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Apparently it’s been November since I posted here…wow. *sneezes and waves the dust away* I’ve been pretty creatively dry for the last few months, with all my energy going into my newest project, my daughter Nadia. She’s an amazingly calm and independent baby, but she’s definitely consumed my life for the last four months. Definitely not complaining at all! I love motherhood, and it’s been an incredible ride so far. I’ve finally started emerging from my mommy-world cocoon and have started some writing again, although I’ve been blogging semi-regularly over at Cowbels. I’ve been editing my novel so that hopefully I’ll be able to send it out before SIWC comes around again, and plan to get some of my previously written stories polished up and sent back out into the world. I’ve written the first bit for a new novel that I’ve had kicking around my head for the last year or so. Finally, I’ve also been working behind the scenes at Abandoned Towers so that I’ve got a good system in place for bringing the magazine back from its coma.
In other news, I’ve been reading a lot, unpacking boxes from our December move (I was kind of hugely pregnant when we moved, so unpacking beyond the essentials wasn’t exactly high on my to-do list) and trying to jumpstart my creative mind by attacking it from a different direction…doing some art. I’ve been playing with preprinted canvas to put up some art in Nadia’s room, and working with metallic watercolours (which are EVEN COOLER than they sound). I’ve also been doing some photography, mostly baby portraits, but the occasional pictures from our walks and so forth. I’ve also been working on improving my cooking/ baking/ kitchen skills and have been planning a garden since we have an actual yard in our new place. Quite a difference from our 16th floor condo.
I’ve finally started to feel like I’ve got a handle on things, which means everything is probably going to jump sideways and implode for a while (Murphy, you jerk), but hopefully I will recover more quickly and maintain forward momentum.
