A weekly peek backwards and a look ahead,
from my little corner of the blogosphere…
Are you ready for a Second Serving?
Life Stuff:
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Last Week’s Edition: Birthday and Camping
- I completed my Camp NaNoWriMo drafting goal; Foul Deeds Will Rise (Trueborn Weft #2) ended the week at just over 75K words. I reached the goal on Tuesday night, and validated early on Wednesday, my birthday. I took the rest of the week off.
- The kids and I spent four days at Unschoolers Rock the Campground – swimming, meeting up with old friends and connecting with new…a joyful and exhausting romp it’ll take a few more days to recover from…
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With a new month, come some new goals…read on to learn more!
Last week’s features:
ROW80: The Writing Challenge That Knows You Have A Life.
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Learning (Anything But) Nothing: I learn, and write, even during Learn Nothing Day (or what I thought was, anyway).
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Bon Anniversaire a Moi: I give myself a birthday gift; achieving a big goal!
Eight Sentence Sunday: The Blog Hop For Everyone Who Loves to Write!
- Into the Maze Once Again: A sexual ambush deepens…another excerpt from my Trueborn Weft Series work-in-progress, Foul Deeds Will Rise.
Ready, Set, WRITE! A Summer Writing Intensive, with Cheering Section!
- An In-Tents Pause: I account for my Week 7 goals, and set bare-bones camping weekend goals.
Mindful Monday: Because Self-Awareness is Vital to a Joyful Life.
- Unintentional hiatus!
WIPpet Wednesday: Date-related WIP Snippets!
- All Perfectly Normal: Captain Jonathan Archer keeps telling himself this is all perfectly normal, and that he doesn’t notice anything out of the ordinary – even when T’Pol gets room service on the Bridge.
Coffee and Conversation: Grab a cup of something refreshing, and let’s chat!
- Another unintentional hiatus!
SoCS (Stream of Consciousness Saturday):
A weekly prompt to free the mind, and the words!
- I guess you can tell that I was away for the weekend…yes, another unplanned hiatus!
Variety’s Spice: Reblogs, Book Tours, and More!
- Book Blitz: A Summer Like No Other by Elodie Nowodazkij: Looking for a perfect romantic beach read – with ballet? Have I got something delicious for you!

What’s Next:
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After the chaos of July, I look forward to a soothing August – a month of revision-oriented reflection and recuperation. Oh, and homeschool paperwork, because this is the end of one year, and the beginning of another, for us…
July Focuses:
Birthdays, death anniversaries, and other emotional rollercoaster stuff…- More homeschooling paperwork – ’tis the season!
Unschoolers Rock the Campground- Complete plotting for Sea Changes: Kifo Island Chronicles #3.
Complete plotting for Foul Deeds Will Rise: Trueborn Weft Series #2Complete 75,000 words for July CampNaNoWriMo- Update blog sidebar.
- Complete next revision pass (2.5) for “Slow Jazz Awakening”
- Resume revisions on “Peach Liqueur Love”
August Focuses:
- More homeschooling paperwork – ’tis the season!
- Complete plotting for Sea Changes: Kifo Island Chronicles #3; begin drafting.
- Complete draft of Foul Deeds Will Rise.
- Complete updating blog sidebar.
- Complete next revision pass (2.5) for “Slow Jazz Awakening”
- Complete revisions on “Peach Liqueur Love”, find a market, and submit.
- Resume revisions on Chameleon’s Dish.

This week, on the blog:
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Ready, Set, WRITE!: Update #10. Recuperation, drafting, and revision.
- Mindful Monday: Perception, presumption, and where they can lead…
- ROW80 Updates: On Wednesday and Sunday (OK, not this past Sunday), for the duration of the round.
- WIPpet Wednesday: Another bit with two of my favorite characters…come join us! =)
- Coffee and Conversation: Camping with our unschooling tribe – then and now….
- Stream of Consciousness Saturday (SoCS): A post based on the weekly prompt, TBA Friday. I’ll go wherever my wandering mind takes me…
- #8sunday: A final excerpt for a bit with Those Two…
In the Wilds of Internet-Land:
- Learning Nothing: The Final Frontier: A blast from the past. Much younger Burton children on their first-ever Learn Nothing Day, failing – and learning – spectacularly.
- Spock Movie Collages: Because Spock. Need I say more?
- #tenthingsnottosaytoawriter: Twitter bonding and venting in the writer set…
- I’m in the Star Trek Daily! Scroll down a ways, and there I am!
That’s what I’ve been up to, and will be getting up to.
What about you?
(Yes, I’m a little nosy. Writer thing.)
If you want to satisfy my perhaps inappropriate curiosity,
drop me a line or a few in the box below!
