Plans, Ideas, and Motivation by Bonnie Le Hamilton

 

If you’ve been by my place recently and heard some squawks and squeaks, that’s just me trying to play the clarinet. Trying being the operative word here. Maybe I’ll never be able to reach the higher notes, I have no idea, but it never hurts to try.

I’m also trying to lose weight. (Yeah, again.)

I don’t seem to be very good at that either.

And I’m taking an online course. So far so good on that one, but I’m not sure I’ll finish in the allotted time, so I have to work harder on that. And I need it because I need the training to get a better job, preferably something I can do from home.

And at some point, I really should finish editing, updating, fixing book one of my sci-fi series so that I can finish writing book two then go on to books three and four, but I also need to contact the publishers I submitted to back in January to see if they have made a decision on my story yet. Meaning I have to write a nice polite, “Hey, have you read it yet? When will I hear from you?” letter.

Personally, I’m of a mind to tell them they have until June 2^nd (six months after I submitted) to let me know one way or the other, or I will submit elsewhere on June 2^nd.

This also means I need to figure out where elsewhere should be. Any suggestions? I could use a few.

Here is the blurb for the one I’m trying to sell:

Members are different, which is causing Mathias Hawklace a major heartache. It’s one thing to be attracted to an Outsider, it altogether another to “Connect” with one. It had been bad enough facing losing his family because he hadn’t found his one true love, but to find her, and still face losing his family? Intolerable.

And how is it possible for an Outsider to “Connect” in the first place? Are we more alike than Members thought?

This isn’t really a sci-fi, though the main characters are aliens, it’s a YA contemporary romance.

And the only other thing I can think to say about it is, if werewolves can have their one and only, then why can’t aliens? This is what it’s about, really.

Anyway, I’d love for a publisher to pick it up.

I’d also like to be a hundred pounds lighter, a virtuoso on the clarinet, and an artist with both words and yarn.

Did I mention making Christmas gifts?

I’ve started a couple, I’m so slow I’ve been working on one of them off and on for almost two years now. And I have the supplies for several gift projects for just about as long that I haven’t even started.

And a certain niece of mine is expecting again. Another gift to add to my list.

Don’t be surprised if I end up buying everything again.

It's not like I can make stuff for some family members.

Men are so hard to make things for.

Heck, men are hard to shop for!

I had no problem shopping for Tom! He was easy. In fact, I still periodically spot things that Tom would have loved. I did it again just a few days ago. But shopping for my bother-in-law, nephews, and nephew-in-law – HELP!

And on top of that, one of our nieces is getting married this year.

Great, a wedding and Christmas in the same month!

 I guess I’m lucky I don’t have to actually go to the wedding, with the gas prices the way they are, I can’t afford the drive, even if it is only two hours one way.

And no matter how hard I try to keep my Christmas shopping list short, someone is always adding a name or two it. Though really the tiny additions are fine. Babies are so easy to shop or make gifts for. Their daddies are a different story.

I can think a few men who are probably tired of getting ties from me every Christmas.

Give me another suggestion and I’ll go with it!

Help me figure out how to divide my not-at-work hours between my class, my writing, and my crafts, and I’d be eternally grateful, but I’m afraid the solution is to never turn my TV on again.

And it's not like I’m watching a lot, just Star Trek the Original, TNG, DS9, and Voyager, and only six nights a week. And if I ever got my act together, I could do crafts while I watched them. I couldn’t write, but I could do crafts. And I honestly know I should.

Well, that and eat dinner.

 Basically, we’re back to my mental issues of not being able to prioritize properly.

Anyway, happy writing everyone! Maybe next time I’ll have some good news.