Thoughts on grammer

Forrester: Paragraph three starts…with a conjunction, “and.” You should never start a sentence with a conjunction.
Jamal: Sure you can.
Forrester: No, it’s a firm rule.
Jamal: No, it was a firm rule. Sometimes using a conjunction at the start of a sentence makes it stand out. And that may be what the writer’s trying to do.
Forrester: And [...]

Answering the blogging question

My DH has been looking for a job for several weeks. He’s had 2 call backs out of goodness knows how many resumes sent out. (I’d count but most of the stuff is on the computer without a power supply).
And I’ve been reading blogs and trying to figure out how to make extra money.
It comes [...]

Blogs that don’t post daily

Or even weekly.
I find that I unsubscribe from blogs that post content everyday. There are a few expections to this rule. But on the whole, I don’t get online everyday and I enjoy a wide variety of reading material.
I’m enjoying slow blogging. Only posting when I have something to say. Means I don’t get a [...]

No NaNoWriMO

For the first time in about 4 years I’m not doing NaNoWriMo.
I am writing a new novel. I started it a few days ago after several months of plotting and replotting. I started it several times before this week, but threw it out as the characters and conflicts didn’t catch my fancy. I’m currently on [...]

Debating Women’s Rights

I post this video on my Facebook recently. I cannot embed the video so you’ll have to watch it.
It’s an amazing 6 minute video about child brides in developing countries.
And this “guy” I knew from school, he was actually in a band with my brother, comments “that girl who set herself on fire, that’s crap.”
And [...]

Happy dance!

Lots of good stuff today. In order of my excitedness.
First, I finished Ky and Serena last night. The first draft. It’s around 40,000 words. It will probably end up around 50 in the edit. I usually have more stuff to add than delete. Not quite as many words as planned, but that’s how it goes.
Second, [...]

Accountability

Image by shutterpillar via Flickr

I’m writing my second novel with two lovely characters stemming from my first novel. And I’m struggling. I’m not madly in love with the characters.
I’m not in love with them because I’m reading the Twilight series. And despite how much the writing drives me crazy and I think is wrong with [...]

Call to Action

I signed up for Darren Rowse’s problogger, 31 days to a better blog. Which was a mistake because I don’t have time or energy to blog everyday.  And I don’t check my email everyday either. Day 24 or so was Call to Action. Which for me would be linking to my book and asking for [...]

The first simple step

I’ve been lamenting on my lack of household cleanliness when I made a trip to the public library and I got a (Frigidaire sponsored) cleaning book. I was reading it and it had tons of great ideas.
I got a little overwhelmed by it all. How would I have time to keep it all together.
I’ve tried [...]

Refilling my cup

I was talking to my mom the other night about being exhausted.
I have a great job that I love. But it leaves me utterly exhausted. Then I come home to my daughter and it’s not fair to her that I’m exhausted, so I play with her. Then get her ready for bed.
Then my partner still [...]