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It’s pretty hard to not have a year pass and wonder what you learned, how you improved, and what you could do better. For me, 2011 I learned a lot about myself. I won’t discuss it all here, but I will share the one piece of advice that I’ve heard for years, but finally listened [...] First off, the lovely Amy Hatvany will be stopping by the blog tomorrow! I loved Amy’s book, Best Kept Secret, and was thrilled that she is going to stop by to discuss her new book, Outside the Lines. We’ll dish about Amy’s writing style and of course we’ll find out what hair nightmare Amy won’t [...] It can be hard to focus on your own work at times. On Facebook and Twitter I read all the time about how well other authors are doing with their writing.
“Hoping to get 2,000+ written today!” “Just met my November deadline! Book is off to editor!” "Wrote 10+ pages this morning. And doing [...] I love to read. Give me a book and I’ll devour it in a day—hours if its really good. Another thing I’ll do if a book is really good—stop reading it to write. Some books are so beautifully written that it just makes me put it down and write my own beautiful words. The [...] When you are in a creative field like writing, people expect you to like certain things. Writers are supposed to love classic literature, be masters at the English language, recite poetry in their sleep and hate all adverbs. I am a writer. And I don’t read classic literature. (Regularly. I read it, but it’s [...] I don’t think I’ve ever had an adequate desk for my writing. When I wrote my first book, Six O’clock, I was single, living in my parents house. I wrote on a 5-foot folding table, and sat on simple folding chair. The desk had enough space for me—back then I wrote in longhand, no computer—so [...] I love a lot of reality shows, but I’ve been cutting back on some of them because of the materialism and bickering, (Real Housewives anyone?) but one show that I love to watch is Tia and Tamera on the Style network. Last night’s episode really touched me, watch the clip below first and I’ll tell [...] Word Count: 56,429 I’m loving where I am in my book right now. The writing is going well, but I feel like I’m lacking in some of my sub-plots. So that makes me have to keep reading what I’ve just written, to make sure the book is going wearing I want it to. I’m upping [...] Okay, so that’s not what really happened. But I do have an excuse on why I won’t make my stupid lofty word-count goal. This has been a very busy month. Between getting my daughter ready for school and other obligations I haven’t been hitting the book as hard as I planned. As of today, my [...] |
I’m a Women’s Fiction writer with two novels under my belt, Six O’clock and Unbeweaveable. Curl Up and Write is where I fuse my two loves: hair and writing. You’d be surprised at the similarities! When I’m not writing, I’m watching How’s It Made with my Hubby (and pretending I’m not interested in learning how a tennis racket is built), or I’m reading to my daughter. I also dabble in gardening, love to cook, and watch way too much HGTV.  |
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