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Writing, Reading, Annnd Tally Hall!

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

So I’ve been awake all night. No joke. And all I’ve written is 150 pages for my novel. I’m ready to scrap it all, drag it to my thrash can, and click delete forever. Or whatever. And the title. Don’t even get me started on the title. I thought that for sure Forever After was a good name for it.. Because of how it ends… No, she doesn’t become a vampire. This is not some sparkly vampire triangle love story.

What I want to know is… How the hell do writers come up with their book title. The title that once published, is there forever. I don’t want my title to be boring. I want it to be sweet. Romantic. And pretty much makes you want to read the book you know? Not just take a glance at it somewhere and keep walking. Of course, it would have to have a kickass cover, and I’m trying to come up with something in my head bur I’m not a good drawer. Nor do I really know what I want. Except for a few details.

So if you have a book out or are currently writing one, how did you come up with your book title? Is it a line from inside your book, a special unforgettable quote from one of your MC’s? Or is it just something random that came to your head and thought it was witty enough to be on the front of a book in pretty font? You see.. Forever After is a song that my MMC wrote my FMC. Its a love song, if you will. (I still have to write the lyrics but I know I want it to be sweet and romantic)

On another note, the lovely lady Kelli and I are launching an online book club! YAY! Another thing I can cross off from my Life List! Anyone is welcome to join! You can join too.. but just know that Kelli and I will be working on it all the month of March so it can be ready by April for the launch. Once people start joining we will have polls to see what your favorite genre is to pick a book that everyone might like. Anyway here is the link Paperback Readers. Once people start joining and participating in book discussions and such we will look into having our own domain. Kelli and I are really excited for this!

nn on Monday, the 15th, I’ll be going to Tally Hall’s show at the House Of Blues in Dallas! This will be the first time I see them live! And I’m ecstatic! I’ve only seen them through youtube but I’m already in love with all of them! Really would love it if they played Just A Friend for my birthday! Did I forget to mention that I will be 23 on Monday? Yeah… I don’t like to make a big deal about my birthday because I don’t like to be the center of attention.. So anyway, check them out. I also made an event page so if you’re in Dallas or the surrounding area check it out and come by! All the information is on the event page.. Facebook. The Husband and I will be going if I remember to buy the tickets today… Check their website if they are having a show near you!

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I Should Be Writing

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

I feel like I haven’t blogged in FOREVER even though I blogged last Thursday. It just seems so far away. But anyway.. I should be writing. I should be cleaning my kitchen. I should be folding laundry. I should not be on twitter. I should not be browsing petfinder. Basically this is one big list of things I should be doing. And things that I shouldn’t be doing.

Right now I’m typing on my laptop, you know the one that I broke. Well I didnt break it. My toddler spilled juice all over it. I’m not really typing ON it because I’m using my wireless mouse and keyboard with it.. because my Husband hasn’t ordered the keyboard part for my laptop. So I can’t sit on my laptop and write. Even though I really have no excuses why I’m not writing (working on Forever After) but I sort of do because I told myself that this was going to be a short blog post so I can get back to the things I should be doing. Confusing, aren’t I?

I’m going to go ahead and plug in my friend’s contest that she’s hosting on her book blog. She interviewed a YA author by the name of Patrick Doud and by entering you are eligible to win one of two of his books! Link is here. Oh and talking about friends, one of my friends just got her own domain (probably after we all hounded her to..) so check her out. She’s a very talented writer and has pretty neat hobbies too so check her out here

This weekend, I’m hoping to do some serious writing. I have to do something about this lame WIP that mocking me and calling me a loser. I really want to finish the novel by the end of March. That is my goal for this month. Finish this damn novel. I can edit later. I just want to finish it so I can cross it off my #lifelist and send it in to createspace so I can have the book (proof) in my hands and feel accomplished. I know totally lame, but hey it will be my own book in my hands. Something I accomplished. Something that I stayed up till 9 am almost everyday and wrote my ass off. Sleep deprived or not. My first novel.

And in two weeks, I’ll be twenty three and on that day, if I don’t wuss out I can cross another item from my lifelist. #OperationGetATattoo. Yes I hashtag my posts. But who doesn’t now? I’m hoping that I can decide what color I want the tattoo. But I want “All You Need Is Love” on my lower back. I’m not sure if I want it done in purple or just black. So I’m trying to decide that. Or scrap the whole idea and go with a set of different Beatles lyrics. I’ve been wanting this tattoo forever though. Since I was like seventeen but I was too scared. My brother has always recommended this placed called Cat Tattoo so I’m thinking I should go there. I’m paranoid about catching something in a ratty and dirty tattoo shop. I don’t want to be staring at cockroaches and rats while I’m dying, you know? And who knows? While I’m there, I can probably cross off another item from my life list. I can maybe get my nose pierced! I’ve always wanted to do that. On my right side.

