This post using word clouds inspired me to make this word cloud of all my Ink Spells posts. Apparently eating pizza for four days has influenced the cloud, but the proximity of house and keep is only coincidence. I’m tempted to write a post using only wordle-words, but instead I will use wordle-words to write a post about writing. The… Read More
Thanks to Angela over at The Bookshelf Muse, I’m no longer requiring captcha on my comments! Why? Because she convinced me that I no longer need that to keep the pesky spammers at bay. So, lovely readers, I’ve saved you a tiny five seconds on filling out the captcha field, but if you multiply that times the hundred million blogs… Read More
Imagine your darling baby grows large enough to suddenly resemble a near-teen, old enough to write a book. A real book. A whole 35k of words with a beginning, middle, and end. He’s worked on it for six months, getting up at the crack of dawn to transcribe his scribbled notes to Word before he goes to school. Now imagine… Read More
Four days. No kids. No husband. House to myself, with no obligations but to write. Time to start a new book. Day 1: Dive into the heady rush of conjuring a new story. I have been thinking about this story since last summer, waiting and waiting until I could finally sink my teeth into it. I’ve promised myself I will… Read More
Picture Credit When I get really busy – with RL or the MS or the other MS or the tiny MS that’s really short – I don’t spend much time on blogs or Twitter or FB. It bums me, because I’m missing cool stuff like THIS POST, where Kate Hart breaks down YA sales by genre and six-figure deals. I’m… Read More
How far are you willing to go for research? Normally, my answer is: very But I find myself in a unique situation where I need to research something I am so completely unfamiliar with that it somewhat terrifies me. What is this frightful new area to explore? Fashion. I know next to nothing about fashion. If you looked at my… Read More