Pounds lost: 5 ( Read more... )

here's where i admit that i'm planning to write a novel. i'm not starting right now, because i'm doing research and making a plan first on this attempt, which will be the first successful attempt, as opposed to the two practice attempts i made before i was ready to do this. got it? okay, then ( Read more... )

i'll read any book barbara sher writes; she has my lifetime guarantee on that. she's good at motivating me, and i get something new out of each book. this one had some spot-on, useful observations based on evolutionary psychology and the reasons people behave the way they do at various stages in life. those were mixed in with some stuff that i ( Read more... )

science fiction with biologically feasible aliens makes me happy, and Survival is the best example of it that i've seen in a long time. how so? i can't say, because that's a spoiler, but it's good, i tell you, good! it's also the first book in a series. i'm glad that i made the rule that i could buy a new book after reading three, because that ( Read more... )

the first book i read this year turned out to be a winner! i was uncertain about it at first, because the early chapters seemed too elementary, but later chapters gave me ideas about what to work on. i'm not going to give a full review here, but i'll say that if you want to make your writing sound more like "you," - and of course you're ( Read more... )