I'm back!

Wow, what a chore! Blogger just froze on Jen's Attic. It was fine on my other blogs, but this blog froze. I tried everything I could think of, emailed blogger...still waiting to hear from them! Anyway, what we have now is a temporary fix until I get a new website and blog built.

Thank you to NATALIE COLLINS for helping me! She knows waaayyyy more than I do about this stuff. I know enough to get myself IN trouble and Natalie knows enough to get me OUT of trouble. I'm super lucky to have a friend like Natalie!

Alrighty then--here's a question: Why do people go to the gym to work off stress then spend all their time on their cell phones?????

Test Post

Testing

Blogger Trouble

Maybe this will post. I've contacted Blogger and asked for help, but I'm having trouble getting any of my posts to publish. That's part of the reason I'm going to have a professional blog done next year! Anyway, I'm here, and I'll be back as soon as I resolve this issue.

Missed Opportunity...

I missed my chance to grab up BEYOND THE BOARD ROOM by Maureen Child on Saturday. I am smacking myself over and over. I hereby swear that I will get to the bookstore by Friday and buy this book! Maureen's books are a perfect way to de-stress!

Don't you miss an opportunity. Snatch up BEYOND THE BOARDROOM first chance you get!

Rinse and Repeat

Many years ago, we brought home a Nintendo game system. My oldest son loved SuperMario and would play it over and over.

I tried a couple times, but the game drove me crazy because I kept having to go back to the beginning and start over. I HATE doing stuff over. Heck, I rarely even re-read a book. Once I've read it, I'm done!

Except in writing.

My current book is wandering off the synopsis and trying to tell me something. I know this because I have probably written and tossed a 100 pages. Something is off and it's starting to dawn on me what it is.

I'm in the Middle of the Book Slump. The point in which it's slowing sinking into my brain what is working and what isn't. It's really crummy time of the year for this to happen, but there it is. I'm going to have to redraw some of the book then rewrite.

Once I figure out the problems, I'm actually fast at rewriting (usually). I tend to like rewriting because I'm getting it right. I get excited and don't want to stop until I get to the end. I'll do it as many times as it takes.

Unlike that Super Mario game. I fianlly just refused to play at all. Besides, my son kept beating me. Every Single Time!!!

So I'm going to spend some real time thinking this over how to fix the book (while Christmas shopping, baking, doing interviews...) then tackle start rewriting.

Okay time to confess--what do you do over and over until you get it right?

What's Hits Your Funny Bone?

I'm blogging over at MURDER SHE WRITES today about writing humor.

Which got me thinking--what's the funniest books you've ever read? I've read so many it's hard to think of one. I'm going to go with Susan Elizabeth Phillip's NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE. A definite case of the jock vs. the brain. Both of them had preconceived ideas of what a jock and brain were, and it was hilarious to watch them find out the truth about each other.

You?