Remorse, or What Was I Thinking?

/ June 28, 2010

Saturday I went shopping with a friend. I ordered lobster mac and cheese because it just sounded awesome. A while later, we split an ice cream injected cupcake. At the time, I just went with it because in true Fat Kid Logic fashion, lunch with a bestie reduces your calorie count and the shared dessert had no calories at all.

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The Cure to Feline Interruptus

/ June 18, 2010

Editing is still happening and I’m in the final push towards the end. This means nothing to my late-in-life development of self-diagnosed ADD. Nor does this mean anything to all the shiny television I’m overdue to watch. This also means shit to my furry children who clamor for attention the instant there is a pen in hand. Fortunate for me,

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We Can Work it Out

/ June 9, 2010

Every Wednesday, YA Highway asks their readership a simple question for you to answer on your blog. Once you answer, you leave your link in the comments for other readers to hop on board. This is Road Trip Wednesday. Today’s question: How do you know when a project will work and when it won’t? Disclaimer: I’m still digging myself out

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Scene Blockage

/ April 21, 2010

I’m on my third manuscript free day. This isn’t because I’ve been such a kick-ass kid and deserve a break. Nope. It’s because after slowing to freight train status, I’ve hit a new scene that I don’t want to write. Not quite writer’s block, but definitely a mental block. Which got me thinking about scene blockage. How it manifests. Why

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Plotting Revisals

/ February 2, 2010

This dark sketchy picture represents the last complete draft of FALLING TO NORMAL, the young adult novel I’m shopping around. Or was until I got no hits from the queries sent in the last half of 2009, now I’m in revision-o-rama. I admit, I hate it. That is, the revision process. More specifically as it holds to this project. When

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