It's the end of February.  Not much has been accomplished this month.

I start my Romance book club discussions next month.

I have shoveled a lot of snow.  Today as I look out my window, we have 14.5 inches (supposedly) on the ground and it is heavy and wet.  I haven't done a lot of shoveling, but what I did was tough.  I have already been outside three times for a total of about 2 1/2 hours and still can't get from the house to the garage.  I do have the front shoveled out.

Still no job.  Been to one on-site interview this month.  Have plenty of applications out there.  Was hoping something would work out. But alas.

As for the novel, got started on forms and looking at it, but really haven't done much else.  Always seems like something else needs to get done first.  I have a bare bones book, but not much else.  Seems like I am very good at starting a project, but not so hot at finishing.

Started several more afghans and crocheted items this month.  Maybe that's the direction I should head. Still thinking.....

February

Well, I haven't done much writing.  A lot of thinking about writing and learning what not to do while writing.  I haven't even spent time rewriting.

Although I should.

Still looking for meaning ful work, however, I am starting a new volunteer position as a book club facilitator at the local library.  I am still Storyspotting for Storybird.  And I did some work for the Naval Ship Association.

So I volunteer.  I also have been taking classes through Coursera.  One on writing, one on gamification, evolution and nutrition.  I was also involved in the once Coursera class that crashed a system.  It just wasn't working.

I am reading a lot about writing mysteries and romance novels trying to figure out why my plots don't really go anywhere, (as I find out that is one way truly to be rejected).  I need to find out or rather, maybe outline where my stories are supposed to go.  My biggest problem is ending the story.  i can write dialogue and a sentence that makes sense.

My characters are flat and wooden so I need to work on that, and I need to put in more description of the setting and other parts of the story.  (Maybe it's because I have written plays and they didn't need much more that dialogue.)

Any way, my biggest thing now is trying to figure out my way in life.  Maybe this is the part of my life where I spend my time writing the trashy romance novels that I described back in 2001 or so when I had to make some comment about where i wanted to go with my life.