Blogs about: Fears And Neuroses
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Shuffle and Reshuffle
Puntitas had an exhausting day. She spent most of it avoiding and delaying. The computer was up, and word was loaded, but the various printing and skimming tasks Puntitas had scheduled for herself did… more →
Puntitas Writes a Commercial Novel
Shuffle and Reshuffle
puntitas wrote 2 weeks ago: Puntitas had an exhausting day. She spent most of it avoiding and delaying. The computer was up, and … more →
The Submission Routine
puntitas wrote 3 months ago: Puntitas is in the middle of one of her moments of self-pity and recrimination. Today’s episode of p … more →
Damn Swans
puntitas wrote 3 months ago: Fortitude in the face of frequent rejection appears to be a cyclic virtue. For the last few months, … more →
Random Thoughts
puntitas wrote 3 months ago: Puntitas has been wrestling with random writerly thoughts, most of them negative since she’s also at … more →
Down Sick
puntitas wrote 4 months ago: Puntitas has been down with a bad coughy thing since Friday, July 3. She went to the doctor on the s … more →
Penelope and Life Choices
puntitas wrote 5 months ago: These last couple of weeks have been quietly eventful for Puntitas. After Jerk and Spurt, her sticky … more →
When Even the Muse of Awakening Is Away
puntitas wrote 8 months ago: Puntitas is having an especially unproductive day. She had one appointment this morning, which was n … more →
Having Again Submitted
puntitas wrote 9 months ago: Puntitas needs to learn to slide the volume level down on her talking neuroses. It’s hard to functio … more →
Greater Submission
puntitas wrote 10 months ago: Puntitas is exhausted. She spent most of her Sunday preparing groups of poems for the mail. The proc … more →
Sending Out Is Hard to Do
puntitas wrote 11 months ago: Puntitas is having a very cranky moment. She renewed her ATA membership (money she should have wip … more →
The Submission Blues
puntitas wrote 1 year ago: In terms of submitting either individual poems or my full manuscripts, I’m going to have to come up … more →
The order of things
puntitas wrote 1 year ago: Puntitas is having one of her all too frequent moments of doubt. She was surfing the web for poetry … more →
First Book Just About Done
puntitas wrote 1 year ago: I just finished assembling one of the books. The work was so tedious it almost became relaxing. I sa … more →
Building Two Tables of Contents 2
puntitas wrote 1 year ago: This blog is a good thing. Without it, Puntitas would be mired in her perpetual sluggishness. Still … more →
Building Two Tables of Contents 1
puntitas wrote 1 year ago: Since I tend to get more done when I don’t let myself think before I act, I accomplished something i … more →
Planning a Recovery
puntitas wrote 1 year ago: Three weeks ago, I started waking up after only five hours of sleep, and I had severe neck pain. It’ … more →
Back to Normal
puntitas wrote 1 year ago: The last week and a half has been one of those up-and-down periods for me. One reason is that I’m fi … more →
The Mechanics
puntitas wrote 1 year ago: I’m having one of those brutal reminders of the importance of little things. I’ve taken a break from … more →
Fear and Procrastination
puntitas wrote 1 year ago: Fear has so many odd manifestations. Yesterday I finished my long poem, one of the few truly new one … more →
