One of the things that motivated me to start writing was the idea of self-publishing, which is essentially publishing something on your own without having to go through a company publisher.  Amazon's self-publishing service CreateSpace was what really grabbed my attention more than anything else.  I…

Yesterday, after the SheWrites chat concerning blogging and advertising, I realized that my most current blog wasn't going to help me in a publishing sense.

As such, I've started a new blog focused on my writings.  

I have high hopes for this.  I've spent the better part of the morning fussing over backgrounds and templates, and am still not 100% satisfied.  I hope I can find a style and…

For the past few days, I've avoided doing anything involving writing.  I couldn't really say why; I just didn't feel like it is the best excuse I can come up with.

While driving to EarthFare this afternoon, and listening to Kerli, I became more certain of my direction than ever.

When I was a child, I created vast, strange fantasy worlds that I know no one else understood.  Most kids have one or two imaginary friends, at most; I had an entire imaginary…

My mind and heart are torn between projects.  Two in particular.

One is a fantasy story about a lost princess finding her destiny.  The other is a vampire novel about redemption and what it means to be loved by God.

The biggest problem I have with these two is that they are connected.  I can't explain why or how here in public, but they are.  In some pretty major ways.

I don't know if anyone has ever read any of Stephen King's The Dark…

Something strange I've noticed about myself is my unwillingness to be creative on happy, sunny, responsibility-free Saturdays, but feel more creative when I'm unhappy, miserable, and should be doing something else.

I don't know why.  It's a really strange phenomenon, and it takes something of a mental trick for me to convince myself to actually work on writing on the weekends.

This is how I think:

"It's Saturday!  I have plenty of time to…

Today I was introduced to the idea of using Character Sheets to flesh out my characters.

Two things came to mind when I saw one someone had graciously posted for others to look at.  

"Huh, that reminds me of D&D."

"My characters reveal themselves like any real person does:  slowly, and a little at a time.  Will this really help develop them with my style of writing?"

The D&D thing refers to the infamous tabletop game…

Earlier when I started this entry, the title was going to be "dismay: character sheets".  

That was about 3 hours ago.

I never got a chance to have my online emo self pity-party because Husband decided to start a conversation with me about a video game deal he was looking at.

You must understand; this was by no means a bad thing!  I love Husband dearly, and like helping him with these things if I can wrap my mind around the technical financials of the new deal…

I just noticed that my blog is listed as "community blog" on here.  Very strange.

Anyways, I've written very little today.  For some reason, it's hard to do routine things when I have plenty of time for them.  I do them when I'm at my boring secretary job, but I don't do them when I'm relaxed and at home:  Regular prayer, morning devotional, fictional writing...even brushing my teeth gets thrown to the wayside.

I don't know what I want from the weekends, but…