We’re inside the two month window before National Novel Writing Month kicks off.\u00a0 So one thing I have to do is decide if I’m going to compete this year.\u00a0 It would be my fifth year, so that would be nice to do.\u00a0 Also, I use NaNoWriMo as a first draft generator.\u00a0 You know what happens if there’s no first draft.\u00a0 That’s right — no final draft.\u00a0 I have to make a quick trip to Wisconsin the first weekend in November, and hubby’s coming at the end of the month, so I’ll have to get it done in less than 30 days again, but I’m ok with that.\u00a0 I’m sure I’ll play.<\/p>\n
Now that I’ve put the first draft of Threads & Ties<\/em> to bed, I can work on something else.\u00a0 I need to finish the revision of Twilight<\/em>.\u00a0 I printed it this morning and will begin working on it.<\/p>\n I scheduled my GRE for the end of October.\u00a0 That’s a piece of carrying out the plan developed in last year’s NaNo —30 Days to Regularity<\/em>.\u00a0 That’s coming together — the retirement date is set.\u00a0 The GRE is scheduled.\u00a0 I’m waiting for Texas to put up the on-line applications for next year, and I can begin that process.\u00a0 Once I have the GRE scores, I’ll submit the application, request my myriad of transcripts, polish my resume and statement of purpose, and decide who I want to do my letters of recommendation and ask if they’re willing.\u00a0 I hope to have that finished by the end of December.<\/p>\n Still working the FlyLady<\/a>.\u00a0 Still waiting for Forward Motion to finish coming back up after an unexpected hosting change as a result of what appears to be an ugly Jatol meltdown.\u00a0 By all accounts, FM is coming back up with considerable effort by Margaret and Zette with additional help from several moderators.\u00a0 I would venture that if you’re hosted on jatol.com and your site hasn’t gone down yet, you’re just plain lucky.\u00a0 Get your stuff backed up and begin transferring to a new hosting service.\u00a0 If you don’t think there’s a problem, read the 24 pages of discussion at the link above.\u00a0 If you are on another hosting service and are feeling smug, when was the last time you backed up your data?\u00a0 The site data,\u00a0 your databases, and anything else you run on your space.\u00a0 This can happen to anyone.\u00a0 Be prepared.<\/p>\n But it’s time for Twilight <\/em>work.\u00a0 Which as I recall, is about cyberterror.\u00a0 How fitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’re inside the two month window before National Novel Writing Month kicks off.\u00a0 So one thing I have to do is decide if I’m going to compete this year.\u00a0 It would be my fifth year, so that would be nice to do.\u00a0 Also, I use NaNoWriMo as a first draft …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,46,49,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30-days-to-regularity","category-personal","category-twilight","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16081,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions\/16081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}