WIP Wednesday: Back to the Drawing Board

As I wrote about last week, I'm rewriting my V-Day novel from scratch. Many of you told me in the comments that I was not crazy, and I ...

A Story A Week: The Tiffin Box

On Sunday I realized I hadn't started a story for this week. Even worse, I didn't even have an idea for a story. I decided to give ...

Rainbows and Other Randomness

On Thursday night, my kids saw their first American rainbow from our deck. I had to remind my son of the time he asked me, "Mom, are ra...

Active Writing

What's cooking? I don't know yet. It's a lazy Saturday afternoon and I haven't thought that far ahead. I'm still exhau...

Friday Free for All

What's Cooking? I finally found where they keep philo dough at the grocery store (in the frozen section with the pie crusts, in case yo...

Taking Criticism

I entered Authoress' 25-word critique fest over on her blog, Miss Snark's First Victim . Here's my entry -- the first 25-words f...

WIP Wednesday: Done

How often do you get to say DONE to an Work-in-Progress? The answer is: NEVER. At least, that's my experience. I guess when eventually t...

A Story A Week: Ballerina Mom

I wrote another ballet story this week. I won't be posting it because I'm hoping to submit it to Highlights magazine. I know, I kno...

Only in China: Weather

What's cooking? Someone actually said they missed this "What's Cooking?" bit at the beginning of my posts! Whoda thunk? S...

Worst Storyline Ever

Over at Guide to Literary Agents, they're having a "Worst Storyline Ever" contest . Too hilarious. Even if you're not goin...

Procrastination Works

First of all ... Check out Myrna Foster's blog Night Writer (I love that name!) for a great (autographed) book giveaway opportunity. I d...

WIP Wednesday: Snail Mail 101

It's that time of the week again! Where am I? What am I doing? I'm slowly eeking out an ending to my WIP. It's not easy. Beside...

A Story A Week: Permanent

During their drive back to the hotel after a family reunion, Mandy feigns sleep in order to evesdrop on her parents' conversation, a con...

Classic Onion

My sister sent me this link YEARS ago via email. I still had it in my inbox, and was delighted to see it still worked. Hilarious take on rom...

Remove Your Shoes ... Please

The other day I went over to my friend's house for a meeting. I was the last one to arrive (as usual!). As I closed the front door behin...

Provision 4

What's cooking? Spaghetti. (This is one word I ALWAYS spell wrong. Thanks, Michelle, for pointing out my typo!) Nobody complains about ...

Write Like a Man

What's cooking? Nothing because we're heading up to Yakima again for the Girls' Basketball 2A State Finals. Go Mustangs! So, it...

Crumbling Foot & Other Randomness

What's cooking? Probably pizza. The frozen variety. Thanks for all the great comments on Wednesday's post. I appreciate you sharing...

WIP Wednesday:To Quit Or Not to Quit....

What's cooking? Tonight we're going to Yakima to watch the Lady Mustangs in the Basketball State Championships. We're going to ...

A Story A Week: Arabella Twirls

There is a story this week, but it's in a Word document and not here. I'm not quite ready to post it yet because I like it and I thi...

Montana

What's cooking? It's fajitas tonight! This morning I took the little girls with me to the post office to mail a package. ANNA: Why ...

It's Fake

What's cooking? Well, nothing at the moment, seeing that it's past midnight! (Yes, I'm on my way to bed.) We had a family night...

Yum Yum

Literary Agent Kristin Nelson begins every one of her posts answering the question: "What's playing on the iPod right now?" I...

Inspiration Thursday

"Mommy, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up!" Note: The "laptop" on which Anna is typing is of the McDonald...

WIP Wednesday: Spring and Other Stories

Look what popped up in our front yard yesterday. I think it means Spring has come to Central Washington State. And to celebrate, Sophie lear...

A Story A Week: Ditch and Sky

In this week's story I wanted to focus on voice. It's experimental. I guess I saw him settling down a few different times before it...