‘Tis the season for holiday reading & writing, Christmas and otherwise. I’m still working on the Halloween free read I started this time LAST year. It probably won’t be finished in time this year either.
Are you writing anything holiday-oriented yet? (Any holiday. Halloween, Samhain, Thanksgiving, Rosh Hashana…)
I’m going to be working on the [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 30, 2008
Dare I mention Christmas?
September 29, 2008
So, how demented am I?
So, as soon as this blog is written and I get to work I’ll be writing the scene where I use hynotherapy to regress my hero to eight years old where I’ll make him relive his parents really violent murder and the fire their bodies got incinerated in. Cause I’m nice like that.
It suddenly occured [...]
September 26, 2008
4 Question Friday
Answer as many questions as you want.
1. What are your main characters’ greatest fears?
2. What is your greatest writing fear?
3. Do your main characters have any phobias? What are they?
4. If your main characters were on Fear Factor, which challenge would they pick to participate?
a) Lie down in tank and be covered with 400 rats
b) [...]
September 25, 2008
HEART SONGS
I write romance but it doesn’t mean I am a hearts and flowers, giggly pink type of girl. I’m not. I have never in my life used a glitter pen, worn a shirt with cute kittens on it or dotted my i-s with hearts. Nope, not a gushy Saccharine Sweetheart. If you are, great, buy [...]
September 24, 2008
Satisfaction
Finishing a project is a reward in and of itself—one that I highly recommend. Ignoring the fact that you can’t submit what you haven’t written, there’s an emotional high to writing the words The End, followed closely by a glow of pride.
I finished. I completed a task. Me. All by myself. I had an idea, [...]
September 23, 2008
It’s the second day of fall -
Forget writing, what are you doing to enjoy the season?
My husband seems to react differently than me. Different timing. I spring clean, he fall cleans. Tonight I officially transferred my things from the summer straw tote to the fuschia patent leather handbag. Yesterday I wore my pink plaid bermuda shorts for the last time this [...]
September 22, 2008
A big hello
Today’s post won’t be long because I’m writing it from the lobby of a super 8 motel in Carlsbad, New Mexico. You know, the home of the big caverns. My husband and I have plotted out a horror novel involving the caverns, Texas and…well, I won’t give it away. But maybe we’ll be the next [...]
September 19, 2008
False Genre Advertising
I flipping through the channels looking for something to watch while I did some ironing. Found a movie with an interesting title, The Princess and the Warrior. I check the info on the movie. It’s listed as a romance and the blurb is intriguing. I’m sold. The subtitles and German accents clue me in [...]
September 18, 2008
DON’T BOX ME IN!
When you meet some one new, they ask what you do. Recently I had the opportunity to say for the first time I AM A WRITER. *momentary squeal factor!*
Then they ask. What do you write?
HELL IF I KNOW!!
Seriously, what do I write? I have a completed Historical, Romantic Comedy and Dark Drama Contemporary. I am [...]
September 17, 2008
I’m Off to See the Dentist…
…and I can’t say I’m looking forward to the experience. The words ROOT CANAL strike terror in my heart. Still, I’m sure I’ll learn something about courage, fortitude, and the wonder of modern drugs that will inform a future story.
Play nice, dear friends, and write an exquisite scene about how the valiant heroine discovers her [...]
