Four years ago, I began to write a YA that I intended to be something like Griffin & Sabine. In other words, tangible, colorful, unique, with letters you could physically remove from envelopes. I had an idea of putting together a scrapbook of a girl's senior year...

  Don't you love those two little words when you're a writer. Especially when you finish your revision four days ahead of schedule? Yep. I did. For the first time in nearly four years, I don't have a definite project waiting in the wings for me. Oh, sure...I have...

  My revision has been going really well, but today I wrote in circles. After many hours of this I realized I should start my "day off" (Mondays) a bit early. Some days it's like that! But I'm almost done and will meet my self imposed deadline of next Sunday for...

If you're a writer, you have to read this. If you're in love with a writer, you have to read this, because chances are, you help make this bravery possible. Janet Reid's The Two Parts of Brave

So, if I go back to my original schedule, then Wednesdays are for "My Writing". However, all I really have to say about that is it's going really, really well and I'm about half way through my revision and hope to finish by the 18th. So...that's kind of boring, so I...

Miss Sophie is relaxing for me. As Victor says, "She pegs the cute-ometer."

All my life I have wanted to live in the woods. When I look out my window of my new office I see...WOODS! Yes! Finally. If my posture is too good, I can barely see the top of the pick-up truck, so now I have a good reason to slouch a little, which, (unfortunately for...

Author, Wendie Old, lives in a colonial era stone farmhouse with her husband, two cats, a huge hairy dog, and has adopted her grandkid -- with his and hers and hers computers. Her new book THE HALLOWEEN BOOK OF FACTS AND FUN is available in bookstores now. Visit her...

No, I'm not talking about a messy manuscript. I'm talking about the mess my office is. The thing is, the old me would've said, "Okay...no writing until everything is unpacked and in place." but the new me says, "No cleaning until you've written!" This is helping me...

Well, not quite off and running today, but starting tomorrow I will be jumping back into the writing fray after nearly three months off. I have a Work In Progress that's about eighty percent done. It is now a sequel to a book that I wrote last spring, so it needs some...

Hi. I've made some changes to Need To Read. I've moved the actual blog back to my Live Journal where the archives work better. Also, I've put up a big list of Young Adult books that I like under the Need To Read tab here on the website, plus re-listed my Fave Fifteen...

  As you know, my cat, Grinder, was missing for almost three weeks. He's been back since last Friday and boy could he eat. However, there was one little problem. It was as if he had indeed left the island during his sojourn and gone to Mexico where he must've drunk...