The Damned Little Details

Sometimes I just need to share...

Yesterday, a friend and I attended Angelina Lopez’s awesome book release party at One More Page Books. During the author interview portion, Angelina talked about trying to write a book but getting stuck on a minor detail. Her husband asked her why didn’t she just worked on the other aspects of the story and worry […]

The Siren Call of Romance

[dropcap type=”square or circle”] W[/dropcap]hen did you first start reading romance? I was asked this question twice last week. I thought about it a lot, especially on my way to a romance pilgrimage with my critique partners Cate Tayler and Laralyn Gill. We attended the author signing at Turn the Page Bookstore. Did I mention it was 15 degrees? […]

Fanfiction Brought My Dream Back

I love fanfiction

I’m thinking fanfiction today, and not only because of my interview with Denny S. Bryce for her Happily Ever After column on USA today, but fanfiction as a gateway to a dream. When Denny asked questions about the fanfiction I love to read and write, I couldn’t help but think back about how it’s been […]

Why my book is not published yet and failure led me to do better

When will your book be published? It’s a far cry from the rosy and happy ‘tell me what your book is about.’ The excitement waned into ‘so when is the book finally coming out’ at every encounter, in any venue, on the phone or via Morse code. The smiles turned from surprised-excited-encouraging to the barely […]

Three Simple Things Prepared Me for NaNoWriMo 2016

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November, that special time of the year known as National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo or  aka or NaNo begins this week and with it comes excitement, promise, and worry. I can’t wait to dig into my new story but did I plan well enough? I can’t wait to meet the characters; will I be able […]

Wanna Write longer, faster? Try Different Things

Today I was thinking about how I write. it occurred to me that it’s very similar to how I eat. Some of my friends say they can’t trust me to recommend food because I like everything. It’s not, true. Trust me, there’s some stuff I won’t touch…looking at you Okra. But I’m food adventurous. I like […]

Facing the demon

Commitment is not my thing. I run from it like a fire fuse chasing me. But this is the month where I’m drawing the line and confronting the routine/constancy demon. I started with the easy-non-easy thing, writing. No, writing is not easy but when you love something is not really labor, is it? Except it […]

51, 424 makes me a winner… but?

November first I started the grueling challenge that is NaNoWriMo. A few minutes ago, 28 days later, I finished with 51,424. It’s been exhausting and wow, how did I deny myself so many things without going nuts? I thought I would be jumping for joy, up to the moment when I needed only 500 to […]

40,013 Reasons to Celebrate

So yes, yes yes. I made it past 40,000 and omg this is something! Kicking and screaming, I forced myself to sit down and write. I took lots of breaks, I’m not going to lie, but I caught up today. After missing parties and other fun hangouts, Thank God! It was like a writer’s existential […]