I'm so excited to be taking a writing class this winter through Mediabistro. My instructor is Jill Santopolo, a Senior Editor at Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.Jill started us out with writing an outline. This is to be our 'road map' for our...
In honor of my historical middle grade novel, tentatively named Chosen Warrior, I'm posting some pictures of my recent visit to the War Museum in Seoul. I wanted to do some research on the dress of the Hwarang warriors as well as view the famous turtle ship. A little...
So my paranormal romance needs a title. I'm not ready to spill the beans on the plot yet, although I'm totally psyched over it, I've been brainstorming ideas.But the problem is I'm terrible at coming up with good titles. Then I went on NaNoWriMo and they had a link...
Fast drafting has left me little time to do anything but write like a madwoman. I'm so into this novel, I forget about everything else. My son was asking for pants to wear, my husband has been scrounging the refrigerator for food, and the cat stares bleakly at her...
One focus in my current WIP is creating inner conflict in my characters. I decided to pull out some of my favorite novels to see what those characters had to go through.Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer- Bella is in love with both Jake and Edward. She cannot love both,...
2009 is here and I’m jumping right into one of my goals—finish a YA novel. I hooked up with a fabulous and motivated group where we email each other our daily numbers. Having a core group to bounce ideas off of and encourage each other makes the process slightly less...
It’s that time again. Time to make New Year Goals. I went back and looked at my goals that I made last year and interestingly enough, I achieved nearly everything on the list except for two. When I showed the list to my husband, he pointed out that the two that I...
I'm back from the Land Down Under! It was a 10 hour flight but our two boys took it all in stride, happily playing with Leapsters, writing and drawing in their journals (What can I say? They have a mother whose obsessed with writing), watching unlimited movies...