Parenting Media Association award winner
My wonderful editor at Carolina Parent emailed this week to let me know she’d submitted one of my articles to the Parenting Media Association — and it won an award this weekend! No, no big gold trophy. But we’ve got enough of those around the house anyway — doesn’t everyone? There’s the big fish one [...]
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Weapons List
Hio guys, this is a post for people who have a game called “Star Wars Battlefront 2″ Play Station 2. If you do then here is a weapons guide: Clone Wars Era Republic Clone Trooper: Blaster Rifle (light sub-machine gun), Blaster Pistol, Thermal detonators. Heavy Trooper: Rocket Launcher, Blaster Pistol, Thermal Detonators, Mines. Clone Sharpshooter: [...]
Super Bowl games writers play
First of all, if you came here hoping for some play-by-play recap of the Super Bowl action, or if you’re thinking you’ll see some silly YouTube vid of writers tackling each other…ah, no. But if you’re a writer, or even if you’re looking for ways to boost your own productivity, I may be able to [...]
My big fat alliteration week
Moms juggle a lot of things — that’s a given. Some moms handle it better than others. Me? I’m scatterbrained…always thinking about a hundred things at once, dreaming about things, plotting and planning future events, cloud gazing. So I need a little help keeping things organized and on schedule. Back when the kids were little, [...]
10K away from a first draft
So I’m doing NaNo, writing a first draft in the month of November. I’ve been very dedicated, and now I just crossed the 40K mark (the goal is 50K). Ah, if only I had a dollar for every word I’ve written. As far as first drafts go, it’s not totally hideous, but it’s pretty scary. [...]
Partners in prose
I was going to be very clever and find something that rhymed with “crime” for the title of the post, but it’s o-dark-thirty in the morning and I couldn’t come up with anything. Alliteration will have to do. Anyhoo, I mentioned earlier I’m doing NaNo again this year. But this year, I’ve got a fabulous [...]
NaNoWhatTheHeckOh
Okay, so I told you I was doing the NaNoWriMo thing — writing a first draft in a month. I’m on track; thanks for asking. But here’s something I just heard about — NaBloPoMo. National Blog Posting Month. Where bloggers try to write a post every day for a month. Unlike NaNo, it’s any month [...]
MIA again?!
Oy, it’s been several days since I’ve polka-dotted. I’m so bad. My excuse is that I was finishing up my fifth book. I know I say this every time, but this one was So Much Fun! I know I’ve still got the edits and the tweaks and the “forgot this!”s to go through, but phew [...]
Hairy Plotter
It happened again this morning. Big Fish called up, “Hey, J.K. Rowling’s going to be on the news in a couple minutes. Want to come watch for inspiration?” It’s not the first time someone’s implied that if I just wrote a best seller, I’d live happily ever after in financial bliss. Oh, is that all [...]
