February 2008

I was all set to get back to writing when the little one falls victim to the worst cold in history. I’ve heard rumors of a strain of flu the shot doesn’t cover–a respiratory flu that’s sweeping across the U.S. Anyway, she’s on the road to recovery, thank

The revisions for INVISIBLE TOUCH have been sent in. *Thump* That’s the sound of my head hitting the desk. It’s been really tough getting through this book by the scheduled deadlines. One of the reasons has been all the story threads. I’ve had many to pull through th

I’m a slow writer. It’s not that I take long breaks away from writing while under deadline. I’ve always got the book on my mind. So even if I’m not typing out pages, I’m rereading and revising, or thinking of what’s going to happen next. Or a bad ha

I am going crazy with blog widgets. I can no longer change my Meez avatar, so that’ll be going bye-bye soon. I found a cool blog template, but something is wrong with it so I have to wait for it to be fixed in order to use it. I am template-blank at the moment! Also I’ve g

I have a lot on my mind this Friday. –>Writing: I’m midway through my INVISIBLE TOUCH revisions. I have about 10 more days to finish those up. I also have a new blurb and proposal to flesh out more. It can get distracting focusing on 3 three story lines at a time. heh. But

Big Brother is back! With the Writer’s Strike television has suffered a hard blow. Reality TV has had to save the stations’ audiences. Big Brother is usually a summer series, and now it’s back early with its first Winter Edition. The good news is that the Writer̵

Every writer has a personal preference on writing. My preference during a suspense scene is fast tension. I’m a big believer in feeding details for backstory in a novel, but when a writer starts to weave in details or explanations during a tension-filled scene, I tend to lose interest

Happy Chinese New Year: It is the year of the Rat… According to wikipedia, Chinese zodiac is ” … the divination of the future from the Chinese calendar, which is based on astronomy, and ancient Chinese philosophy. … This basic cycle has been constructed from tw

I’m finally going google blogger here. So pardon my cyber dust as I get things situated. I know it totally doesn’t match my site, but it’s just a lot easier to go with the google temps, especially with the widgets. It’s tough for me not to be able to tweak the

Yesterday was like any other Monday, so I thought. Until I saw a quick congrats post on the MTV blog by Jennifer Echols regarding Teen magazine (winter 2008). In “The Last Word” Column V.I.T (Very Important Teens) were asked to list books they couldn’t put down–