Karen

Happy Thanksgiving! November 27, 2008

The holidays are here with the kick off all the craziness that is the holiday season.  I can’t stand any Christmas song played before today.

I’ve baked and roasted my part of the family feast that we will be sitting down to later today and the house smells so good.  (Pumpkin pie, sweet potato casserole, pumpkin cake thing, turkey and some assorted veggies – Mom’s bringing the rest.)

In addition to my writing, I will be attending the town’s holiday parade (weather permitting) with the kiddies and that’s about all I have planned and hope to keep it that way.  Oh, and I’m hoping to get some serious Christmas crafting/present making done as well on this glorious 4 day weekend.

So to all of you, both in the USA and not, Merry Merry.

A writer’s delema November 17, 2008

I have a bit of a problem.  This month I am supposed to be working on my NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) novel but I am totally not motivated to write it.  Instead, I find myself working on other projects – the Gwen and the Tara stories – I have in progress.

I’m getting the words in and all that good jazz but just not on the piece I’m supposed to work on.  The point of NaNoWriMo is to turn off the internal editor that plagues every writer and just write and get the story down.  There’s plenty of time to edit and do reconstructive surgery on it after November is over.  I just can’t get my mind into the story at the moment.

It’s very annoying for this to be happening especially since I’m supposed to be working on the next installment in the “Fire and Ice” series.  I have all these fun things to do with Bobbie, Connor and the rest of the crew but I just can’t get my fingers to cooperate with my mind.  I’m sure I’ll get FAI2 done, maybe switching to “old school” (aka paper and pen) will do the trick.

On another note, “Fire and Ice” is selling well and I’m happy to get such great feedback on it.  If you haven’t ordered your copy, do it soon since there is a very limited number of copies for sale and we are unsure if we will do a second printing of it when they are all gone.

Happy Birthday to ME! November 2, 2008

YAY!  Happy Birthday to Me!

So far, having a terrific weekend, thanks to Hubby, and looking forward to a nice and quiet Sunday.  Hope you all have the same.

As a mom myself, I now feel the need to say “Thanks Mom” for all the stuff that started all those years ago on that early morning, years ago.   (Also, thanks for babysitting last night too.)