Today’s To Do:

clean off desk
my office
pack for the NINC conference in St. Louis
prepare all flight information, hotel, etc. for NINC
clean kitchen
shower (maybe that should be first)
clean everything else
make dinner

Hmm, I don’t see “write” anywhere on that list, but guess what, I finished the draft of my MIRA book on Friday (I think it was Friday) and so now I’m between projects, just in time to travel. So I don’t think I’ll be writing today. Oh, yeah, I have stuff I COULD write but it’s senseless to start today when I won’t be working again until next week. I will take work with me to do if I have time, but it will be revising and polishing sort of work, I think…working on another older manuscript to see if it can find new life.

I have some breathing room before my next deadline, and while I do want to get a nice head start, I am going to take today to clean my house and pack and get ready to go. Yep.

And how’s that for an exciting blog entry? Wow. I bet you’re glad you stopped by today. But yannow, here’s the thing…I’m really glad to know people read these little bits-n-bobs, so I *try* to be either informative or entertaining…but all I can do is try. If someone has a question about writing or publishing, I’m happy to answer if I can but really, I don’t always know the answers. I can talk about writing but I’m not sure I could tell anyone else HOW to do it, or that even if I told someone how to do it, that it would be the right way for them to do it…I don’t think there’s only ONE TRUE WAY anyway.

So this blog isn’t really meant to be an advice blog — it’s not just a promotional tool, either, since I do mention what I’m working on or what I’ve got coming out, but I don’t want to talk ONLY about myself. That would be soooooooo boring. It’s not entirely personal and not entirely professional but a little mix of both, but the one thing that remains consistent is this: I write what I feel like writing.

Sometimes, you’re going to like it. Sometimes you’ll be bored to tears. Sometimes you’ll be annoyed, and that’s okay. You don’t have to read this blog in order to read my books. This is all just blather, most of the time, anyway.

So if you do stop by, thank you. I’m glad you found my corner of bloglandia interesting enough to check out — that’s great! If you like what you read, stick around. If you don’t…well, life’s too short to spend a lot of time doing stuff you don’t like. I try to do as little stuff I don’t like as possible, and that’s what makes the world such a great place to live in!

Okay, off to shower and clean and pack and cook and do all that domesticly type stuff…

See you in St. Louis!

M