Monday, November 22, 1999
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"Monday, Monday..." 
ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER UPDATE! What, you say? Since when? Since Samhain, that's when. It's my Celtic New Year Resolution, and it goes something like this:
EVERY MONDAY: A new update to this very page, if only to let it be known that I'm still alive. Personal news, not necessarily web related, goes here. For example:
Saturday I was Eaten By My Chorus. No lie. From 10 am until about midnight I was in the service of the Colorado Spirit! chapter of Sweet Adelines International. We performed two 2-1/2 hr shows, had three guest quartets as well as two small ensembles from within our own ranks (e.g. the octet "Extension Chord", for which I'm a proud baritone), and blinded the audience shamefully with our sequins. I'm having my photographs developed today; I hope to post some pictures soon! It was a long, long, gruelling day, but it was a little more fun than I expected it to be. Plus my husband got to see me in MAKE-UP.
EVERY WEEKEND: A new manuscript submission. It feels Really Good to get published! You may have noticed the sudden frequency of updates to my Writing Portfolio under the Alpha By Author section of the Library — that's what constant, scheduled productivity can do for you. I intend soon to upload a page of on-line submission guideline links just to get y'all further backstage on this activity.
The ideal is, "One submission a week, no matter how humble; one major submission a month, no matter how far-fetched." This is not to say I haven't missed a week or two. I'm at work now on a final draft of "And On the Seventh Day" that was supposed to be my major submission for this month, and it's going into its 3rd week of revision.
So the practical translation, the unshakeable rule to live by, and one I would recommend to every critter under the sun who wants to make his/her living by the pen, is this: "Write Every Day."
EVERY WEEK: Some update to the ms. found in a modem. I think I'd like to recreate my bookshelf on this web page, author by author, subject by subject. Not that you and I aren't sufficiently headlining authors in our own right, but the Library needs a bit of variety, don't you think?
Other weekly updates might include dream interpretations, story additions, finally upgrading the HTML and Majik chapters of the ms. to the new format, and answering your suggestions as to what the ms. really needs.
So keep 'em coming!
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IN WHICH the Author speaks at tedious Length about the Writing of this Manuscript and sundry recent Events. (Last updated 11/22/99)
In which she reminisces to the Brink of Obsession on her beloved but three-thousand-mile distant Homeland.
In which the World, itself a dream, dreams the Author and her Readers in turn.
In which, as in the Hoard of a Dismal Dragon, reside the many Writings, Books, and Scrapbooks of the Author's Collection. The Reader is encouraged to contribute.
In which we learn something of virtual Bookbinding.
In which the Author finally goes mad.
An History, with links.