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It’s nothing glamorous – not that anything called “peel and stick” every could be – but it is still something that makes me proud. Ever since I moved into G’s townhouse (which is now our townhouse :), I have wanted to do something about the front entryway. It’s a small little area when you first come through the door that has a tiny coat closet and a small half bathroom. The floor was a terrible green linoleum that was coming up on all of the edges. We even tried to tape it down at one point to make sure no…

Picking a POV for my WIP is feeling like the bane of my existence right about now. When I first started this novel, I started telling it in first person from my heroine’s point of view. Then, I decided to mix in the points of view of the other characters in the story, like Crash, Noah, and Carmen. Even the villain, perhaps. So, I added third person limited point of view for these other characters. The result, in my opinion, was a story that started to move too slowly. I had to take too much time to introduce each voice…

Yesterday, I finally got some pages written toward my novel! Yes, I realize that it’s my job to write those pages, but lately, it’s been like pulling teeth. My reticence has nothing to do with my passion for the story – I think about this story all the time! It has more to do with the fact that I’m in therapy and working through so many personal issues that there hasn’t been as much room in my heart for creative thinking. Maybe this is a sign that I’m going in the right direction, then, because I got a nice scene…

When a fast-working virus ravages humanity and the dead begin to rise, a band of unlikely teen heroes struggle for survival. Little do they know, zombies will soon be the least of their problems. This is my newest logline for my novel. It isn’t perfect, but it’s getting there. In order to help figure out my story structure, I have been following along Alexandra Sokoloff’s blog lately. I heard her speak once and I felt like it changed my life. Like she was speaking to my heart! So many writers scoff at the idea of plotting your novel ahead of…

Yesterday, I participated in two very different zombie experiences. First, I watched the 2007 (I think) George Romero movie, “Diary of the Dead”. I thought, hey, it’s Romero! It’s GOT to be amazing, right? Wrong. It was nothing special. Cheese, for sure. Then, last night, I played the video game “Left 4 Dead”, which I’ve actually done for the past three nights. (And, by the way, I finally beat all 4 main campaigns plus the extra Crash Course campaign, yay for me!) The zombies in one were extremely different from the zombies in the other. According to most die-hard zombie…

Yesterday, I was able to go to the Crabtree Mall. Now, the cool thing about Crabtree is that they have a Sanrio store. Other than that, it’s basically just a mall. It’s out of the way for G and I, so we don’t typically go there unless we’re specifically going to the Sanrio store, which isn’t too often. (At least not often enough for my tastes :P) But yesterday, I had two meetings in the area near the mall, and since they were a few hours apart, I decided to indulge myself by going to Crabtree and looking around. It…