{"id":1907,"date":"2009-06-29T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2009-06-28T19:20:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T02:20:44","slug":"monday-musings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/monday-musings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the countdown to the RWA National Conference<\/a> in Washington, D.C. begins, I find myself surprisingly glad that I’m not going.\u00a0Okay, maybe I’ve just talked myself into it, but after two years in a row of attending National, I’m ready for a break. Typing this, I realize I’ve never<\/em> attended National three years in a row.\u00a0I suppose I will some day. This year, given the cost of flying across the continent, the fact that neither I nor Penny sold a project in ’08, and because I’ve attended National in D.C. once before, I don’t think I’ll miss it. I’ll miss seeing my Looney Bin and Scrabble buddies, Tina Ferraro<\/a> and Diana Duncan<\/a>, attending the RITA <\/a>ceremonies as nominees, however. Wouldn’t it be cool if they both won their categories?<\/p>\n

As for myself, I’m looking forward to continuing to write instead of going crazy prepping for conference. The money I would have spent on new conference clothes can go toward the new stove instead. Last week, I began a new story for Penny, her first “short.” Wrote 3800 words on Thursday, I think it was. Aside from the year I participated in NaNaWriMo<\/a>, that’s a record for me. Am revising them now before proceeding with writing new stuff. Target market requires 5000-15,000 words, so I have a lot of leeway.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, my cindpk ST is sitting and gathering inspiration. Depending on how Penny’s short story goes this week, I might dig into revisions on the cindypk in another week. Two at the outside. I don’t want to leave it sitting too long.<\/p>\n

I signed up for Carbonite<\/a> last week, an on-line document backup system. I really like it, it’s easy to use, but my desktop is 4.5 years old, and, alas, I fear Delbert is too slow for Carbonite. I’ll have to allow my trial to expire and return to using flashdrives.<\/p>\n

With the weather so nice lately, for the first time in my writing life I’m really feeling the absence of a laptop. Especially now that the household budget has recovered from buying each of the kids a laptop for high school graduation. And, also, the cost of those new netbooks is rather tempting. If I sell something this year, I might indulge in a netbook or a small laptop. I prefer my ergonomic desktop keyboard, but the portability of a netbook\/laptop is carroting in front of my eyes.<\/p>\n

A heads-up, I’m blogging at Nobody Writes It Better<\/a> on Wednesday, July 1st, which is Canada Day for those not in the know. I’m giving away a paperback copy of my Canadian-set novel, HEAD OVER HEELS<\/a>\u00a0(by the way, if you visit that link, the upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 seems to have affected some spacing issues on my Books pages. I’ll have to fix that one of these days).<\/p>\n

I’ll post a reminder about the book give-away Wednesday. How is your week shaping up?<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the countdown to the RWA National Conference in Washington, D.C. begins, I find myself surprisingly glad that I’m not going.\u00a0Okay, maybe I’ve just talked myself into it, but after two years in a row of attending National, I’m ready for a break. Typing this, I realize I’ve never attended National three years in a… Continue reading Monday Musings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,29,22,25,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging","category-computers-software","category-conferences","category-the-writing-life","category-this-and-that","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}