Wild, Wicked & Wacky

There's a certain tang in the air when Mother Nature sheds her colorful finery and the skeletal fingers of the trees rattle in the wind....

National Novel Writing Month ("NaNo") officially started at midnight. How many words have I written so far? Zero. Unless you count...

 The U.S. is at 9.3 million known infections and 234,567 deaths (believe me, I wish I WAS making up that number). And tomorrow is election d...

National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo or NaNo if you need to go even shorter, started yesterday. I stocked up on chocolate and caffe...

...nothing happens. That's right. The skies don't fall. The Red Sea isn't parted. Aliens don't invade Earth. "But, ...

My insomnia has been giving me fits for the first time in over a year. Funny how the last time I had a problem was right before I left my ...

Our local community college has an adult education program that focuses on hobbies. Fun stuff like photography, belly dancing, tarot card ...

*Sung to the tune of the Howdy Doody theme song. Yes, it's November! That month when thousands of writers sit down to draft (from scra...

Currently reading - Heaven's Spite by Lilith Saintcrow I'd planned my little butt off for the 2010 National Novel Writing Month (a...

NaNo Progress - 17,100 words I know I'm not going to make the 50K mark at midnight on the 30th. I had a good cry about not reaching my g...

Word Count as of this post - 13,102 I'm behind. I'm way f***ing behind. *sigh* I should be hitting 20K about now. I think the dif...

Word Count as of this Post - 8,422 words I had a very strange dream last night--strange in its relative normalcy. Ususally, I'm Capt. Pi...

I was highly disappointed reading yesterday's blog post from a published author I repsect. She shared the sentiment of several other pu...

I'd planned on my blog posts being the warm-up exercise for starting NaNo each day. As you can tell by the time of this post, I probabl...

It's been one of THOSE weekends. I'm doing good to get some of the little things done. That's in addition to the major things ...

For those of you not familiar with Chris Baty's National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo for short or NaNo for even shorter), I stron...

No, he didn't really. Sometimes great minds follow the same story down the rabbit trail. Since I've started writing with the aim o...