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Saturday is going to be a huge day for me. For the first time in my life, I have an appointment with an editor to pitch my novella. The one I finished last year, “Steal My Heart”, and which has been rejected three times, is the story I am going to pitch. I have been spending a lot of time this week reworking it, changing the plot a little bit to clean up some messy parts, and adding some hotter scenes to make it more appropriate for the online ebook market. My meeting with the editor is at 4:10, and…

So whereas last week was a really super-productive week for me where I followed my schedule like a good girl and got a ton of shit done… this week is like a nosedive into slackerville. I don’t necessarily think that I’m being a bad person or anything. I’m just not feeling very well. For some reason, my back has been killing me this week, so I have been trying to stand up and stretch as much as possible. Unfortunately, the second I sit back down, it starts to bother me again. Yuck! The scary thing about motivation is that it…

Last night when I was reading a book my critique partner loaned me titled, “Goal, Motivation, & Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction”, I had an idea pop into my head of how to make my own novel’s plot sizzle just a bit more. Although I have been relatively happy with my new book, I still have felt that compared to other Silhouette Desires, there just isn’t enough conflict between the two main characters. Changing the plot to this new idea would mean a slight revamp of the synopsis and first four chapters that I have written, so that’s…

I realize this is an old game. It first came out something like 2005? It’s a First Person Shooter game for PC that pits you as the newest member of F.E.A.R. – First Encounter Assault Recon. Basically, it’s scary as hell. G and I play games all the time, but it’s usually EQ2 or something like Guitar Hero/Rock Band. Every once in a while, though, I get the urge to pull a random single player game out and play for a few days. I tried to install “Obivion”, but after downloading patches and trying all sorts of things, I still…

I am so excited I could cry! An author who regularly publishes in the same line at Harlequin that I want to publish with has agreed to have lunch with me this Sunday!! She publishes at least 3 or 4 books a year with Silhouette Desire, and she has a brand new book coming out in April that has already gone up for sale on the eHarlequin website. I have been reading a lot of her books lately, and she really is one of the best authors at Desire (imho). She puts conflict on every page, making the reader sit…

How many times have we all said we were going to change our lives? New Year’s Resolutions; Diets; Quit Smoking Programs; New jobs; Going back to School…. The list could go on and on. But how many times do we really stick with it and make real changes? How often do we stay on that path to our true dreams? It’s easy to keep it up for a day, maybe even a week, but anything longer than that starts to get tedious. All kinds of little voices pop up in our heads saying, “You don’t have to do that today….