When I first heard about a Planet of the Apes prequel I thought…this is a really stupid idea. Turns out, not so much. Rise of the Planet of the Apes was amazing. When watching movies, I try to keep in mind I’ll be blogging about it but, with this movie, I completely forgot about that-…
I just looked at my bookshelf and went down my to-read list and man are there a lot of books on that list. After Hands on the Freedom Plow-which is spectacular, I’ll be finishing up Dark Delicacies edited by Del Howard and Jeff Gelb. I stopped reading Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned because every…
At the end of the year, I’ll be getting my Masters in Information and Library Science. (Pause while I panic, hyperventilating into a paper bag). Life didn’t go quite the way I planned… who am I kidding?– nothing went according to plan! So I’m faced with that question- Now what? I have a very obscured…
So where do my story ideas come from? Everywhere is the most obvious answer and it’s true, but I’d like to be a bit more specific. It’s a stretch to call them ideas because my stories are born more from a scene or an image. A couple of years ago, I remember vaguely my brother…
Awhile ago, I lost sight of what I said in the post Why I write. Writing stopped being therapeutic. It felt far too much like work. This is no longer the case but then, it became harder and harder to actually sit in front of my computer or before a journal and give my characters…
All the movies I’ve seen this summer have been amazing but they were placeholders for HP7 Part 2. You know, something to tie me over. Since seeing HP, I’ve lost interest in any other movie. I’d forgotten all about Captain America. I saw it simply because it was something to do. Totally wrong way of…
(I’ve been so focused on school, graduation and working on my novel that I totally neglected my blog this week. I need to balance everything so nothing falls between the cracks.) I hit another snag while editing one of my novels- I can’t believe how many holes this one has and I started and…
(This post has spoilers. Couldn’t help it.) I know I said I can’t wait, I can’t wait and this is gonna be fun but when Saturday came, dread wrapped its steel arms around me and tightened as each hour drew me closer to seeing HP7 Part 2. I really hadn’t wanted to go and thought…
( I wonder what happens to the HP7 countdown gadget when it reaches 0. I know it’s the wrong picture but it’s all I could find. I think I’ll leave it there til I blog about HP. I won’t be seeing the movie until Saturday night.) In my previous post The Middle, I said I…
I keep learning new things about writing. I like it but it gets a bit old when every time I learn something new I see more and more holes in my stories. I’d written one novel years ago and reread it so many times. I liked it a lot. I still do only now I’m…
