I've been away from my blog for the past few weeks--travelling, dancing, writing, and taking care of a sick family. (Damn the flu). So this post is a little late and a little different than usual. I'm setting a focus for my next stint of writing. How long is a stint? A year? A week?…
I Had to Go Digital 🙁 I don't buy a lot of physical books these days. First of all, they take up room in my somewhat small home. We already have our two shelves stuffed with books, and I don't want to make any more holes in our rental walls. Electronic books take up no…
Spring came to Bulgaria with a stutter — unexpected heat followed by a final week of snowstorms and then consistent tank top weather. If it wasn’t for the pollen creating a fine mist throughout the city, plugging up my sinuses, I would have thought spring had been skipped completely. I wouldn’t have minded if it…
I took a couple of weeks off the blog during the holidays. I spent the time with my in-laws, children, and husband. It has been a great vacation, but I am itching to get back to writing. Last year was an amazing year for me. I went from getting my first acceptance to getting fifteen…
I'm one of those people who assumed I wouldn't like recipe stories. I thought they were a bit too formulaic and predictable to intrigue me. Besides, I'm not one who enjoys following recipes, so why would I like my fiction in a format I can't stand in the kitchen? But recently I've decided to give…
Bodies bumped together in the crowded club — men and women, women and women, men and men — all wearing variations on black. Shiny, fuzzy, leather, lace, the black blended together to form a shadowy pit. The mostly white skin within it was uncovered more than socially acceptable. But this was a different kind of…
While the majority of my writer friends took November to work on novels (NaNoWriMo), I decided to let myself drift through the month at my usual pace. This meant working a bit on the latest novel as well as completing and revising a few shorts. I even got some poetry done and subbed. Overall it…
I love when I discover a new (to me) source for reliably beautiful writing. This week, that has been The Ninth Letter.
Cloud Atlas was one of those reads I couldn't put down. Despite insanely long chapters, I found myself wanting to read to the end of each one before stopping for the evening. As an exhausted mother of two who can barely keep her eyes open after the littles drift off, that's a testament to the…
As a child, I loved Choose Your Own Adventure books. As a young adult, I loved MUDD games. Recently, I learned it's possible to mix the two together and create web-based interactive fiction. I am definitely at the beginning of these skills, but I am enjoying exploring what I can do with a more visual,…