Emma Weylin

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Whoosh , and the year is almost over. It seems like 2009 just started and now we’re almost to Christmas. Where does the time go? I still need to get my Christmas shopping done.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at my mother’s house. She is slowly learning that some family traditions don’t need to be upheld if no one really enjoys doing them anymore, and that creating, new, well-loved traditions are the way to go. We are slowly getting there, but it’s a slow and painful process, though she seems to be happier the more time that passes. I can’t wait to see what new and wonderful things the family will be doing on holidays in years to come.

Anyway, I think I am going to get a jump on the New Year’s resolutions and all that fun jazz.

1. I will have a clean house. I am the worst housekeeper in the world, but now that I know why my family and I have such issues with it, I know I will be able to fix the problem. Who knew people with Dyslexia had a difficult time containing clutter? Anyway, that is on the top of my list, obviously, because it’s number one.

2. I will get a list of knit and crochet projects I want to do this year and plan them out so I can get them done when I want to, like for holidays and birthdays. It will happen, I swear it. (So maybe this one should be considered better time management?)

3. I will get Phoebe reading at grade level by the time she starts 3rd grade.

4. I will get less irritated with Willow when she just wants to babble at me because she loves to talk.

5. I will fully write, edit and submit a novel by the end of 2010. No if, ands, or buts about it.

I think that’s a pretty good list for this coming year.

Of course this all comes when I am on the injured list. Really, it was the dumbest thing in the world. I went to my writer’s group (Hi Time, Hi Bill) on the 20th and I fell in the parking lot, now, before anyone tells me I should sue them, I tripped over my own two feet like a big old clumsy idiot. I landed on hard on my knees and sprained my ankle badly. I’ve been in a splint (they call it an air cast) for the last week, and I expect to be in it for the next five because I can’t seem to make myself behave and not walk on it. I do have crutches, but they get in the way and make my armpits hurt. That’s probably too much information for some, but it’s the truth. But I will get this started and I will make it all work this coming year. It’s time for me to finish growing up and become an adult. I will take the rest of the year to make my cleaning game plan, and then get it started.

I have a one shot novel in mind for the one I need to submit this year, so, hopefully, I will be able to get that all done. No, scratch that, not hopefully, I will get it done. It needs to be done, and I need to do it so that I am bring some money into this house.
I discovered how Phoebe learns, and she’s been reading little books to me for the last few weeks, so that’s well underway.

I think I need to set aside Willow babble time every day so that she had undecided mommy time to just say whatever strange and bizarre things she needs to say. I think it will be good for both of us and I think for both of them, I will start either a computer or a written diary everyday that we write together so that I know we are keeping up good communications.

As for my craft projects, well, I think that’s part of my creative outlet along with writing, so I really need to get the time management thing underway so that I am getting everything done that I want/need to get done, like house cleaning.

I know I can do this, and I will do it. I just have to do it as obsessively as I can write a first draft novel.
Sorry, no pictures today, and I think that’s all I have to say, anyway, I hope everyone had a happy turkey day, and I’ll try to update more with this thing next year.

I have been slowly working on my new Black Wolf series. I have the novels names. (I need them or I can’t seem to make myself function as a writer. So just know they are working titles.) I have characters names, and I have the beginnings of a fantasy world for them to live in. I love the world of the Undying, but I was nearly burnt out on it. It was good to take the break when I did. I will continue to work with Eden on Warrior until it is done, but it’s not one that is my responsibility, so the brunt of it is going to fall to her to write and to plot. As always, Elburon is in the back of my mind. I thought I was going to get back to it, but it seems it is best left to the fall and winter months. So I will make my schedule according to it. I want to start getting these stories finished and ready to send out. I WANT to be a published writer, but I still have to figure out the marketing end of it. So, as I work myself up this month to start editing Undying Savage, I will work on the Black Wolf world and come up with a different name for the world, if it’s needed. I so love to world build. People could pay me to build their fantasy worlds for them and I would be a happy person.

p.s Happy Mother’s Day!!

Happy Mom’s Day to all you Moms out there. As you can see, I have been busy writing Black Wolf with Cordelia and Rune. I am having a ton of fun with them! It’s closer to the type of fantasy I write for myself. It’s not that I don’t enjoy writing Undying, it’s that it’s more of a modern or urban fantasy then High/Epic fantasy. I don’t read enough of the former to really know that I am doing something unique with the genre. I hope I am and I can only assume that I am because, well, I just don’t read that much of it. Anyway, it’s Mother’s Day, and while I’d love to spend the whole day writing in silent bliss, my kids would like to spend the day with them, so I am off to the shindig at my younger sister’s house.