Camp NaNoWriMo. Well drat. I did complete more than 10,000 words in April after all, a bit more than 11,000 actually. But guess what? I forgot to report them to the website. I last checked in at 5398 words. I remembered to go back today, but it’s too late. Oh well. I wrote a poem […]
So it’s poetry month. It’s also Camp NaNoWriMo and I’ve committed to writing 10,000 new words on The Illustrious Client this month. I’ve also committed to writing a new poem each day. I’m 400 words behind on the novel, but I’m 3 for 3 on the poems. I’ll catch up on the novel. I had […]
Tomorrow is the first day Poetry Month. And today is the first full day of my week-long writer’s retreat. I spent yesterday “getting ready” to get here, i.e., doing laundry, packing, and driving around town with the top down on my new-to-me convertible with my hair flying. I managed to arrive here at my retreat […]
Apparently I will now write a post at least once a month. It isn’t that I don’t think about writing for my blog, it’s that I’m busy writing other things. So far this year, I have completed a full length play, a twenty-minute one act play, have conducted an eight-week writing workshop (this Saturday is the […]
No, I don’t, but if I did I’d do it differently than last night’s show. I haven’t missed an Oscar Night since I watched the 1973 show in my hotel room in Phoenix. That means I’ve watched more than 40 hosts (some years they had multiples. One year they had no host at all. Maybe […]
Last year’s motto was “Write Faster” and I did. 2012 was a productive year. I hope 2013 is as well. I’ve written three new scenes in the past three days on my new play “The Burning Times.” The problem is, it is a full length play and my deadline is February 28th. Why is that […]
Reblogged from The Writer’s Forensics Blog: MORE FORENSICS & FICTION has been nominated for the Edgar Award in the BEST FACT CRIME category. I am honored and humbled. And congratulations to all the Nominees: Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce, as we celebrate the 204th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, […]
January is half over, and here I am with my first post. The end of the year was a good time for reflection. It was also apparently a good time to come down with a new malady, one that lasted for 8 days and caused me to have a deep appreciation for my current way […]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,000 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see […]
I am a person who keeps her commitments. I am also a person who makes new year’s resolutions. And because I keep my commitments, I tend to make resolutions that I can keep. In 1978, for example, my NYR was to quit smoking. I smoked 1 1/2 packs a day. I didn’t say when exactly […]
