Thursday, July 2, 2009

Today is my Friday

Yay! My tyrannical boss (I'm totally kidding btw) is closing the office tomorrow so it's an extra long weekend for me :) Finished my latest novella early this morning before heading to work. I actually wrote about 1K more than I expected bringing my daily total to 3K and all before lunch. I'm pretty impressed with myself. *Sigh* If only I could do that every day. Of course now I have to go back and edit the hell out of it and write my synopsis, but it's a good feeling nonetheless.

It's been raining pretty steadily all week but I looked at the forecast and Cocoa is supposed to have a measly two hours of sunny/cloudiness sans rain tomorrow morning so we might try to sneak over to the coast. Haven't decided how lazy I feel yet. On Saturday we'll probably watch fireworks downtown (over a lake) from a friend's high rise and thanks to Kristen, I think I'm going to bring cookies with a little holiday flair!

Have a fun, safe, Fourth of July everyone!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Things A Girl Should Have


Blogging at Writers Gone Wild today. Topic: Things a Girl Should Have in her house at all times.

Monday, June 29, 2009

Desert Island Keepers


It's been a while, but it's my turn over at Desert Island Keepers. For the next few days I'll be hanging out over there so stop by if you get a chance!

Friday, June 26, 2009

The Weekend is Here!

Another Friday is here and this sure has been a long week! As some of you know, my mom was admitted to the hospital Wednesday but she was thankfully released the next morning after a slew of tests. Last year she spent about 13 hours in the ER before they found her a room and it was just as long this time. I have a lot of respect for people that work in the hospital. I don't want to go into the details but it looks like everything is going to be okay. For that, I am very grateful as I have the best mom in the world. She's so kind and giving and I hope I tell her that enough.

I'm having a lot of fun writing my new novella. *Knock on wood* but I haven't been facing any of my normal struggles and I even managed to plot the entire thing out before writing it. Dara, if you're reading this, I hope you're impressed ;) If I'm really lucky, I'll have enough free time over the weekend and get some serious writing done.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

RWA and Epublishing


I'm over at Writers Gone Wild today discussing the recent brouhaha with RWA and epublishing. My real reason for posting however is because I wanted to let everyone know why I love being epublished. Stop by and check it out if you get a chance.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Manic Monday

Hope everyone had a good Father's Day (if you celebrated). I definitely did. Spent it with my dad of course. Since it was so hot we spent it out on his boat. There's a sand bar on the chain of lakes he lives on so we parked with the rest of the folks cooling off and just relaxed for a few hours. Even though I put on a ton of sunscreen somehow my shoulders still turned pink :( My soon-to-be niece (sister's fiance is a father) spent it with us and she's so cute. She's only three but she's so smart and funny. I can't believe half the stuff that comes out of her mouth. The girl remembers everything!

Thankfully my dog is finally feeling better so we don't have to take her to the vet. My mom thinks she had separation anxiety from when we went on vacation and she's probably right. We usually take her with us when we go somewhere. If we don't, we only go out of town for a few days and even then we leave her with family but this time it didn't work out and I think my little angel thought we'd left her :( She's normally affectionate but the past week she's been doubly so. She follows both of us everywhere. She hates the bathroom and usually avoids it at all costs (b/c she doesn't like baths) but now if I'm doing my makeup she'll plop next to me and wait for me to finish.

Over the weekend I reworked the erotic novella I was working on and now it's a shifter erotic novella. I've wanted to try my hand at a shifter story for a while but I didn't think I was ready. I'd already built the 'world', decided the rules on aging, mating, shifting, family life, anything I could think of, but I think I was too afraid to actually write the story. I got about 10K into my current story and the hero kept telling me he wasn't human and I needed to rewrite him so finally I just listened. All his actions/reactions were so primal I decided to tap into his more animalistic side and write him the way he wanted. I shouldn't be surprised, but now the story is much smoother. And now his two brothers are demanding a story too.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Friday & Other Stuff

Whew! Friday is here at last! My dog has been sick all week. Still not sure what's wrong with her but we've put her on a bland rice and chicken diet for a couple days. If she's not better by Monday it's off to the vet. :(

Finished my revisions and sent them off to my agent (feels weird writing that let alone saying it aloud) earlier this week. Since we've never worked together before I really hope my revisions are what she was looking for. *crossing fingers*

On ESPAN's blog today, RWA's president Diane Pershing had a response to Deidre Knight's post from Wednesday regarding RWA and the Digital Age so if you're so inclined, check it out. Her response was disheartening, but completely expected. I don't even read her letters in RWR anymore because they're so laced with her own personal prejudices (which sadly, I don't think she realizes she even has). I'm much more inclined to listen to someone like Deidre Knight, a well known agent with a pulse on the publishing industry.

It's been a long week and my brain is fried so that's all I've got for today! Have a great weekend :)

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Villain or Hero?


I'm over at Writers Gone Wild chatting about villains and heroes today. Stop by and offer your opinion!