Read February 28, 2014 Checking out eBooks from the library is really cool—until the book expires and other patrons put holds on it, preventing me from checking it out again, and I was just getting to the good part, the part of the budding forbidden romance. Augh! So I haven’t finished The Secret Life of … More Reading for the Weekend (February 28)
Write February 26, 2014 I was feeling a bit stagnified in my writing. (Okay, I know stagnified isn’t technically a word, but it does come close to describing my feeling.) I’m still working on queries. That’s possibly why I feel like I’m getting nowhere. So I decided to change my schedule and shake something loose. … More Flipping the Writing Schedule and Hot Yoga Visions
Bliss February 24, 2014 I am still woefully behind on the Best Picture Nominee viewing, so when I saw that Century Rio 24 was offering a day of Oscar movies, I hopped into my car and drove on over there. Thanks to this review by Thy Critic Man and this interview with Will Forte on … More Catching Up on the Oscar Noms: Double Feature
Read February 21, 2014 Sue Monk Kidd has a new book out that is intriguing to me, because it is a fictionalized account of the Grimke sisters, and I read about these South Carolina abolitionists when I was in college. So I decided to first check out Kidd’s debut bestseller, The Secret Life of Bees, … More Reading for the Weekend (February 21)
Write February 19, 2014 Read comic books. Do housework. Do laundry. Paint toenails. Collect book jacket blurbs from Goodreads. Go to the movies. Collect more book jacket blurbs from Goodreads. Go to the movies again. Analyze the book jacket blurbs for that magic hook. Listen again to the NPR interview with the writers of Dallas Buyers Club on … More How to Procrastinate Doing Query Letters
Bliss February 17, 2014 I had to put my mom’s cat to sleep last week. The remedy, apparently, was to see all the depressing Oscar nominated movies. A beautiful sky always helps. Sunday morning I was cruising Facebook and saw a status update from my friend Martha, saying that the family in August: Osage County … More Catching Up on the Oscar Noms: The Just Shoot Me Edition
Read February 14, 2014 Wednesday night I had to put down one of my cats. She belonged to my mom, and I had been taking care of her since my mom became disabled. It’s amazing how attached you can become to a furry critter in a year’s time. So this weekend I’m either going to re-read Breaking … More Reading for the Weekend (February 14)
Write February 12, 2014 Dear Nashville, Don’t turn my girl Zoey into the token—and thereby annoying and dispensible—black person. Give her a goal, a conflict, and reaction that any reasonable person would have. So she decides she wants to be a backup singer. I can get behind that. She goes to audition and the gatekeeper … More Nashville, Please Don’t Dress Up the Black Girl and then Give Her No Place to Go
Bliss February 10, 2014 That awkward moment when your friend kindly takes a bunch of photos of you posing next to the movie poster so that you can post the photo on your blog, and you realize that in every single one of those photos you look like a total goober. We were supposed to … More Taking My Happy Endings Where I Can Get Them
Read February 7, 2014 I started Finding It (Losing It #3) by Cora Carmack. I really enjoyed the previous two books in this series, particularly Faking It, but I was a little hesitant to start the latest because it features Kelsey and she was not one of my favorite characters. She was always trying to … More Reading for the Weekend (February 7)
