I was a reader of romances long before I started writing them. I remember plowing through the stacks of Harlequin and Silhouette books Mom would bring home from the library, secured with a rubber band.
Remember the trouble I was having getting Kenny and Kristi to do the deed? Well, I finally managed to get them into bed — yes, I was writing @ Starbucks at the time — and
Isn’t that a song title? More importantly, it’s where my NaNo novel is as of tonight. Yes, I crossed the 25,000-word mark … important because 25,000 is half of 50,000. See, Ma? Even though I’m
Sometimes, the timing’s just not right. After trying again — unsuccessfully — to get Kenny and Kristi to cooperate with my plan, I decided they just weren’t ready yet. I moved past it, getting them
I’ve come to that point in my story: You know, the one where my characters stop doing what they’re told. That’s right. Although I want them to, my hero and heroine stubbornly refuse to do
So far, work on the NaNo novel is going swimmingly. Not only did I cross the 10,000-word mark today (11,087), my hero and heroine had their first heavy makeout scene (followed closely by their first
A couple of weeks ago, the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood blog (one of my faves) was host to a sometimes heated discussion on safe sex in romance novels. The author of the post, Kelly Fitzpatrick (who
I was all set to complain about how doing rewrites is much slower work — until I realized I wrote 900+ words today. That’s right. All I had to do was launch into a new
I sure am more productive when I can’t leave the house on my day off! That’s not entirely true: I did make it to Starbucks for a couple of hours this afternoon. I got some