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We’re one week through NaNo. Three to go! How are you doing so far? Have you been to any local write-ins? Last night, I went to an amazing write-in here in Cary, NC. We had 12 people there. We ran period word sprints, got to talk and find out about each other’s work, and enjoyed hot coffee and snacks together. It was so much fun! I got over 2,000 words written within the 3 hours we were there, and more importantly, I made some new friends. Writing is a solitary life. Sure, writers get together to talk about craft and…

As I get past the first few days of initial NaNo excitement and head into the really tough part of National Novel Writing Month, I thought I would write a series of posts on my top 10 tips for making it through the rest of the month. I first started NaNo in 2008, just after I had started taking writing seriously in my life (meaning wanting to make a career out of it). I wrote a book called INTO DARKNESS about a girl whose twin brother goes off to college and disappears two weeks later, leaving nothing but a pool…

I know it doesn’t sound like much, but a girl’s gotta start somewhere! The truth is, I feel on top of the world. My new release, BEAUTIFUL DEMONS, went live in the Kindle and Smashwords stores just two days ago, and without much promotion beyond a few tweets and a facebook post or two to friends and family, I’ve sold 10 copies on Amazon and 2 on Smashwords. So why am I this excited about just a handful of sales? Because these are the very first books of mine that anyone in the world has paid money to own and…

Haven’t blogged here in a while, but this news is BIG. My first published novel is available now! BEAUTIFUL DEMONS is the first book in the Peachville High Demons series. All together, I am planning five books in the series. The second book, INNER DEMONS, is my NaNo WriMo 2010 project. If you don’t know what NaNo is, it’s National Novel Writing Month where thousands of writers across the globe pledge to write 50,000 words in a single month. It starts tomorrow night at midnight, and I can’t wait! If you want to add me as a buddy, my user…

The last couple of days, I have been feeling pretty crappy. Mostly, it’s the headaches. No matter what I take (Excedrin, Aleve, Ibuprofen) or what I do (Neti-pot, sit with ice pack, heating pad), nothing seems to get rid of it. I have no idea if it’s an allergy thing or a sinus thing or a tension thing. /shrug. All I know is that it hurts. This morning is actually better, but the headaches have been setting in around 3 or 4 and not letting go for the rest of the night. In fact, last night I took a benadryl…

No matter how hard you work, there is always more that needs to get done. So much so that it can get overwhelming pretty fast. When I feel overwhelmed or I feel like there’s so much to do that I will never be able to finish it or reach my goals, my first reaction is to freeze. I’m not saying it’s logical, but it happens. Doing nothing at all is the worst thing I could do, and yet that’s my typical reaction. Unless something forces me into action like a payment due or a meeting that I just can’t miss,…