Don’t Sabotage Yourself

Should have some conference pics tomorrow. 
I didn’t end up getting the writing day yesterday.  My employer needed a last minute rush job.  While I missed my writing day, I did end up witha  great sense of accomplishment last night.   Shoving two days of work into one is difficult and made my right hand ache like crazy, it was [...]

Voices of Duty and Promised Pain

I’ve been working a lot.  With the job I’m doing for pay, I tend to go over and over things because I’m a perfectionist.  Sad, but true. 
Working on that.
But because of this, I’ve been spending most of my down time trying to catch up on life.  I have two busy kids, a hubby [...]

APEX Winners and Random Links

Dorris Beaird and Carol Shenold are winners in my Apex Subscription Drive.  Email your addresses to me at RElliott4@aol.comand I will get the apron out to Dorris Beaird and the evil shirt to Carol.  The real prize is Apex,but I hope you have fun with the Snarky items.
I have school duties and one [...]

My Current Obsession

Yeah, I blog about writing to bands like Korn and Tool, but I’m a sucker for any and all music that strikes me.  I discovered Elsiane on Last FM and was instantly hooked.  You can listen to them there or on their Myspace page–which has the studio recorded full versions.  But only four songs!
This CD [...]

My CP Gave Me A Disgusting Nightmare

Warning:  If you are prone to heavy imagination overload, skip this post.
Rachel Vincent probably didn’t mean to twist my imagination in quite the way she did.  And no, while I am critiquing her work right now and LOVING IT, a few simple words did this terrible thing. (Okay that AND the critique.)
It’s the time of [...]

Funny and Sadistic Relatives

My baby brother got married this weekend in a lovely ceremony.  The reception was a blast.  Man, I haven’t laughed so hard in years.  Even the DJ said we were his most fun crowd.   Of course, sometimes he thought we were cheering over his music choices, but no.  We clapped and yelled every time someone [...]

Where Do Ideas Come From?

This seems to be one of the more popular questions we writers get.  And yet, I’m always surprised.
My problem has never been ideas, it’s been time.  I want to live a long, long time (duh–don’t we all?) and partly because I have too many stories to write.  So my recent brain freeze while waiting to [...]

Party At Gena’s!!!!!

Go See Why!    Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reminder:  I won’t be picking a winner until Sunday, so the Apex Subscription Drive continues!  It really is the best science fiction and horror short story publication, IMO, so it’s worth the 20 bucks.  Plus, you can win one of my cool Snarky items!  See post below for details.

APEX SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE & PRIZE!!

Fun stuff this week!!!  This post will stay up a couple of days and I’ll do the drawing on Sunday.
Write Snark readers know I just LOVE Apex Digest!  Jason and I shared space as writers in a horror magazine a couple of years ago and stayed in touch since.  He’s a fantastic editor and this [...]

Conference Snippets… That Grew…

Thought I’d share some conference seeds, but didn’t want to leave anyone out, so they sprouted.  There is some fun info in here, so read at your leisure.
Pictures will come later!  In a post with less words. I was forced to use one of those disposable cameras–so cross your fingers and hope some of the [...]

Conference Weekend

I’m headed to the OWFI conference tomorrow.  It’s going to feel weird going, because I truly DON’T have a business reason to go.  I’m no longer looking for an agent and I don’t yet have a book to publicize. 
At least that’s what I was thinking.  At first.
Nah.  A writer can always learn more.  You never [...]