Year in review - 2008 ( Read more... )

This had to be one of the best holidays in recent memory. Thanksgiving was spent with in-laws, but this time our other in-laws were here. Which explains the good time had by all. They moved back here in June from Penn. My nieces are cute.(Okay so teenagers should never be labeled as cute; maybe I should say cool ( Read more... )

Okay folks I survived it, came out stronger, came out wiser, and became a better writer because of it. Let's recap and I'll give you an idea of just how great this Nano season was.(Okay so great is a strong word, how about educational, that's much more fitting ( Read more... )

Follow the link below to my Google page. I have had word of the day (top right corner) on there since they began Igoogle ( Read more... )

Okay, so far Nano is going really well. I'm not bragging, I am just pushing myself this year. I hope to be finished on or before Thanksgiving. Therefore each day I have sat down and written 3,334/4,000 words. Surprisingly my plot has really cooperated in wonderful new ways as the characters become more than I ever expected. :D ( Read more... )

I am excited to report that day one went fantastic. I actually stayed up until midnight in hopes of starting, but I found myself too tired. Today was nixed, because my Mom needed help. By the time I got home and started it was eight pm this evening and by 11 pm I had 3341 words. 1,667 is one days worth, 3,334 is two days worth. It just poured out, ( Read more... )

As Ali-chan suggested, I went and found pictures of my characters,  the school building, and windows, all just for description purposes, as a visual reference. Okay so I was making notes, and I realized that I didn't know the architectural style name for the building, or the type of windows I was using ( Read more... )

I have been struggling with an idea for Nano. Until last night in chat, we hit upon the topic of re-used plots, and of course, out came the reworked fairy tale anecdotes ( Read more... )

 
WIP - Okay good news first, I think. My current WIP/obsession is finished.  It topped out at 16,578 words or Novelle length.  I am sad, yet happy to see it finished. There is but one person who truly knows what this contains, and if they knew where it led me, I think they would be quite happy. ♥  So a big "THANK YOU" is in order...You know who ( Read more... )

I've been looking back lately for some reason at some of my stories. Suffice it to say I found I really enjoyed rereading two. "She'll never know how much I love her" and "The Curse of the Frog"   They are both Haruka and Michiru centric, and I like the way they read. The by-play between these two makes writing them interesting, to say the least. I ( Read more... )