Featured this month

Featured this month at The House of Blerotica is the latest story I've written entitled Arousal.

Check it out and let me know what you think. Visit the "Contact Us" page to sign my guestbook, leave feedback and contact me via email.

NaNoWriMo update

Well....I'm doing well. lol! This was already a novel I was having trouble getting back started on but putting this short time frame to it is the pits.

My main problem is finding the time and motivation to work on it. Today is the first day I've written anything. Sad to say, I'm not impressed by what I've written. It feels really dry and uninteresting. I'm in this weird place of I want to write but don't know what to write. Not like I'm blocked but I just don't know what to say and how this story should go. I didn't think this was going to be difficult to write.

It could be that lack of sleep is keeping me from being able to creatively focus. Last night was the only night I've slept well all week and that's because I slept at my bestie's house instead of my own.

So remedies for this situation: I'm going to write an outline ASAP. I've never needed one so early in a novel. Not sure if that's good or bad but I won't be able to write another word without one.

Challenge

I was introduced to a writing challenged. It's been around for years and is held every November. It's a month long challenge to write a novel in one month. The name of this event: Nation Novel Writing Month (nanowrimo).

Although a bit nervous about taking on a task such as this, I'm excited because it's going to give me a chance to push myself and write under a deadline. Also, it will give me a serious jumpstart on my next novel. Well, actually, I've started writing some of it but not very much at all. I don't intend to write this with the mindset that it is a completely written work. It's will be an extremely rough first draft. I don't even have a detailed outline written.

I guess this seems like a pending disaster without an outline but maybe this will be my outline! LOL! Either way, this will be a pretty fun challenge and I'm excited to start writing.

Update

Okay so as promised, here is the link to MSatch's story: Every Thursday. Go read and leave her some comments!

Research

I'm trying to research some things about website advertising, publishing and looking for forums that I can post comments on (only b/c I want to use my web address as the signature which will hopefully generate some interest). All of this is overwhelming. I don't really know where to start and there is so much stupid info out there that I don't know what sites are even worth looking at.

How do I begin to weed out the bs from the truth?

Dancing in the streets...

for MSatch. My best friend and a brilliant writer of chic lit. She sent a short story off to an online magazine who loves and will be publishing it. She even got a paycheck!

Unfortunately, I'll have to take the story off of THOB but that's not that big of a deal. She's moving forward and I'll be happy to relinquish the story.

I'll post the link to her publication as soon as I get it. In the meantime, check out more of her writing in the Oh the Drama section of THOB.

The business

Clearly need to do more to promote my website but I don't know what to do. I've never been very "business-minded." I guess I'm more of the let me lock myself in a room to write, pass the manuscript under the door and start writing another, while someone else takes care of the rest.

That's bad. But I just don't have what it takes to do the business stuff. I need someone to swoop in and take over the site and get my work noticed by more people. I'm feeling very unhappy with the lack of career I have. Have to make changes. What do I do?