tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-315828332024-03-14T11:55:54.995-04:00Doing the Write ThingIn which a medical physicist writes Scottish time-travel romance.Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.comBlogger407125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-32755401450093563592010-09-22T23:26:00.002-04:002010-09-22T23:37:40.137-04:00Been a While...So...yeah.2010 has been a rough year. Don't get me wrong, I know how blessed I am and how "smooth" my "rough" may seem to some. Even so, I spent the first half of the year in a fug of pressure, physical/mental burnout, and mild depression.BUT! This blog is not meant to be a pity party. It's about my writing.And I'm happy to say that in May I passed my board exams and am now a fully-certified Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-48668085464231792010-01-16T15:43:00.001-05:002010-01-16T15:43:08.249-05:00New Year, New StartHey, I'm back (again--doesn't it seem I start a lot of my posts that way? Indicative, I guess...) and I'm actually posting this from the midst of the KYRW meeting on Social Media Marketing, led by our very own Maddie James. She's blogged on the topic, here: Tweets, widgets and blogs, oh my!Very informative. I'm at the point now where I'll be delving back into the world of Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-11893731010164637242009-11-28T09:55:00.001-05:002009-11-28T09:55:27.833-05:00Word MetersAnd, hey, while I'm on a posting spree (and procrastinating on my 11th hour rewrites, hehe) I finally found a replacement for the beloved, now defunct, much-lamented Zokutou Word Meter:http://svenja.atspace.com/wordmeter.html They're slick, easy to make, and display well. And they have the look of the Zokutou, which I liked. Check out mine in my "Progress" sidebar to the Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-65529349828202718192009-11-28T09:29:00.001-05:002009-11-28T09:29:56.491-05:00Comment ModerationI had to turn Comment Moderation on (for older posts) and added word verification to all comments. I like keeping open and easy comments so people feel free to drop me a line, but spammers somehow managed to find me and I'm getting more and more spam comments on some of my Google-trigger posts. Once I get them to go away, I'll come back to the "open and easy" format. Sorry! AndJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-79774309898033395052009-10-13T13:36:00.001-04:002009-10-13T13:36:44.164-04:00Check out this new blogFriends of mine, four very witty and enjoyable ladies with lots of good things to say about the writing life, have started a new blog. Check it out!All The World's Our Page They're giving away books, as if you needed any more reason to stop by. *g* Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-59672817079209771502009-10-13T13:34:00.001-04:002009-10-13T13:34:48.749-04:00My life was about to change......and I didn't even know it.Haven't been by the blog in a while--obviously--for reasons that shall become clear. But I dropped back by today, as work on the MS is picking back up in preparation for the Golden Heart, which I entered. And I noticed the date on my last blog post. August 13th, 2009. Little did I know while I wrote that post that across town, in the hospital where I did myJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-27630382270500450052009-08-13T14:47:00.001-04:002009-08-13T14:47:39.265-04:00Slate Article: Time-Traveling for DummiesWith the recent release of the movie adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's (really most excellent) book The Time Traveler's Wife came this article on Slate:Time-Traveling for Dummies In which a physicist lays out some ground rules for the use of time-travel in fiction.A couple favorite quotes from the Slate article: Quantum randomness must obey well-established laws, and Novikov showed that Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-43143871796634275692009-07-19T23:25:00.001-04:002009-07-19T23:25:46.103-04:00Newspaper ArticleAn article in the local paper about our KYRW group:http://www.kentucky.com/964/story/866958.htmlOverall some pretty good press! Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-63391449552682956262009-06-14T00:06:00.001-04:002009-06-14T00:06:28.328-04:00Snippet Saturday - Going It AloneToday is not an "official" snippet Saturday - and I see by my clock that it is actually now Sunday - but since I missed the first one and I'm actively revising I thought I'd put another one up for fun. I meant to spend tonight finishing up the first chapter (AGAIN), but ended up in Glencoe. Here we see Alec's actions in the previous week's snip coming back to bite him:Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-85359614173623074932009-06-06T11:11:00.003-04:002009-06-06T11:19:50.817-04:00Snippet SaturdayFellow KYRW member Anya Bast has started "Snippet Saturday" and today's theme is Fight Scenes. Since I'm (finally!) back on the blog circuit, I'm diving in:From ONE HIGHLAND NIGHT (copyright 2008, Jennifer R. Clark):Elspeth lay in her cell, staring up at the dark ceiling, and waited. She thought of Alec, wondered if he even noticed her absence. They had talked of her need to return to KilchurnJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-39919430449111074722009-06-06T09:47:00.003-04:002009-06-06T11:23:07.382-04:00I'm baaa-aack!!! con⋅di⋅tion /kənˈdɪʃən/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [kuhn-dish-uhn]Origin: 1275–1325; ME condicioun < AF; OF < L condiciōn- (s. of condiciō) agreement, equiv. to con- con- + dic- say (see dictate ) + -iōn- -ion; sp. with t by influence of LL or ML forms; cf. F condition Related forms: con⋅di⋅tion⋅a⋅ble, adjective Synonyms:1. See state. 8. requirement, proviso.