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Are You Ready For This Journey?
Some of you out there are just starting out on your journey to be a writer and some of you have been on this road for a long, long time. I am a relative newbie. I've been writing for only two and a half years now. Total. I journaled for fun before that from time to time (like once or twice a year) but that's it. The only writerly thing I've always ( Read more... ) -
Random Thoughts on Writing From the Roller Rink
Yesterday I took my two daughters to the rollerskating rink for the first time. They had never been on skates before and there was about a fifteen year gap for me since I had. We were all pretty shaky and spent the majority of our time hugging the walls and wobbling across the floor-that is when we weren't flat on our backs! My youngest became ( Read more... ) -
This Is Teen Event in Coral Gables, Florida
Next week I will be dragging my entire family down to Miami for the This Is Teen event with Libba Bray, Maggie Stiefvater, and Meg Cabot, yay! So excited that they will be within a five hour radius of my house. Which gives me a week to think of some good questions to ask them about all things booky.
I'm just hoping I can curb my usual compulsion to ( Read more... ) -
Changes in My Neighborhood
Okay, here's where I admit to being severely clueless when it comes to all things techie--and I mean SEVERELY. I am just now getting the hang of this livejournal thing and am trying to decide whether to switch to livejournal exclusively or keep it in tandem with my blogspot. Either way I plan to revamp this page ( Read more... ) -
Stuck in the sticky middle of the story. Aargh!
I am soooo stuck right now. I know what direction my story is going, but can't seem to get what's in my head on paper. And every minute that ticks by makes me crazier.
I went to Barnes and Noble last night to try and escape the three stooges-style fighting going on between my two little people. Okay, they weren't poking each other in the eyes, but ( Read more... ) -
Small Victories
I was on Janet Reid's website today and noticed that I actually made it into the fifteen finalists for a little contest she had on her site. For those of you who don't frequent her site (she's the agent responsible for Query Shark). Once in awhile she runs a contest where she throws out a few words you must use in a flash, flash fiction piece (100 ( Read more... ) -
Summer
Can I just say that I love summer. I love the heat, the lazy sitting by the pool days and the wide openess of my personal schedule. The kids have no homework, we aren't rushing to make it to school on time or rushing to make project deadlines.
I am a summer girl....except this summer.
I am knee-deep in my rough draft of my current novel-the one I ( Read more... ) -
And So It Begins
I have finally conquered my fear of all things techie and have joined the rest of the journaling world, yay! Except now here I am, completely official...and totally stymied about what to write. So maybe I'll begin by talking about what made me want to start writing in the first place ( Read more... )