Kyle, What I am up to

The Return of the Faded: An Update

Here is where I make a list of excuses as to why I haven’t been posting lately:

1). Grad school has taken up a lot of time but, all in all, has been very rewarding

2). I was helping with Fall for the Book, GMU’s annual literary festival and for fear of getting into the blurb I gave all newcomers about the festival, I’ll opt for a link to the festival’s site for those of you who are curious enough to venture to it.

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Check out the festival here!

3). I started teaching creative writing to little kids who may or may not actually like creative writing…yet

4). I have a new blog. No, it’s not a betrayal to this one. It’s about horses and it is for one of my classes (Online Writing), so I would really appreciate any support or suggestions you all may have!

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Check out my horse blog here!

5). Did I mention all of the books for graduate school? There are like 25 of them for this semester alone.

6). I spend my rare free time sleeping or lying awake in bed thinking and thinking and thinking.

 

However, these are all just excuses and a lot of my thinking has led me to the conclusion that I would like to resume regular posting on this blog –especially the Writer Wednesday posts since I feel those have been helpful to other writers. So hang in there as I shake my schedule up some more in order to get back on track with this!

Thank you readers!

 

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What I am up to

What I am up to

I am still on cloud nine about this news, and I cannot believe it has taken me this long to post it on here: I WILL BE ATTENDING GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY IN THE FALL AS PART OF THEIR MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING (FICTION)! It has been a long road to get here, and I feel so blessed to be able to say that I have taken the next step towards my dreams.

In other news, I accidentally showered my laptop with flavored water this past week. On the one hand, it smelled like yummy strawberry lemonade but, on the other hand, it didn’t work after that. It took three days to figure out a solution that involved me showing up for tech support only to have my laptop turn back on all by itself just after the guy told me my laptop was probably a goner. Yes, I am the tiger mom of laptops over here. Hey, whatever it takes to motivate my laptop to work again!

So now I am back to working on novel #3 which falls into the category of women’s fiction (along with novel #2 which is still progressing towards its final version). Currently I am about three fourths of the way through it and hope to have a completed first draft in just a few weeks!