So, in my effort to remain faithful to my vow of no writing for a month, I’m working my way through many seasons of many shows that I own on DVD. I may even resort to ordering some through Netflix.

A few selections from my current list…

• Sex and the City: This is an old favorite. It actually helped inspire the attitude for my very first heroine. Of course, I rewrote her when I realized I couldn’t pull off a fashionista–being a non-fashionable girl myself. Still, there was some really great stuff in those seasons.
• Firefly: Oh, how I love this show. Space Western. Dude. Original, beautiful, the best ensemble cast ever put together on any show I’ve ever watched. This was the show that cemented my love of Nathan Fillion.
• Alias: Smart, kick ass chick who saves the world. Need I say more?
• Supernatural: Pretty men. The apocalypse. Pretty men. Paranormal beasties. Pretty men.
• Taken: The show that made me love Dakota Fanning when she was a wee teensy kidlet. Also, and old fave an old flame hooked me into. Nostalgia gets ya every time.
• Bourne Trilogy: Okay, technically not a show on DVD, but there are three of them, so it’s kinda long. Plus, Matt Damon.
• Castle: A show I started watching because of my aforementioned love of Nathan Fillion. Totally different show than Firefly, but I still love it. And him. He’s funny and talented. Loves.

I survived the first day of instruction, and it went really well. That’s always a nice kick off to the semester, so I was pretty happy about it. Right now, I have way too much to do at work, so the break from writing is a total blesing because I don’t have to feel guilty about not making word count every day.

Maybe I should go on writer’s strike every February and September, since those are the worst teaching months for me. Hm. Much consider for future guilt-saving.

So, I’m taking the whole month of February off of writing. I need a little vacation. I’ve ordered my friends to administer severe spankings if they catch me writing this month (though how they’d know if I was lying, I’m not sure, but that’s beside the point).

However, I’m plotting out some new stories, so the writing process hasn’t come to a grinding halt. Here’s my current to-do list.

Plan out:

• 2 new contemporary short stories
• 2 new paranormal/futuristic short stories
• 2 new single author anthologies
• 1 new paranormal novel
• 1 new paranormal proposal

Librarianista stuff:

• Prep lectures and teach 15-20 classes (Feb and Sept are the busiest library months for teaching. Very bad idea to have any fiction writing due then.)
• Work on outliney thing they require for the first year of your tenure process.
• Start research for 2 scholarly articles on library stuff (that would bore anyone who wasn’t a librarian to utter tears).

I got my acceptance for my new novella, Wasteland: The Wanderer, from my awesome editor at Samhain Publishing. Yay! It’s officially official!

P.S. I can’t believe it’s February already. Where’s the last month gone??