Today feels like a flurry of future attractions. I'm sitting in the matinee, waiting for the movie, and I'm just watching previews instead. But I like previews. They put good scenes in previews. Also -- and this is embarrassing -- I'm soft-hearted as all get-out, so previews usually make me cry, if it's a tear-jerker.
Here are some of the things that are coming up in my life (and here):
I'm writing an editorial about something I care about (hint: it's in the triumvirate of what TNH is about) for a pretty sizable media outlet. And I'm worried that I'm going to screw it up, or that they won't take it in the end, or that no one will read it, or that putting my opinion out there for once in my life is going to land me in hot water; but I'm happy that I've gotten the chance to write it, and I'll let y'all know when it's out in the world. And there's the novel excerpt in Storychord on Monday. I've got heebie-jeebies about that. Stage fright.
Today I received full approval to go to the Vermont Studio Center in September. I'll be there for four weeks, and I haven't got a clue how far I'll have gotten in my first draft by then -- but I'm already plotting my schedule out, and trying to figure out how to maximize my time so that I can finish a solid draft by 2013 or 2014.
I quit my role in the fashion blog that I started in 2008 so that I could have more mental energy and time to work on cuddling, novel writing, this blog, etc.
There's a rad-as-hell interview with Jessalyn Wakefield going up next week with never-before-seen photographs and sizzling Q&A.
And I'm going on vacation this long weekend to the seashore, where I'm going to load up my camera, dip my toes in the freezing saltwater, and sleep in a room with a fireplace.
What are you looking forward to?
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