Catch up post

Made it back to Pittsburgh with minimal fuss in spite of the storms playing havoc with the airlines

Yesterday we went to Lucky Uncle's lake house, went for a nice long boat ride, swam some but could barely get back on the boat. I must must must do something about how weak I'm getting. I also got some sun. My nose is very brown.

Today we looked into setting up a trust for me so the student loans don't get everything (not as promising as we'd hoped)

Talked to my brother who ranked going to see his SiL's new dogs over seeing me.

We gave Kanda a spa day, combed him, cut his claws and then bathed him because he was getting oily and smelly. He's now sitting on my leggs.

And it's yet to be seen if I can finish Camp nano today. Ah well. I'm close.

And on that note, let me give some writing links and be done with it.

Tips for indie writers

tropes that make a protagonist boring

tips for writing when you don’t feel like it

every good book (this is particularly helpful)

how to drive preorder sales

beta readers

is your subgenre keeping you from being published Based on this yes. It's SUCH a depressing article. According to this, every genre I like to read and write are cold and everything I hate (military SF, dystopia) are hot. Time to read more mysteries I guess.