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Saw A Beautiful Mind with Parki, Jeff, and my dad-in-law at the Paramount last night. Quite liked it, and feel compelled to read the book...I had no idea it was based on a true story. It was my first time outside in a few days. :-) I sat near the end of the row because I still have a cough.

Having fun with my Market Watch column on WritersMarket.com. If anything, I have to forcibly stop myself from working on it after an hour or so each day. I've started to get e-mails from people I met through Inkspot congratulating me on the column and saying, "Hey, you're back online! What are you doing these days?"

I'm letting everyone know that I'm always looking for freelance writing work, of course. :-)

I'm finding there's a lot of decision-making involved in looking for new assignments, juggling my time between looking for top-paying markets, lower-paying but good for accumulating clips and contacts, and doing the market research itself. So far I've been good about always devoting some solid time to my children's novel every day, as well.

I've also been intrigued by auction sites like eLance, but am hesitant if the pay-off will be worth the registration fee. eLance is sort of the opposite of eBay, where clients post information about what type of job they need done (in the writing section, this could be a resume, text for a Web site, a book, whatever), and then freelance writers bid to get the job. Instead of bids gradually increasing, they gradually decrease.

Going to Metro Reference Library to do some market research and work on my novel, so will be offline most of today.

Today's Blatherpics:

- My dad took this picture with his new digital camera.

Today's Poll:

Do you usually remember your dreams?