Hashtag fabrication

I'm a tweeter. I admit it.

I've never been a big fan of social media, but I actually really like Twitter. It's like sound bites for people who read. I like making statements and then going away and coming back later and finding out if people responded to my statements.

I also enjoy making hastags. The other day I came up with two that I think I'll be using quite often, even if no one else does.

Join me, if you want to, in tweeting the following:

#whyIdeserveicecream  - Why I deserve ice cream - Have you been a good egg today? Done a good deed, or just refrained from losing your cool? You deserve ice cream. Tweet about it.

and

#whymondayssuck - Had a bad day at the beginning of a new week? Typical. Tweet about Why Mondays suck.

See you in the Twitter verse  @ClariceWynter.

Where did September go?

It seems like it was September just a minute ago. I don't know where the time went. I wish I could say I was so busy writing I didn't notice, but I was acutally doing a lot of goofing off. While usually the cold weather energizes me and makes me want to get work done, this year it had the opposite effect. I spent a lot of time just hanging around and feeling bad for not working so hard, but I realize I probably needed the break.

I've written over 200,000 words so far this year - and while I should be dancing for joy at getting so much done, all I saw was how much still wasn't finished.

I'm a little less neurotic now - just a little less and hopefully over the next month or so I'll be completely back on track.

Stay tuned and thanks for sticking with me!

Happy September!

It's been a while, I know...I've been busy writing, writing, writing.

Now that the summer is over and we're back to some kind routine, I'm a little more focused and raring to get even more accomplished. The cooler weather energizes me so hopefully I'll be blogging more, tweeting more and gearing up for my first release in January. Stay tuned for a cover reveal - coming soon!

I wish...

...growing a story was as easy as growing string beans.

Aren't these cute? They look enormous but they're really very small, baby string beans. I'm excited about them because I have a notorious brown thumb, Seriously, I can't grow mold on old bread. But I have a fantasy of someday having a gorgeous vegetable garden. This year, I decided to grow some plants in pots because the groundhogs and the squirrels around here are pretty bad ass. They eat anything! Not to mention the gosh darn rabbits. I have to grow my plants on a sunny corner of the deck unless I want to build a fenced in enclosure, which I don't have the money, time, or expertise to do.

Right now, I have two pepper plants that are barely hanging on, one basil plant that looks more like a sponge, some flowers that are mostly drowning because of all the rain we've had here, my lemon tree - which is about three years old and doing pretty well, and then I have my stringbeans. If I'm lucky, eventually I'll get enough beans for one serving...but I don't care. They're my stringbeans and I'm proud of them.

Along the same lines, I'm trying to grow story #4 of my series - basically in a container between #3 and #5, which are both finished. I skipped 4 a while ago because the plot wasn't working, so now I'm trying to tease it out of the dry soil of my brain. It's not easy. The string beans are doing better, but I'll persevere.

On the upside, #1, #2 and #3 are edited and ALL of my covers are done!

Happy Mother's Day!

I hope everyone had a happy Mother's Day!

I spent my morning at the NYC Mineral and Gem Show. I could have spent a month wandering through all the vendor displays looking at rocks, fossils and beads...OMG, the beads!

I ended up buying myself a small dendrite...

It's a little sandstone slate with gorgeous markings on it that look like a painting of ancient plants. This picture is from Wikipedia, but mine looks similar. It makes me think of cave paintings.

After the show, I came home and actually took a nap in my new recliner on the deck! Of couse, all this relaxation means very little work got done today. So now I'm off to do some editing for novella #3 of my series.

The great news is, I now have completed cover art for novella #1 and #2 and #3 should be ready shortly. I can't wait to start unveiling them, but but my next project is a website and web design just stymies me.

Have a great evening eveyrone!

And now for a word from...

Project Runway All-stars!

For all you Runway fans, that's my daughter with Austin Scarlet at a sample sale held in NYC today.

A Rainy Saturday

Perfect day for writing, so why am I sitting around thinking about going out somewhere? I'm ahead of schedule with my writing plans, but that doesn't mean I can't easily fall behind, so I need to focus, but I'd rather go craft shopping.

How do you motivate yourself to work if it's the perfect day to snuggle up with your computer and write, and you still don't feel like it?

The mire

I'm mired in my current novella at the moment. Stuck in the middle, not moving forward. I know where I want to go and how I want to end up - but I've come to a spot that needs a bridge and I'm not sure how to build the bridge.

With another three-day weekend coming up, maybe I'll have some uninterrupted time to work this problem out.

What do you do when you're stuck in the middle?

Monday night blues

I hate it when my favorite Monday night shows are repeats.

I'm a big fan of How I Met Your Mother, Two Broke Girls and Mike and Molly. [You can keep Two and a Half Men, thanks - not much improved with Ashton Kutcher, sorry to say].

Since there's nothing to watch between 8:00 and 10:00, I'm up in my office writing - well, so far I've tweeted and posted to my blogs. My WIP is open and ready to go and I'm procrastinating because...if I don't get my procrastinating out of the way, I can't concentrate. LOL.

Okay, I'm really going to write now.