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Sep. 4th, 2004 10:43 pmThe Wyrdsmiths (my writing critique group) met on Thursday. I got critiques of "Honest Man," which is a story I wrote about my Grammie as a gift for her 80th birthday. It's a fantasy story with Grammie as the protagonist. I was really delighted with how it came out. My Grammie liked it (it's hard to tell when she really likes something because she's so nice, she says nice things about pretty much everything, but I do think she honestly liked it), but I wasn't sure to what extent the story only worked if you actually knew my Grammie and the other real people who show up in the story. Well, my critique group liked it, so off it goes. I made the edits they suggested today, and put it in an envelope to submit to Asimov's, though obviously I'm not going to the post office tomorrow or Monday.
Today I did some brainstorming for Book Three of the trilogy. And then I did a little writing: 225 words. When I was working on Book Two this past year, my daily goal on a weekday was 500 words, and my daily goal on a weekend day was 1000 words. I haven't yet figured out how I'm going to write this one. Kiera doesn't nap in the mornings anymore, so working while Molly is at preschool is not a great option anymore. If Kiera would go to bed earlier, evenings would work fine, but lately she seems to think that 11:30 p.m. is an appropriate bedtime for a one-year-old. She's nursing as I type this, in fact -- mostly asleep but not yet willing to let me put her down. (I suppose I could type on the novel while nursing her; I've done that in the past. Extensive typing while nursing a baby is a recipe for tendonitis for me, though, so I try to keep it to short bursts when I've got a baby in my lap.)
Kiera does still crawl and butt-scoot occasionally, but over the last couple of days I've been thinking that she's really hit the point where I should graduate her to full-fledged toddler status. She still very much looks like a baby: she has wispy baby hair, and chubby little baby legs, and soft baby feet. But she's walking now, and we're hearing some (admittedly inconsistent) words, like "uh oh," and seeing some very consistent gestures (she doesn't do any of the signs we've tried to teach her, like "kitty" and "more," but she has a very distinct "GIMME!" gesture that she makes when we hold out something she wants.) She'll be one year old on September 18th. Molly will be four on September 20th. It seems like about a week and a half ago that Molly was born, too.
Today I did some brainstorming for Book Three of the trilogy. And then I did a little writing: 225 words. When I was working on Book Two this past year, my daily goal on a weekday was 500 words, and my daily goal on a weekend day was 1000 words. I haven't yet figured out how I'm going to write this one. Kiera doesn't nap in the mornings anymore, so working while Molly is at preschool is not a great option anymore. If Kiera would go to bed earlier, evenings would work fine, but lately she seems to think that 11:30 p.m. is an appropriate bedtime for a one-year-old. She's nursing as I type this, in fact -- mostly asleep but not yet willing to let me put her down. (I suppose I could type on the novel while nursing her; I've done that in the past. Extensive typing while nursing a baby is a recipe for tendonitis for me, though, so I try to keep it to short bursts when I've got a baby in my lap.)
Kiera does still crawl and butt-scoot occasionally, but over the last couple of days I've been thinking that she's really hit the point where I should graduate her to full-fledged toddler status. She still very much looks like a baby: she has wispy baby hair, and chubby little baby legs, and soft baby feet. But she's walking now, and we're hearing some (admittedly inconsistent) words, like "uh oh," and seeing some very consistent gestures (she doesn't do any of the signs we've tried to teach her, like "kitty" and "more," but she has a very distinct "GIMME!" gesture that she makes when we hold out something she wants.) She'll be one year old on September 18th. Molly will be four on September 20th. It seems like about a week and a half ago that Molly was born, too.
