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Well that was boring.

  • Posted on February 26, 2010 at 7:54 pm

OK. I think I’m done with this stack of old people and even one old short story. It seems that I type faster that I think I do, but it was still D-U-double-L, boring. Of course, it doesn’t help that I added the side project “Finish tagging all old blog posts” to the list. *headdesk*

Know, what I’m gonna go do now?

File all of this old hard copy and, because I love dead trees, print hard copy of the new drafts, and file all of that. Then wait for Khor & Gray’s guests to show so I can have the wee one all to myself for a couple of hours. Muah haa haa!

Fundraising

  • Posted on November 2, 2009 at 10:21 pm

Dear Friends, Family, and Righteous Supporters,

As always, the nonprofit Office of Letters and Light will be bringing together the most mighty of endurance novelists for an amazing event spanning the month of November.

This is, of course, National Novel Writing Month. It’s a global writing challenge in which participants spend November (and portions of our sanity!) writing a 50,000-word book in just 30 days.

I am among the participating authors this year. In addition to my creative duties, I’m raising money to help the Office of Letters and Light continue to put on free creative writing programs for kids and adults in classrooms, communities, and libraries around the world.

Every dollar I raise will motivate me as I write my way towards the realization of my creative goals. More importantly, your contribution will help National Novel Writing Month and its Young Writers Program create a more engaged and inspiring world.

In addition to the rewards that OLL is offering, sponsors who contribute $20 or more will receive a .PDF copy of my cleaned first draft and sponsors contributing $50 or more will receive a spiral-bound, autographed, annotated manuscript.

Thank you so much for your support of my writing and more, for supporting the education of the cretive minds of the future!

With Love,

RebaE

Sponsor Me

Current Inspirations

  • Posted on February 19, 2008 at 6:35 pm

I’m working on a series about the loss of a child. I’ve got several finished, but I’m starting to hit a wall.

I’m also working a poem about a relationship at a sudden and painful end. You’ve heard of a person with bottomless eyes? Well, what happens when you finally hit bottom?

A third currently in the works is about the temptations faced when a woman first looks into a particular set of blue eyes, using the running metaphors of gemstones and religious over tones of temptation. I’m hoping to allude to “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Personal Jesus” if possible.

The last project on my poetic list this week is tentatively titled “Touch.” Sitting across the room from a love you cannot have, all you can think of a moment’s touch.

Yes, yes. Sappy love poems and themes that have been beaten to pulp. It’s what I feel like writing today.

It Was a Fan Girl Xmas

  • Posted on January 2, 2008 at 3:12 pm

My folks know how to make me smile.

I received both volumes of George R. R. Martin’s “Dreamsongs.” It was originally published in 2003 by Subterranean Press as “GRRM: a rretrospective.” GRRM, my personal hero, has collected a pile if his short stories along with the history of how and why he was writing them. It is amazingly cool!

Want to know more about George? Check out Not A Blog.

50/49 Point Me Toward the Bed!

  • Posted on July 29, 2007 at 10:01 pm

Blogathon 2007
0 Hours 0 Minutes left (Um. Maybe)
Flash fiction, poetry, & literary tech for Planned Parenthood
Sponsor me! Click Here.
Total Pledged: $60.00 Thank you

This have been an amazing experience. The choice to participate here was a last minute one. I signed up within the very last hours that sign up was available and I came no where near my fund raising goal. I suppose I have a day or so left for that, but that doesn’t matter. Now I know what is here, what I can do, and I will be read next time.

To my Sponsors:

  • Gledster
  • Mandy
  • yoshi
  • Kristina Brooke
  • feather
  • and Sheana Director

thank you for your generous contributions. It many not be much, but every penny counts toward making a difference.

To my amazing support system:

  • My husband Jerry
  • and brother Benjamin,

thank you for putting up with my giddy fits, noise, panic attacks, and babbling

  • Khorboth
  • Rynn
  • and Sedona

Thank you for reading and pestering me in to continuing on.

Thank you CJ, the queen of moderators. Thank you Derek, for putting up with me. Thank you Blogathon Bloggers for being entertaining, tenacious and wonderful!

Writing on the Move

  • Posted on April 29, 2006 at 5:11 pm

Last weekend I was in Indy, as happens periodically. I had a deadline on Friday and another on Monday, so I brought my computer with me and worked when I had time. My mother thought it was adorable. Is my job cute? I hadn’t realized!

I did realize how wonderful this job is for a mobile person such as myself. I don’t know where I’ll be living for the next few months, but I do know exactly where to find my work. As long as there is a net connection I will have an office. How lovely!

Oh Just Never Mind

  • Posted on November 11, 2005 at 5:20 pm

Well shit.

Sorry guys. I got distracted. Things around here haven’t been conducive to creative thought recently, and I’ve had a lot on my mind other than writing a book that I wouldn’t get paid for.

I found out Oct. 27th that I was pregnant. I found out Oct. 31st that I only had a 50/50 chance of staying pregnant. I miscarried on Nov. 8.5 and had emergency surgery on Nov 9. Now I’m not even at home. I’m in Denver trying like hell to get an office set up that will let me work my day-job while I recover from all of this.

I’m sorry. Maybe I’m not devoted enough, but I feel terrible and the last thing I want to think about is working under this kind of deadline.

So sue me.

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