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Happy Mother’s Day
- The Writing: The muse is back but she’s sulking in the corner. Apparently, she didn’t appreciate Gene Lempp’s muse coming after her with a flaming sword. I’m not sure I have much sympathy which is probably not helping her out of the corner. :ducks: Great, now she’s throwing things at me. Ideas, please! Words and sentences. :ducks: Not… What is this? A spit ball?! :sigh:
- Earlier this week, Jami Gold posed an interesting question, Does every scene need a goal? It’s a fabulous post I’ve found myself returning to (and following the links) this week.
- The Reading: Natalie Hartford pointed me to an amazing new blog serial Tell Me a Story by Amber West.
- In honor of Mother’s Day, Elena Aitken and Steena Holmes are offering some e-Book specials.
- The Blogging: Check with the initial goal. Check with the updated goal. Almost at four weeks scheduled not counting these posts. I’m cheating a bit with having two guest posts coming up this month but I’ll take it.
- Speaking of guest posts, coming up on Tuesday the 22nd, IPPY award winner, Terry Persun will be here posing an interesting question about robots…and souls. Be sure to check back and weigh in on the conversation.
- The Social Media: I do believe I can say “check” here. I had non-post related updates on both Twitter and Facebook. Sharing has gone well. And I even had a conversation…gasp.
- I’ve been struggling with what to do about Facebook. Currently, I have an “author” profile and “fan” page, plus a personal profile. Earlier this week I followed a link on Facebook to Jane Friedman’s 5 Principles for Using Facebook post. Great info! I plan to sit down, read through her posts on the subject, and perhaps revamp my presence on Facebook.
- The Health: Water…5 glasses per day average. Sugar reduction…down to less than a tablespoon on average per day (from all sources). I’m pretty comfortable with that when I look at where I was when I started this process. Caffeine reduction…I managed to cross off 2 drinks all but 2 days this week. Dog walking hit a bit of a road block. Well, damaged knee block. Last weekend, much emotional drama was endured, which I’ve been asked not to go into here. Needless to say, our menagerie grew with the addition of…
Sonic
and…
Neptune and Poseidon
I have no idea what the God of the Sea has to do with mice but #3 was adamant about the names. (I’m also not sure how he can tell them apart!) It was the digging out of the old gerbil cage from the bowels of the garage :cough: storage area that I banged, wrenched, or otherwise mucked up the ol’ knee.
Plus side, oldest wee beastie has started taking the dog out for runs most evenings.
- To support the awesomeness that is ROW80 you can go HERE
Raelyn Barclay 
But you haven’t told us the most important thing. What is your clan doing for you this Mother’s Day?
Sorry to hear about your knee. Are you doing anything for it? Ice? Heat? Elevation?
Ref: mice
Not a big fan of rodents even when they’re cute.:)
Mother’s Day…not sure, though wee beasties just tiptoed past my door 🙂 and I hear them pulling out pots and pans 😯
The knee is an old injury where my kneecap is easily dislodged. Despite the knee almost dropping me on my arse Monday it isn’t as bad as I originally feared. I iced the beaut of a bruise but mostly I’ve just been wearing my brace. I hope to start up the walks again tomorrow.
Thanks for stopping by, my friend.
Regarding yon muse sulking in thine corner? Perhaps a threat of a return of Gene’s muse friend and the flaming sword? No? That garnered a glare from Helheimer? Okay. Well, chocolate and promises of masculine distraction can work. Perhaps some Moscato?
Sonic is a darling, a chunky furry darling.
The mice? Got to work my way to that. Mickey and Minnie are the only ones I’ve been able to adore.
Hoping your knee gets better because, well, any damaged body part is no fun to deal with.
And Happy Mother’s Day!!!
Actually, Ms. Muse gave me something this morning in the wee hours…crossing fingers she’s done sulking 🙂
Sonic is so tiny compared to our other Guinea Pig…like half the size. And active! Poor Cal is getting a run for his money, LOL. Yeah, I’m not a fan of the mice either but it was that or a snake. I. Do. Not. Do. Snakes. Inside. Of course, he probably doesn’t realize he’d have to feed said snake the mice :shudder:
And a Happy Mother’s Day to you as well, my friend.
LOL! Oh, you make me so glad my muse is male–he’s not nearly that emotional and temper tantrum-y. 🙂
Thanks for the link!
I have enough testosterone in my house WITHOUT the muse being male too! Seriously, it’s me and the dog against the rest of ’em, LOL.
You’re welcome, it’s a fabulous post. Thanks for stopping by Jami.
OMG. I never considered that my muse might get PMS. I can haz menopausal muse?? Plz??
ROFLMAO
Squeeeee! Your three new babies are so cute! I got new small furbabies, too. Hope your muse’s back to stay – have a good week!
Yeah, they have their moments 🙂 A family isn’t complete without some fur babies though I think we’re maxed out for a bit.
Thanks for stopping by Jennette.
