Aha--I'll post pictures
I should write here more regularly. I'd cure the world of insomnia. It's cold, it's gray, it's boooorring! That's all that's been happening here.
So here are old pictures, saved for a desperate day like today. Click "add photo," click browse, click latest pictures . . . . spin . . . spin . . . spin . . . spin . . . spin
Oh forget it. No pictures today, the whatchamacallit is experiencing technical difficulties.
But, looking ahead, and leaving my cranky alter-ego behind, should be a fun and unboring week coming up for this Birthday Girl! I don't have plans for the actual day because I'm working all that day. But the following day me and the Fish are going to see the Narnia movie. We've waited this long and will be rewarded with seeing it at the cheap theatre for $1.00! Or maybe $2.00. I might also see Leslie that day and we will sip (coffee) and pray over a variety of neverminds.
On Friday, Jackie and I are cashing in on our half-price, HOUR-LONG massage. She's getting the massage, I'm getting the Aveda Aqua Polish Body Treatment. (No, brother Steve, it's polish, not Polish)! Then, I think, major arm-twisting accomplished, our husbands are taking us out to dinner. And that'll be my birthday. And it'll be very very good.
Second phase of my birthday (of course there's a second round--I have two 5's in the big day this year so I get two phases!) is a quick trip to Seattle! We'll be there a little longer than the plane ride there and back, so please pray the weather stays calm and doesn't flip flop the air time and the Lisa time.
WRITING UPDATE: I wrote a query for my book last week. A query is a one-page letter that hooks an editor with a sparkling summary of your book, and asks/queries if she wants to see more.
This week I might even mail said query to the one and only publisher in my field that still takes queries without soliciting an agent or an editor at a $500 writers conference.
So I send out the query, wait 3-4 weeks or probably 6-8 weeks more likely. And then I'll take the next step: weep over the rejection, kick myself in the butt, and cough up $500 for face-to-face rejection at a writer's conference. We're a sick bunch, writers.
But thanks for checking in on me. And you probably don't want to check in again too soon because somethings got to give. I'd say maybe sometime in March I'll put up some Seattle pictures. :) I'll let you know.
So here are old pictures, saved for a desperate day like today. Click "add photo," click browse, click latest pictures . . . . spin . . . spin . . . spin . . . spin . . . spin
Oh forget it. No pictures today, the whatchamacallit is experiencing technical difficulties.
But, looking ahead, and leaving my cranky alter-ego behind, should be a fun and unboring week coming up for this Birthday Girl! I don't have plans for the actual day because I'm working all that day. But the following day me and the Fish are going to see the Narnia movie. We've waited this long and will be rewarded with seeing it at the cheap theatre for $1.00! Or maybe $2.00. I might also see Leslie that day and we will sip (coffee) and pray over a variety of neverminds.
On Friday, Jackie and I are cashing in on our half-price, HOUR-LONG massage. She's getting the massage, I'm getting the Aveda Aqua Polish Body Treatment. (No, brother Steve, it's polish, not Polish)! Then, I think, major arm-twisting accomplished, our husbands are taking us out to dinner. And that'll be my birthday. And it'll be very very good.
Second phase of my birthday (of course there's a second round--I have two 5's in the big day this year so I get two phases!) is a quick trip to Seattle! We'll be there a little longer than the plane ride there and back, so please pray the weather stays calm and doesn't flip flop the air time and the Lisa time.
WRITING UPDATE: I wrote a query for my book last week. A query is a one-page letter that hooks an editor with a sparkling summary of your book, and asks/queries if she wants to see more.
This week I might even mail said query to the one and only publisher in my field that still takes queries without soliciting an agent or an editor at a $500 writers conference.
So I send out the query, wait 3-4 weeks or probably 6-8 weeks more likely. And then I'll take the next step: weep over the rejection, kick myself in the butt, and cough up $500 for face-to-face rejection at a writer's conference. We're a sick bunch, writers.
But thanks for checking in on me. And you probably don't want to check in again too soon because somethings got to give. I'd say maybe sometime in March I'll put up some Seattle pictures. :) I'll let you know.
Comments
You're one step ahead of me with the query letter ... but I did buy 2011 Christian Writers' Market Guide.
Now I should probably use it.
55 is even better knowing we're in it together!