Blogging All Over The…
PB Reads
Second Sunday Poetry SeriesJune 9th, 201318 days to go.PB Reads
Rhapsodomancy Reading Series, Good Luck Bar, Los Feliz, CA 7:30pm, At which I will read, see Blogroll Rhapsodomancy link below. Excitement reigns!February 3rd, 2013PB and several other readers take part in Los Angeles' top rated reading series. See you there!PB Rides!
UPDATE: 3 rotations of unicycle pedals on PB's Birthday does not count as riding the unicycle by her birthday. She will now RIDE the unicycle by June 1st, 2013--just in time for summer.June 1st, 201310 days to go.-
Written To Date…
Blogroll
- Adventures in Children's Publishing
- Agent Query dot com
- Beth Hull
- Bridget Hoida, So LA
- Dreamprayact
- Guide to Literary Agents
- Henry Miller Library
- Jeanne Birdsall
- Jeanne DuPrau
- JK Rowling
- Joan Aiken
- Kathryn Stockett
- Mad Woman In The Forest
- Miss MOL
- Moth Radio
- MT Anderson
- PB Rippey Website
- Philip Pullman
- Ransom Riggs
- Rhapsodomancy: A Reading Series in Los Angeles
- Rick Riordan
- SCBWI
- Scott Strohmaier Copywriter
- Veronica Rossi
- YA Muses
- Zilpha Keatley Snyder
My Website
Category Archives: Avoiding My Writing
Quote For The Weekend (Seriously Late Edition w/Bunnies)
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank We tend to rotate which charities we give to monthly. Save The Children often tops the list. Also the Mae Tao … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, dog, Fiction, fish, Parakeet, Pets, Poetry, Writer quotes, Writing, WTF
Tagged 2013, Anne Frank, cats, dog, domestics, fiction writing, fish, Kahoots, labrador, life, love, Mae Tao Clinic, poetry, quotes on writing, Rabbits, Save The Children, writer's angst, writing
2 Comments
April Lines
What a gift-packed month. Poetry has crammed my inbox daily. I went to a Rhapsodomancy reading at the Good Luck bar and listened to knock-you-off-your-feet lines from poets with poetry-spewing-volcanos where scalps should be. 1 day of NaPoWriMo left. So go on. Go write. You know you … Continue reading
Posted in Adult writing, Avoiding My Writing, books, Fiction, Poetry, poetry reading, Writing
Tagged 2013, beach, children's literature, fiction writing, Naomi Watts, NaPoWriMo, Olympic stadium, poetry, preschoolers, Rhapsodomancy, Sliver Linings Playbook, writer, writer's angst, writer's block, writing
1 Comment
Update: NaMeSiDifStaDaiWri(expletive)Po
I forgot to go on Monday. Ummm…And here is a cat.
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Children's Books, Fiction, middle grade, Poetry, Writer's Angst, Writing
Tagged 2013, cats, fiction writing, middle grade writing, personal goals, poetry, Starbucks
3 Comments
NaMeSiDifStarDaiWri%#*Po Week (Partial Week Edition)
Next week (because my son resumes PreK after a 2 week spring break) is National PB Sit in a Different Starbucks Daily and Write a (insert expletive) Poem Week. Well, at least monday through thursday. Actually not tuesday because that’s when I … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, books, Children's Books, Fiction, Poetry, Writer's Angst, WTF
Tagged 2013, April Poetry Month, children's literature, fiction writing, middle grade writing, personal goals, poetry, preschoolers, salted caramel frappucinos, Sarbucks, writer's block, writer's retreat, writing
14 Comments
Adventures in Equality (Facebook Edition)
My friend, who changed her FB profile picture earlier in the week like so many of us, posted: same-sex marriage doesn’t hurt YOU. And an FB Friend of hers went wild, responding: “They” should settle for civil unions! I have no choice but to say … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Fiction
Tagged 2013, equal rights, Facebook, marriage equality
10 Comments
Quote For The Weekend (Unchaste Edition)
True poets should be chaste, I know, but wherefore should their lines be so? —Catullus (Gaius Valerius, of course…) Of course he loved Lesbia! Sheesh. Get over it. Hopefully he ultimately got over it, IF he wasn’t 30 when he … Continue reading
Posted in Writer's Angst, Adult writing, Poetry, Fiction, Avoiding My Writing, Writing, poetry reading, Writer quotes
Tagged writing, life, writer's angst, poetry, writer, fiction writing, quotes on writing, 2013, Catullus, Sappho, Rome, Whole Foods
2 Comments
Courage! (Neigh Edition)
I was late to retrieve the boy from school because I Face Sucked like a fiend AND watched the latest episode of “Once” on hulu AND in another open hulu tab caught up on the latest episode of “Revenge” WHILE checking … Continue reading
Posted in Adult writing, Avoiding My Writing, books, Children's Books, Fiction, middle grade, Pets, Steps In Promotion, Writer's Angst, Writing Progress, WTF
Tagged 2013, chaos, children's literature, Downton Abbey, Facebook, fiction writing, horses, hulu, life, Los Angeles, Masterpiece Theatre, middle grade writing, Once Upon A time, personal goals, preschoolers, Revenge, smoothies, writer, writer's angst, writing
Leave a comment
Birthday Edition
On the eve of my hubbadobubbaboblah birthday: tucked my son into Pre-K, FB’d (i.e. avoided yoga), did yoga, even Superman, even V-ups, edited poems, sighed at the unicycle, edited poems, zoomed the boy to karate testing for his green stripe … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, books, Faction, Fiction, Me and Us, Poetry, Writer's Angst, Writing
