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“From every length
In spite of gravity
I myself am
Transformed.
Designed,
Step-by-step,
A preposterous verdue
Beneath coarser grass.
Conspicuous.
Unrecumbent.
Patient from broad, keen storms.
Cheerful.
From morn now creeps ivory.”

Unrecumbent is the title of a painting that I am currently working on. The poem above appears as a bit of found fiction down the right side of the painting. Copyright 2010 Ana Maria Seaton.

Working a lot – I am freelance so it is a good thing – so I have been off stage left for a while now. As far as my personal endeavors, I have been writing on my main novel on and off; l have two going currently. I am up over 130,000 words and not hit the editorial phase yet. Thinking it may well turn into a trilogy or at least two books. Those that have read it, friend and stranger alike, have said it would make a great screenplay for a movie; which keeps me going, I love hearing that.

I run a writer’s group here locally and online, Word Whimsy, and we just launched our writer’s group zine, Three Dollar Squirrel. We are accepting submissions for Issue 2 if any of you would like to participate. I post one question each month on the writing process and it publishes on the 1st of the next month. We have several well-known authors including Patricia Telesco so I am thrilled with the response we have been getting. I’ve gotten several new participants just since the first issue came out last week.

My group is having meetings every two weeks now for the anthology we are putting together. It has been good motivation for me to finish some past stories and start new ones. We have been reading each other’s work aloud, making feedback notes, and discussing story flow and continuity. It has worked really well and we are all looking forward to our next meeting. The local group is holding closed meetings at my house but the online portion of the group is still open to anyone. The anthology is going to be fabulous by what I have seen so far of everyone’s work. I am really proud of them.

Speaking of which, time to hit the storyboarding…

It is rare that I get to bed before 1am, but I have probably been that way most of my life. I am a complete night owl and when most people are deep in REM I am wide awake, sitting up in bed (if I am not still at the computer) and either reading, making notes, doing word puzzles, or working on my stories. There are nights when we have had a long day and I really am tired; those are the nights when I wake the next morning to read really bizarre notes in the middle of my pages, sentences that look like a monkey came in through the window and sprawled nonsensical phrases mid-sentence. It is those little things I cherish because they make me laugh and sometime spin off ideas like my brain was still trying to make sense of SOMETHING before it passed out altogether. It also means I need to go to bed earlier.

My writing this week consists of  working on the contract for Gumtree, writing guidelines for two charity “journal” projects and a Corvid Crow Call that I will be posting by the weekend, as well as completing two stories for my writer’s group.

The writer’s group is really blossoming and I look forward to each month’s meeting, we all do. It is nice to see old friends, make new ones, and play with the collaborative word list. We have found a happy medium with it and aren’t as bad about throwing in uber words to stump each other. O_o One of my favorites is still “geosynchronous”. :::shakes her head::: Logan is still paying for that one. I got that one out of the way first sentence! I actually thanked him for it though because it gave me a good story idea. The collaborative word lists have been great for pushing our vocabulary and comfort zones. Ysa has even been contributing words and we’ve made it a game. She always impresses me with it because the words are pretty big for a seven year old…splendid, repulsive, communication…think we’ve struck on a good homeschooling exercise. hehe

We have NaNoWriMo coming next so we are gearing up for that right now. Our Kickoff event is a costume party so it should be fun and it is an excuse to eat candy. :::Cheshire cat grin::: Laurel and I are going to be seeing a lot of each other in November since we will be adding NaNo support meetings to our week on top of our regular “write night”. She and I have been meeting once a week for a while now and we really look forward to it. We camp at the local Starbucks and plan, write, conspire. It keeps us motivated with our writing as well as my other projects.

Speaking of motivation to get things done…