Here’s the thing about working from home, be it as a writer, graphic designer or tupperware salesperson. Life can really intrude on your home office. I’ve started my next novel and was pretty happy with the flow and the characters that I had set up. Then BAM! Winter hits. Colds, coughs and indoor weather. It’s hard [...]
Archive for June, 2009
When Life Gets in the Way
Posted in Uncategorized on 30/06/2009 | 1 Comment »
Plots and Plans and Reading
Posted in writing, tagged books, reading, writing on 24/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, I have my characters set up in my head. Check. The story itself is solid. Check. The conflict is real and full of emotional punch. Absolutely.
Plot all outlined and ready to go…
Ummmm. *Opens Word* *Grumbles about the boring, boring part of writing a book*
In other news, I read a really good book today called [...]
The Stuff of Life
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, reading, writing on 22/06/2009 | 3 Comments »
Books – the stuff of life. How many successful authors do you hear say they’ve always loved to read? I’ve always loved to read. (Hopefully that will make me a successful author? If only that were the only necessary ingredient). As a young girl, I loved Anne of Green Gables and Little Women. My taste [...]
Sisters Support the Freedoms of Child Soldiers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, charity, child soldiers, worthy causes on 19/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Taking advantage of WordPress’ amazing SocialVibe widget, Susan and I would like to urge you to click on the Invisible Children badge in the sidebar of this Web site. Clicking the Help Now button costs you nothing, as the more clicks we get, the more Body Glove will donate to this worthy cause.
Invisible Children is [...]
The aMusing Muse
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Grocery shopping, Inspiration on 17/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I find inspiration in the strangest of places sometimes. An incident in my son’s swimming class spirals into an entire story. A trip to a local winery. Who would live here? Who would he love? Another story. Sometimes the mundane, everyday tasks of running a household can throw up the most amazing tidbits. Like grocery [...]
Frustration should be banned from the creative process!
Posted in Edits, tagged books, Edits, writing on 15/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Argh! Susan has the finished third draft of my manuscript ready to send to me, only her Internet is being somewhat temperemental. I guess it’s not that big of a deal yet, since we’re not exactly working on a deadline, but it sure is annoying. And if we were working to a deadline, it would [...]
The Tyranny of Distance
Posted in Edits, tagged books, Edits, publishing, romance, romance novels, writing on 10/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Edits. It’s my turn. I’m working on the first few chapters of Kate’s manuscript and am loving it so far. But I had what I considered to be some solid ideas to flesh out and improve a particular scene. I was loathe to go ahead with suggested changes without discussing them with Kate first. I [...]
Kate Gives it All for Research, too
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, hot men, plotting, romance novels on 08/06/2009 | 1 Comment »
In her last entry, Susan talked about taking the sacrifice of any young, aspiring, hot and sexy romance novelist and researching winemaking up close and personal. I, too, am willing to go the whole hog in the name of research and yesterday suffered through picture after picture of hot men, trying to find the hero [...]
All in the Name of Research
Posted in Edits, tagged books, Edits, wine on 06/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the absence of any editing to do, I have started drafting my next story. It’s set on a Winery in the Mornington Peninsula. At this point in my life, the only thing I know about wine making is that the end product is really yummy. So, research. Poor me! I have a friend who [...]
The importance of Plotting
Posted in Edits, tagged books, Edits, writing on 03/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Currently, I am pondering the changes I have to make to the draft of my novel (pondering rather than actually making the changes because I am working).
I’ve decided to be very, very careful when plotting the next book, so as my heroine’s mother doesn’t have three different first names and so that my heroine’s best [...]
