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delphipsmith) wrote2009-03-08 05:20 pm
delphipsmith) wrote2009-03-08 05:20 pm
Damn...
Well, the deadline for the first week of SSIAW was midnight last night and I turned in zilch. Bad writer! ::smacks self with rolled-up copy of Publisher's Weekly:: Ten people turned in 14 stories, shaming the rest of us miserably. Well, shaming me, anyway. Of course I promised myself I would do four stories for the month, not necessarily one each week, so can still meet my self-imposed quota if I rock out for the rest of the month.
On the plus side I chose and posted the readings for my students for next week, finished editing for one of my Malaysian clients, worked through a couple of scenes in a vampire short I have in progress, got to beta some tasty fic from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
noeon (who paid in a bottle of virtual Veuve -- what good taste she has!), and read a very well-done and technically-challenging poem from nursedarry. So I can't say it was all wasted time.
Unfortunately, I also went toBooks and Coffee Barnes and Noble this morning and bought yet another book, which is leering and beckoning to me from the coffee table. Damn you, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle!!!
On the plus side I chose and posted the readings for my students for next week, finished editing for one of my Malaysian clients, worked through a couple of scenes in a vampire short I have in progress, got to beta some tasty fic from
noeon (who paid in a bottle of virtual Veuve -- what good taste she has!), and read a very well-done and technically-challenging poem from nursedarry. So I can't say it was all wasted time.Unfortunately, I also went to