Month: January 2011
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Vocabulary lesson
The hero in my WIP, Cody, has a tendency to use big words and shrink-speak when he’s upset, angry or flustered. (There’s a reason he has a T-shirt that says “I’m fluent in psychobabble.”) It turns out Cody and I have that in common. Now that I’m writing fiction fairly regularly, I notice myself trying […]
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Sign me up
I don’t often do this, but after I wrote this post for my other blog, I realized it’d be a perfect fit here, too. Here goes: Sign me up for the Vince Vaughn fan club Has anyone else seen “The Dilemma” yet? In it, Vince Vaughn plays a guy who discovers his best friend’s wife […]
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Ineffective habits?
The January 2011 issue of RWA’s Romance Writers Report included an article titled “The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective (Has-Been) Authors.” Although I can’t quite be a has-been when I’m still a never-was, it got me thinking about my own bad habits. In the article, Diane Farr asks: “What bad author habits are holding you back?” […]
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Meeting in the morning
In about 12 hours, I’ll be at my RWA chapter meeting. I’m definitely looking forward to it — all the more because I do not have to rush back to the office afterward. That’s right: I have the whole weekend off. I fully intend to take advantage of it to spend lots of quality time […]