If you missed it, trust me: You didn't miss much.

8:30 Glad to see Ellen back after the last few host duds! I LOVE YOU, ELLEN! You look gorgeous.

8:34 OK, so far really baaad teeth and plastic surgery in that audience… Not naming names ( Read more... )

Nobody likes psych wards unless you work in one. Getting pink-slipped to one (aka a 72-hour hold) is another matter. Let's discuss ways to avoid this, shall we ( Read more... )

Which should tell you something.

My house eats things. It's the ONLY explanation. I mean, how can my earbuds have disappeared when I never take them out of the room? I'd have Eli's stomach X-rayed if I suspected him, but he by far prefers money and paper napkins ( Read more... )

~THE LIST~

Akoss needs to make progress on a middle-grade re-write and plans to write anywhere between 250-500 words a day.

another_wip will write a minimum of a page a day.

barbarabaker plans to complete revisions on two middle-grade novels (one is almost there, the other one not so much), and to start a new manuscript.

edgyauthor plans to complete at least 12 more comic ( Read more... )

After another_wip posted her thoughts about fantasy tropes, it compelled me to check out tropes in YA lit and see how many offenses how I committed.

Check out Joelle Anthony's post from 2007 (though a few of you may have already seen it): RED HAIR IS NOT AS COMMON AS YOU THINK in which she list 25 common, often overused plot devices found in YA fiction ( Read more... )

1. Eating oysters

2. Another puppy

3. Visiting the Middle East

4. Working at Wal-Mart

5. Writing erotica

6. Divorce

7. An electric car

8. Fitting into a size 6

9. A perm

10. Watching "Honey Boo Boo"

12. Reading "Fifty Shades of Gray"

13. Making baklava

14. Another colonoscopy

15. Tubing down a river in some third world country (been there, done that, ain't ( Read more... )

1. It started out as a NANO novel in 2005, which means it technically took me over 5 years to write story (though more like 1 1/2 once I really got into it).

2. The first 50,000 words were written for adults, not YA. Yep, with sex scenes and everything.

The MC was Liza, a has-been journalist who escaped to River Hills after a scandal that ruined her ( Read more... )

Nope, haven't blogged for a while. For those of you who saw my locked post a couple of weeks back, dealing with that threw me out of the loop for a while. But here I am. With Christmas two days away, I'm happy to announce that:

1. I finished all my shopping and managed to navigate every store without one single physical or even verbal altercation.

2 ( Read more... )

1. I've had a pathetic start to NaNo:



1246 / 50000 words. 2% done ( Read more... )

Good: I finished my copy edits at last.

Bad: I'm looking over my proposal and not feeling it right now.

Good: My house is finally cleaned up from the flood.

Bad: It might be clean but it looks like hell. Like it recently  flooded or something.

Good: No more flooding, thank goodness.

Bad: But, at the moment, I am glued to my window, watching the lake in ( Read more... )