Snowflake Challenge Day 11

Day 11 - In your own space, post a rec for fannish and/or creative resources.

Just a drive-by posting for this as I'm working on a grant presentation for a workshop so I can get it done before I have to leave for grandma's funeral.

One is seekerville that my friend ES introduced me to. It's more romance related but most of the writing posts can be used for any genre and I figure a good many fan ficcers might have pro aspirations. Even if you don't, good writing can start here.

Terrible Minds is partially a writing blog, partially a guest spot for many authors and part the ramblings of Chuck Wendig. There is a lot of inspiration to be found here and a lot of cussing, just saying.


writing resources a link page for fan fic and writing in general.

Hope they help.

Too busy for a proper Writerly Ways

Not with helping Mom with the funeral of course since I'm here but tomorrow is the first day of school. Also did I mention the poster presentation I wanted my student to do was rejected and needed rewritten (that's not uncommon in science, I am hoping the snarky commentary they used is uncommon). And I've been locked out of my work email ever since I saw that before Christmas and I didn't download it then. Thankfully I remembered the biggest part of it and I just spent the day working on nothing but that really. I didn't even clean this horrible apartment.

My sister in law wants me, her and my brother to get Mom something to let her know we're thinking of her. But we don't know what. SiL had some suggestions like a memorial tree or rose bush but honestly I'm not sure Mom would want that. Ditto the edible arrangements. But I'm not sure WHAT she would want. Bangs head.

So my writely ways today can be this write up on my grandmother in fiction. It might interest someone and ditto this snowflake challenge post - writing resources (thanks to ES for some of the links).

I did get out of the house to get some groceries, my meds and pay my rent. In that hour and a half I blew through 1,400$. Holy crap. groceries was only 50 and I had to get a few things from wal-mart (and I did pick up the knee-high diabetic socks mom wanted) for another 50 but it was my meds that were 750$ and that's not even ALL my meds for diabetes. Okay I can understand invokana being 300$. It's brand new. Why the hell is humalog an OLD insulin 400$? Thank god I have a HSA and these count toward my 2000$ deductible which will be met by the end of feb. (yes, I'm the drain on your insurance).

My landlord is asking for a new lease agreement with me and the others (on paper only) because he had to refinance thanks to the deadbeats around here. He also told me he got threatened last week. He has these small cabins on the top of the hill and he kept seeing this car go past his place several times a night for a while and the woman they were going to see was now evicted but her friend wanted that apartment. She had the same car and wads of cash and he thought what I did. They want a secluded place to deal drugs. He told her it was on hold for college kids (it is) and she threatened him for not renting to her. He was profiling her and she's friends with judges and she's recording all this. And he's like, fine, let's call the cops right now. She left.

I most definitely need to take a break from the news and looking at my FB feed. I'm depressed enough without the horrors of the world. Last night that poor man in Saudia Arabia sentenced to jail and a horrible amount of whippings that will likely kill him just because of the things he wrote is now embedded in my head and it's making me nuts because there is literally nothing I can do about it. Things like this make the whole 'pay it forward' thing I'm doing this week seem pointless.

Reading Challenges

So I decided to go looking for reading challenges and I found one blog that had so many I feel inadequate. However, I picked off several that I am looking forward to doing.

I was already doing an alphabet challenge on my own so I'll just jump right into this one. alphabet challenge



I'm also doing the the TBR pile challenge. You know how many books I have for this. I'm aiming for over 40 books for this challenge.

Last year on another friend's post someone was a bit miffed at 'read a female author' bingo spot on the card we did last year (not entirely sure why but I'm thinking 'misunderstanding' covers it). The sad truth is female authors ARE very much under-read. There was a readwomen hash tag on twitter last year (and probably this year too). So to that end I'm doing the women challenge And hope to read at least 20 books by women this year.



And lastly the more challenging of them all, one with a bingo card, the full house reading challenge. This looks like fun.



Is anyone joining me for these?