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"Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store."
Theodore Geisel
I'm rather eclectic ... an indie but fairly conservative, somewhat opinionated but open to intelligent discussion, and a rule-follower unless I feel the need to break them for good reason. You never know what you might find. I generally don't know what I'll write here until I sit down to do it.
Elora is Latin for light. I'm a light-seeker. Elora is my muse.
This is my second blog at WDC. You'll find the first here:
" Avant-Garde Aspirations"
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
~Henry David Thoreau
My December Writing.com activities:
creating Christmas CNotes!
What I'm currently reading:
Thin Ice by Liana Laverentz
Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox
A Night In Twisted River by John Irving
Keeping Faith by Joyce Carol Oates
Pumpkinnapper by Linda Banche
The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson
Short Book Reviews: " Reading Notes" 
Highlighted Items:
"On Our Own: Indie-publishing Group" by Voxxylady
"Indie Publishing: Method and Madness" by Voxxylady
"Computer Savvy? Novice? Just Need Help?" by vivacious
"Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor
"If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction."
Jacques Derrida
My Website: 
http://www.lkhunsaker.com
"Be yourself.
Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe,
shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish."
John Jakes
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| 1. just a quick update | ID #671732 |
| Posted: 10-14-2009 @ 12:57 pm EDT |
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I owe lots of return emails and such, so in case anyone checks in here ... I'm still here, kind of.
4 weeks of tonsilitis/fever/exhaustion
1 trip to the ER from an antibiotic reaction
+ a chest cold setting in on the verge of recovery from above
= WAY far behind
I'm trying to work through it, finish editing for next month's release -- I hope I can still pull it off next month, creating the book trailer, revamping the cover, trying to find back cover review blurbs from "names" in the writing and music business (looking unlikely at this point), getting pre-publish reviews (also looking unlikely, *sigh*), lining up permission for my prologue lyrics (got that!), lining up interviews for promo for related fields as the story line...
In between was my son's first Homecoming dance, and the parade and the football game (actually felt good that night, down with the cold the next day). Tonight a band concert I'm hoping I won't cough through. No one is invited over right now since housework is kinda barely getting done just enough.
Anyway, I have managed to start a short story for the Writer's Digest contest deadline Dec 1. And I have a thought about my Nano novel, which I probably shouldn't even attempt next month. I will, anyway. Whether or not I think I can get to 50. And apparently, I get to have about 13 visitors overnight sometime in December. Hmm...
As Arnold would say, "I'll be back."
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