Category: My Writing Life

Did a little too much yesterday.  Our bodies need recovery time for a reason it seems.  I ended up crashing early only to be roused by people trying to blow up the neighborhood.  Yeah, the annual culdesac firework war was a go.  I skipped this year, watched Mary Reilly, and listened to the sounds of battle from…

Been a bit distracted lately, so I do apologize for the sort of bland posting of late.  Had more medical stuff to deal with, but all is well now. I’m home from the second and hopefully, last, surgery.  Seems there might have been a slight miscalculation made during the first surgery, so I had to have another…

Spent most of my weekend in contemplation, but also spent some time chilling with the hubby.   We sat in the back yard with ice-cold glasses of tea sweating in our hands.  Last night, we switched out the tea for this new light beer with lime.  Added wedges of fresh lime and yum.  The fan above us circled lazily and…

For the record…  All chain emails STOP with me.  I hate them.  If it says forward or else, I happily delete the mothers.  This is the worst sort of spam.  A “message” with an implied threat–yeah, pretty damned inspiring.  I won’t perpetuate email that’s supposed to inspire guilt.  We have enough things in life that foster that, don’t…

So, things at the pay job are slow again.  I work as a subcontractor, so I only work when they have it.  This is both good and bad.  It works for me because it frees up writing days.  Bad thing is, I’m a creature of habit and I work better on a decent writing schedule. …

I actually had this post in my draft section.  It goes with the recent T-shirt discussion. 😉 There are very few shows that I actually get excited about watching.  I literally turned from an out every Friday nighter to a home for my Farscape Friday nighter.   This had adventure, exciting plots, insane love chemistry and intelligent,…

So, the true excitement of a story going well has taken over my life.  I’m staying up to write, getting up earlier to write.  It’s invading my dreams. Uh, if I get up earlier for anything–it’s a big, big deal.  I even took my handheld tape recorder onto the treadmill.  I’m passing mile two, breathing…

As a reader, I began to pick up books to escape into worlds other than mine.  I would climb into a story and be a part of it for page after page.  I’m curious about something.  With the Internet today, a reader can find a book, fall in love, then find the author online.  They…

I’m super busy right now and will be updating with more detail later in the week, but in the meantime, this cracked me up!  I swiped it from Tale Chasing, a great blog about writers and readers of urban fantasy.  Check it out. 🙂

No sleep for Rinda again.  Stupid storms.  There was a tornado (or a scare–was too groggy to figure out which) just to the north–so once again, I stayed up most of the night.  That *$%* LOUD alarm goes off around the fifth time and I was so tired, I jumped up to stand on the…