Mega Millions

So what would you do if you won a mega million dollar jackpot?

Aside from pay off all my bills and take a nice long vacation, I'm not really sure what I would do. I think I'd like to set up some kind of foundation, maybe to fight hunger, another one to rescue animals...and I'd invest.

I wouldn't go on a crazy shopping spree, as much fun as it sounds, because I think buying everything in sight would get old fast. I'd miss going to garage sales and finding cool things for next to nothing. I wouldn't buy a fancy car, just one that runs well and pay a good mechanic to keep it in perfect shape. I wouldn't buy a lot of jewelry since I rarely wear it.

I would definitely travel first class, everywhere, and I would probably trade up to a house with an indoor pool.

What would you do with a truck load of money?

What's the soundtrack in your head today?

Thanks to my husband, all I can hear playing in my head is "Man or Muppet" from the new Muppet Movie.

This does not bode well for writing romance that does not include any Fabricated American characters.

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?

Scene history 101

Here's a day in the life of a scene in my WIP - or maybe more like a week in the life:

1. Wrote the scene.
2. Got stuck on following scene
3. Went back and read the scene.
4. Hated the scene.
5. Edited the scene.
6. Read it again, still hated it.
7. Copied and pasted the scene into a document called "DELETED SCENES".
8. Deleted scene from draft.
9. Started new scene.
10. Got one sentence written.
11. Gave up on scene, took afternoon off.
12. Reread scene from DELETED SCENES.
13. Decided it really wasn't so bad.
14. Copied and pasted scene back into draft.
15. Went on and wrote following scene.

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?

Do you ever wonder...

If the situations you create in your stories will seem too far-fetched for readers? The funny thing is, the weirdest things I've written are based on real happenings. They say truth is stranger than fiction, but do readers really believe that?