Things to be happy about today

becca — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:30:44 +0000

* Rainshowers likely. I love rain in the summer.

* A little stalk of bamboo growing in a half-pint jam jar on the kitchen table.

* All my fingernails are the same length.

* Started reading the beginning of the work-in-progress. Maybe it doesn’t completely fail.

* Road trip yesterday got us more than half-way through Adam Gidwitz’s “A Tale Dark and Grimm.” Husband asked last night, “How does it end?”

* It’s lawnmowing day (provided I can navigate the rainshowers, which are, as you recall, likely).

* S told me she saw someone reading my book, and she said she liked it.

* There’s a watermelon on the counter. I think there should always be a watermelon on the counter, don’t you?

* Kid 2 said (of her own free will and volition) “I need to practice today.” (*insert angels’ sighs*)

* Poetry is cool, even if I am not entirely cool. Or even if I don’t really get it the first few times through.

* The dishwasher is not currently spewing water over the kitchen floor.

* I have 2 DVDs of North and South, which I have not taken the time to watch yet. Maybe during that rainshower we’ve heard so much about…

* I’m in a collaborative project. Perhaps details will follow.

* Birds. Lots of birds.

* I don’t have any pets, and my house smells like — wait for it — people.

* Between Kid 2′s X-country run this morning and Kid 1′s Shake-making work this evening, I have all my Kids home with me for HOURS today.

We’re In This Together

becca — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:08:00 +0000

Oooh. Yesterday morning I woke early-early and worked on a story for/with a friend. It’s sort of a collaboration thing. She has a great historical nugget, and I put it in my words. If I do say so my own self, it is beautiful.

We have some kinks to work out, and some details to process (kind of like any time anyone writes anything) and it’s different doing it together. There are some details that I think should be different, but we’ll work it out.

I read it out loud to Husband when he got home from morning basketball, and I choked up a little. That is something that I don’t do every day. Especially about words I wrote myself. Isn’t that fun?

So, the thing is that collaboration can work. And I am excited to do it, especially with this brilliant friend who has such an ear for a perfect story. I’ll keep you in the loop…

Becca Wilhite » collaboration

Things to be happy about today

We’re In This Together