After finishing the Immortality Virus I planned on moving on to a new rough draft — Born of Two Worlds. Instead, I suffered 3 months of pure, agonizing writer’s block. I couldn’t force myself to put a single word on the page.I don’t want to get into a long discussion of writer’s block today. There […]
Author Archive: Christine
Ahhhhhhh!
Apparently my husband made some upgrades to the web site just before Christmas and I only noticed today that as a result, many of my pages are messed up. There are weird characters all over the place and it’s going to take me hours to clean it all up. I’m taking the site off line […]
Being
There are some who, to varying degrees, suggest eliminating being verbs from your prose. Since being is such a pivotal part of our language, a building block really, why would anyone suggest such a thing? This is one of those “so-called rules of writing” that I mentioned in a previous article. In other words, there […]
New Year’s Resolutions
I’ll just be straight up about this one — I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. I never have. The idea that, “This year will be different. This is the year I’ll make a change.” doesn’t seem to be the right attitude for real change. And in fact, the vast majority of New Year’s Resolutions are […]
Christmas
Christmas is so different now that I’m a mom. A lot of people say that Christmas is for kids, and I think they’re wrong. It’s for adults with kids. Drake is thirteen months old now and I thought he might not be quite old enough to really get into Christmas, but he proved me wrong. […]
Babylon 5
My sincere apologies for failing to keep this blog up over the past few weeks. First it was birthday and Thanksgiving, and then my son got sick for the first time in his young life. Unfortunately, I was sick at the same time. (No sick time for mommies!) After that, I think I just had […]
Shadow of the Giant
I just finished reading “Shadow of the Giant” by Orson Scott Card. This is the fourth book in the “Ender’s Shadow” line, which have been following Bean and the other battle school graduates who stayed behind on Earth. I had hoped that it would be the final book, but it does not seem to have […]
Happy Holidays
Last night on the news they said that Wal-Mart has decided to go back to saying, “Merry Christmas” and that they are changing their “Holiday” displays back to “Christmas” displays. I have exactly one question about this: Why is this news? Seriously, was it a slow news day or something? If so, I can think […]
Let’s Talk Politics
I don’t often talk about politics. I’m not sure why not, because I am passionate and opinionated, but also willing to listen to other ideas and to change my mind. It seems to me that you just don’t talk about that is the name of the game in this country, but what a dangerous game […]
Halloween
Halloween is my favorite holiday. Call me crazy, but that’s just the truth. I’ve never gone broke on Halloween, or sat in the car for hours on end as I made my way to Grandma’s house. I don’t have any obligations, religious or secular. All I do is play make believe and eat candy. What […]