Time...

So my goals for this month are still in process - go me!! 

Goals Update:

• Okay, so I'm a little behind on the blog posts - but here's #1! Hopefully I'll knock out one or two more this week and BOOM one to go - and it will look like I know what I'm doing!!! HA!!!!
• I have played with the query for WHITE LIES and unleashed it on the world - found another error and realized I let the dog out too soon - such is life.
• I have started thinking about Nano - unsuccessfully, kinda - more to come on that
• STATIC - yeah - haven't gotten there - BUT it's only the 14th - I still have time *watches clock*

So what else have I been doing?? Well...

The Reader in me: 

• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The first is for the writer in me. This is a book that has caught my attention mulitple times, but I'd always been reading something else or "busy" - I really hate that term... but finally the book found me - or I found it at the right time. Thanks to a fellow teacher and friend for having it sitting on a shelf as we ate lunch, and more so for letting me borrow it.

• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
• This is for the teacher in me. This summer was amazing, and this title came up time after time as a valuable resource for AP Lit students - and so I'm making my way through it. And it will be a great addition to teaching materials.

The Writer in me:

• There's a little bit of everything happening right now - and my brain HURTS!! I have pondering several different things over the last few weeks, and I'm still working my way through the muck. Firstly, I am trying to figure out what I want to play with for this year's Nanowrimo. YES! It is only September, but sadly enough, we have hit double digits and, sadly, it wan't go back down. And I may be a pantser, but I also am to a certain extent a plotser, so I need to have an idea before I can sit down and write in November - hence! I need an idea NOW! The problem? I don't know if I bring out a play with some old characters who are itching for a revisit in a new book, or do I create and let loose into the world new characters who, I am sure, I will torment and torture *cue maniacal smile*

The Muse in me:

• There are two things that I find inspiring me right now:
• My kids: While I only have one daughter, I have over 100 students who live and breathe in the worlds I create. From the way they walk down the halls, to their tone and speech patterns, everything is relevant to me. And to have a creative writing class, and have students who have a passion and drive for writing makes me want to write! Ya! WIN!
• Hope: While I have had my share of writer uncertainty and trepidation I still feel that this is what I should be doing - that I am a writer and I will have my words out there!

The Me in...well, Me:

• It has been a busy month! Back to school is always chaos and this year is no different.
• I decided (definitely not a wise decision) that making some meals and freezing them would be a smart thing to do and save me time in the future. The jury is still out on that one, but man did it waste several days so far! And don't get me started on the initial clean up.
• Plus! Group adviser roles were in full swing so far - between my Student Government back to school and first dance prep, and senior class bids for a trip it's been a busy few week.
• Things will calm down...

No they won't. But I'll be back!

Until Later!