I have some tremendous news that really should come as a shock after reading the general tone of these blogs: I am going to be published! A magazine called The Catholic Forester picked up an essay of mine (it's about my mother's lasagna, and I posted it a few blogs back).  Obviously, it's not a major magazine, but after the mountains of rejection ( Read more... )

Today is probably my last writing day in our house in Orange.  We're moving in the next couple of weeks, and it's Kevin's last day today, so chances are, this is it.  I'm sitting here with my tea, staring out the window at the familiar street and can't help but feel saddened.  As messed up as this neighborhood was, it was a great place to write. I ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Kevin and I went with his parents to his aunt's house.  His cousin is moving away and so we had a bit of a family reunion to say goodbye.  We were greeted by an aunt holding her granddaughter ( Read more... )

Hey all,
Long time no write, yes.  I have been stuck in a quagmire of lack of plotland.  It's a fun little hellish void of having a character and a situation, but they just sit there as you add sentence upon setence without anything actually happening to them.  IN better news though, check out my latest book review.  It makes me feel like an actual ( Read more... )

Every day, I go on Powells' website and read their blog.  Powells is the biggest independent bookseller in America and is settled in Portland.  Entering the bookstore verges on a religious experience for those who worship sentences.  It takes up a city block, you need a map to get around, and don't even get me started on their rare book section (it ( Read more... )

Where My Girls At ( Read more... )

I cannot get over this whole writer's thing. I know that it's nothing to get in a tizzy about. I know that I've been steadily producing work for the past five months, and eventually my body would cry uncle, but I forgot how hard it sucks when you just aren't producing anything.  Ideas begin to form in my head for essays, but the actual writing of ( Read more... )

Once again I'm not substituting today (well, I am but not until 3:30).  Usually, this would be fantastic - another day to work and write and feel fulfilled; however, writing, as I said yesterday, has just been hard.  By now, I've usually been writing for the past 50 minutes.  Today, I had to force myself to stop browsing the internet and turn off ( Read more... )

I've been having a really hard time recently with writing.  Teachers haven't been calling in like they should, which leaves me with a lot of time on my hands.  This is great when I'm in the writing zone; I, however, am nowhere near any zone of writing.  I'm more in the "staring blankly at the screen waiting for something, anything to come to me ( Read more... )

My review came out today.  It's exciting that I finally can say that I have something published (even if it is not that big of a deal).  Right now, I need to focus on the positive and take any steps that I can get ( Read more... )