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September 8, 2012
Is It My City????
As I sit here writing on a weekend while watching Sex and the City, something about this episode got me thinking. This is the episode when Miranda feels insulted by the lady at the Chinese Food Restaurant so she hangs up the phone and hikes right over to tell her off. Only she learns that [...]
August 25, 2012
Parched, Book 6 Updates Here!
Sooooo… I decided to start a running Parched, Book 6 update post for those inquiring minds And here it goes (Most recent first)! As of 8/25/2012: Okay, I can be done with the first half of tightening of the story by this weekend. AND, I’ve added an additional 5k words to the story after cutting [...]
August 18, 2012
The Tragedy of Love…
First, excuse me… I’ve had too much Skinny Girl Sangria. I didn’t think it would get me all loopy like this because it’s “Skinny Girl!” but yeah, so.. I’m once again, the intoxicated writer tonight. (Gosh, that Sangria tastes might fine to me) So…. I’m going to write this before I pass out, hopefully not [...]
August 12, 2012
Getting Past Head Jam to Write Better
What do I mean by that? So, if you’re like me, then you’re writing every single day. Well… after a certain period of time the mind just gets–clogged! That’s the best way to say it. You start questioning every sentence, every word choice and you feel like you’re caught in a tornado, swirling and tumbling, [...]
August 5, 2012
Parched, Book 6 Updates Here!
Sooooo… I decided to start a running Parched, Book 6 update post for those inquiring minds And here it goes! As of today, 8/5/2012: I’m at 32k words. I’ve gone back to page 1 to tighten the story before writing forward. And since page one I’ve shaved off 1k words because the DELETE KEY is [...]
August 1, 2012
Question EVERYTHING When You’re Writing A Story…
So yeah, it’s 1:50AM right now as I write this post. I’m still up. To day, I woke up with Light Speed on my mind. I think it was last week when I first hit the wall. The wall is the point of the story where you ask, “What in the heck am I doing!” [...]
July 31, 2012
Project “Parched Print” Is Underway!
It will be an arduous undertaking but one book at a time I’m getting the Parched series ready for print! What does that mean? A massive re-editing project. So far, Ignite and The Seventh Sister has been re-edited by my FANTASTIC new editor, who has YEARS of experience, and knows her stuff. She cares about [...]
July 23, 2012
Word Count Down….
Last year about this time I was writing up to 3000 words a day. I was finishing a book every two months! This year, these days, I’m lucky to write 500 words a day and on a good day it’s close to 1000 words a day. Okay, someone like me, who’s always self diagnosing herself [...]
July 22, 2012
My Books…
Misty Black (The Beginning) – pub. Marched 29, 2011 This is Misty Black’s first real world mission and it’s not going as easy as she thought. She’s falling in love with the boy she’s been tasked to save while figuring out how to push the long held love she has for her best friend and [...]
July 18, 2012
An “Imagination Break”…
It’s time for me to take one of those… What’s that you say??? It’s a break to give space to my mind and allow it to craft a number of different scenarios that will move the story forward. So basically it’s not a break from the story but a break from writing it out. It’s [...]
