Lists, Last for a While

I am going to be taking the next two weeks off from blogging. We're starting (home)school on Monday, and I know that these first two weeks are going to require a tremendous amount of mental effort from me to get into a routine and stick with a schedule. I can't divide up my attention particularly well (I am the exception to the rule that "women are good at multi-tasking," because I Am Not), and rather than churn out mediocre blogging AND mediocre teaching, I'm going to stick with teaching until I at least get my feet under me.

I will probably have to make some general changes to the way I blog this fall, too. I'm not sure yet what they will look like - will I only post two times a week, or only once, or will I stop doing these Friday links, or what? We'll see how it goes after the first two weeks; I should have a better idea then of how much time I can give to blogging.

Because not only am I a full-blown kindergarten and preschool teacher this fall (true, a class of one for each, but still), I am also going to be putting every spare moment I have into preparing my short stories and novella for publication. My original goal was to have them ready to publish my early to mid September. That was a little ambitious, I think, but I would still like to have them out as soon as I can reasonably do so AND have them be the best possible writing I can do.

So! We'll see what happens here. In the meantime, your weekend links:

This is a marvelous collection of posts of Lloyd Alexander's non-Prydain books. I've not had a chance to read all his reviews, but everything that I have read thus far has been extremely well done. A must-read for any Alexander fan!

How many of these female mystery writers have you read? I've read the majority of them!

I grew up reading more British literature than American, so a lot of British spellings have lodged themselves into my consciousness (I NEVER spell licence with an "s," for example), but I still found this list of differences useful, considering I'm a Yank who writes a great deal of fiction set in Great Britain.

Love Heather's take on the impossibility of "doing it all" as writers and mothers. So true.

And as a mother, I am tremendously excited about all these picture books coming out this fall!

I was twelve when this year's college freshmen were born. Holy cow!

Adoption is one of those topics near and dear to my heart, though I do not have the inestimable privilege of being an adoptive parent myself. This honest take on the first year after bringing an adopted child home is wonderful.

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone - see you in a couple weeks!