I’m writing a ghost story. I’ve never done that before. That means I need to know about ghosts (researching that has been fun) and beyond that, I need to know how to write scary. Not gross-out, not horror so awful you have nightmares for weeks, but good, solid, classy, supernatural, scare-you-enough-to-make-you-think story-telling. [...]

The snow melted. I went to the airport and picked up Bob and took him to iHop where I ate everything on the menu since I’d been living on nosh food while I finished up my part of Dogs and Goddesses. Then we went home and Bob did not bond with Milton although [...]

We got slammed again and the dogs love it. I’m praying that it melts before Tuesday afternoon when I have to pick up somebody at the airport. It’s supposed to be 46 then. Fingers crossed.

Well, southern Ohio got hit with a load of snow–Krissie in Vermont is sneering–and I’m trapped in my house again. I freaked because I had to get out to go north to the Ohio Valley Romance Writers meeting tomorrow (Saturday), but then the brilliant Amy Foley e-mailed and said, “Six to twelve inches, let’s [...]

You should be very proud.
Adoramilt: Love of Milton
Adosweptation: Love for a man who not only sweeps you off your feet but also sweeps and vacs the house on his day off (Ro)
Affecthilation: Affection for annihilation, mystery readers and writers in particular (Wendy)
Affiction: Love for a great book idea
Affurmation: Love a cat purring in your lap, [...]

I found this on an astrology post at the Village Voice by Rob Brezsny (go down to the Virgo entry):
“The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them,” wrote novelist Margaret Atwood. “There ought to be as many for love.” Your assignment, as Brezsny suggested, is to [...]

Lani just e-mailed Krissie and me and said that she’d heard “My loves grows where my Rosemary goes” yesterday and now she can’t get out of her head.
Krissie e-mailed back with “It’s a Small World After All.”
So I sent them the lyrics to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” That chorus is a [...]

I took Krissie and Lani to the airport today and then came home. I felt bereft as soon as they rolled their suitcases into the terminal so I went to the bookstore. The idea was to get a book on horror writing to see if there was anything in it I could [...]

I spent the whole day trying to fix that first scene. Lani and Krissie were kind enough to say I got it, but you know, at this point, the whole scene reads “blah blah blah” to me. Forget beats, the words don’t make sense. I think the window on this book is [...]

So I think I’ve finally got a grip on Shar which makes me happy although I’m still struggling with the first scene. First scenes are the worst. I must have rewritten this scene twenty times already BEFORE it became the first scene. Now that it’s first (we cut the first two scenes), [...]