Status of book:
I’ve been up at 5am every day this week to get in hours of revisions before going to work. Tomorrow I hand my first draft complete to my editor, lit agent, and adored Patrick, who’s on friend/editor patrol to personally ensure I don’t look like a dumb-ass (or at least any more than I usually do). Squeal! It’s really hard, as a blogger, to hand off writing. What, you mean I can’t revise and republish over and over again? I’m so spoiled by push-button publishing.
Status of kitchen:
Best summed up in two words: total disaster.
Moral of the story? While I’m doing ok as a writer, I ain’t no housekeeper.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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00945399
May 18th, 2006 at 8:36 am
100.73% whassat?
What’s that software called you’re using to measure your progress? I’m writing and it looks interesting.
Also, your website doesn’t display itself properly with the OPERA browser - just in case you didn’t know.
Nice clean looking site though - like it
pip pip
Matt
May 18th, 2006 at 10:38 am
Writing rocks. The best thing about it is that when you’ve finished writing one book, you can write another one!Mine went down so well that that is exactly what I’m doing. Same again this time next year! And hopefully, another and another…
Ariel
May 18th, 2006 at 11:19 am
00945399, that’s just an excel spreadsheet set up to help me track my goal wordcount and current written wordcount. Nothin’ fancy.
As for Opera: Yeah, I know. This site isn’t designed for the .08% of my visitors who use it.
yelahneb
May 18th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
does anyone here still keep a written journal? i kept one off and on for most of my life, but the practice faded as i started blogging before stopping completely around 2003.
Ariel
May 18th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Ben, I still keep a journal! Certainly it doesn’t get updated as often as it did pre-blog, but god knows I can’t write about all the good stuff online … my journal is filled with smut, work, inebriated moments, private insecurities, health issues, relationship musings, and other things that would get me in big, big trouble to put under the all-seeing eye of Google.
Kai
May 18th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
I still keep a written journal too. It prevents me from posting the mundane details of my daily life on my weblog (ie: “Today, I ate a peanut butter sandwhich”) and it gives me a outlet for my occasional rants.