In a recent conversation with a friend, she noted that I'd had good luck with writing prompts turning into...let's call them "pieces with potential ( Read more... )

So for Christmas, I was fortunate enough to receive a generous amount in gift cards to book stores - YAY! But I am WAY behind on recent releases and what's new and great out there, so...what have you guys read recently that you'd say is "can't miss?" If given the choice, I lean toward YA fantasy, but I'm open to anything. Help a girl out, will

So a few weeks back, I wrote "the end" on my first draft of my second novel. Boy, did that feel awesome! But then something weird happened. I didn't want to be finished with that world, and the characters have kind of been lingering around. I felt sort of itchy, agitated, and at loose ends.

I must need to write, I thought. So I tried. And ( Read more... )

The other day I was at a Big Box Retailer and of course I found myself in the book section. I picked up random books based on the title and/or cover art, reading the blurbs on the back and sometimes the first page to get a taste. Suddenly, I found myself holding a book whose main character shares a very distinct name with a character from the ( Read more... )

It's been so long, I feel I should re-introduce myself. My name is Kim. I'm a 40-something stay-at-home (at least some of the time) mother of three. I write part-time for the local paper, and work part-time for the local Y. I'm also a fiction writer who just finished my second novel.

Can I say that again, because it felt really good. I JUST ( Read more... )

For those of you with more experience than me...which would be, let me see...1, 2, 3...all of you, I have a question: Have you ever worked on more than one novel at a time? If so, how did that work for you? If not, why not ( Read more... )

I'm not really "back" yet...this is my first time checking in for so long...I feel like I've missed so much of everyone's lives! But life has just swept me along in its wake, and I've been too busy doing what I have to do to stay afloat ( Read more... )

I was going to post today about a hiatus from LJ that I am thinking of taking. I was going to call it a hiatus, but in reality, I was thinking of...you know...just not coming back ( Read more... )

So I have this new...or new-ish, anyway...what is it called, the background thingy that makes your LJ pretty? But mine is annoying because for whatever reason, it blocks out all the subject lines from everyone's entries. And lots of times, they'r important to know! Annoying. Also annoying is the stupid advertising thing. "Your livejournal ( Read more... )

This past week has been pretty crappy. I don't mean that in an "Oh my life is terrible" kind of way, as nothing tragic or earth-shattering has happened. Just a general, low-level sort of malaise that I can't seem to shake. The killing heat combined with a schedule that has been unrelenting and a weird knot in my back that has me hunched over ( Read more... )