when i finished reading let's pretend this never happened about a year ago, one of the things that stood out to me, i mean aside from the fact that it is snort-so-loud-you-disturb-the-guy-in-the-plane-seat-next-to-you funny, is the fact that it took her 11 years to write. eleven! but then again, i suppose i never really stopped to think about ...
call me maybe
it was a friday. a rainy one at that. and while fridays are often exciting in their own right (if only for the fact that they are the corridor to the weekend), this one in particular was more noteworthy than most. we had dated briefly in the winter of 2010. and despite its brevity, the relationship, or ...
between the head and the heart
you write the first draft with your heart and you rewrite with your head. the first key to writing is to write, not think. sean connery | via i told myself that i was going to dedicate my christmas vacation -well, at least some of it -to editing my book. you know, get into the really nitty ...
resolutions shmesolutions
i'm not usually one for new year's resolutions because frankly i don't want to wait 365 days to make a change or chase my dreams. but since i was already brainstorming things i'd like to accomplish in the not so distant future and today just happens to be january 1st (happy new year, bee-tee-dub), i ...
oh darling
darling. of all of the pet names, i find this one perhaps the endearing. especially when it's pronounced, dawwwwwlinnnnggg. but this post isn't about pet names, or even pets for that matter. i just wanted a clever way of opening this little post. you see, darling is the name of a magazine that is pretty amazing in ...
stick a fork in it
so remember that one time I wrote a book? yes, ladies and gentlemen (because I’m learning more and more how many gents actually make up my regular readership and it makes me equal parts happy and flattered), sunday night around midnight, so maybe I should say yesterday morning?, I put a fork in a project now ...
in the end
they say penning the first sentence of anything is the hardest part. and while that is true, i have to believe that bringing a composition to an end is equally as arduous a task. and maybe that's because unlike movies, and pints of ice cream, and even days on the calendar, a collection of the ...
how he met my mother
(no, your eyes don't deceive you, that IS sentence case you see. for your friday, i figured i'd let you in on another chapter from the "it's taking MUCH longer to write than i had originally envisioned" book. the snippets have to buy me some time though, right? i like to think so). They say you ...
dear ex, thank you, love me (an introduction)
so this has to be the scary thing i do for the day because i'm about to give you a sampling of a project i've spent the last nine months or so pouring over (GULP), so obviously it's quite close to my heart. and though it's still very much a work in progress (kind of like me in ...
all in a weekend’s work
aims for the weekend (in no particular order): avoid pulling a hammy (or any muscle for that matter) slash avoid dying on my first run in over nine months try to look at least semi-attractive on said run (hey, a girl can dream) oh yeah, try not to embarrass my boyfriend also on said run ("oh that girl? yep, ...