hotel room except for specific panels I want to attend. I got to meet Robin Hobb, which is tres cool and meet up with old friends. 

Our Speculative Fiction group, North Texas Speculative Fiction Workshop, with the help of Barnes & Noble, Hurst, TX, is having a short short story contest! LENGTH: 1400 words DUE: Sat Aug 9 AWARDS: Sat Sep 13 For more info, check out the websites: www.ntsfw.com www.myspace.com/ntsfw

OK I figured out how to add people LOL. Until Blogger had this option, I wasn't really interested in it, cuz it was difficult to read "friends" blogs. I find LJ and MySpace much easier (though I really loathe the ad/sound/pic crap on myspace, guess I'm not that demographic LOL). I've been reading about TOR's new website where they offer free ebooks to download. COOL! I saved a bunch of them for later reading, though it's hard for me to sit at my computer writing all day AND then read an ebook, however, I can put one on my thumb drive and read it on my laptop (which is a dinosaur, laptop-wise, but hey, I haven't sold that first book yet! :). Does it work? Time will tell. Neil Gaimon talks about his book sales results here . On the July 12th post, Bloggasm talks about the results here and the original blog "Did Tor's Free E-books Affect Sales? ". Personally, I think the overall average sales will go up. Many, many people can be in...

I'm trying to figure out how to add people, arg

DFWWW Ventures into Cyper Space! Thanks to our illustrious President, Steve, the DFW Writers' Workshop , (DFWWW) has ventured even further into cyberspace! We now have two new websites to help promote our workshop, advertise our author's booksignings and events, and meet new writers. LiveJournal - http://dfwriters.livejournal.com is set up as a community, which means when you join, anyone can post. MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/dfwwriters is set up as an individual site. Anyone may subscribe and comment. Everyone is welcome to come join our new sites! Come join us, post your upcoming events, and look for author/agent/editor interviews, online classes, and much, much more!

Just an update. Writing is going well. Over 2,000 new words in the past month and over 1,000 words edited. Remember, my main blog is at http://alleypat.livejournal.com my 1st drafts for critique are at http://www.xanga.com/alleypat I also made a myspace "alleypat" to keep in touch with my oldest grandson LOL See yall at the Workshop tonight! ( http://www.dfwrite.org ) Alley www.alleypat.com

Obviously I don't use this blog often. I have kept my membership because I blog on another site and I want to be an "identity" when I do comment. My regular blog is http://alleypat.livejournal.com or go to my webpage which is still in work at http://www.alleypat.com and click on the journal link. Summer is here. So are the grandkids! Still I gotta write on :) Have a safe summer and remember, it only takes 2 sunburns to get skin cancer (melanoma), fewer if you're genetically inclined. So wear that hat and sunscreen! Alley

new blog! www.alleypat.com/blog learning WordPress, so bear with me

Along with what I did one day last week (no thanks to the holidays), and Monday, I got some good editing/rewrites done, some rethinking on some short stories, and some goal setting for next year. Flexibility is the key. Pushing myself to standards I can't keep won't help my attitude at all. It's all in pacing myself for what I can do, but keeping myself as consistent as possible. Course, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia are consistently inconsistent interruptions, ergo the flexibility. I've joined the 100Club writers. Forgot the official name. And will be writing more about goals and progress. edited/rewrite - 585 words - The Winged Warrior edited/replan/rethink - short stories - various Now I'm off to do some free "fast draft" writing.

Holidays are hard on writers. Only a few paragraphs actually written this week. Some editing done. le sigh.

Wombat's World

(fast draft for NaNoWriMo) The day started like any other day. Joe snuck the Halloween candy that I told him not to. Jacob ate his breakfast and Joe's but forgot his lunch. I woke up late to boot. I hate rushed mornings. Ever try to rush a sleepy seven and six year old? It ain't pretty. Looking back at the day, I wish I could rush every morning. I wouldn't mind, if I could just be with my boys again. Yell at them, fix their peanut butter and jelly on white, hear them complain about how they don't want to go to school and me complain about how I don't want to go to work. But that's a lie. I wanted to go to work. I never wanted to get out of bed, but once I'm awake, I had to admit, I _wanted_ to get to work as soon as I could. This project had kept us coming in early and staying late for years now and it finally began to pay off. Little things, yes, but we were making progress. We accomplished small steps this year. Could mark checks by ...

The get together for the local NaNoWriMo is tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it. I'm hoping this will break the ice and get me loosey goosey!

This will be my NaNoWriMo Writing Blog for November 2004. It will be open to the public and comments will be open, though I may not always have time to reply right away, I do welcome feedback :). Remember, this is all first draft stuff, so editing is nonexistent for November. I have other blogs. Another writing blog for other stuff not Nano is at Xanga HERE My regular journal is at livejournal HERE Should be fun! :)