Saint Valentine Rules

I’d planned to post my usual week-in-review blogging yesterday, but first I had to make banana bread for TYG. She opted for that over flowers, which is fortunate, as a lot of floral deliveries got derailed this week by the snow. After that we sat and watched DVDs before heading to bed. So no post.
The snow was intense, by the way. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it come down as fast as it did on Wednesday. Fortunately it’s now done and we made a Whole Foods run this morning so there’s no risk of having to eat ourselves to survive.
Snow aside, I’m pleased with the week.
•I didn’t quite make my Demand Media quota but I did better than I have in a while.
•I have a magazine query almost ready to go. I’m coming to the conclusion that just as I had to relearn short stories after spending years focusing on other things, article queries are another skill it takes time to reacquire. For a long time I couldn’t seem to think of any ideas that actually had a market attached, but I’m getting better at it (which is not to say the odds of success are ever terribly good, but I always hope).
•I got a little bit further in Brain From Outer Space, then my brain just slowed down. Instead, I began the rewrite of Southern Discomforts and dang, that went well. Not polished, but I found it very easy to expand scenes, flesh out little visual details and drop a little foreshadowing in. I’d like to think this is a good sign and the rest of the story will flow as well, but given all the racial issues I’m going to have to work with, I may find myself stumbling into a morass sooner or later. Still, I’m very pleased.
•My new Raleigh Public Record story on the city loan pool came out.
•One novel and a short story came back. They will go out again soon, natch.
•I made my time quotas. 42 hours productive work, 12 hours fiction.
Like I said, satisfactory.