10494 words and a reprieve! I don’t have to go in for jury duty on Monday after all. I’m still in the jury pool and they can call me whenever they want, but at least I’ll have Monday free

I’m a fifth of the way there and on schedule. It’s both easier and harder [...]

I got all my words for yesterday in the morning and took the evening off to do some grocery shopping and spend some time with my husband. (He’s such an awesome guy – he cleaned the kitchen and everything this morning.)

So, at 8631, I need to get to work for today

Well, I’m on track so far. I have 5555 words right now but most of that was left over from this weekend. We had our ballroom dancing class tonight – we both were so tired that we were tripping over our feet, never mind trying to learn the new steps… Oh well, we’ll get it [...]

Have you ever heard of NaNoWriMo?

November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Sign up on the site, write 50,000 words in 30 days and you’re a winner.

No worrying about how good it is, no going back to edit… The idea is to write as much as you can for as long [...]

It was a dark and stormy night is one of the most famous, cliches of an opening line around. (Although, I admit I had to Google the original source – check out the wikipedia article if you’re interested)

But I thought I’d have some fun with it and do a few variations on [...]

As always when I start something new, I do a ton of learning and research (sounds boring but it’s not). I found some really great articles on writing at Holly Lisle’s site. I bought a couple of her e-book courses and found them really helpful and she has a blog and [...]

So what have I been up to?

I’ve been writing. I have 45,000+ words and about 10 chapters done on a YA fantasy story. I have the story complete to the end actually but after chapter 10 it goes from rough draft to notations like **add more conflict with the dragon here**. I’m getting there [...]

Miyoko San

Snare me the soul of a dragon-fly,
The jewelled heart of a dew-tipped spray,
    A star’s quick eye,
    Or the scarlet cry
Of a lonely wing on a dawn-lit bay.
  Then add the gleam of a golden fan,
  And I will paint you Miyoko San.

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