It seems that I pour all of my writing energy into books now. And instead of social networking, I’m socializing. I miss blogging, though. I used to love it. I can’t believe that the whole Dating Amy project will be ten in 2012. Do you know some of those guys I dated still call? Mind-blowing. [...]
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Thanksgiving Update/American Horror Story
Posted in horror movies, paranormal romances, Television, writing, writing life, tagged American Horror Story, Francis Conroy, Jessica Lange, paranormal romance, Tate American Horror story, Tate Langdon, writing, writing life on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Zen and The Killing on AMC
Posted in books, reading, Television, The Killing, writing life, tagged amc the killing, amc's the killing, mad men, meditation, television, the killing, writing, writing life, zen, zen and the art of falling in love on April 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tragically behind on posting here. Don’t think it means I don’t love you, because I do, I really do. I’ve been revising the young adult paranormal manuscript I wrote in two months. Also have snuck in a little reading, socializing and chardonnay. And TV viewing. God, are you all watching The Killing on AMC, because [...]
Bucket List Update: Write a Novel in Two Months
Posted in books, bucket list, paranormal romances, writing, writing life, tagged bucket list, how to write a novel, how to write a novel in two months, mad men bucket list, paranormal romance, write a novel in two months, write or die, writeordie, writing a paranormal romance, writing advice on March 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
My mini bucket list is silly because 1) I am not including anything personal on it since I don’t roll that way on the Internet anymore. 2) It doesn’t have an end date and 3) It does have an end date, which is the nebulous “whenever Mad Men comes back on.” Anyway, I checked a [...]
Tormented Teens! True Crime! IFC! Kevin Smith!
Posted in Cinemas, Los Angeles Memoir, Seattle Cinemas, writing, writing life, tagged IFC, Independent Film Channel, Kevin Smith, memoirs, Movies, paranormal romances, seattle's neptune theater closing, writing, writing life, young adult novels on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Good God. I’m coming into the home stretch with my young adult paranormal romance. I’ve written 175 pages in the past six weeks. That is lightning-fast for me, because I am not a speedy writer. I really wanted to get to 300 pages and finish by March 1, but sadly it looks like that is [...]
Kevin Smith Smonologue #9
Posted in books, celebrities, Dating Amy, movies, writing life, tagged ben affleck speech chasing amy, chasing amy, chasing amy speech painting birds diner of, Dating Amy, datingamy.com, holden's speech chasing amy, Kevin Smith, kevin smith boring ass life, kevin smith monologues, kevin smith smonologues, kevin smith twitter, kevin smith writing pep talk, smonologue, smonologue #9 on February 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I really like Kevin Smith. I like his attitude, I like his sense of humor, I like his rants. I sort of named Dating Amy, the blog that launched my career as an author, after one of his films (even though my name is Amy). I love his films. He had me with Clerks, of [...]
Kevin Smith’s Writing Pep Talk
Posted in celebrities, movies, writing life, tagged @thatkevinsmith, chasing amy, clerks, director kevin smith, Kevin Smith, kevin smith advice on writing, kevin smith amy dezellar pep talk, kevin smith on twitter, Kevin Smith Red State, Kevin Smith Sundance, kevin smith writing pep talk, Red State on February 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I was feeling discouraged about writing today, so I randomly wished that director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, the upcoming Red State) would give me a locker-room style pep talk about my writing. Damned if he didn’t do it. And then, because it’s Kevin Smith:
Using Mad Men’s Return as a Deadline
Posted in bucket list, mad men, writing life, tagged boo radley, bucket list, don draper, faster pussycat, faster pussycat kill kill, harper lee, mad men, mad men coming back 2011, russ meyer, the boo radleys, the matrix, to kill a mockingbird, tura satana, tura satana died, tura satana faster pussycat on February 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Writers are a slippery, distracted breed. That’s why we function best with deadlines. Writing is never perfect or “done” so we need an arbitrary drop-dead date. Very rarely does a deadline correspond to something in the real world. I mean, I think last year one of my girl friends had to finish a novel and [...]
Writing life update
Posted in paranormal romances, personal life, writing, writing life, tagged writing, writing life, YA writing, young adult writing on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So I’ve been laser-focused on writing this young adult paranormal book. I started on January 10 and I have about ten of the twenty-four chapters done. I see that I’ve written in my calendar under February 16: “Have YA novel done.” That’s cute. I am planning on having the first draft done by the end [...]
