Friday Five, I’m Still Alive
1. I wish I could blame my bloggy-slackiness on a crashing laptop. But that happened just yesterday, & I’ve gone a month of Fridays with no posts. So I’ll blame something else. Summer! The heat!...
View ArticleThe Spider (CONTAINS PHOTOS, NOT FOR FAINT OF HEART)
First I saw this. And freaked out. Then I guessed it was an exoskeleton, & freaked out more. Then I decided to vacuum the whole house (@Izandra thought the best solution was to move and burn the...
View ArticleThe Arms of the Ocean
A beautiful thing happened this week. I finished typing in my handwritten revisions for Draft 3 of my surfing novel!!!!!! Really, this is a small thing, and probably doesn’t deserve six exclamation...
View ArticleColonel Shifty’s Haiku Made Easy – Query Critique or Poem Giveaway
Okay, so I actually used to do this when I worked in a restaurant. On my close-out envelope, I’d write a few 5- and 7-syllable options and ask a coworker to choose and voila, a ready-made haiku....
View ArticleFriday Five
1. I made my first green smoothie yesterday, thanks to advice from my BFF K-Joy! It was a beginner’s green smoothie, with spinach, banana, and lots of blueberries. Actually quite tasty. Maverick loved...
View ArticleBattle of the Protagonists
Let’s just assume it is normal for a writer to have her characters talking inside her head. I’m not saying this happens to me…okay, fine, it does. But it’s usually limited to conversations between the...
View ArticleFriday Five: Beta Bliss
1. I’m beta-reading a book that I like so much, I’m cranky I have to take time out to write this blog post at all. Seriously, the beta reads I’ve done in the past year? Really enjoyable. Friends, keep...
View ArticleAnd let the madness begin…
National Novel Writing Month has begun. I wrote straight through Maverick’s nap and am 63% of the way to my goal. For the day, people! Not for the month! Blog posts will be short on Fridays (or not at...
View ArticleAnd the beat goes on…
I’m having a blast with NaNoWriMo. The one big tragedy that I confessed to a writing friend the other day is that sometimes I write a scene that cracks me up, and I’m laughing out loud while I type it....
View Articleif you want to destroy my sweater
While on the way home from school, Weezer’s “Sweater Song” came on the radio, and Z was intrigued. “Can you really destroy a sweater like that?” Not being a knitter, I don’t know the answer, but I said...
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