(from dictionary.com)Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-70889543223798164802009-04-30T23:07:00.003-04:002009-04-30T23:13:22.148-04:00Please don't give up on me!I still exist. I haven't given up on Alec, Elspeth, or OHN. But I'm one month out from my oral board exams (American Board of Radiology; I'm going for certification in Therapeutic Radiologic Physics) and that is All. I. Can. Think. About. Work, work-related projects, and study...that's all I do. Very little internet, practically no fiction reading, and not much TV. If I can get past this Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-20802725470207881062009-04-04T22:39:00.001-04:002009-04-04T22:39:29.207-04:00DABWAHA Final Four: Jo needs YOU!!!VOTE NOW for Joanna Bourne's The Spymaster's Lady to proceed to the final round of the DABWAHA tournament. It's nail-bitingly close (3 votes, last I checked!) and voting ends at midnight tonight. Jo needs YOU!!! http://dabwaha.com/blog/ Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-17297038292750191452009-03-28T23:13:00.001-04:002009-03-28T23:13:38.358-04:00FULL REQUEST!!!Today I attended my local RWA chapter's "Spring Into Writing" workshop, and was talked into pitching to an editor who attended. SHE REQUESTED THE FULL!I told her I have some changes to make and she said send it when I was ready. AND her husband is a radiation oncologist so she actually knew what a medical physicist was. All in all, a good meeting. *g* Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-65640373858030040912009-03-11T01:21:00.001-04:002009-03-11T01:21:35.293-04:003...2...1...I have come to the conclusion that I cannot be productive on the book in late winter (Jan-March or so) but that is the topic for another post. (Coming soon, I swear!)I am typing this on my new, super-cute little netbook...yet another post waiting to be written. But of most pressing and immediate relevance is that fact that I am in Florida, after a 15 hour drive (including stops - not bad with a Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-14771325775398168782009-02-13T22:48:00.001-05:002009-02-13T22:48:20.916-05:00Breaking the SilenceIt's been a while, hasn't it?I actually got my computer back a week or two ago, but life since then has kept me from blogging. That, and the massive backlog I had going after a month without regular internet access. First up was the planning and orchestration of two surprises for my mom's 50th birthday. A flamingo "flocking" - wherein my brother and I snuck to Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-25557067298832954772009-01-02T15:52:00.001-05:002009-01-02T15:52:40.629-05:00ComputerlessA belated Happy New Year/Hogmanay to all!Since just before Christmas, my trusty laptop had been acting up, mainly due to its tiny and overfull hard drive. My dad got me a new hard drive (160 GB!) for Christmas, and started "cloning" all my data from the old to the new on Monday, but the process was excruciatingly slow, and eventually hung up. SO I had to send the whole thingJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-85161631352237301892008-12-21T15:37:00.001-05:002008-12-21T15:37:04.425-05:00A Fun Christmas SurveyI was tagged by Carol. I tag: anyone reading this who hasn't done it. *g*Insert your own answers and pass it on to whomever you feel would respond – including the person who sent it to you 1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper - I consider wrapping gifts an art form, and oddly-shaped packages a special challenge.2. Real tree or Artificial? I grew up with a real Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-64245534362508191292008-12-21T14:17:00.001-05:002008-12-21T14:17:34.056-05:00Bookwormed! I've been bookwormed! By a few people by now, I think. *g* Anyway, I'm supposed to find the nearest book, open it to bage 56, and copy down the 5th sentence and the following 2-5 sentences. Nearest book to my computer was When the Duke Returns by Eloisa James, which I finished a few days ago. (Highly recommended! It's moved from my TBRead pile to my TBReviewedJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-7088061211098302072008-12-01T00:30:00.001-05:002008-12-01T00:30:58.764-05:00*FANFARE*Reporter: So, Jenny - you just finished a massive overhaul of your MS by deadline! What are you gonna do now...?!?Me: Forget Disneyworld, I'm going to....SLEEP!!!Actually, not yet. I did just finish revisions, but I still have to get everything together to actually submit for the contest. That means formatting the MS into a singular document (LSB keeps chapters in Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-49980805506244652652008-11-30T14:00:00.001-05:002008-11-30T14:00:02.686-05:00Add yours to the list!Go to THIS BLOG and log-in your book purchases towards the "Buy a Book, Save the World" campaign. Help us reach One Million! And while you're at it, join the Facebook Group....now back to your regularly scheduled rewrites panic. *g* Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-7579389690703160442008-11-30T01:01:00.001-05:002008-11-30T01:01:51.522-05:00Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'...Through 26 and into the home stretch. I just tied up the last (I think) of the new story arcs, so there shouldn't be much more new wordage to churn out. The remaining six chapters (and epilogue) just need a clean-and-polish. If I can finish that tonight--or rather, by the morning--I'll sleep for a few hours, go with DH to visit my MIL and pick up Little Boy and eat Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-6788665653847687532008-11-29T10:23:00.001-05:002008-11-29T10:23:06.982-05:00The Big PushHere we go...4 hours sleep and I'm back in the saddle. Sorta. Gotta run and take a shower soon, and put in my contacts (glasses make my eyes water if I'm on the computer very long) but then it will be like a marathon today. I'm probably only gonna stop to eat, potty, and help DH get our outside Christmas decorations up before it gets frigid again. Ten more chapters.&Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-989571932282529362008-11-29T05:30:00.001-05:002008-11-29T05:30:49.673-05:00Revisions Update: Getting ThereTwo more chapters down and I am now two-thirds of the way through revisions. Ten chapters left to go, and two days left to do them. I'm up through Chapter Twenty-Two, the "money scene" - Alec and Elspeth's handfasting on the night before his execution. Interestingly, this is Scene Zero, where I started writing the whole book. All the rest of the plot has spun Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31582833.post-78060382231328434082008-11-27T09:26:00.001-05:002008-11-27T09:26:56.488-05:00Revisions Update: ThanksgivingTuesday I didn't get much done, because I fell asleep waiting for DH to get home from Boston (there was a minor snafu in his travel plans, but it was relatively easy to resolve) and then went on to bed with him rather than stay up writing. Wednesday I was back at work, and settled in late last night for what I planned as an all-nighter, to make up for Tuesday's lack of progress. I Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05031393908692300777noreply@blogger.com1