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

Topic #1:  Pretty v. Beautiful I went to a book reading last week and the person introducing the author (Peter Behrens – rush out and buy his novel “Law of Dreams”!) commented that Peter writes beautiful sentences.  The man then went on say (I’m paraphrasing) that there is a big difference between beautiful and pretty. … Read More Random Topics

In the interest of full disclosure, this post was originally titled, “Top 10 Things…”, but I could only think of five.  Sad. 1.  Weather – When it rains for a few days, people ignore it.  When it rains for a week or more, people grumble.  When it rains for weeks and weeks on end, people grow… Read More Top 5 Things to Blog about when You’ve got nothing to Blog About

I was trolling around the TV dial for something to watch last weekend when I tuned into a show called “Merlin.” It’s apparently a retelling of the Arthurian legend that was filmed for the BBC and is being rerun on NBC for the summer. I thoroughly enjoyed it, which can mean only one thing: It… Read More To All the Shows I’ve Loved Before