Celestial Chicken Blog

I finished Bookmark Now this afternoon. I read every essay in its entirety except one that droned on about McSweeney, and another entirely too-long piece of prose centered around a lesbian couple who are both writers and have lived together for 17 years. It wasn’t the lesbianism that stopped my reading, it was [...]

A wonderful quote from Pamela Ribon. Her entire essay was inspirational for me. This came from Bookmark Now, edited by Kevin Stokler. The title of the essay was “Look the Part.” “There are still days when I pace my living room, crumpled paper at my feet, rejection letters tacked to my bulletin [...]

Every year about this time, Barnes and Noble goes deep-discount on me, and I snatch up books like they are the last ones I’ll ever buy. In the dearth of books on the discount table, some as low as $2, I often find some great diamonds. Along with an Oceans coffee-table book for [...]

I finished the first round of edits of Fairest of the Faire today. I gave a copy to Lillers to read for continuity, although she freely admits she’s not a romance reader and may not be able to help me much. That’s really okay, I just want to see how it reads through with [...]

I always say that the heroines of my romance novels are a bit like me. Not “like” me exactly, but have characteristics that I wish I had. One way I see this when I’m re-reading my work is that they are practical people. I’m relatively practical, although not always, but I see [...]

Today’s Daily Writing Tips website had an article about 10-minute writing. They had some good suggestions for squeezing 10 minutes of writing into practically anywhere. None of the tips are surprising or difficult. And the fact is, I do most of them, just not when it comes to my novel. Instead, I [...]

From XKCD cartoons…this one is just ME. I have such fabulous dreams…but by the time I get to a point I can tell someone about them…it is too late.
XKCD Episode 430