In A Bookish, Quilty Mood

Hexagon block for Alexandria, a wonderful ongoing process! Quilts. And novels, ahem.... I almost titled this Sincere considerations , because to blithely discuss writing (actual writing not revising) or machine-piecing a quilt seems precarious. Why? Because it's been over a year since I finished writing anything new and a few months since sewing with my machine which is STILL UNDER ITS COVER.  But I'm not going to change the title. In leaving it alone, I'm possibly setting myself up for disappointment, but damnit, I REALLY WANNA WRITE SOMETHING NEW! And look at something different on the design wall. I stretch twice a day in the room where the design wall resides, and I meant to take down the blocks just minutes ago after completing my stretches, but I forgot. Jeez Louise! I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached (and I'm a little afraid I'm forgetting how to.... Not write, but, but, but....)! The out of order bit relates to the quilt I'm sincerely consi...

Capitola, California on 12 September, 2012, not long after I had finished writing Splitting the Sky . All I have to go on is a manuscript and a playlist. Huh.... Happy new year! I hope you enjoyed whatever made you most content, and little of what pained. My thoughts are with those in New Orleans, Las Vegas too, and of course so many other places on this planet mired in conflict. As well as all the rancor within hearts, and while I spent much of yesterday prepping for more paper-pieced hearts, the first post of a new year concerns writing. Or what happens when one writes a novel, shelves it, decides it's meant for the hard drive only, tosses all physical proof of its background, leaving only a playlist, the manuscript, and a few meanderings in a personal blog right after it was written. Because that's what happened with Splitting the Sky , and I'm kind of flying blind-ish as I polish the story, wondering why I chose this character name or that plot point, other than the few...