I seriously ❤ Sonic. Love that color, what a sweet face!
Am checking out the link love: Friedman on FB and the 'every scene needs a goal'
Thanks!
I’d never seen one that color all over before either. Glad you like the links 🙂
Thanks for stopping by Julia.
Thanks for sharing Jami Gold’s post, I just read it and found it very interesting indeed… I hope this week you’ll get back on your muse’s good side 🙂 Happy writing! On my blog I’m tackling the issue of self-editing if you’re interested in stopping by: http://emcastellan.com/2012/05/13/row-check-in-5-the-art-of-self-editing-your-novel/
Always looking for new tips on editing 🙂 I’ll hop over there shortly.
Thanks for stopping by.
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hope knee recovers well – not a mouse person myself – had some when i was little and they massacered each other:( always wanted pet rats but mum put her foot down hence the mice – I declared the new abode a male free zone after mums old jack russel died – enough of the male postering and leadership probs. I’m top dog cat person around here:)
Good links thanks for those – all the best for coming week
Knee will be fine. I re-injure the darn thing every decade or so, LOL. Yeah, we were told the mice could get territorial and to watch for fighting, so far so good.
Thanks for stopping by Alberta.
On Facebook, I have a personal profile, where I only befriend family and real life friends. Then, I did create a fan page, but I haven’t put the link up anywhere yet. I guess I’m waiting for some book deal or agent interest first lol And that’s it. I won’t do more on Facebook.
I saw the post from Jami Gold. I did return a few times there too 😉
You had a good week overall 😉 Hope next week is even better!
Ultimately, I think that what I need to do as well Juliana, though why wait until the book deal?
Thanks for stopping by 🙂
In my case, I got all WANAed and put up a julia indigo FB page, friending a lot of writers. It was too much for me to keep up with that, twitter, blogging, and my regular FB page, so I deleted it.
Perhaps I should’ve put up a fan page? Later. I need to get up to speed with twitter and blogging before I jump into FB. And also… FB is hot now, like MySpace was (4? 5?) years ago. Now the latter is passe. So you *know* that FB’s time will pass. So I’m not going to go there with my pen name until I really need to – and know that it’s still the best bet.
Just my 0.02…
LOL, yeah, I got all WANAed too. I don’t want to just delete FB but I’m thinking it needs streamlining, a personal profile for my family and a page for the writing side. I think FB has more staying power than MySpace but what do I know? I was dragged kicking and screaming onto FB when my cousin decided that was the best way to plan a family reunion, LOL.
LOL on the WANAed. Says a lot for the reach of Kristen Lamb! And that’s why I’m blogging, etc.
I was on FB before. It works fairly well for me – the best way to keep up with my bestie, who does it almost exclusively. It’s the biggest time-waster of all, IMO.
So, I just liked you on FB LOL!
OH! I hope you had a great mother’s day, Raelyn. …and that your knee is on the mend.
So…at least Muse is back from her hiatus – and even I get cranky when I have to return from the beach. Sigh. I should probably read the post about usign facebook. I have an author fan page but I rarely go on it or post anything. I’m not much for facebook. I don’t have a twitter – and I don’t think I’m going to set one up – at least for now. With the blog and goodreads, I’m comfortable. I keep reminding myself that writing is the focus and that everything else is fluff on top of that.
I agree the writing must come first, that’s the whole point, right?
Hope you had a fabulous Mother’s Day Nadja, thanks for stopping by.
Happy Mother’s Day, Raelyn!
Hey, I’m glad my muse was able to scare, er, convince your muse back into action. Perhaps I should have had her leave a rope or leash or something to keep her calm *smile*
Awesome job on your goals. Hope that your knee is feeling better soon – been there once or twice myself and its no fun. Have a great week 🙂
I’m not sure a rope or leash would help the situation, LOL, but thanks for the offer.
Thanks for stopping by Gene 🙂
Great summary of your week. I’m dying to read that Does Every Scene Need a Goal. Off I go…
It’s bookmark worthy.
Thanks for stopping by Brinda 🙂
Uh oh! It sounds like your muse has been hanging around mine lately… Sorry. If it helps, I found that generous doses of chocolates and steak dinners seems to have calmed mine down. She’s no longer throwing things (although my husband may start when he sees the credit card bill).
I do hope your knee feels better soon, Raelyn. I have only hurt my knee once… not an experience worth repeating, imho. Sorry to hear you go through this regularly.
Otherwise… great week! I love the furbabies, though I’m more of a cat person. #3 picked good names though.
Actually, the muse has been pretty good to me today 🙂 I definitely need to reward her with chocolate…hope she likes Rocky Road ice cream.
He’ll need to change at least one of their names as one had BABIES today!!!!
Thanks for stopping by Eden!
Well, no territorial male issues there… 😀
And definitely reward the muse… muses love being rewarded it seems (who would have thought they’d actually want recognition for all the work they do for us? 😉 )