NEIBA photos

The car is unpacked and the booth needs to be stashed on the garage shelves, a two-person job.

I'm drooling over all the books we picked up, including War and Peace, Christmas presents, and plenty of good airplane reading.

Toni Kelner and Dana Cameron are blogging NEIBA, as well as many other Sisters in Crime and MWA members. Isn't the blogosphere cool?

I'm going on one of my semi-annual pilgrimages to my tiny place Northern Nevada tomorrow, so postings may be scanty. On the other hand, I may write volumes. Photos will be fab. And the books come with. That's a Chicago expression that pains S.O., but I still like it.

Next post will be recipes, so come back soon.

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Writing Tasks

I'm actually working on the beginning of Promiscuous Mode. Finding minor stuff to make it better and am considering how to bring more tension to the beginning.

Tonight we're going to listen to a motivational speaker who talks about writing, and the last time I heard him I became very productive. For a while.

On my walk today (unbelievable January thaw) I thought about the short story I'm working on and developed that a bit. Everything that isn't backsliding is progress.

Steve Kelner, a motivational psychologist and author of Motivate YourWriting!, teams up with multi-award-winning mystery author Toni Kelner, to show how to motivate your writing -- LIVE! Toni provides the examples ofher writing process and Steve explains why they work for her, so they can beused by you. Toni has written novels and short stories set in NorthCarolina, Boston, and a pirate ship and edited a bestselling anthology, so we should have lots of grist for Steve's mill -- and yours!

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