http://www.ruthstuart.com Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:38:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm back from my desperately needed vacation. My goals were to relax, read & write a little.I read a book that somehow had been on my shelf for nearly a year. I relaxed which had an expected result - I've long felt the building where I work is not the ... http://www.ruthstuart.com/index.php/2010/06/26/home-again/ In an effort to reconnect with my WIP, I'm taking a break from my novels' world. Just for a time. No notes. No research. No deliberately thinking about plot, etc. Will it work? Time will tell.Between now & then, there's an old piece that has been asking for attention - ... http://www.ruthstuart.com/index.php/2010/06/05/trying-something-different/ Well, the short story has officially been shelved. As much as I wanted to submit to that anthology, the story just wasn't coming together. Perhaps without the deadline, I'll be able to wrangle it into something cohesive (and hopefully interesting) and send it elsewhere.I decided to make a list of ... http://www.ruthstuart.com/index.php/2010/05/27/small-update/ This is Ad Astra weekend. For a number of reasons, I decided not to attend this year. In some ways, I regret the decision but seeing people is a struggle when everyone is on panels. There wasn't the balance between the cost of attending and what I perceived I'd achieve ... http://www.ruthstuart.com/index.php/2010/04/11/weekend-thinks/ If I judge my writing progress by how often I update this journal ... well, it's probably fairly accurate. The day job and some other issues have done a number on my creative output.I have been poking at a short story for a few months. I still don't know exactly ... http://www.ruthstuart.com/index.php/2010/04/03/april/ If I judge my writing progress by how often I update this journal ... well, it's probably fairly accurate. The day job and some other issues have done a number on my creative output. I have been poking at a short story for a few months. I still don't know ... http://www.ruthstuart.com/index.php/2010/04/03/43/ I don't even want to think about how quickly January passed. Did I accomplish my writing related goals of 'claiming my writing space' or 'developing an idea for an anthology short'? Sort of.One thing I did do was send my regrets to the concom running Ad Astra. There are too ... http://www.ruthstuart.com/index.php/2010/02/05/february/ 2009 is nearly done.This year seemed to be harder than most to make progress on the writing front. I did complete a synopsis and reworked the first few chapters of the current WIP prior to Worldcon. The table/desk has been moved into the front room. Other than that ... not ... http://www.ruthstuart.com/index.php/2009/12/20/years-end/ It is still in progress but here are a couple of pictures for K.The bookshelf will have writing books as well as research items. The computer will be there, which should help it feel less empty.Must find some inspirational items to help me along. http://www.ruthstuart.com/index.php/2009/11/24/space-take-2/ I'm at the end of a long weekend and wondering where the time went. (I took Thursday and Friday off when I realized I needed a break before Christmas. I lost Thursday to illness and it feels like I'm still recovering.) I'd hoped to have my writing space set up ... http://www.ruthstuart.com/index.php/2009/11/22/space/