Annnnnd a mountain of clothes to be folded awaits. Almost the size of the Misty Mountains. And you know how that big is? No? Well then, feast your eyes on this baby right here:

misty mountains

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Friday, I’m In Love!

Friday, December 4th, 2009

How do I start this post without sounding like an insane writer? I can’t. So I’m just going to start off by saying I’m having NaNoWriMo withdrawals..

Withdrawals? You ask. There’s nothing like waking up frantically from a well deserved nap and freaking out because you need to write to update that wordcount of yours. That has happened to me for the past several days. Then I realize that its over and I finished my 50K and can’t go back to sleep after that.

So if you see me tweeting at four or even eight in the morning, trust that I have not gone to sleep that morning (or night) but that’s only the result of NaNo eating your soul. Not that I wasn’t an insomniac before NaNo, but insomnia has bumped up to the third power with this whole ‘can’t sleep, my novel will eat me’ stuff.

I miss sleep. A lot. But I can’t go to sleep, even though I know I will be a walking zombie the next day or the whole month for that matter. The problem is that I can’t STAY asleep. I wake up from a nightmare that I somehow didn’t make it across the finish line by like three words and then I cry. Totally lame, I know. But that’s what happens when you don’t sleep for almost a whole month and struggle to catch up on your wordcount.

I’m slowly returning to normal. And? I had four hours of sleep last night (I think?) Soo I’m getting there. Still have the bags under my eyes to prove I’m a zombie. But I know ill see a lot of the characteristics I have on a bunch on other people at the TGIFO party with a bunch of crazy-ass writers who were insane enough to write 50K or more words in a month.

So now I’m going (to try) to catch up on my reader because I haven’t I’ve been neglecting it. But right now its pretty tempting to click mark all as read and force myself to sleep. But not before I make breakfast and all of that. It just isn’t right to have over nine hundred unread items in your reader. I should totally hire someone to read them for me and summarize them in three words like oh so and so is pregnant and look! Wedding pictures! But yeah.

Oh! Tomorrow we are going to the Neiman Marcus Children’s parade in Dallas! Yay! This will be my daughters first parade and I know she’s going to love it! Oh and did you know I was in that same parade way back in 2003? Uh-huh. True story! That’s all for now.

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:Breathe:

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

I can finally BREATHE.

I am no longer behind in NaNoWriMo! Im sitting on exactly 40,000 words right now and Im feeling gooood I’m actually where Im supposed to be today and it took like almost forever to catch up, but I finally did it! Now I just need 10,000 more words and I’m DONE

NaNoWriMoCan you see how far behind I was for a couple of days? That was around the time that I got a really bad cold and wanted to quit so bad.  Why didn’t I quit? Because my friends would have kicked my ass!

Writing a fifty (forty for now) word novel has been so hard on me, on my body, and mind. You have no idea what time I go to sleep (9am the next day) and you dont know how my eyes look at the moment (like a zombie).

But what I really wanted to say is that I couldnt have made it without the people that supported me; my friends, some of my family, and complete strangers. And for those who didnt think I could do it, I’ll rub their face in my book once I get it (thats one of the incentives of finishing the novel) and spit in their face. Okay, I wont do the last one but that doesnt mean Im not thinking about it.

Writing a novel about the Holocaust is really…. hard and depressing. Even as youre writing a terrible scene you cant help but cry, even if youre the one writing it. Its painful just to even write it out. Right now, she is about to go to Auschwitz and thats all I’m going to say because I might give away too much information.

Here are two little excerpts (that youve already seen before):

I pulled the silky sheets over him and pulled him towards me. “Make love to me.” I pleaded. He lowered his body to mine and went inside me slowly, making every part of my body scream in excitement.

We had no choice but to eat it from the ground. The potatoes had mold on it but if we didnt eat it we would die from starvation. It smelled foul and no one dared to say anything when the officers laughed at us for eating it.

Those are two different excerpts written for different chapters. Just a little preview to show you what type of novel I’m writing. I really dont know the genre my novel is going to be under since its really more of a Historical Romance mixed with facts and fiction and has Vampires so take youre pick of the three LOL

I’m proud of myself for not going back and editing anything. It took a lot of will power and strength to not go back and rewrite that sentence, or that paragraph, or that whole chapters. There were many (ok mostly) times that I wanted to just grab the whole thing and drag it (mac-talk) to the thrash can. Even if I dont finish along with everyone else, Im still proud of myself for coming this far just 10K shy of finishing.

So wish me luck, strength, good vibes and whatever else you send to a sleep deprived novelist. And you could send that coffee iv drip right about now. Thank you all again, really, you guys have supported me a lot and thanks for listening to me whine and cyber kicking my ass into writing again! You guys rock

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