Category: My Writing Life

“There are three rules for writing a novel.  Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”  W. Somerset Maugham    I keep getting readers to the blog who look up the strangest things, but check this out!! http://www.lexic.us/definition-of/strangle A joke pic of teenage me with my annoying little brother and it made a definition page about…

   I got one of the best gifts last year for Christmas.  A writer friend gave me a green velvet journal and she took the time to pen a writer’s quote at the top of every single page.   She’s a good friend and both of us work too hard, so we don’t get to see each other as…

Without Electricity, that is…   You spend an extraordinary amount of time just making life work.  Seriously.  Laundry, dishes, food, warmth, cleaning… all these things are easier with electricity.  We had four days without power and nearly all those hours were spent figuring out how to keep life going.  One day, I managed to spend…

I was upset about the trees.  STill am, but this is a quick post just to update.  I’m using precious generator power and a dial-up to give explanation to my lack of responses on emails.  We’ve been without power two days.  Since we’re on a well, that means no water, either.  We had filled up bathtubs…

This ice storm is rough!  We’re all staying inside, but watching my beautiful trees suffer and crack is really harsh.  We have these huge, gorgeous Bradford pears that line our winding driveway and they look like they’re cracking in half.  Limbs have been cracking off all over.  It took us two years to find this house…

Look what my cp,  Rachel Vincent , sent me to cheer me up.  It worked.  This is the best thing.  Ever! http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1240209971  Okay, I’ll spill about one of my bad pieces of news yesterday–the writing related one.  One of the agents–one I was quite excited about–was looking for something a little different.  She was very helpful…

   Ever had a stream of really strange bad luck?  I’m not a person who believes in luck, fate or anything not entirely logical. Oh, I used to.  Just had a couple of rough years that kind of ripped away my fantastical side. My characters do still believe and they revel in their mythological worlds of monsters and…

  While we’re all waiting to hear if I’ve managed to snag an agent’s interest, thought I’d share an odd tidbit from my past.  We could use a breath of fresh air around here. (Or in this case, a breath of canned air.) I do not do Spam. I have good reason. You see, we moved around…

  Is anyone else on WordPress having “blog stat” issues?  I’m not showing any familiar links, just this huge gathering of visits off image pages.  Weird.  Writing update:  Still working the long photo project, so writing is going slowly.  Catching up on critique work at night.  My mind is buzzing with ideas for BOAA, though,…

My manuscript feels like a stranger’s right now.  This huge random gathering of words that keeps calling me to take just one more look.  That maybe this time, I can read it without wanting to change something.  Read it as if it had been written by someone else–read it like a book.  Ever tried putting your…