Busy Weekend
It started Saturday morning at 6:00 am. I was on kitchen staff at church making breakfast burritos for the woman’s conference the way we make them at the men’s monthly breakfasts. Hey, women need burritos, too. Luckily, I’m ¼ Mexican, …
Tag: Writing
The Thing About Goals
Goals can be long-term or short-term. I might want to finish a project today, or I might want to advance my writing career throughout the year. The latter is what my goals for the year are all about. The goals …
LATFoB
It’s been a week since the L.A. Times Festival of Books, and I’m recovered enough to write about it. Actually, it wasn’t that bad. The LATFoB had been canceled for the past two years because of Covid. This first year …
Festival! Festival!
Festival! Festival! No, I won’t be burning books, but I’ll be helping authors sell their books at the L. A. Times Festival of Books. https://www.facebook.com/latimesfob For specific information, check their website https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/ It’s been three years and GLAWS is glad …
Back to the Future
It seems like we were just at the L. Ron. Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Annual Achievement Awards. Oh, yes, it was last October when they combined the 36th and 37th annual awards. Now it is back on …
2022 Goal Check – First Quarter
Well, it’s the end of the first quarter of 2022. Time to check on how I’m doing on my goals for the year: 2022 Goals – the expurgated version (the one without the gannet). For the full version see my …
Back to school, part 2
The California Creative Writer’s Conference continued through the week and ended yesterday. In addition to more great panels, there was an Editor Happy hour. This was an informal Zoom gathering where attendees could speak and ask questions of editors Deanna …
Back to school
My education as a writer continues with the California Creative Writer’s Conference http://www.wcwriters.com/ccwc/ this weekend and through the week. This conference, like the last, is virtually done via Zoom. So far there have been two full days of panels, …
Celebrate!
One Hundred blogs – that’s almost two years straight without missing a Sunday. Although one of them was pretty much, “Too tired from Loscon, more next week.” We started by going to Barnes and Noble and getting a few books …
Out of Order
So, I recovered from my kidney stone and went back to work on Monday. On Tuesday I got a scratchy throat and was coughing a bit. Came home dead tired. That was the start of a cold. It wasn’t the …