Arlene Hittle

Category: Musings

  • 38 days?

    My friends at the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood just pointed out there are only 38 days until the Golden Heart calls go out. Really? Thanks for that anxiety-inducing tidbit. When I’m done hyperventilating over here, I need to get to query- and synopsis-polishing.

  • Choices: A chance for conflict

    My writing output seems to drop in direct correlation to any increase in blog reading. That’s a problem, I know — but if I don’t take the time to read a few blogs, how can I expect anyone to read mine? Besides, if I stopped reading, I’d miss out on gems like this one from […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]