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Ever since I subscribed to Groupon a few months ago, I've been receiving short, witty blurbs in my Inbox everyday, each enthusiastical...

Anyone who really knows me understands that I am not the biggest fan of the Christmas season. I dislike the annual frenzied, consumer-driven...

In case you didn't see it a few days ago, The Colbert Report vividly described the last, desperate option available to the magazine indu...

Grab the time and do it—that's what I learned from NaNoWriMo 2010. Because of that contest, I wrote a 50,011 word novel in 30 days, a b...

How cool is this—I visited a local public library this morning and mentioned my YA novel-in-process to the children's librarian. She got...

Today, on my 21st day into National Novel Writing Month, I am 28,499 words in—which might sound impressive until I hit the Stats bar on my N...

A chance encounter with the cult classic, "The Room," reminded me how hard it is to get fiction characters smoothly transitioned...

As my daughter and I stood in line at the grocery store yesterday, facing a display of magazines including Us , People , and The National En...

As promised in a previous post , I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month . Here are some things I realized in the last few day...

As I said in my last post , I signed up for NaNoWriMo a few days ago, with the goal of sitting down on November 1st and writing a novel from...