From Lauren Barnholdt’s Blog Introducing….THE REALITY CHICK BUZZ THE BOOK contest! The PRIZES: (1) Your choice of either an iPod Shuffle, OR a fifty dollar Amazon.com gift certificate (2) An autographed copy of REALITY CHICK by Lauren Barnholdt (3) A copy of the August issue of Teen People, which lists REALITY CHICK as a Can’t-Miss… Read More

I’m not one of those people who can sit for hours at a time writing. In fact, I can’t sit for hours at a time doing anything – thanks to my 20 second attention span. Interruptions don’t bother me. I can stop writing mid-sentence to answer the phone or chat – it’s not unheard of… Read More

A comment about blogging buddies by Alyssa, on my last blog, got me thinking. Can you ever develop the type of relationship you have with your CPs with a fellow blogger? And I decided… no. At least, not if your relationship is only through blogging. Interaction in my CP group is private – there are… Read More

Here’s the deal. Sometime last year I was coerced into starting a blog, by she who shall remain nameless. I totally couldn’t see the point. For a start, I have enough trouble getting my butt in the chair to do my proper writing, so I was hardly going to spend time blogging. Not only that,… Read More

I admit it, I’m addicted…… to blogs, websites, writers loops, msn…. you name it I’m there – lurking, posting, both… at the expense of my writing. And every day before getting out of bed I say to myself: ‘Today will be different. Today, in between my other work, I’m going to write my butt off.’… Read More

One of my CPs, Christina, has just finished her manuscript, which we’ve affectionately named Kill Lil. A huge worry for Christina was that the book would come in at over 100k – she feared it might even reach 110k. This got me thinking about why some people write ‘long’ and others (I count myself amongst… Read More