by Charlene Teglia | Jul 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
Just found this poem I wrote in 2004.
Messy, impractical, noisy life!
You explode around me in raucous birdsong
You spring up everywhere in impossible colors
More variety than I can count in just one genus.
You move and change and transform yourself
Before I can pick you and press you in a book.
How will I ever know you?
You are always more.
Life, you do not hold still
You do not lie quietly pinned to a board
I think I have you and then
You adjust, adapt, evolve.
Substitute “writing” for “life”. It is messy and ever evolving.
by Charlene Teglia | Jul 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
Lately I’ve been on a keeper book binge. Books from about ten years ago that I loved, that inspired me. And I compare them to current books and ask myself what it is about these books that makes them stay with me.
Do you visit your keeper books? What is it about them that you don’t find in today’s new releases?
by Charlene Teglia | Jul 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Not that the 4th was an actual not-working holiday weekend, but we seem to get twice as much Monday afterwards anyway. Is that fair? I think not.
We did do a holiday weekend Fort to Sea trail trek, which was beautiful. If you get a chance to hit the North Oregon coast with your hiking shoes, you get to see a lot of very different terrain as you go from forest to dunes to beach. The trail is probably the best-maintained we’ve ever seen, and it’s an easy walk for all fitness levels with benches to stop and rest on along the way.
There are also 2 geocaches on the way, with a 3rd that requires 2 liters of water to make the cache float up to retrieve. Fun stuff.
Other than that, writing away. Consistency does make the work march along towards "finished". Works in progress: finishing revision of novella for EC, finishing revision of novel, and writing Red Queen to follow up Animal Attraction. The novel revision keeps giving me the missing pieces, and Red Queen is just a crack attack. The EC novella is making me happy now, too. It’s a difficult story, but I knew it would be back when I first hatched the idea. Wlel, if it was easy, it wouldn’t be fun, right?
by Charlene Teglia | Jul 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism." – Erma Bombeck
Being a mom who is self-employed has pretty much meant that the last six years have been spent working every day, including holidays, so this one came along and I wasn’t expecting to celebrate it, either. But I feel an urge to declare independence today, if nothing else I’ll pop Will Smith into the DVD player and watch him smoke a cigar with Jeff Goldblum. It doesn’t matter how big or small a celebration is, but it’s good to remember why the day is celebrated and embrace the spirit of it.
Happy Independence Day, America.
by Charlene Teglia | Jul 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
My last entry got eaten by blog gremlins. They’re everywhere.
I haven’t blogged much lately, not because I have nothing to say but because so much is going on I have limited time to think about it, and I’m doing a lot of thinking.
Thinking about the book, thinking about projects I want to complete, how to implement a better schedule, you name it. Right now I am kind of in Life Hack mode. So for your Friday fun, I refer you to Life Hacker.
And now I shall post before blog gremlins strike. Have a safe and happy 4th of July.
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