with all my kids gone, that I’d have tons of time for things like writing in my blog. HA! Double Ha!
The good news is that I’m about 2/3 done with the huge edit to my story. I’ve added about 5,000 words. It’s definitely a stronger story already and I’m really happy with the way the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘family’
You would think…
Posted in family, writing, tagged family, kids, writing on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Playin’ in the Garden with Ruby
Posted in family, tagged family, garden, kids, Ruby on June 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ruby found a lady bug in the garden today. This was after she sat with me at the table on the patio with a pencil and some scratch paper, working on her ’story’ while I worked on a hard-copy edit of mine. So, here you have it: the aphid-eater and the [...]
This and that and Indie, too
Posted in family, writing, tagged family, kids, writing on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I posted the prologue to Devil You Don’t, the story that is being considered by a publisher right now. I’d love to know what you think.
I’m 11,000 words into my short story for the Pink Petal anthology. I was struggling with it, but finally came up with a solution to my problem that [...]
Red Umbrella Memories
Posted in family, musings on, writing, tagged family, kids, swimming, writing on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have this very strong memory of my mother.
Every summer, from the weekend after school let out until Labor Day, she took us to the beach or the park nearly every day. She’d sit under a huge red umbrella and read trashy romance novels and let us play until we were literally wilted with [...]
Post, the First
Posted in musings on, writing, tagged family, writing on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If I close my eyes and let myself go there, I can picture exactly what it will feel like when I get The Call.
My heart will stutter, but not completely stop. I will remember the next breath that I suck into my lungs as my first breath as a writer-who-will-be-read. A writer-who-will-have-her-name-on-a-book. [...]
