Well, my first attempt at National Novel Writing Month is over and I didn’t make the goal of 50,000 words, but I am still very proud of my accomplishment of 25,009 words.  (Hey – those nine words count.)  30 days, 25K words and 81 pages and this is what I learned: 1.  I am physically… Read More National Novel Writing Month 2009

1.  I have found my dream job. The other night I had a friend over and we celebrated our collective birthdays by watching movies of the 80s.  On the agenda was Dirty Dancing, Say Anything, Footloose, St. Elmo’ Fire, Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club. Throughout the evening I peppered my friend with behind-the-scene facts from the… Read More Dream job, Twitter and Michael Chabon

In addition to the book I’m supposed to be writing for National Novel Writing Month, I”m also in the middle of reading three separate books.  Why three separate books?  Well, pretty much because none of them are individually keeping my attention.  I am enjoying one a little more than the other two, but honestly I’ll be… Read More Books

Day2 of NaNoWriMo (seriously… that’s the acronym for National Novel Writing Month) and I’ve written a total of 3445 words.  Of those, approximately 9 are good words.  That’s okay.  The goal of this exercise is just to get thoughts on paper without editing.  Tomorrow night I’m going to my first write-in which should be fun. … Read More Deep Thoughts

While I was on vacation last month, I decided that I have far too many writing projects in my head and that’s the reason I can’t focus on any particular one.  I’m neglecting my blog, I’m still on hold with my agent and therefore can’t work on editing my first novel and the characters in the… Read More National Novel Writing Month

Today is my 40th birthday!  In honor of that event and to celebrate the fact that I’m taking this milestone age fairly well (in that I’m not hiding under my bed or rocking in the corner…), I thought it would be fun to see what other people, things and events occurred in 1969: According to… Read More Happy Birthday!

I had to travel a lot this week which means I’ve had no time whatsoever to blog or even think of blogging.  Rather than go another week without an update, I thought I’d just unload a few random thoughts:  I joined a gym about three weeks ago which I absolutely love.  Now, for those of you who… Read More More Random Thoughts

On the good news/bad news front:  The good news is that I am all motivated to share my Emmy thoughts tonight.  The bad news is that I’ve got a dreadful cold and very little energy.  So… I’m going to take a stab at my Emmy thoughts, but we may have to make this a two… Read More Emmy Fever Part I

So, it’s been a while since my last blog entry.  That’s the bad news.  The good news is that while I’ve been absent from the virtual world, the real world has been incredibly busy and I have LOADS of things to talk about now! In my little life alone, I have stories ready to share about… Read More Excuses, excuses…

In case I haven’t mentioned it already, I was lucky enough to be signed by a literary agent a few months ago.  He’s based in New York and I met him through the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.  I’m wildly excited to be one step closer to getting published (realizing that the remaining steps are still really,… Read More Dating and Literary Agents