How do you relax?

Try this site: Do Nothing For 2 Minutes 

Can you sit still and relax for 2 minutes?

Oops! National Book Foundation Unveils SIX YA finalists

Have you read this article? Take a minute and read it now.

Oops! I'd like my book to be accidentally picked, wouldn't you?


Have you read any of the six finalist? I've only read CHIME.

Foto Friday~Funny

Is this writer's block? Come complain with me

I have no idea what I'm experiencing. Writer's block. Writer's apathy. Writer's I-don't-want-to-sit-down-and-write disease. Whatever it is, I'm frustrated.

I have two stories I should be working on but don't want to (wah!).
My WWI romance is almost completely edited. Reading the last edited chapter I realized I have a few plot holes. Now I'm revising and moving chapters around.
MY YA horror is in the writing stages and going through my critique group. They all love it except for the fact that my main character's journey/goals is not clear. At all. Drat. So I'm rewriting chapters.
Maybe I'm in an editing rut?

Is it time to put the two stories away for a few weeks? My goal was to have the WWI story done by the end of the year and queries going out soon after. Can I still reach this goal??

I seriously considered doing NaNoWriMo next month to help me creatively. I already have three NaNo stories waiting to be polished, do I really want another?
Phew! Thanks for stopping by and listening to my rant. I guess I needed to feel someone was in my corner :)

What about you? Is everything good? Or are you experiencing a rut too?
Are you doing NaNoWriMo this year??

Ender's Game Movie Trailer

This is a fan-made trailer. Is Ender's Game really coming to the big screen?? YIPPEE! Loved that book!

Foto Friday

Halloween costume?
Main character?
Minion? (Can you imagine the magic/weapons you could hide in this hair??)

Oh! The Places You'll Go!

(Warning! This post is not to ensue feelings of jealousy or the possibility of hitting the post author. These pictures are to help segue into a possible thought process. Please continue.)

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!

I've been here
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(Adventure story waiting to be told involving vagrants, trains, buses and black moons).

Been here too
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Santorini, Greece.

I've traveled a lot. My travel bug may have come from being an Air Force darling, not brat. We moved twenty-eight times before I was a freshman in high school.
I'm not sure if traveling affects my writing as much as people watching does. Half of my stories have come from National Novel Writing Month, a third from my dreams and the rest from somewhere inside my brain.
I do believe traveling or the very least, exploring, adds richness to our lives which comes out in our writing. Trying new food, music, artistic outlet all will add to our viability.

Have the places you visited helped in your writing? Are you able to write more realistic characters or settings or stories?

What if you write science fiction? Visiting places might not help sci/fi writers. Or maybe it will...

Can writers get along on pure imagination? I think yes. Then again, if you're going to set your novel in Paris, you'd better know your way around, what the police are called and how yummy the food is because guaranteed someone will know too.

What do you think?










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