So, despite my absolute low in the middle of the month, and the difficulties I was having with my husband, and the general difficulties that Sotalia and I discovered about connecting novels (ie, we both took word count hits from joint scenes, we could only move as fast as each other, etc), I still managed [...]

I am done with the editing of The Mansion. Mostly. I have to type it all into my document, since I edit on paper. But the editing itself is done. I now have completed a second draft. I know there will definitely be a third draft (there are some major elements that I still haven’t [...]

Clarissa looked on as her sister, Michelle, spun in front of the mirror in her wedding dress. The white fabric swished around her legs and Clarissa thought she looked much like a princess. She bit the inside of her cheek, forcing a smile. “You look amazing, Michelle. So beautiful. Stephen is such a lucky man.” [...]

I spent most of my mostly sleepless (thanks to the baby) night rereading Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon. The thing that struck me (other than the fact that I’ve been wanting to reread that whole series for a month or two) was how much it still captivated me. I knew how everything ended and still [...]

It was 1:00 in the afternoon on the 30th when I typed my last word. I had a couple majorly awesome catch up days toward the end that really made the difference. And my attention span was so much greater than at the beginning of the month. The 50,000 finished so quietly it was almost [...]

I am behind. But being behind, and so close to the end of the month, has made me so much more focused. I bought a used alphasmart from someone on the NaNoWriMo forums and it has increased my word count by several hundreds words per day, just by me taking it to bed with me [...]

Last year during NaNo, I typed 20,449 words before I allowed myself to become stuck beyond my ability to continue. Of course, I figured out how to get past the problem scene about a week before this NaNo, so really, I should have kept going last year. But oh well. Past is past. This week, [...]

I hit 10k yesterday. I celebrated, but not for long, since I’m still behind. I should have hit 10k the night before in order to be on track for the month. And my brain is doing this strange thing where it’s moving forward from two seperate points in my novel. So I just keep bouncing [...]

I’ve had 3 migraines in my entire life. The kind of headache that hurts so bad, it feels like I’m going to puke. Which doesn’t sound like it should be possible, but it is. And last night (well, technically this morning, since it was 5am) I had one. It was fairly awful and it meant [...]

“Do you see Mommy? You’re looking at her boobs aren’t you? You only like Mommy for her boobs. That’s okay. Me too.” My husband likes to claim that the baby doesn’t like him. Which is totally untrue, she just doesn’t like him the same way she likes me. But then, I spend all day and [...]