Back, briefly

I enjoyed the blog vacation. It’s amazing how little time it takes to fall out of the habit completely. Writing this seems vaguely foreign to me right now.

I gorged myself on Thursday, lay around on Friday reading books, spent most of Saturday out and about with various friends, and did more reading, research, and movie watching on Sunday. I’ve now finished my book-a-week goal for 2006, so everything from here on out is gravy. Have a few inching their way to the top of the TBR pile that I’m super excited about, including Surviving Demon Island.

Writing? No. But I look at it as “refilling the well.” And without getting into too much detail, my well? She brims. I won’t be “winning” NaNo this year, but I did do 30k that I’m very proud of. It’s possible I may write a few more k this week. But there’s this new proposal that I’ve been itching to start, so I may work on that this month instead. I’m also taking two trips to Florida, which will be mostly consumed by partying, wedding planning, partying, and celebrating my incredibly talented friend Cheryl Wilson’s long awaited first-sale, at auction, in a two-book deal. (I hope we shall soon be celebrating the launch of her website). These books are amazing, folks. I’ve been in love with them ever since I first read them in 2003.

Some things I may be discussing on my blog sometime soon:

* All those dehydrated horses standing right by the water.
* Why agents won’t tell you what they’re looking for.
* The Knife’s Edge of Bridal Insanity
* Titles, or We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ English
* More on POV
* Dear Writing Santa
* Dear Regular Santa
* Diana’s New Year’s Resolutions
* What is “Done” in YA

And of course, more Veronica Mars than you can shake an incredibly convenient and variably charged taser gun at.

Some things I probably won’t be discussing on the blog any time soon

* Under the Rose Spoiler Thread (wait ’til June)
* Titles for SSG3 (wait ’til further developments are afoot)
* Diana’s favorite books of the year (mostly to avoid the endemic comment encouraging the addition of a particular title — man, those fangirls are out in force!)
* My trip to Rome (mostly because I’m not taking one)

And an Ode to Piz.