Author: Sarra Cannon

NaNo WriMo is off to a strong start. The President, Chris Batty (? did I spell that right? /shrug) gave the advice to start strong early, to pump out as many words in the first few days as possible. Why? Well, because at the beginning you have a lot of energy and are pumped up for the new story. A week in, however, you start to realize that writing 50,000 words in a month isn’t as easy as you thought it would be. You start to feel tired and uninspired. That’s when having a huge start can really help. On…

It’s officially that month again where over 150,000 writers from all across the globe vow to write a 50,000 word novel in just 30 short days. I was counting the minutes until midnight, chomping at the bit to get started on Pandemic, my YA zombie apocalypse novel. I’ve been working on ideas for this book for so long that I can’t believe I’m actually writing it now! It’s 1:17, but with the change in time, it’s really already 2 hours and 17 minutes into November. I couldn’t believe it when I looked up and I was already 2709 words and…

Lately G and I have been taking online surveys for cash. Palm Research offers daily surveys that pay at least $1.00, and while I don’t always qualify, we’ve managed to make over $15.00 as a couple in just the past week. Now, before you laugh and say that fifteen bucks is only a small amount of money, just think about the fact that it only takes a few minutes a day and sometimes the surveys can even be interesting. (Be sure to sign up via the link above if you’re interested in doing some too.) Plus, if there’s one thing…

It has begun. I’ve started dreaming about zombies now. It’s no wonder since NaNo WriMo starts this weekend. I’ll be starting a story that I have wanted to write for some time now. Pandemic is my title for now, and it’s about a flu pandemic that gets out of hand. When a vaccine is made, everyone at the heroine’s school is forced to get it in order to keep the rest of the teenagers safe from it. It backfires, of course, and when people start dying from the flu, it’s the vaccine in their system that reanimates them. Then Boom!…

When we are in Kindergarten, we are taught that the world is fair. “Share your toys. Be fair.” As we get older, however, we begin to realize that fair isn’t really a factor in the adult world. No one really cares about being “fair”. It’s a foreign concept. It’s a four-letter word, even. A curse. Fair? You want things to be FAIR? Who the FAIR do you think you are? When my mother was transferred out of the instructional technology coordinator position and forced to return to the classroom this year in her public school job, it wasn’t fair. Two…

To my horror, last night while I was playing Everquest2, both of my monitors just went all crazy colored. I have no idea what is wrong with my computer, but it was completely frozen and the images on the screen were barely visible beyond the colors. I turned it off, waited, then rebooted, praying it would be okay. More crazy colors. G worked on it most of the evening, trying to get it to work, but I am scared to try to plug it back in today. Right now, I have my laptop hooked up to my keyboard, mouse, and…