Six word Saturday

Rough week, but all's clear! Thankful.

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Ach. A cold.

Am trying to write through a cold, so haven't had many spare coherent sentences for the blogging world. I've lost almost a week to being tired and unproductive, so am going to have to turn it up to almost NaNoWriMo productivity levels to catch up and make our deadline in a couple weeks. Which I find I'm a bit excited about, really. I've missed the habit of an hour or more of writing every night (Ohh the lovely nights when 1,700 words happen in an hour! Woeful are the nights that it does not come that easily..) If I can average 1,700/day, I'll still finish ahead of time, which would be amazing. If not, well.. That's why we built in a little bit of buffer room. Which I really don't want to have to use. So I should probably go do that then.

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okbye.

Six Word Saturday!

Digging out from under the holidays.

Oh man, y'all.. Laundry, putting away decorations, cleaning floors (Where did someone find mud??), trying to save the plant cuttings grandma gave me, cleaning up gift boxes from around the tree... I do love the holidays, but when one goes from one week with one family to another week with the other side of the family, I believe it should be required to take another full week off for recovery. Amiright? It's ok though, because we're getting it all done today to make room for tomorrow's six words: 

Taking a pregnant friend out snowshoeing.

She's 36 weeks and wants to go showshoeing! (obviously on a fairly easy trail, but STILL) This is the kind of stuff that happens in Colorado. It's a pretty cool state we live in :)

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Insecure Writer's Support Group

As I mentioned on Sunday, one of my goals for this spring is to make more connections in the writing world. I think one of the better ways to do that is to make sure I'm connecting with folks in the blogging world, which I fell out of a bit at the end of last year. My summers are SO busy, and I just didn't have the energy to spend writing or reading in addition to my long work weeks. It took until about October to feel refreshed and by then I'd lost my habit of writing regularly. So I dove into NaNoWriMo (and won! yay!) and then didn't do any more blogging in December. Up and down, up and down.. Not so much with habits on the blogging front. Anyway, the hope is that I can get into a real habit, and one of the things I wanted to do to help that out was to join the Insecure Writer's Support Group - a bunch of lovely writers who help each other 'rock the neurotic writing world' haha

So here's a confession for my first IWSG post: I've wanted to join for quite a while, but never could quite make the commitment. You could say, 'well it's just the first Wednesday of each month - what's the big deal?' but here's the thing: I think it's like taking the first step in AA - you have to admit you have a problem before you can start getting better. So here I go: My name is AJ and I have a writing addiction. No, not an addiction, and as previously mentioned, not a habit either. I have a .. thing. I have a thing about writing. I love it and always have. I've gone through phases of calling myself a writer, and not calling myself one. But I suppose that since I've got a book published and another one in the works, I have to admit that I am a writer and own it too!

So this is me owning it, and waving hello to the other IWSG folks. I am looking forward to meeting all of you!

CoHosting April A-Z!

Well, it's official! I'm going to be one of the cohosts for the illustrious April A-Z Challenge this year! I had a ball being one of Tina's helper Minions for the Challenge last year and am so honored that they offered me a spot on the cohosting team for this spring's event.

April is always a crazy month for me, what with being the month before my Summer work-craziness starts, and it won't be any different this year, but I'm excited about the additional responsibilities and the opportunity to be on such a great team. Also, one of my goals for this spring is to get out there and do more networking to support my writing habit - what better way than by being heavily involved with the biggest blog hop in the 'verse?

Here's to keeping busy and making connections in 2014 :)

Check out the other members of the super-awesome A-Z Cohost team!
Arlee Bird (the creator of the A-Z Challenge!)
Tossing it Out

Nicole Ayers

Madlab Post 

Damyanti Biswas

Writing on Writing: Amlokiblogs

Alex J. Cavanaugh (self-titled blog)

Tina Downey

Life is Good 

Julie Flanders (self-titled blog)

Heather Gardner

The Waiting is the Hardest Part

Jeremy Hawkins

Being Retro 

MJ Joachim

M.J Joachim's Writing Tips 

Stephen Tremp

Author Stephen Tremp

NaNoWriMo Day 27 - A Little Raw

It's the 27th. I have three more days to finish NaNoWriMo and about 10,000 words to goal. I am definitely going to make it! Pretty exciting. A bit that I wrote this evening:

"I’d picture her as if in a movie, on her knees shaking her fists at the sky and cursing god and Jesus and all his friends for the unfairness of it all. She’d have tears of blood pouring down her face, her hair loose and dramatic around her face, entire body tense with the exertion of grief. ..until she’d collapse, wrung out and intoxicated and unable to scream any more."