Axiom: When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Zina's corollary: When you write romance, everything looks like a novel waiting to happen. I've got a sometimes embarrassing condition I call "love on the brain." Really, though, it's more like "spontaneous plotting of romance novels based on real-life or potential circumstances." For instance, my friend Ms. K … [Read more...]
A Critical Resolution
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Do you have a big New Year’s resolution for 2017? A list of them? I’ve never been one for making them, but I’ve decided to change that this year thanks to some prodding. We’ll get to that in a minute. But first, here's a related question: What do the 8 of Swords card in a Tarot deck and a romance writer staring at a blank Google document on her screen … [Read more...]
Random NaNo Novel Under Construction …
Happy NaNoWriMo!!! November is National Novel Writing Month — NaNoWriMo to those in the know. If you're not familiar with the concept, the official NaNoWriMo.org website explains it this way: On November 1, participants begin working towards the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59 PM on November 30. All those undertaking the challenge of writing a novel in a month, … [Read more...]
Of Coffee and Men
I like my men how I like my coffee ... If you're an avid reader or you like to watch TV and movies, odds are that you've run into some version of that old joke. There are more variations on that theme than there are ways to order at Starbucks. Well, probably. For the record, I'm really fond of coffee —I've been drinking it since I was 3. I'm also … [Read more...]
So Much Summer, So Little Time
Does anyone else feel like they blinked on May 1, and then BAM! — it was June! Tempus fugit and all that jazz. All year, I’ve just had my head down and nose to the grindstone dealing with the normal daily grind. Vaguely it registered that it was almost summer. To this native Floridian, that means somehow finding time for swimming and BBQ and crabs and … [Read more...]
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