Here’s one thing I learned while I was on vacation last week. I need structure. I mean, I kind of knew it before, but I’ve been trying to deny it. I want to believe that I’m footloose and fancy free. That I’m bohemian. That the only thing keeping me from writing a novel a week is […]
Self-Challenge Update
May 8, 2011 by
As you may, or may not know, last week I issued myself a challenge. Basically, starting May 1st, I challenged myself to 1) write every day for 58 days, 2) write at least 1000 words a day (1500 words on the weekend), and 3) finish the first draft of my WIP before the RWA convention at […]
The Entertainer
May 5, 2011 by
I’d like to state for the record that I love William Shakespeare. My first cat was named Shakespeare. My college senior semester was in Shakespeare’s tragedies. My college senior thesis was on Ophelia from Hamlet. I have a Shakespeare bobble-head. I have a life-size poster of Shakespeare. I’ve read most of the plays. I’ve seen most of […]
My Vacation with the LOL Cats
May 3, 2011 by
I am on vacation this week, which means I have some extra time to play around with my blog. Oh, and my WRITING. Yeah, my writing. Anyway. Because I have extra time, I had planned to write a post of epic scope. A post that would make you laugh and cry. At the same time. […]
Poetry: The Early Years
May 1, 2011 by
My friends, everyone must start somewhere. And thus it was with my humble self. I did not spring full grown from my father’s head. Little Betsy took her tottering steps towards a writing future just as every other writer does. In proof of this fact, I offer up the following limerick, which was published in my […]
Challenge
April 28, 2011 by
I’ve been doing some soul-searching recently, thinking about my life and where I’ve been and where I’m going. Thinking about goals. Thinking about challenges. It’s so easy to turn away from challenges, to stick with the normal and the mundane. It’s easy to believe that your life will just coast along in the same path […]
