New month, new book
I started off December by starting a new book. It’s the next YA I had planned. The working title is Natalie’s Book, which is how I’ll refer to it here, but I do have a real title already in mind... Continue reading →
writing life
Not a short story writer
I’ve known it all along. I’m a novel writer. Not a short story writer. I can write essays and nonfiction articles just fine. I attempt to write short stories, but then the idea takes off in my brain and I... Continue reading →
Organization for the organizationally impaired
I have decided to start taping all important items directly to my body. This will prevent me from losing anything else. Last week, I lost my debit card IN MY HOUSE. (It’s already been deactivated, so sorry, there’s no point... Continue reading →
How much happily ever after?
If throughout the course of a book, a character is in love with another, does she have to end up with him at the end? Does she have to end up with someone? I’ve read plenty of books where the... Continue reading →
Rough patch
I’ve hit a rough spot in Band Geeks. I’m at the point where something big is about to happen and I’m eager to get to that spot beacuse then everything will be very interesting and the words will come into... Continue reading →
We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog for a special announcement
My laptop’s here! My laptop’s here! Well, not here–at home. Waiting just for me. I get to resume lunchtime writing tomorrow hopefully. Continue reading →
And the winner is…
I broke down. We ordered a laptop last night. It should be here in two weeks. Six months no interest and hopefully I can pay it off in that six months! Continue reading →
Three choices
We took the super cool looking Ultra Thin Keyboard back to Radio Shack last night and got our money back. Research online led me to LOTS of other people having a problem with the keys on that keyboard quitting on... Continue reading →
Bad Palm, part 2
I should have known it was too good to be true. The keyboard I bought for my Palm last month is acting up. My P, backspace, and enter keys have stopped working. Okay, so I could deal with the P... Continue reading →
This Just In
One thing I’ve learned from writing is that I write “just” a lot. I assume that I also say “just” a lot since I write dialogue from my own speech patterns and patterns of people I know. As in, “I... Continue reading →