Nadia Larissa Trousdale

Yeah, I dunno what chooms are, either.

Anyway. Rather pleased with self today, as I wrote the second poem this week. I hadn’t written one in awhile until Sunday, so hopefully this is the start of a fruitful new era of productivity, the nine months of literary pregnancy before giving birth to a second volume. Let’s hope it’s not too bloody.

Trying at the moment to make sense of the article idea I began to pursue on a whim, and now have no idea how to continue on with the process. It began as one thing, but looking over the interviews, I fear it will be quite another. It’s soft news and I’ve no clue where it’s actually going to end up, but I’m just debating between taking the personal experience route, or just the hard reporting route. Hard to choose, and harder to justify either when it might just shape up to be a combination thereof. It’s been too long since I’ve freelanced, so my pen’s a little rusty, but I’m excited to let other muses stretch their wings.

The order for the first batch of books is happening this week; the sooner you order Two Seasons, the sooner I sign and send out your copy! That’s all the shameless self-promotion I can be bothered with, I think.

Thinking back on it, the process really wasn’t all that terrifying, and Lulu is an incredibly simple and wonderful self-publishing service. I would recommend it to pretty much everybody.

Word to the wise: do not mix scotch, iced tea and lemonade a mere hour after drinking a 20 oz. coffee. Your stomach will not be happy with you. See? You’re never too old to learn new lessons.

“Season One” is in the works – I’ve been distracted, but Chapter Three will be waded into tomorrow.

If, that is, I get this article done tonight.

Wish me luck!

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sound damn delicious right now.

First off, an apology to my Sporadic Panic contributors – the confusion and hectic whirlwind of the past month have left me baffled, busy, and lost in word pollution.  I’ve been neglecting you lot and for that I’m deeply sorry – we’ll be up and running smoothly on this end of things very, very soon.

In other news….I’m hesitantly wading into the third chapter of a novel on which I’ve been very carefully working for the past month or so.  Progress is slow but steady, and all of it just feels right.

I now own one of the first three copies of my poetry volume, Two Seasons.  It’s a little overwhelming – remembering how much work went into it, every poem meaning as much to me as they do…Seeing them all in print is one thing.  Knowing that there’s so much MORE work to be done, in regards to marketing, and general improvement of my writing…Well, it’ll keep me busy, that’s for sure.  Once I give it the Big Final Once-Over, it will be made available to order online.  I’ll keep you all posted.

Strange days lately.  Omens, connections, truly strange thoughts, bouts of deja vu, feelings of imminent WTF, but also great contentment with the world at times.  Full-speed ahead on the rollercoaster of life.  Ho hum.

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