I knew you were wondering.\u00a0 You weren’t?\u00a0 Then I know you’re not reading this, so I’m going to tell you anyway.<\/p>\n
NaNo 2009 is done and won.\u00a0 Check.\u00a0 (It doesn’t matter that I produced the singularly worst writing I think I’ve ever done.\u00a0 I may have gotten enough character development done to be able to salvage something from the book down the road a ways — probably a long ways.)<\/p>\n
I got the blog moved.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 I don’t know why I made such a big deal.\u00a0 I changed two lines in my admin set up and moved some files from one folder to another on the server.\u00a0 Piece of cake.\u00a0 Then, so people could find me, I created a very simple HTML page with the new link on it and put it up at the old site.\u00a0 I also Tweeted about it, which cross-posted to Facebook, where TECH advised me that I’d screwed up the URL.\u00a0 It helps to put the .org on the end of the domain name.\u00a0 Head slap.\u00a0 But I’m glad he told me — it reminded me to update my URL on my Twitter bio.\u00a0 And FB.<\/p>\n
I also did a little web work by logging into MySpace (I do not care for that medium, but I keep a token presence there as one of my pseudonyms).\u00a0 When I moved the files for the blog, I also moved a short story, and I had to update a link to a short story.<\/p>\n
I am in the Early Bird class for How to Revise Your Novel (HTRYN), so I had to pick a novel to revise.\u00a0 I have a plethora of choices.\u00a0 I considered several but decided to look at Polar Bear on the Loose<\/em>.\u00a0 It’s my first novel, a book of my heart, and I haven’t looked at it for four a half years.\u00a0 I think there’s enough distance.\u00a0 One of the first assignments in HTRYN is to read your manuscript.\u00a0 For years, I’ve thought my opening to that book was lame, but when I read it last night, I found myself thinking, “Maybe it’s not so bad….”\u00a0 Maybe this will be fun.<\/p>\n And, TECH, I know you’d like to see Twilight back on the front burner, but I believe I need more distance before I go back to it.\u00a0 I will go back to it.\u00a0 I think it has promise.<\/p>\n PBOTL will be a good project to work on, because it isn’t in Scrivener, and I’ll be in San Antonio for the rest of the month.\u00a0 The offline work of revision will be a good thing, because I can’t justify a MacBookPro yet, and I refuse to lug the Mini and accessories back and forth.<\/p>\n On deck in San Antonio, of course, is more foliage decimation.\u00a0 I haven’t been down there since September, but I know it’s been growing like crazy, and I had a bunch of tree work to do when I left.\u00a0 There’s only more waiting for me.<\/p>\n Of course, with me pulling PBOTL out of the drawer, Inuit has been more talkative.\u00a0 She has created her own Twitter account: InuitTheBear So far, she hasn’t had a lot to say, and most of it’s about the Spurs (you may recall she loves the Spurs), but who know what will happen at the rewrite goes along.\u00a0 Twitter and Facebook weren’t around when she was written.\u00a0 The Social Media possibilities for a polar bear living in human society — or wanting to — are endless.\u00a0 Imagine if she had a human following before she even left the Arctic?\u00a0 What kind of impact might that have had on her transition?\u00a0 Good or bad?<\/p>\n I will also be trying to reduce my on line time over the next month or so.\u00a0 I think I’ve been spending too much time on line at the detriment of other things that are more important overall.\u00a0 What I probably need to do is devise a plan to use my time on line more effectively, so I’m not sure how visible this change goal will be to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I knew you were wondering.\u00a0 You weren’t?\u00a0 Then I know you’re not reading this, so I’m going to tell you anyway. NaNo 2009 is done and won.\u00a0 Check.\u00a0 (It doesn’t matter that I produced the singularly worst writing I think I’ve ever done.\u00a0 I may have gotten enough character development …<\/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":[82,52,5,59,49],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-writing","category-pbotl","category-property","category-nano2009","category-twilight","tag-sa-house"],"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\/1992","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=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16225,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/16225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}