I'm Not Hiding

I don't know that I have many people checking my blog, but there might be a few of my fellow figs popping in every now and then, so just an update: I'm not hiding! School has been so busy lately, and I'm scrambling to keep up as much as I can. I had one very difficult course end last week, and suddenly I have so much free time, I don't know how to handle myself. I can read. Sit down at a table to eat meals. Shower. All that good stuff.

I'm very, very excited about The Default Sweater. It's been chugging along so well that I'm trying to keep up. As I mentioned a few posts ago, I'm a very systematic writer and have to block out the entire storyline before I can delve too deep into writing. With TDS I took an unusual leap and wrote the first few chapters with nothing more than a vague idea of my plot. But now I'm almost done with my outline (and the writing's not going too bad either), and I'm silly with excitement.

Anande Sjoeden, author of Nattie and Finn, very kindly mentioned Erin and me on her blog, and I felt compelled to return the compliment! Nattie and Finn has kept me on nail-chewing tenterhooks since I began reading. It's my daily treat to come home and read a chapter if I get lucky and she's posted (yesterday, I got FOUR!).  Figment has a feature where the approximate time it will take to read a certain book is posted on the book's description page. At the point I started reading, Nattie and Finn was at about seven hours. That Friday, I sat at my computer until two o'clock in the morning, not able to go to bed until I finished. She also has several other books posted that I'm really looking forward to reading.

Hopefully, I'll be able to blog more now that the bulk of the year's schoolwork is accomplished. Darn those teachers. Darn their sorry hides.