Xandra | May 22, 2010
In case you haven’t been paying attention, I am a writer who is also a mother to young children. Oftentimes, those children need to be directed towards productive activities (as opposed to activities that involve paint, carpeting, electricity under uncontrolled circumstances and/or cats under uncontrolled circumstances). May is one of those months where that direction [...]
Xandra | April 25, 2010
Sometimes you’re the bug, sometimes you’re the windshield… Today, I’m the bug. On the interstate. I can see a deadline approaching (with the word “Peterbilt” emblazoned across the grille) and I’m flapping my little ladybug wings as hard and fast as I can over the keyboard in hopes that, like a quantum butterfly, I can [...]
Xandra | April 2, 2010
For the past week here at Casa de Xandra, it’s been Spring Break. And for once, it actually feels like Spring Break and not, “gee, let’s give the kids a week off school when the temperatures plummet, only two inches of snow falls on the ground (not enough for sledding), and the sky is the [...]
Xandra | March 8, 2010
But I swear I had a great excuse. I had a :gasp!: computer issue (easily solvable, I love linux and the community that supports it *in instantaneous realtime, no matter how late it is!*). Computer, easily surmountable. Two sick kids with tummy bugs…not so much. There is no support community or quick fix for that [...]
Xandra | February 26, 2010
This week I submitted the sequel to Jolly Rogered. I’ve been submitting manuscripts since 1998. Granted, I write slow, and many of my submissions have been to traditional publishing (and via snailmail, to boot), so it’s not as if glaciers move much slower than the process. Every time I do this, I get a little [...]
Xandra | January 29, 2010
I confess that I am one of those people that literally loathes schedules. My mother is sort of a martinet when it comes to scheduling, and bless her heart for it, ran my household with an iron alarm clock while I was growing up. As a result, I decided to reinvent the wheel when I [...]
Xandra | January 22, 2010
Every author writes because he or she has something to say to the world. That message may be as small as “chocolate birthday cake is the world’s most perfect food” or as large as “can’t we all just get along…to survive the zombie apocalypse” but it’s that message that keeps us going through recalcitrant characters, [...]
Xandra | January 15, 2010
It snowed last week. A wonderful, white blizzard of unique and precious snowflakes and a delicious kind of cold that only comes with snow. And I didn’t write, because I have small children who like snowballs. But I did think a lot about accumulation, especially as I was pushing it off the front porch. [...]
Xandra | January 9, 2010
New Year’s Resolutions are a crapshoot. Everybody’s enthusiastic in January, until about the 18th hits and the post-holiday boredom sets in. That’s about the time the exercise machine starts becoming a clothes hanger, the shiny toys have run out of batteries/been stepped on/the teeny-tiny little pieces have been vacuumed up, and the leftovers have all [...]
Xandra | December 19, 2008
Okay, so it’s been two days and I’ve already opened up Writer’s Cafe and pulled up my pinboard/scrapbook to work on something that won’t leave me alone. Or rather, now that the M/M is giving my brain a rest, the other works that I’ve been putting off in favor of it are clamoring to be [...]
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