The Warrior Muse is hosting the Choose Your Own Apocalypse Blogfest today. I admit I forgot--signed up days ago, but neglected to actually ...
The Warrior Muse is hosting the Choose Your Own Apocalypse Blogfest today. I admit I forgot--signed up days ago, but neglected to actually ...
A nice milestone to close my first whole year of being a writer: I get to see my words on an actual, physical, print publication . A novel-...
You have favorite lines from Shakespeare, don't you? Roald Dahl, Margaret Atwood, James Joyce? Lines so poignant, so rife with truth tha...
I was invited to participate in the NEXT BIG THING blog hop by the awesome Vanessa Wu of Intense Sensations (read her awesome Big Thing pos...
Originally posted on April 18 this year, for the A to Z Challenge: Progress. Brought to you via the Deja Vu Blogfest , courtesy of DL Hammon...
Last week, for the first time ever, a spam comment made its way past the Blogger filters. First time in eighteen months . Like everyone, I g...
On Friday I skidded past the NaNo winning line at 50,022 words and felt all good and self-satisfied with myself. I decided to take the week...
Which makes me a
Pffff... I'm aiming for a historic redefinition of the 'comeback' concept. See that slump there, from Day 17 to Day 25. I flatli...
Have you ever given a stranger's child a gift? Maybe a colleague invited you to their son's birthday party, or Bar Mitzvah, or Chris...
So I didn't make those 5K I promised the other day... Or any day since. *Sigh* But I did manage to catch up, at least to the par per da...
I have been remiss in my NaNo updates, haven't I? Yeah... Well, I've been remiss in my NaNo, period. I'm far behind my goal of 3...
A great compilation and comparison of 10 bestsellers at City Lights (San Francisco) and McNally Jackson (New York), via SF Weekly Blogs ....
Why do I care, you say? I'm Mexican, not American, right? Plus, I live on a Caribbean island faaaar removed from American politics. Righ...
Yep, I started at midnight. Hope to get in enough word count to make me feel a bit more comfortable about that 75K goal I've committed t...
If you missed this on Poets & Writers , read it. Seriously.
With NaNo prep running rampant everywhere, the forums teeming with excellent plots and characters so alive you hear their pulse, isn't ...
Today the great Chris Kelworth features me in his NaNo Spotlight series. Come on over and join the conversation!
NaNo begins in 15 days, and I'm beginning to have serious doubts on whether I can reach 50K or not. Last year , my first, was tough eno...
According to Blogger's counter, Quiet Laughter just got 25,005 views--yay! A triple round of Tequila Gratitude for all you wonderful peo...
In case you missed this on Flavorwire: Famous Authors' Funniest Responses To Their Books Being Banned . My favorites? No, no--don't ...
Last year was my first NaNo . Yeah, I won with 54K (or was it 52K? Oh, oops-- 50,582 :D Bit full of myself, aren't I?). As soon as it w...
The last weekend of September I got a call from CARF . "There's a dog at the dump," the woman said. "We've been feedi...