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Demon By Day - from Mojocastle Press
Heat Flash - a Podcast of Erotic Flash Fiction
Cream: The Best
of the Erotica Readers and Writers Association
Ripe Fruit: Erotica
for Well-Seasoned Lovers
Alienated - ERWA Treasure Chest
Garden of the
Perverse: Fairy Tales for Twisted Adults
Aphrodite
Overboard: The Erotic Memoirs of a Victorian Lady
Vertigo
Guide To Getting It
On!, 5th Edition
Playing For Keeps
Mur Lafferty, author
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
On The Road To Recovery?
The end for some of my projects is in sight. Hopefully, I'll get a rough draft of an image out the door in the next two days or so, and then I'll get two others finalized. That will clear the graphics work off my plate. Then I can get back to the writing.
I started shooting for 200 words a day on the new novel, and proofing 10 pages a day on the galley of the novel that's waiting to be published. I'm not even hitting those goals everyday, so it's going slowly, but at least it's going.
I look back on the last few months and I realized that I've been steam-rolled by all this work. It's great that I've got so much stuff going on, but it sucks because I'm struggling to get stuff done and still take care of my family. And somewhere in there, I'm supposed to take care of me. Not easy to do these days.
What's really bad is all this work and stress and lack of sleep has just about killed my sex life. Michael is out of town a lot these days, and when he's home, it's all we can do to stay awake long enough to get the kids in bed before we collapse ourselves.
I'd like to re-start my sex, you know? Call me crazy, but I think an erotica writer should have a sex life. I can remember a time when I'd get up early in the mornings to write something really nasty, and then I'd crawl back into bed with my husband for an early morning wake up call. That hasn't happened though since our second child was born. I wonder why? I wonder if I could change that? I wonder what it would take.
Hmmm...Labels: Current Work, Write-At-Home Mom |
Monday, February 18, 2008
Son of Sick Days
So my youngest daughter Sam had the stomach flu last Tuesday; I had it Thursday (which just killed Valentine's Day); my husband came down with it on Friday (killing any attempt at a late Valentine's Day); and then my oldest daughter Cassie caught the bug veeeeeeeery early Saturday morning. And she is still sick today.
The stomach flu not only wiped out my family, it also killed my work week. Almost all of my waking hours the past several days have been spent tending to puking family members or washing up after them. I have done so much laundry I should open my own cleaners, and after a surprise bout of projectile vomiting last night courtesy of my oldest, I have had to disinfect my dining room from top to bottom AND wash all my dishes and silverware because my husband put away the stuff in the dishwasher which he thought was clean but in actuality it had just been puked upon.
Did I get any work done this past week? Well, I focused on small tasks that I could do between bouts of someone vomiting - mainly handling e-mail and writing crits for my writing group. I did need to do that, but that's not the paying work. All my paying gigs got put on the back burner, and I am hoping beyond hope that today I get three free hours to work on them.
On top of that, I need to finish up my local business taxes. Now there's a real headache. I hate dealing with financial things, and doing taxes is one of the biggest pains I know of. I think I'm getting better at it. At least now I keep all of my receipts for a year in one manila envelope and all my invoices in another. I do the same with e-mail receipts and invoices - just put them in separate, easy-to-find folders in Outlook. Now if I could just get the hang of Quicken, I'd be okay. I keep making the mistake of filing all my income under business, instead of salary, which means it all ends up in the expense category instead of the income category. Kind of screws things up for me.
I need to get through all this secondary work stuff, I need to get past all the being sick and cleaning up after, and I need to get back to the real work - the writing and the art. And I seriously need to focus on the writing. While I'm writing like gang-busters for the podcast, I'm not getting much done on the novel I'm supposed to be doing. I don't know how I'm going to balance things out yet, but I'll probably have to steal a few minutes today to refigure my work schedule again. I need to write at least 200 words a day in the novel. Otherwise it's never getting done.Labels: Today's Work, Write-At-Home Mom, Writing Business |
Friday, February 15, 2008
Sick Days
| One of the hazards of working at home is that I have to deal with everyone's illnesses. My youngest came down with the stomach flu earlier this week, and then passed it on to me, so there's three days of work that didn't get done. I'm trying to make up for that today. I spent all yesterday in bed with a bucket nearby, unable to get up lest I vomit, so I figured today I would do nothing but work on the computer. Samantha is playing quietly, or should I say getting into trouble quietly, while I rest on the couch and work. Hopefully I can catch up, but being sick yesterday meant I did not get up today to work on the podcast, so today's episode is going to be late. Oh well. I can't podcast when my feet are coming out my mouth. Simply not physically possible, you know? Labels: Write-At-Home Mom |
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Story Up! That Old Black Magic...
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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