Meg Cabot’s entry about the VMA’s is hysterical. Another new blog I’ve discovered is Literary Chicks - three chick lit authors who banded together to blog. Scroll down to the entry on Mother of the Year - I found it particularly entertaining.
Steph T.

The LOTR movie was my reward to myself for writing 30 pages of my new WIP, A Date with Destiny over the past two days. And they’re the starting chapters, which are always the toughest for me, since I write the first three chapters or so in order and then I pretty much write […]

,…and my dilemma. Well, first it was, did I spell dilemma right? And I’m still not sure cause it looks strange. And no, I’m not looking it up - that’s what 18 years of Catholic education does to a person - it makes them want to do the exact opposite of what they […]

…other days you’re the pinata.
Yesterday, I was the pinata and I’m still a bit sore today. But I’m slowly climbing out of my rancid mood and I actually got my next two books in the Destiny series under control. I wrote my prologue for A Date with Destiny, something I’d been […]

It’s a little sad that my horoscope has been avoiding me. It’s probably even sadder that I go out of my way to hunt it down. But good thing I did today, because it shows that procrastination really is, in many ways, advisable:
ARIES: ‘Measure twice, cut once’ is more than a cutesy expression. […]

..one pill makes you larger, the pills mother gives you do nothing at all,” observed the Cheshire-Cat. Over a hundred years ago a fine art photographer took us on a wonderful journey through the eyes of Alice. The photographer-turned-writer drew from his personal experience with the disease he so suffered from, that of Migraine. His […]

I finally watched this show the other night - caught the episode where the conjoined twins were being separated. WOW. Powerful show. Great characters. Tons of conflict, inner angst and a great setting. And then, last night, in my migraine haze, I caught the episode where the man gets breast implants. […]

Where is the line between bitch and assertive?
Today, I was told that I had to tread lightly in dealing with an upcoming surgery my daughter’s supposed to have, otherwise I’d become known as one of “those” parents.
I told that person I didn’t give a shit.
And, for the first time in my life, I […]

that he has once again contracted poison ivy. Let’s not forget that I had to take him to the ER for his last bout about a month ago. And now, I feel itchy.
He does this to me at least twice a summer. He runs through the nature study woods by our house […]

For my characters, that is. I’ve never been able to find my life’s theme song (thank you, Allie McBeal - I think this episode might be the only one I ever saw. I was never big on the whole whiny,’my-life-sucks-and-I-can’t-find-a-prince-charming’ kind of show - probably because I had way too many friends at […]

…if I can’t come back as Hades, I think I’d like to come back as a ditz. A true ditz, like Jessica Simpson, who can say things out loud like, “I think foie gras is frog,” and make zillions of dollars doing so. And after finally catching the last episode of this season’s […]

Okay - I’ll try this again. I took the quiz, Which Greek God Are You Most Like (thanks,Alison) and tried to post the official picture results this morning. And then I found out the picture is way too big for the blog page, so for now I’m just going to rewrite my quiz […]

I know I’m coming in late on this one and I don’t know if RWA is becoming obsolete in terms of not keeping up with the evolving nature of romance. The whole chick-lit thing is semi-beyond me, because when it suits the purpose of the publisher/author/etc., the said genre is not associated with the romance […]

First - here’s the link to my old blog in case you want to read old entries until I get them all posted here under archives.
(Okay - for a minute there, I had new blog anxiety. But I’m better now.)
Onto the business of writing. Today, I’m wrestling with my writing. My story is […]

Yeah - this is so exciting! A new blog that’s easier for me to use. I’m going to be playing around, adding to the sidebar, etc., so bear with me. A special thanks to Genevieve at Dream Forge for setting up the blog for me. (And, as always, thanks to Marjorie (my site […]

from a new blog I found called Cup of Chica. (Isn’t that a great name? The most creative one I could come up with for my blog was Steph T.’s blog. ) Her entry made me laugh on Monday, which, if you read my post, you’ll know that wouldn’t have been easy to do […]

…stupid people
Here was my conversation this morning with the secretary at my daughter’s doctor’s office. I’ve shortened it a bit, and you must know that I am very very nice on the phone. Very. And professional.
me: Hi Debbie. You said you were going to fax me the insurance document on […]

for not following rules
For writing, at least. Thanks to Larissa for finding this article - it’s a great one.
A Recap of Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Keynote Address at COFW’s 2003 Readers and Writers Holiday Conference By Wendy Watson, COFW member
What would Madonna do?

…although not necessarily about Friday the 13th. Since 9/11 and the fact that I live right outside NYC (not to mention that my husband works in the city) I realize that any day could be unlucky and just try and go about my daily business. I can’t really worry about the whole black […]

…in the form of actually getting paid for writing. Which leads into an interesting discussion the authors of Booksquare’s Blog had the other day, after the RWA conference: When can you say “I’m a writer” without scanning the sky for lightning bolts? It’s not like there’s an official test, and, upon passing, […]