Tagged 2013, birthdays, chaos, Coldplay, Downton Abbey, Elbow, fiction writing, Joan Collins, karate, Lego, poetry, preschoolers, time, unicycle, writing, yoga
2 Comments
And The Seat Moved
My sliced finger salved and bandaged, wiping cat gak off my bare foot, it was about then I remembered my promise to learn to ride the unicycle before my next birthday, so I went outside, snatched up my son’s helmet … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, dog, Fiction, Pets, Poetry, To Explain, Writing, Writing Progress, WTF
Tagged 2013, cats, dog, domestic bliss, fiction writing, labrador, personal goals, poetry, preschoolers, unicycle, writing
4 Comments
Mother Nature Wins
Around here, the skies are flannel and pursed. We can wear sweaters and scarves, for once, as we bring in our trash barrels from alleys. Pulling in the second recycling barrel, enjoying the feel of my silly polka-dot rain boots I … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Fiction, Me and Us, Writing, WTF
Tagged 2012, fiction writing, Frodo, house finches, preschoolers, rain, red tailed hawks
2 Comments
Quote For The Weekend: Squirrel Edition Via Eliot
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we should die of that roar, which is the other side of silence. … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, WTF, Me and Us, Avoiding My Writing, Writer quotes
Tagged writing, fiction writing, chaos, quotes on writing, 2012, squirrels, George Eliot, suburbia, falling snow plugin
6 Comments
Space Aliens Blow Up Fast Food Joints
Or: Writing In Increments (daylight edition) Between the post-workout shower and the trip to Redbox to return movies you suddenly noticed on the bookshelf as you craned your neck to see if your leg was straight as it pulsed to … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, dog, Fiction, To Explain, Writing, Writing Progress
Tagged 2012, aliens, cooking, dolphins, domestic bliss, fast food, fiction writing, karate, labrador, McDonald's, middle grade writing, organic, preschoolers, Starbucks, writing
2 Comments
Notes From Around Town
As I idled at a red light, MacArthur Park and Alvarado, a spry, elderly woman entered the crosswalk, head down, waving her arms. She wore a crossing guard’s vest, jeans, running shoes. After she passed my car (of course she … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Fiction, Writing, WTF
Tagged 2012, beach, Chango, chaos, Echo Park, Los Angeles, writing
5 Comments
Status: Guest Blogger
Today I am the guest blogger over at M For Mommy. M asked me to write about relaxing and having to write that post made me think: do I relax? Ever? An interesting question to ponder, if not slightly challenging. … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Fiction, Writing Progress
Tagged 2012, beach, Kauai, Kee Beach, ocean, personal goals, preschoolers, Relaxing, writing
Leave a comment
Links Time
It’s been a week of discovering useful blog links. I’ve hopped from link to link and then some, pausing only to drop the boy off at summer camp, pick him up, play Batman & Dinosaurs, fix dinner, twist myself into … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Children's Books, Fiction, middle grade, Writing, Writing Tips
Tagged 2012, Alexandra Sokoloff, Beth Hull, children's literature, creative commons, fiction, middle grade writing, paninis, Pinterest, Pub Rants, public domain, Talia Vance, Veronica Rossi, wikimedia commons, writing, YA Highway, YA Muses
Leave a comment
Phases (Moon)
As I drove myself and the dog home from dropping the boy off at summer day camp (where they create 4th of July art, squirt water at each other, learn how to play Red Rover and build Lego creations all … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Fiction, Pets, Writing Progress
Tagged 2012, cats, chaos, dog, domestic bliss, Full moons, preschoolers, summer camp, writer's angst, writing, yoga
2 Comments
Quote For The Weekend (Wildlife Edition)
You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made … Continue reading
Get Thee To Rivendale
Whenever I feel the slightest hint of a scratchy throat, whenever I’m knocking back the EmergenC or playing The Ladybug Game for the 5th time with a box of tissues in my lap, whenever I’m carrying on despite what I know … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Fiction, Writer's Angst, Writing, WTF
Tagged 2012, chaos, fiction writing, Frodo, Gollum, Ikea, LOTR, preschoolers, writer's angst, yoga
2 Comments
Book Bits (Courtesy of NPR)
You’ve probably already been here as I’m never the earliest anywhere except the zoo, museums, playgrounds and places in which excessive queuing is involved. But here is an excerpt anyway and you can listen to the whole interview with Jonah Lehrer … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Fiction, Writer quotes, Writing Tips
Tagged 2012, fiction writing, Fun In The Workplace, Jonah Lehrer, life, NPR, personal goals, Pixar, preschoolers, quotes on writing, Steve Jobs, writing
6 Comments
