RTW: The Best Book I Read This Month

Today the lovelies at YA Highway are asking:

What was the best book you read in September?

Which, turns out, is a hard question to answer because I read a lot of books in September, and I enjoyed quite a few of them. I read THE PENDERWICKS on [...]

September 28th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Reading, RTW | 11 comments

Cross-creativity

I love photography. Admittedly, I’m not very good at it. (At all). But I’m trying to learn. Yesterday morning I woke up entirely too early for a Sunday and trudged down to Miami Beach for a photography composition class. I spent three hours fiddling with aperture, messing around with shutter speeds and generally trying [...]

September 26th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Miscellany | 14 comments

The power of smell

Did you know that of the five senses, the one that is the best memory inducer is smell? Scientists think this is because smell is the first sense that we develop as infants. It’s been proven that smells can take you right back to childhood. Heck, I experienced this myself a few weeks [...]

September 20th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Miscellany | 12 comments

Exercise for writers

If you were to ask me to come up with a list of things I absolutely must have in order to write, number one on that list would be exercise, which I know isn’t a tangible thing per se, but it’s the truth! Yes, coffee and index cards and pens are great, but really, [...]

September 15th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Miscellany | 5 comments

WIP it good!

Hi friends! I’ve been pretty scarce around these parts lately. I leave for vacation in just over three weeks, and I’m on a mad dash to get the first draft of my WIP finished before then. And since I’m so deeply embroiled in WIPdom these days, I figure I’d take a page from the [...]

September 12th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Writing | 12 comments