Today’s blog title was originally titled Food for Thought. I was going to blog on the ideal writing food.
I don’t mean food for your brain, or food to keep you from getting fat while sitting on your duff spinning flaxen dreams into the golden threads of fiction. Nor am I asking if anyone knows […]

As Halloween is coming up, I thought I’d recommend some of my favorite scary movies — and take recommendations from our viewing audience.
I like scary movies, but I get irritable when the gross-out factor jumps too much — gore is used too often to distract from the lack of plot or decent writing — […]

I think my bathrobe has had it.
It’s about seventeen years old now — I’ve had it longer than my house, my husband, or my former day job. It outlived all my plants, dogs, boyfriends — I might wind up buried in it if I don’t act now.
It held up really well. I’m serious. I […]

Jolly news! I got an email this weekend alerting me to the fact that my new laptop is on its way! Woohoo! Two weeks ahead of schedule — and, since I paid for overnight shipping, I might even receive it today or tomorrow.
Soon I shall be back in the land of the living — virtual […]

So…late Friday afternoon I’m finishing up a novella — that is coincidentally DUE that evening — and four lines to go — I mean, literally FOUR lines to go — my computer crashes.
Blue screen, large white font spelling disaster in no uncertain terms and in type large enough to be suitable for reading by idiots. […]

I’m just starting week seven of this writing for a living business (and it is a business). I still wake up with those butterflies in my stomach at the realization that I’m not driving into work. I feel a little guilty and a lot nervous — but so incredibly happy.
And the writing is going […]

Anyone else remember Baywatch Nights?
It was a spin-off from the legendary Baywatch series, except Baywatch Nights apparently took place in an Alternate Universe. For example, Mitch Buchannon (David Hasselhoff) who was a perfectly normal lifeguard by day — and engaged or married or something to another wholesome lifeguard — was a PI by night with […]

I haven’t kept a journal for years — other than one of those informal health-related things where you jot down everything you eat in an attempt to figure out why your migraines are worse — and of course who can bother with that for more than a few weeks before losing interest? But in my […]

In an attempt to amuse the increasingly restless natives — AKA my visiting niece and nephew — I pulled out my old Charlie Chan videos a few nights ago and treated them to several films including my favorite Chan flicks: Castle in the Desert and Charlie Chan on Treasure Island.
Charlie Chan might seem like […]

And what do you know? Today actually is the first day of the rest of my life.
Because today is the first day that I begin writing full-time.
Yep, I did it. I quit the day job. Said good-bye to the corner office, the parking spot by the back door, the Bat Phone — said good-bye […]