Author: Sarra Cannon

  • Couture Lollipops and Turning 33

    actI saw this pic yesterday of Kim Kardashian with a Sugar Factory Lolli and it made me smile! I may not look like Kim, but I have my own Sugar Factory Couture lollipop. It’s basically just a rhinestone-encrusted stick that has a giant yummy lollipop that screws into it. Once you’re done with the sucker part, you unscrew it from the stick, throw it out, and put another one in. The one I bought is pink, and I love it! If you’re wondering how much these things costs, I’ll tell you what I paid in Las Vegas. (I think Kim…

  • Making up Names for Fiction Writing

    It’s the bane of my writing existence, really. Naming things and people. You would think it would be easy since pretty much anything goes…but no. It’s not easy for me. I know I can just make things up, but there’s always this nagging voice in the back of my mind saying, “If this book takes off, do you really think that’s the best name for this character?” Okay, so that’s probably a huge part of my problem – always worrying about what other people will think of my choices if and when I ever publish a novel. I guess understanding…

  • Back Pain Blues

    For the past couple of days, I’ve had some ugly back pains. Pretty much to the point where it’s difficult to sit down at my computer to type for more than thirty minute segments. Yesterday, I spent most of the day in bed with a heating pad, reading “Under the Dome” on my eReader. Since I’ve also had a bad cold, I decided to take a couple Benadryl and get a good night’s sleep. Man, that shit will knock you out. I slept through the night, no problem. Which is nice, since I didn’t sleep at all the night before….

  • Another Week Gone

    It sometimes amazes me how fast time flies as we get older. When I was in third grade, for example, it seemed like a week was a really long unit of time (especially on weeks where something excited was going on that weekend and I had to wait seemingly forever for it to get here). Summers were an eternity. But now, only 8 days away from my 33rd birthday, time is flying by. I was just getting used to 32! And, by the way, what the hell happened to my twenties?!? :p There is so much I want to accomplish…

  • Writer’s Block

    When you hear writers in the movies talking about having ‘writer’s block’, they make it sound like some mystical thing they have no control over. I don’t know that I really believe in ‘writer’s block’, exactly. But something is going on with me over the past few days, and I don’t like it! I wouldn’t go so far as to say I am blocked, but stopped up or something? Maybe. I was excited about starting over and getting to work on a new format for my novel, but when I sit down to write, nothing comes out. I have barely…

  • Loving my Sony Reader

    I have definitely been wanting an ereader for a while now, but I thought it would be a bit before I could really afford to shell out the money for one. Imagine my surprise when I opened a brand new Sony Pocket Edition (PRS-300) from my parents for Christmas! I was super excited! As far as what type of reader I wanted, I couldn’t have asked for a better one. I knew I didn’t really want a Kindle. They are much more proprietary and it’s much more difficult to put your pdf’s and things on there. With the Sony, I…