I’d like to give you a good excuse for why I haven’t posted in six months.  But I don’t really have one.  I’m not a good blogger as a general rule, even though I enjoy doing it when I remember that it exists.  But all I can offer is this.  I’ve been distracted by two major undertakings in my life.

Since June I’ve lost thirty pounds.  Which may not seem like much in all that time but I kept relosing and gaining the same fifteen pounds for about two months haha.  Until I discovered myfitnesspal.com, which I heartily recommend if you’re a person trying to get fit.  Turns out, being healthy takes a lot of time.   In November I had to make a choice, because I have three young children, between staying up late and writing for NaNoWriMo or staying up late and exercising.  This year, I elected to work on me, and not on a novel.  I still have a lot of weight to lose and a lot of my energy will go there for the next year or so, I suspect.

But, I am working too.  Just not quickly enough to finish NaNoWriMo.  Which brings me to my second huge undertaking.  Last year, around this time of year, I started writing a very, very, very, very (I don’t think I can write enough very’s here) very complicated book.  Even though it’s a YA it has required huge amounts of research, I’m talking ten or fifteen huge books on revolutions and countless pages of notes.  It’s a book that I can’t even explain, though clearly it involves revolutions lol, because it’s just such an odd amalgamations of things.  But I hope there’s some agent somewhere willing to take a chance on something a little bit left of center.

So I will try to be better about blogging now.  But let’s not fool ourselves…

AMBER