11 Comments
  1. J.M. Ney-Grimm
    8:07 pm on December 24, 2014

    Wishing you and yours a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. 😀

  2. Mary
    7:45 pm on December 25, 2014

    Merry Christmas!

  3. Deep Lurker
    8:54 pm on December 25, 2014

    Happy Holidays!

  4. Gene Wirchenko
    11:53 pm on December 25, 2014

    Happy holidays!

  5. Dorothy Heydt
    12:42 am on December 28, 2014

    And to all of you. May your muses never desert you and your computers never go on strike.

  6. Emily
    12:53 pm on December 28, 2014

    Merry Christmas! I’ll fill in the time until the next post by reading the copy of Wrede on Writing that I got as a present. 🙂

    • Dorothy Heydt
      11:55 am on December 29, 2014

      Oh, how nice. I ordered it from Amazon months ago and it hasn’t arrived … I think the dead-tree edition doesn’t exist yet, and I don’t have a handheld.

      • Emily
        10:02 am on December 30, 2014

        Mine is a regular paperback, so it must be out there somewhere!

  7. LizV
    8:44 pm on December 30, 2014

    Belated but happy holidays to all! (New Year’s is a holiday, right?)

    To Our Hostess: If you’re still looking for topics, how about something on getting back to writing after one of those periods of stress that justifies dropping writing like a hot rock while you cope? You’ve touched on it in various posts about being stuck, but I was thinking of something specifically about coming back after a crisis: anything from how to know if you’re ready, to tips on getting back into the saddle.

    (For myself, the crisis is resolved happily — the missing cat is home! — but I haven’t touched writing in the worst part of a month, and it feels like a lot longer. I’m still catching my breath, and having trouble finding my feet.)

    • Dorothy Heydt
      10:33 am on December 31, 2014

      Hooray for the homecoming cat! In case you don’t read _Breaking Cat News_, I attach the URL for the beginning of its eight-part Christmas story.
      http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/breaking-cat-news-christmas-special-part-one/
      I haven’t touched the WIP since my text editor died, though I do have a printout and I could always get back in scribble-on-the-binder-paper mode. But I haven’t. I’ve been spoiled.

      • LizV
        5:41 pm on January 3, 2015

        Aw! I’m glad I didn’t see that at the time, but it’s great now. 🙂

        Are you in the market for a new text editor? I haven’t used it myself, but I’ve heard good things about ZenWriter.