Yup. Layers. Changing your way of thinking and looking at the world isn’t easy and it doesn’t shift overnight. Repeatedly banging your head against the same walls can help. Wait, I mean repeatedly exposing yourself to the same ideas in different venues, formats and states of mind. I decided to subject you to some snippets…
We’ve had a heat wave here lately. It hit over 106oF this weekend. Now, take a good-sized Borders and cram an additional 500 people into it beyond the normal Saturday afternoon customers and you’ve got a recipe for a good session of people watching. I’ll be one of the first to admit I hate crowds….
I’m always left in awe by people who are adept at time management. You know those families who manage to do everything under the sun and still find time to relax and enjoy life? That’s so not us. We’re pretty laid back folks. Drama, over-planning and over-commitment are things we actively strive to avoid. In…
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. I’ve been either busy writing, or not writing. Duh, right? Ok. Lemme explain that a bit more clearly. I’ve been pounding out at least 2k words on the WIP on days I’ve planned to write. I’m doing the May RoDiWriMo (basically the Divas decided to do NaNo…
Jodi of “Will Work for Noodles” fame posted the other day about one of her papparazzi moments similar to the one I had when I read Leigh Michael’s book On Writing Romance and how the conflict/force thing has to work in order for this arc to occur. Jodi’s post completed the circuit for me. I’ll…
I’ve never been a very goal oriented person. I’m more the type to sit back and react to what happens around me. This isn’t working as far as writing goes. One of the joys of DH living in Peru and growing up with football (that’s soccer to us Americans) as a way of life means…
Yes, that would be me: the slacker, not the woman in the picture. I don’t know if slacking is the right term though. It’s been a crazy week. I’m consistently short on sleep and that only makes it all worse. The other night, I made the mistake of making DH read through the first 20…
In my journal entry on Friday, I wrote a big whine about how my progress with The Flower Queen’s Daughter was going. It isn’t really relevant except I was asked in chat what I wrote about in my journal. I replied that I usually use it for ranting, whining, and thinking out loud about what…
My word count for this folktale-based story is currently sitting at 2,914. It’s scary to realize that is 500 more words than my first draft of Revealed, which laid out an entire plot line. The past couple days felt like I was pulling teeth again for each word. I think I finally figured out why…
So, we didn’t escape far. We pretended to be tourists and drove down to El Cajon on Friday afternoon to do the Taylor Guitar factory tour with the kids. DH had been a couple years ago, but we thought it might be interesting for the kids since they’re becoming more musically aware and we’re like…