I’ve been here before. I’d hoped it wouldn’t be like this. I’d hoped that this would get better with practice. I’m five thousand words from the end of the short story I’m trying to finish, and putting words on the page is like pulling teeth–my own. But I’m going to…
To quote the Purple One, “I just can’t believe all the things people say (Controversy!) “. There seems to be a whole lot of postin’ going on at Smart Bitches, Karen Scott, Kate R. and other sites regarding the Shomi authors who dressed as their characters at the RWA convention,…
Completely random and apropos of nothing except the use of the abbreviation for the word “versus” in the post above, here are three movies I’d like to see packaged as a box set: Freddie vs. Jason Alien vs. Predator Santa Claus vs. The Martians
Just as I was running out of the books I ordered with the gift certificate I won in Bam’s July contest, I won another book (Marjorie M. Liu’s Soul Song) in a random drawing on Lynne Viehl’s Paperback Writer Blog. Woo hoo! Also, thanks to my mad Inter-Library Loan skillz…
Yesterday I linked to David Denby’s piece on modern romantic comedy films in general, and Knocked Up in particular. While discussing older romantic comedies, Denby casually lumps The Lady Eve in with the “Screwball Comedies”. Now, don’t get me wrong, I adore those screwball comedies. But the thing about them…
It’s summer. TV’s all in reruns, weather outside is broiling–there’s nothing to distract me from writing, right? Wrong. My darling SmartAss got a PS3 this weekend. How will I resist the temptation? Even though the game I am desperately looking forward to (John Woo’s Stranglehold, starring Chow Yun Fat [squee!])…
Best to take care of the figurative dragons first…RWA has roused the fiery ire of many a small-press, ePubbed and aspiring author. I won’t waste time explaining when Carrie Lofty did a better job of it over on Bam’s blog. Suffice to say, RWA declared that ePublishers weren’t real publishers,…
Newsflash: Bettie discovers Google Reader. I know, I know. What rock have I been buried under all this time? But, fact is, I was in the habit of reading my blogs the old fashioned way. You know, click the link and hope there’s something new. Then I notice Google Reader…
I’m supposed to be writing 2000 words today, so what the hell am I doing on youtube? I blame my darling husband. Youtube is like a virus that we keep passing back and forth. I show him something, and then wrestle free of it while he spends a couple hours…
I just read about Allison Kent’s 70 Days of Sweat challenge, so, of course, I had to go over and sign up. The challenge is to write your novel in 70 days, which, unlike NaNoWriMo, is a doable challenge for folks who are staring down the barrel of a 100,000…
