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Seasonal Affect

Things! I'm reading Linger and developing a major crush on Cole against my better judgment! I'm getting ready to start working on my novel again (and fighting the temptation to scrap it and start something new like I do when the going gets tough)! I'm planning on writing more in here some day again I promise! Exclamation point!

For real though, I miss my regular posts. Yeah I've been keeping busy with a full time job and the new mama gig, but I can only use that as an excuse for so long. Many of my most favorite authors did their best work with more than one little booger at home-- and probably without the benefit of a stay-at-home-husband having their backs. At the very least, I think I should be able to handle dedicated book blogging. So here's my tentative pledge to get back to it-- Fall is just about here, and the smell of renewal in the air (or is it just U-Haul exhaust?) is inspiring.

Written content copyright Dawn A. Emerman 2010

Like Mr. Kotter

Hello hello! My baby is over three months old and I've been back to work for a couple of weeks. Now that I've settled into a routine, it's time to think about writing again. And reading. What I've been reading lately is mostly Goodnight Moon and Goodnight Gorilla, but I also get in odd snatches of Little Dorrit (seriously, I'm at the very very end) and Stephen King's Wolves of the Calla (continuing my tradition of reading a Dark Tower book every summer). I never believed those women who said they didn't have time to read once they had kids, but I can see how it's just one of those things that go by the wayside if you don't make the time. For now sleep (and, fine, So You Think You Can Dance and True Blood and Huge) is my priority when I have a spare minute. But I'll be making a change very soon, especially as you-know-who becomes more reliable in terms of bedtime.

Another thing: my cousin, an awesome dude and fellow author-in-the-making, gave me the manuscript of his first novel and not only is that bumped up to the front of the reading line, but it's also inspiration and incentive to get back to doing my own thing already.

Ah, it's good to be back.

Written material copyright 2010 Dawn A. Emerman