An apology to my starving blogs...

My poor, sad neglected blogs have been reproaching me with looks of guilt that only your mother should be able to accomplish. Where have I been? How could I forget them?


I say to all my blogs (okay, I may not talk to my blogs but I've been caught unashamedly begging my camera not to die during its long terminal illness) that I'm sorry, truly, I haven't forgotten them but lately life has forced me to put them on the back burner, or maybe the microwave.

I'm hopefully going to graduate from a 9 month course this summer and most of my classes are online. It is easy for me to get distracted and with less than two months away from finals I've really needed to buckle down and when I'm not studying I'm working.

What do you do when you hit a blogging slump? Do you put up a hiatus notice? Every time I decided too I would pump out a few more posts. Do you reevaluate why you're blogging? What your blogging goals are?

Any kernels of wisdom would be appreciated... I've been reevaluating and reworking my blogging goals for at least three blogs. It feels a bit like spring cleaning, I'm reorganizing and it is refreshing, but the actual cleaning won't begin well into the summer.

Until then I'll keep my notebooks of posts and ideas filled.

Your sleep deprived blogger-
CMcKane

Monthly Word Count

This month was very unproductive in relation to my NaNo 09 novel.  I haven’t made my goal of 500 words 6 days a week yet this month but with school starting yesterday I’ll be counting my articles and that should beef up my word count.

Last week I wrote four days on stories, all short, and three of those days I made my 500 words goal.  Yay!

Things that made me happy:

• I wrote four teeny, tiny tales for a friend’s newest family member.  In fact, writing about the little princess while she was being born was pretty inspiring.
• I don’t usually write short stories for anyone other than five year olds but two more adult themed came out and surprised me.

Things to improve:

• My grammar! 
• I’ve tried to work on my NaNo novel but I cringe whenever I open my notebook.
• Repetition, repetition, repetition.

Questions I’m wondering.  Perhaps you know?

• How short can a short story be?
• What do you do when your main characters make you sleepy?

That is all for now.  I’ll be working hard… or hardly working.

2010 Challenges: Read the Book, See the Movie Challenge

Here is another blog challenge that I just couldn't resist.  Hosted by C.B. James over at Ready When You Are, C.B. the Read the Book, See the Movie challenge is right up my alley.


Here is a bit about the challenge but check out C.B.'s site for more info and suggestions.


Select a challenge level.  Post your level in a comment on the post linked above.  I'm starting on the Double Feature: two books/movies level but think I'll be upgrading it.  

It started 1/1/10 and lasts all year.  You can count it with other challenges (great since I'm using two Jane Austen books from another challenge).  

You don't have to write a full review on both but can write a brief bit about the book or movie at the end of your full review of the other.  I'll be writing a review on the book here and a short bit of a full review I'll post on another blog, Opinionated Ant.

My list so far
1.  Pride and Prejudice/ Bride and Prejudice
2.  Persuasion

To Be Read Pile 2010

Between different challenges and going through my enormous box of regencies for a second time I thought it might be brilliant to keep track of what I read this year. That is I thought it'd be brilliant after I saw so many more savvy bloggers being so organized!

So here it is for now, that is what is front of me and what is off the top of my head.

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen Challenge, Movies from Books)
Persuasion (Jane Austen Challenge, Movies from Books)
North and South (Movies from Books)
Jamaica Inn (Movies from Books)
Howl's Moving Castle (Movies from Books)
Alice in Wonderland (Movies from Books)
The Scarlett Pimpernel (Movies from Books)

I'll add more once my befuddled brain gets over a head cold. Achoo!