Seriously, guys. I go away for the weekend to the Land That WiFi Forgot, and I come back to an impossible number of tempting blog posts in my WordPress reader. Even being selective has left me with over a dozen open tabs waiting to be read.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME?
Knock it off with the insight and the encouragement and the sharing of links that I then have to click on and read because they are ALSO useful or delightful. Stop making me happy to see your names on those posts and your smiling faces beside your re-blogs.
Stop being such an amazing community of writers, because it’s super distracting. I don’t have time for this many superstars in my life.
*sigh*
Ugh, fine, don’t look at me like that. You just keep doing what you do, I’ll deal with it somehow. Just don’t expect big word count numbers from me until I get caught up. 🙂
(I wish I could say I used the weekend for that, but I find it hard to get writing done at the in-laws’ house. I did get more editing done on Bound, though, and I’m thinking I need a couple more beta readers for mid-to-late summer. I’ll put up a post requesting those when the time comes, but if anyone wants to volunteer to subject yourself to that, I’m just looking for people who are willing to point out story/character issues, slow spots, unanswered questions that absolutely can’t wait for the sequel, WTF moments… the big stuff, no need for nitty-gritty grammar issues just yet. Raise your hand, shoot me a message at kate.sparkes (at) live (dot) ca, send up a smoke signal somewhere visible from my house, whatever. And bring the awesome!)
disregard the prologue 
June 10th, 2013 at 2:20 pm
LOL! You’re too funny, Kate! Keep it up! 🙂
June 10th, 2013 at 2:23 pm
Hey Kate! I’ll make ya a trade, if you can … I’ll beta-read your MS if you’ll read and review my book and post a review on Amazon when the book goes live?
June 10th, 2013 at 2:57 pm
Of course! I’d love to read your book anyway, but a trade would work out very nicely for me. 🙂
June 10th, 2013 at 4:10 pm
Awesome. Sounds like a deal!
June 10th, 2013 at 2:27 pm
Phew! I’m so glad it’s not just me that struggles with the number of posts in the reader – I am due a WiFi free weekend next weekend and I am dreading it!!
June 10th, 2013 at 3:00 pm
It’s so funny. I know that I could ignore it all, that more amazing posts will show themselves today and tomorrow, and that the world won’t end if I just skip what I missed… but I have to look.
June 10th, 2013 at 4:28 pm
I know!!! You feel guilty in case you’ve missed something really important or a post from someone that you really enjoy following. I know a few people that have switched to just following by email and then that way you can just read the posts that you want to rather than paging through the Reader. I haven’t done that yet but I may do. It may make it easier to manage??
June 10th, 2013 at 3:48 pm
I wondered what had happened! Glad you got away. I sent you an email.
June 10th, 2013 at 3:49 pm
I now know your first name. I feel like this gives me some kind of power over you… 😉
June 10th, 2013 at 4:17 pm
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June 10th, 2013 at 4:39 pm
Ha! I went away the weekend before last and I still don’t feel like I’ve caught up!
June 10th, 2013 at 7:54 pm
Such a great problem, isn’t it? 😉 I’m trying to catch up on my blog reading now, too.
June 11th, 2013 at 1:29 am
Lol, I have this problem ALL THE TIME!