Empress of Dorsa update: Today’s words: 2,004Manuscript total: 65,592 Still on-track to publish in late 2020. And now… I survived my first week of school — which is to say, my first official week ever as a classroom teacher AND my first week ever working with middle schoolers AND my Read more…
Lockdown progress report for May 29, 2020 Total words: 1,188 (not done though, just taking a break)Manuscript total: 89,919 I had my fourth interview for the same school yesterday — I did two middle school interviews and two high school interviews. I went into yesterday’s interview feeling pretty good about Read more…
Lockdown progress report for Sunday, May 17, 2020 Total words: 0 (again, will start when I finish this post)Manuscript total: 69,411 I’m in an odder-than-usual lull in my life right now. After twelve months of really busting my tail with graduate school and student teaching, I’m suddenly student-teaching-free and grad-school-free Read more…
Total words: 2,312Manuscript total: 53,236 I want a haircut so badly. Soooooo badly. As I tug at the sideburns that should not be tuggable at all, I imagine the happy buzz of clippers as they erase all that hair back to a reasonable length. The sad part is that my Read more…
Total words: 0 (it’s only 6am and I’m still on my first cup of coffee)Manuscript total: 15,160 There was a joke I came across many years ago in the form of a cartoon. In the first panel, the devil is welcoming a new arrival to hell. “Bad news is, you’re Read more…
Total words: 585Manuscript total: 9,577 You know it’s truly the apocalypse when Chore & Errand Day happens on a random Tuesday because… well, why shouldn’t it? Tuesday is now officially just like any other day of the week, or, as someone said in the Lesfic Marketing Alliance group that I Read more…
I’m sorry! It wasn’t that I forgot that I’d promised to post every Wednesday. It was that I literally did not have time. I know, I know, “I don’t have time” is the most common excuse for a dropped ball EVER, but in this case, I literally did not have Read more…
I handed LT my iPad. “Keep this for me,” I said. “I don’t need to be around it right now.” “How long do you want me to keep it for?” LT asked. “For the rest of my spring break,” I answered (the high school where I work is on spring Read more…
In honor of Reverie’s publication this month, I present to you… It’s official. I’m a big dork. Hope you like the video! And don’t forget to order Reverie while it’s still only 99¢. Available for pre-order: Wednesday, January 10, 2018. Book launches: January 22, 2018.
I’m so close to finishing Reverie, y’all. And I also woke up to the good news that Roy Moore lost in the special election in Alabama! (* non-Americans: see explanation below) What-what! When the national news had been reporting that “anything can happen in this election,” I thought to myself, Read more…