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Still Typing
Added-3/21/10 My blog has moved to kdrausin.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/out-of-the-mouth-of-babes/
Thank you, Krista
In between dancing with the middle school students and driving my kids to all their activities, I’ve been hard at work revising Mystic. I had hoped to be done by February 20th but discovered I was too ambitious with my work load. Books ( Read more... ) -
Find The Fib.....Leave a comment and play along!
March has been my month for new experiences. There was spin class and Latin dance class at the gym to which I looked quite goofy but not as goofy as trying to keep up with the middle school girls as they danced to Tambourine. That’s my other new experience, life as a middle school dance teacher at my son’s school. I’ve found it exhilarating and ( Read more... ) -
It's Just a Car
I sat in the Honda dealership feeling numb. I repeated in my mind over and over, I should be happy; I’m getting a new car. I’m blessed, lots of people would be happy if they were getting a new car. What’s the matter with me? I feel nothing, perhaps a little sad. I couldn’t understand why letting go of my old car was so difficult. Shouldn’t I want ( Read more... ) -
Creating Believable Characters
Many years ago when I performed in plays and musicals I used to create monologues for my characters in order to help me understand them better. I suppose it was during my acting days at AMDA that a drama teacher taught me to give each character a secret that only I knew. For instance if I was playing a young girl meeting a boy for coffee my secret ( Read more... ) -
Life is Like a Messy Closet
We have a closet next to our front door. It has become a dumping ground for shoes, rip sticks, basketballs, seasonal decorations and rarely used coats and sweaters. I cringe every time I have to open it. There’s no light and usually a pile has built up on the floor and I never know what might fall out and injure my bare feet.
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Randomness and a Bit of a Rant
The most wonderful thing happened to me at two in the morning. I woke up suddenly with a clear answer to a problem I was having in my editing process of Mystic. I had described a character in a blasé way and I was reworking the scene. I went to bed thinking about what I had written and wondered if it was believable or if it should be changed again ( Read more... ) -
Best Grilled Cheese Ever!
Stubborn adj. 1. Unreasonable inflexible: obstinate and willful ( Read more... ) -
Read and Comment and I'll Donate:)
Nathan Bransford is a literary agent with a great blog. I've been following it for almost a year and I've learned a lot about the publishing market. This morning I discovered that he was raising money for Heifer International. I was out buying Nahla and Ollie a dog bed last night and missed the deadline for commenting on his blog and helping the ( Read more... ) -
Holiday Bliss
Eric will be the first to say I get "weird" around the holidays. Maybe it's all the mushy commercials on T.V. that promote buying material objects and suggesting that it's the equivalent of love. Maybe it's the fact that Elle's accident was over the holidays and it brings back unpleasant memories. Or it could just be my own stubbornness. I'm going ( Read more... )