Simple Link Soup
Today is Take Your Middle-Schooler To Work Day. Since I work at home…yeah, there was pleading. The Princess is usually so good, and she’s worked so hard, that I am allowing her to “come to work” with me today. Which basically means running errands with me, and hanging around the house while I bonk my head against revisions. The lucky little chickadee.
I’m deep in the wilds of revision and making a final push today, plus I have a ton of people who really need answers and correspondence from me. They’ve been very patient, and I need to get right on that and start cracking. So today it’s just a couple of links:
* Yes, health insurers want you dead. Or at least, very ill. Why else would they have $2 billion in stock in fast food companies? (h/t to Mark Morford.)
* Lucienne Diver with three things every writer should know.
* And something I’ve found helpful lately: 50 things you can control right now. In this vein, Thich Nhat Hanh on the here and now. Deeeep breath.
There now. That’s better.
See you on the other side, dear Readers.
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Tags: editing makes one cranky, linkspam!, slight pause for station identification
April 22nd, 2010 at 8:20 am
Wow – that 50 things you can control right now was a fantastic article. Thanks for the link!
There are so many problems people deal with because they feel they can’t control their lives, you know? Lack of control is one of the leading motivations behind self-harm, anorexia, social reclusion, general angst, and panic attacks. Focusing on what you CAN control is a great idea.
Thank you!
April 24th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Hi Lili,
I thought I read somewhere you will also (or already) writing as Lili St Crow? Not sure. Anyway, quick question: Is Dante Valentine series done? That’s my favorite one of yours. So deep, dark and edgy yet with intense hope.
Congratulations on your weight loss, and discipline on controlling your eating. I am under going the same thing. I happened to check up on a list of my favorite authors and got your website (1st time). My decision to control eating was due to getting to that zone of pre-diabetic and high cholesterol. But the process calls for changing life style etc, which results in losing weight (a bonus!). I have lost 3.5 lbs in a week thus far. I still have the rest of the six months to go through.
Thank you for the stories. They’re great stress relievers and escape from this chaotic world. At least a bubble to get into for a few minutes before tackling reality.
PS: I am so looking forward to the sequel of steelflower. I love her. The drawing was a bit of a surprise and distraction, but the story just pulls me right in.