Long Silence

Barrensmall The blog has been very quiet lately. Despite my best efforts, I can’t get my cat to write posts for me.

Too busy to blog.

If I haven’t been blogging, what have I been doing?

Writing and editing books. Yeah, I know. Who does that?

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I have one book that should be ready to send to my agent soon and another that will be ready hopefully by November (before the madness of NaNoWriMo because I will be doing that again). I have a third book that I may burn in frustration, but I haven’t quite given up on it yet, and a novella that I plan to start sending out in August.

But that alone isn’t enough to keep a blog in the black like this.

As I mentioned in my previous post Life Changes and Getting Comfortable with Spiders, I’m also getting my house ready to sell. This involves packing,

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painting,

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and many other frustrating, stressful and time-consuming tasks.

As if that weren’t enough, we had our last big 4th of July party at this house. Along with the half-day party, 45-minute fireworks show, and live singer at intermission, we added a fire troupe performance by Dragon Steps to intermission this year.

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Add to that the simple tasks of life—apparently sleep is a necessary thing—something had to give. So what haven’t I been doing?

You guessed it. Blogging.