Arlene Hittle

Month: October 2010

  • Less than 24 hours

    In less than 24 hours, it’ll officially be Nov. 1 — and you know what that means: The kickoff of NaNoWriMo. A frenzied month of writing. A full 50,000 words in 30 days. Sounds daunting, right? Feeling a need for speed? Hold on a minute. Put it into perspective: It’s just 1,667 words a day. […]

  • Having fun

    I took a short break from editing Golden Heart entries today to let Bethany and Cody out to play. Their conversation took a turn (for the better or worse?) to that age-old question that has plagued the males of our species since the debut of “Gilligan’s Island”: Ginger or Mary Ann? Cody, being the kind […]

  • No turning back

    I registered for the Golden Heart the other day … with two manuscripts. Yes, I think I might be nuts — or at least I’ll be driving myself nuts soon as I to finish editing two GH entries before the NaNoWriMo starts on Nov. 1. All that and I have my RWA chapter’s newsletter to […]

  • Queen of multitasking?

    One of my heroines boasts to the hero, “I’m good at multitasking.” Of course, it turns out she’s not. Neither am I. I think that’s the reason I haven’t gotten much accomplished lately. Earlier in the year, I had focus: I wanted to finish “Beauty and the Ballplayer.” I had to send out queries on […]