Making my Fresh Fiction debut
Good morning! It is a very good morning, even if you’re waking to snow and subzero temperatures. If you are, please stay warm and dry. It’s not exactly warm here in northern Arizona, either. I’m in the mountains, not the Valley of the Sun, where 60 degrees is considered...
Guest blogging at RSS today: The Power of the Average Joe
You read that correctly: I’m proud to be the guest blogger at the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood today. Once you’re done watching the romantic spectacle that is the Royal Wedding, visit me there to debate the qualities of a good hero....
Vocabulary lesson
The hero in my WIP, Cody, has a tendency to use big words and shrink-speak when he’s upset, angry or flustered. (There’s a reason he has a T-shirt that says “I’m fluent in psychobabble.”) It turns out Cody and I have that in common. Now that I’m writing fiction...
Sign me up
I don’t often do this, but after I wrote this post for my other blog, I realized it’d be a perfect fit here, too. Here goes: Sign me up for the Vince Vaughn fan club Has anyone else seen “The Dilemma” yet? In it, Vince Vaughn plays a guy...
Inspiration comes from the strangest places
I was out on a walk Saturday morning, listening to my iPod, when a song by my favorite band came on and it hit me: This could be Mike James’ theme song. Mike, you might remember, is the hero in Bree & Mike’s story (the one with the crappy...
Still plugging away
There’s not much to report here. Despite having a wisdom tooth removed Monday, I’ve been keeping up with the writing. Mainly, I’ve been busy exploring my hero’s reasons for stripping and my heroine’s motivations for wanting to be married by 25. (With one less wisdom tooth — I’m now...
My heroes
I spent some time tonight reading through parts of Bree & Mike’s story, and I’ve come to the conclusion that he might be the best hero in my Women of Willow’s Grove trilogy. Not surprising, considering he was going to be Erin’s hero (until Brad got in the way)....
Vacation!
My time away from the day job, fortunately, has not meant a vacation from writing. I must say I haven’t gotten as much accomplished as I’d hoped: A couple thousand words written in editing mode and three rejections received from agents. Still, at least I’ve been getting something done....
Writing ‘guy’?
How is it that something I never thought much about before last week is now popping up everywhere? I just checked out The Seekers blog, and their latest post is about “writing ‘guy.'” Last week, after checking out another post, I found myself asking if guys really speak in...
Definitely more work than I thought
Got my critique back this afternoon, and I was right: The manuscript definitely needs some help. I’m not going to lie: It was a bit unnerving to see all that “red ink” on my pages. But it was also edifying, because she said a lot of the same things...