If I Were Scripting the DVD Commentary for Half-Blood Prince…

So, I saw Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince shortly after it came out. I have mixed feelings about the film, as I found plenty to both love and hate about it.
I figure the movie has been out long enough now to safely post details, but if you haven’t seen it and are spoilerphobic, [...]

Under Cover

Kate Schafer Testerman posted this little activity over on KT Literary. You can read the full rules on her site, but in a nutshell: the task was to design a book cover using a randomly generated author name, book title, and cover image.
So I decided to play along (It’s the least I can do after [...]

This one time… at band camp…

Okay, I never actually went to band camp.
But I was in a band.
No, not that sort of band. A supercool 80’s rock band, circa 1987.
Of course, we had no musical training whatsoever, unless you count forcing my 7-year-old cousin to show me what she’d learned in piano lessons for the previous 2 years. One of [...]

Yee-frickin’-Ha!

After an inordinate amount of stalling, I have finally made the changes to Chapter 19.

That was the editing I was dreading the most.

Hopefully, the rest will go quickly now!
In other news, another new edition of toying with titles:

More Playing Around

I’m so stalling. It’s not even funny.
I’ve had all day where I could have edited Chapters 18 and 19 (apart from a brief skirmish with work), but instead I’ve touched up other chapters, done global word searches, researched agents– done everything BUT edit the next two chapters.
Chapter 19 will be the biggest edit [...]

Okay, so more cover kookiness…

Nobody seems to have an opinion about the covers. So, I brainstormed a bit and came up with this: I used the photo from Cover Option 3 and faded and sepia-toned it for the back cover. I think I like it.

(Back) [...]

Progression

I am learning lots of things as I continue in this quest to finish a novel.
For one thing, I have learned what a “word war” is. Essentially, it is a contest for a group of people like myself who are writing novels to compete on who can write the most words for their story [...]

Imaginary Soundtrack

Today, I couldn’t write. So, instead I compiled an imaginary soundtrack.
You know, for the imaginary movie based on my still-at-least-half-imaginary novel.
It would have:

Blackbird (The Beatles)
Daughters (John Mayer)
The Letter (Natalie Merchant)
Half Acre (Hem)
If Love Was a Train (Michelle Shocked)
I Got a Name (Jim Croce)
Ray of Sunshine (Go Sailor)
Omaha [...]