I logged onto my computer for the first time today to see that PlagiarismHaven (which I was ironically going to check out) was closing and the stories I wanted to read were gone.  The year 2012 was really hectic for me, so I didn't get the chance to actually participate much after being accepted into the community.  I also didn't get to read the ( Read more... )

Reader's Digest version of what I've been up to the last six months since I wasn't writing - even the best laid plans of mice and men go awry, so new job, too many classes and not enough time for anything fun.  Oh, and we survived the Mayan Apocalypse, so yay ( Read more... )

Freedom!  Summer is finally officially here for me - no classes and no exams until the fall starts!  I'm crossing my fingers about a new job opening, and I'm finally free to write again.

First on my agenda is finishing up Between the Lines.  There's only a few chapters left and I already have the ending worked out, all I have to do is write it.  ( Read more... )

I started 2012 off right - a masquerade at my favorite bar with a live band and a ton of cool people.  The night started off badly - dinner was terrible (and overpriced as always), plus I ate with the most boring people in our little ragtag bunch.  But I didn't want to be stuck home then go to the bar by myself, so it was what it was.  I spent the ( Read more... )

Being in grad school, having a boss who impersonates Pol Pot and all that other life stuff in between really wreaks havoc on trying to write.  I can't even believe that November is over and I didn't get the chance to write anything.

Ironically, this is the month when there was an episode of Being Erica where the lead character realizes she's gotten ( Read more... )

It's half an hour before the end of Day 1 into NaNo and I decided to post here instead of going to bed.

I thought I would use this month to start another novel or maybe even get some fanfic writing done.  The truth is I haven't been connecting with any of my story ideas, so I have trouble seeing them through.  I had hit a really good stride back in ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who sent me birthday wishes.  I had a wonderful time turning a quarter of a century old.

I'm also more and more freaked out by how coincidental the shows Once Upon a Time and Being Erica are with my life.  Sometimes I feel more like a character than a writer.

I know I haven't been updating or writing much in general, but I still ( Read more... )

I've been struggling with my band story, working title Prufrock, for a while now.  So I decided to put it on the back burner.  Cue a more famous writer having already written a really similar story, yet again (like when I found out Mercedes Lackey's Fairy Godmother sounded like my Confessions of a Fairy Godmother).  As it turns out, Sarah Dessen's ( Read more... )

Things have fortunately calmed down now, after a zen weekend with my friends, just venting and finishing some applications ( Read more... )

Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x3)
2 The Lord of the Rings -- Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x2)
4 Harry Potter ( Read more... )