I’m blogging from Kansas City today. I have some fabulous breakfast casserole in my tummy and a cup of Hazelnut Vanilla steaming to my left. It’s going to be a good day. The writer’s weekend concluded yesterday with sadness. Those in attendance were: @alta03 @GretchenJones @Kathy_Collins @DeniseMSwank @trishaleighKC… with a visit Friday night with @realmiket and a pop [...]

If you are of the writerly-folk… You should know that NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) has officially begun. Yes, beware of coffee drinking zombies across the nation staying up till all hours of the morning getting their word counts in. At Starbucks today I saw at least four writerly-folks tackling their first 2,000 or so words during their lunch hour. Seriously folks, you don’t need wifi to write… but that is another post

So yes, NaNoWriMo has begun! Let the trumpets sound… oops that sounded like a whoopty-doo instead. Yeah, yeah, yeah… I may get flogged for this post, but this is how I feel this year. Sue me.

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Well, my weekend away was awesome. I could have used a little more sleep (blame my stupid internal time clock, no one else) but it was an entirely fabulous weekend! We had great food, great company and some great writing times! Having sent a partial to an agent before I left, I knew I needed to [...]

There’s a song rolling around and around my head today… that brings the writing, editing, query, rejection process into perspective. Adopt it. Live it. Breath it. It’s on! The band is SuperChick and the song is from the album Beauty from Pain… IT’S ON And now for the Lyrics… It all comes down to this [...]

It’s my birthday week… yes, I am turning older… a whole year older. How does that happen? In any event, if I don’t make goals for the week, things aren’t going to go as well as they could. Turning older takes thought and consideration. If I don’t have it written down, I just might think [...]

Tuesday we find out if I made it to the next round of ABNA… I am not sure if I’m more happy or shocked really. I can’t believe it’s already been a month but I am glad I don’t have to wait much longer. In other news, I think I have decided to record myself [...]

I finished my first edit of RUNAWAY CHOICES last night and in the process I figured out a small little nugget I added in to the story to make it much better. I hope… Haha. Like all first, second and maybe even fifth drafts, it’s surely not ready for submission, publication or the general public. [...]

Writer’s are funny creatures… by nature. We have to be to get through all these processes that bring us to the final goal… Publication. The writing, the editing, the querying, more editing, the procuring of an agent, still more editing… really, there is humor in it all. Though, maybe I am confusing humor with insanity. [...]

Whoop! Whoop! *arseno hall hoo hoo hoo hoo* One of my three entries… or all three I submitted… will be in the next 6 Sentences compilation out in April 2010. I won’t know which one(s) are in Volume III until it comes out. But regardless, I am tickled pink, purple, orange, red… let’s just call [...]