Archive for December, 2006
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After Shelli’s post the other day about putting people we don’t like in our books, I got to thinking about putting people I do like in my books. Especially me. Memememe. It’s all about me, ya know?
Anyway, it does make for a good topic lol. I get asked all the time if [...]
A Question of Balance, or, Why Behave?
Every once in a while, because this is the internet and the people who participate in it can sometimes seem to be nothing more than faceless masses*, drama breaks out.
It usually happens because someone makes a controversial statement. This person may or may not have -intended- the statement to stir up controversy, but that’s hardly [...]
I’ll make you famous
So as a writer we get that one extra pleasure. That one allowance we love, because it’s often therapeutic and–well–fun. It’s the permission we get to put our ex, worst enemy, bitchy in-laws, or just people we don’t like in our books. Give them the shitty characters. Ex: Villains, Losers, People we laugh-at-not-with in the [...]
Do Over
Every now and then, we have to pick up an old manuscript and declare a do over. Either the manuscript wasn’t marketable as it was or needed work or we didn’t know how to fix it. Or just the general feeling that…something…was wrong with it.
I’ve landed directly in the middle of this conundrum right now. [...]
Music and the muse…
Have you ever turned the volume up on a song and sang along at the top of your lungs? Come on, you know you have. And how did it make you feel?
Okay, and have you ever created a playlist for a certain work in progress and set it on repeat?
My muse is stimulated by [...]
"Impossible"
According to Merriam-Webster’s the definition of impossible is: incapable of being done, extremely undesirable, or extremely awkward or difficult to deal with. As writers, we can never succumb to this word. We can never say, “It’s impossible to write that much.” “It’s impossible to publish one of my stories.” “It’s impossible someone else will ever [...]
December and June - Why are they so hard?
In my house, there are two months I dread. June: wedding anniversaries and birthdays, at least two a week. I hated standing in 90-degree heat in a tafetta dress for my sister’s wedding, and I hate being reminded of it every year, too. And since I hit thirty this year, my own birthday leads a [...]
Pearl Harbor Day or How My Kids Reminded Me What’s Really Important
I had my post all written up Monday, but then I realized I was posting on Dec 7. Pearl Harbor Day. The snarky my-kids-are-neurotic post somehow seems either less important or more important than ever. I’m not quite sure yet.
See here’s the deal. Army Guy, though not overseas, is not home right now. And [...]
Who’s afraid of the big bad promo?
I’m touching on something I brought up at my blog yesterday. I apologize for those who are bored by the rehashing of topics, but I think there’s merit in this one.
I realized over the weekend that I have become afraid of doing my own publicity. We all know the authors who “overpromote”. They’re on mailing [...]
You dirty girl
I think we established a few weeks back that I spent a lot of time on yahoo messenger. But I was typing the other day, and I realized it wasn’t just chatting about men, the weather, and kids.
No… it was like a real time critique group. Seriously, I’ll be yacking away with someone. Sending links [...]
