As you can tell from my previous post, I have already started on listing my books of the year. This year, I'm going to do something a bit different. I'm a HUGE bibliophile. It's very difficult for me to enter a bookstore and leave with nothing. Because of that fact, it is also difficult for… Continue reading The New Year
In about a week, my husband will be on his final deployment. It will be another short one and I'm happy about that, but boy does it suck. However, despite the sad feelings that always comes with saying "goodbye for now" to a loved one, I'm actually feeling pretty good with myself. Last deployment was… Continue reading Feeling Good With Myself
In three more days the best month long activity will commence. Yes, that's right, it's almost time for NaNoWriMo! And this year, I plan to win. Naturally, I say that every year, but I've been doing well in keeping up the word count above 20k. It's that extra 30k that's killer. Does anyone else have… Continue reading 3 More Days!
As I'm sure some of you have experienced or guessed, the reward system to writing isn't for everyone. And I happen to be one of those people. Since my reward system post, I haven't written much. I have, however, finally finished my third chapter. It doesn't seem much, but this draft is a lot better… Continue reading Slowly, but Surely
Every writer uses the same advice to other writers: WRITE. My problem is sticking to the writing. NaNoWriMo was a fairly easy exercise to stick to, but that's because I'm highly competitive and my friends also participate in the event. The problem is sticking to writing every day when I don't have that competitive motivation.… Continue reading A Reward System
Ever since the beginning, there has been one long standing passion that never left me. There were days or years of neglect and there were days or years of excess, but not once have I ever stopped. Every writing has this problem and this gift. I know this. But, today is one of those days… Continue reading It Defines Me
Hello, all! I wish that I could say that today has been a very eventful day, but it's kind of hard to place doing the dishes and reading as "eventful". However, something great has happened. My little boy is conjuring up sentences! I was giving a choice of shirts for him to wear and he… Continue reading “That One”
Emma Bannon, forensic sorceress in the service of the Empire, has a mission: to protect Archibald Clare, a failed, unregistered mentath. His skills of deduction are legendary, and her own sorcery is not inconsiderable. It doesn't help much that they barely tolerate each other, or that Bannon's Shield, Mikal, might just be a traitor… Continue reading Book Twenty of 2013: THE IRON WYRM AFFAIR by Lilith Saintcrow
For the longest time I didn't see a reason for a Twitter account. But now that it is common to have one and it's slowly becoming cool again not to have one, I have one. Yep, I caved. I tend to do that once the novelty has worn out and it's commonplace. It isn't because… Continue reading I Caved
In Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love, Andrew Shaffer explored the romantic failures of some of the great minds in history. Now, in Literary Rogues, he turns his unflinching eye and wit to explore our love-hate relationship with literature's most contrarian, drunken, vulgar, and just plain rude bad boys (and girls) in this very… Continue reading Book Ten of 2013: LITERARY ROGUES by Andrew Shaffer
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