2008-01-03

mmerriam: (Default)
2008-01-03 07:45 am

Awards, Health, Football, Rewrites, Meme. Five Things and All That...

I woke up this morning to find I'd been nominated in three different categories in the Preditors and Editors Reader's Choice Awards. The nominations are in SF/F Short Story ("Nor to the Strong" in Ray Gun Revival), Horror Short Story ("Secret" in From the Asylum), and Author.

Huh.

The nasty ick has moved from my nose to my throat and lungs. Yeah.

I wrote my first 500 words of the new year last night.

On a positive note, I woke up hungry for the first time in since the day we flew home. I've been eating because I know I need to, but I've had no appetite until today. I'll take that as a positive sign.

The plan today is to watch the OU/West Virginia game I recorded last night, then settle in and work on rewrites, punctuated by occasional naps.

And now, a meme:

In 2008, mmerriam resolves to...
Lose ten twin cities by March.
Find a better urban fantasy.
Go to the renfest every month.
Volunteer to spend time with sf conventions.
Give some writers to charity.
Give up scotland.
Get your own New Year's Resolutions:
mmerriam: (Default)
2008-01-03 07:45 am

Awards, Health, Football, Rewrites, Meme. Five Things and All That...

I woke up this morning to find I'd been nominated in three different categories in the Preditors and Editors Reader's Choice Awards. The nominations are in SF/F Short Story ("Nor to the Strong" in Ray Gun Revival), Horror Short Story ("Secret" in From the Asylum), and Author.

Huh.

The nasty ick has moved from my nose to my throat and lungs. Yeah.

I wrote my first 500 words of the new year last night.

On a positive note, I woke up hungry for the first time in since the day we flew home. I've been eating because I know I need to, but I've had no appetite until today. I'll take that as a positive sign.

The plan today is to watch the OU/West Virginia game I recorded last night, then settle in and work on rewrites, punctuated by occasional naps.

And now, a meme:

In 2008, mmerriam resolves to...
Lose ten twin cities by March.
Find a better urban fantasy.
Go to the renfest every month.
Volunteer to spend time with sf conventions.
Give some writers to charity.
Give up scotland.
Get your own New Year's Resolutions:
mmerriam: (Rewrite)
2008-01-03 03:10 pm
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Rewrite Update

Fifty more pages to go and the re-structuring of the novel will be complete. It will need a line edit afterward, and then I have to tackle that most dreaded of beasts, the synopsis.
mmerriam: (Rewrite)
2008-01-03 03:10 pm
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Rewrite Update

Fifty more pages to go and the re-structuring of the novel will be complete. It will need a line edit afterward, and then I have to tackle that most dreaded of beasts, the synopsis.
mmerriam: (Default)
2008-01-03 04:28 pm
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I Have Been Reminded...

That the Rhysling Award's nomination period is open until February 18th.

If you're an SFPA member and you'd like to nominate something of mine, the two poems I have eligible are:

"Cindy" in The Shantytown Anomaly #4, January 2007.
"I Took the Tear" in Illumen Spring 2007 issue.

I'd be happy to email you a copy if you would like to read them.
mmerriam: (Default)
2008-01-03 04:28 pm
Entry tags:

I Have Been Reminded...

That the Rhysling Award's nomination period is open until February 18th.

If you're an SFPA member and you'd like to nominate something of mine, the two poems I have eligible are:

"Cindy" in The Shantytown Anomaly #4, January 2007.
"I Took the Tear" in Illumen Spring 2007 issue.

I'd be happy to email you a copy if you would like to read them.