Archive for November, 2006
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Reader’s Block; Writer’s Building Block
rior to starting my Untitled Work of Ornithological Unmarketableness–a bit of a misnomer, now, since it has gone through two tentative titles, one of which sounds like it’s a Houdini self-help book, and the other of which sounds like the fluffy romance it is–so much so, that the title has been given to more than […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Ornithology, Writing by CM
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Nonconsecutive!
write nonconsecutively. I always have, starting with my first FanLit entry. I usually write the beginning. Then I write the end. Then I write a good bit in the middle that I have planned. Gradually, the whole swells.
I haven’t been able to write a whole chapter linearly either. […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Ornithology, Writing by CM
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Nonromance
or an aspiring writer of romance, I have to admit that I have a streak of virulent practicality. One of the things I’m doing right now is figuring out what to engrave on a wedding ring.
So far as I can tell, wedding ring engravings are designed to make everyone else’s eyes roll. Either […]
10 Comments » - Posted in Romancery by CM
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
Progress! she wrote
now have three chapters. It’s true what they say. You just have to sit your butt in a chair and write. Well, it turns out that my butt is nearly always in a chair, but I don’t nearly always have time to write, and often, what I want to do when I don’t have […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Ornithology by CM
Monday, November 20th, 2006
Tortured Heroes
have to admit, I love a good tortured hero. In my fantasies I do, I mean. But after my first tortured boyfriend, though, I said to myself, “Hmm. There’s a reason torture’s outlawed under the Geneva convention.” And since then I’ve stuck to guys with a little less drama, and […]
9 Comments » - Posted in Romancery, Writing by CM
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Links
‘ve added a handful of links to my sidebar. I know I’m still missing people. Please post if I didn’t get you!
2 Comments » - Posted in Friends by CM
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Pleasure for Pleasure
ike Tessa, I got my signed ARC of Pleasure for Pleasure and A Little Bit Wicked last night.
I was up until four this morning finishing Pleasure for Pleasure.
No spoilers. But I will say this — when I do say something about the book, it will be absolute heresy, and you shall all hate me.
4 Comments » - Posted in Reviews by CM
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Writing to Market
‘m not going to say I don’t write to market. I mean, I do, to some extent. I’m writing historicals set in Great Britain among the upper-class for a reason. Personally, I think that lower-class romances could be seriously fun, especially criminal-class. (If I ever write an alpha-male, he’s going to […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Ornithology, Writing by CM
Monday, November 13th, 2006
Playing with fire
t turns out my WIP has an incredibly handsome, wealthy alpha-male who falls in love with the heroine.
It also turns out that the alpha-male is not the hero. Nor a villain. And I like it. In fact, I adore it. I spit in the face of the alpha-male! Ha ha ha ha ha!
Have I gone […]
11 Comments » - Posted in Ornithology by CM
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Did you pass math?
‘ve deactivated the math module. For those of you who were having trouble before, can you see if you’re still having trouble now?
One possibility seems to be that the math module not only screens out people who didn’t pass math; it screens out people who are behind some kind of a firewall. […]
