Month: October 2011

Gearing up for NaNoWriMo

I’m pretty sure pre-planning was the reason I powered through 53,000 words in 30 days in 2010. So as much as I hate to sit down and “plot,” I spent part of the weekend doing exactly that. I’ve had the idea for this story for a while, ever since...

Hard truth

What do you do when one trusted friend tells you to scrap the first chapter of one of the stories you plan on entering in the 2012 GH? If it’s a chapter you love, chock-full of hilarious lines and you’re not ready to hear the fateful directive to “chop...

So long, Steve

Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a Mac girl — always have been. So it’s no surprise that I, along with the rest of the world, was saddened by Steve Jobs’ death. The man truly was an innovator, and we wouldn’t be who we are without his creations....