About an hour ago, I posted this status message on my facebook wall: "Stacey Miner can't decide what to do with herself ... again." This is becoming increasingly more common these days. Nothing seems appealing. I think it's my turn to experience role-playing burnout. Part of me wants to blame it on the Tour, all the dueling I've done lately, ( Read more... )

Three months feels like forever. Almost four months now. Looking at my calendar over here, all I can say is that this past year has really sucked for me for writing. I haven't had much to show for my dream career at all. Living in a house with another married couple, I feel, really hampered my creative writing. All my projects have suffered. ( Read more... )

Now that I have all seven of these books in my collection again, all in paperback, I've reread them. All seven of them. This series, I think, is still the best series that Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman ever collaborated on. Dragonlance doesn't hold a candle to Death Gate. I don't really know how to bring anyone's attention to it, convince ( Read more... )

Yeup. It's that time again. NaNoWriMo is underway, and guess what. This year I have absolutely no motivation nor inspiration whatsoever to take part. That and the site is being a bitch again. Sure, I try to login and set everything up in an attempt to be a part of the crazy writing-my-fingers-to-bloody-death action, but no can do! No can do ( Read more... )

Has it really been three months since I've posted anything over here? Damn. All this moving into a new house and starting a slightly different lifestyle business has certainly scared off my muse. I honestly haven't written anything worth reporting about in that long. This is a distressing revelation, especially after reading likeinasong's most recent ( Read more... )

On my birthday, we went shopping! For Christmas we got a lot of gift cards. Most of them were for Borders. I did the math wrong, but we still had a lot of gift card money to spend. $110 shopping spree at the book store! Wooohooo ( Read more... )

So I don't think I mentioned this, but Jamie and I went to Borders the other day. He apparently got a big bonus on his paycheck from commissions and decided we could splurge a little. It was also Sweetest Day, I guess (woo for Hallmark holidays). Not the sort of commercialized BS we usually celebrate, but we had the extra money so why not ( Read more... )

More often than not I dread family get-togethers. It never fails. My sister-in-law, and most of the in-law family, knows I have a love for writing. My sister-in-law's the one who's been paying for my subscriptions to The Writer for the past few years. On the one hand, they're very supportive and curious about my writing. But every time we get ( Read more... )

My desire to write is being counter-balanced by a complete and total lack of enthusiasm. It doesn't help that The Writer is running a short story contest. It also doesn't help that the deadline is a postmark at the end of the month. I don't know if any of you will be able to see this, but I'm posting the link anyway: The Writer Short Story Contest. ( Read more... )

Got my July issue of The Writer today. There's a nice assortment of big fat articles in this issue that are proving to be useful. Of course, there isn't much in this magazine that isn't useful. I still stand by it being the best writer magazine on the market. Probably because of the nostalgia factor.

HOW TO LAUNCH YOUR NOVEL: Step-by-Step Guide to ( Read more... )