Author: Sarra Cannon

Just a couple of random things to share this morning. First of all, G and I have been slowly watching all the episodes of “The Office” on Netflix. They have all of the first 5 seasons on instant play, so we watch a few episodes every night while we play EQ2. It’s definitely one of the funnier shows on TV. Dwight Shrute is one of the funniest and strangest characters I’ve ever seen, but so incredibly well-developed and consistent. He really makes me laugh out loud, which, let’s face it, doesn’t happen enough in life. Last night, we were watching…

G and I watched the Super Bowl last night. To be honest, we aren’t really huge pro football fans. Or even little ones, for the most part. But I like to watch the Super Bowl. Okay, so mainly we watched it for the commercials. This year, here were my top 5 favorite ones: My #1 Favorite was marked by Google’s first push into television advertising: #2. The Doritos Commercials were all really good last night, but this one was awesome. It had me laughing out loud, which is always a good thing: #3. The unexpected Dodge Charger ad. I wasn’t…

I was thinking about this last night – I wonder how many books I read in a year? I’m not sure, really. If you look through my house, you’d think I read hundreds a year, if you were to base it solely on how many books I currently own. But there’s no way it’s truly hundreds. I would have to be reading a book a day for that to happen. Last year, I read a lot simply because I was reading a lot of Silhouette Desire books in order to better write them according to their “rules”. Since I’ve moved…

Lately, I feel like I have fallen back into some bad routines. I want to sleep a lot more than usual (a simple result of the fact that I feel tired all the time). I am having a hard time getting motivated. I feel generally down a lot. It doesn’t really make sense that after a few years of battling depression, and, I thought, beating it, that this has come back. It’s a mild case compared to the way I used to feel, but I still recognize the symptoms. So why? Well, I have a theory on that too, but…

I just finished reading Suzanne Collins’ brilliant sequel to The Hunger Games. Catching Fire is a book I’ve wanted to read since the final pages of The Hunger Games, and it did not disappoint. Katniss and Peeta’s victory in the games spurred a sort of revolution in the various districts, and Catching Fire is about facing the consequences of their actions – namely Katniss’ decision to pull out those berries and defy the Capital during the games. If you haven’t read the Hunger Games series, you should definitely pick it up. It’s one of those Young Adult series that easily…

Entering writing contests is a scary thing. First of all, you never know for sure who your judges are going to be in these things. Most of the time, for me, it’s an RWA chapter holding a fund raiser contest where you pay $30 or so for some of their PRO and PAN members to read and rate your manuscript. I know there are tons of other writing contests out there, but for where I am in my writing and my writing communities right now, the RWA contests are the most beneficial and the most accessible. So, like I said,…