Hau’oli Makahiki Hou!
Happy New Year from beautiful Honolulu, HI! This past year has been surreal. It seems like so much has changed, so much has happened, and yet everything is still the same. I know that makes no sense, but there you have it. In this year I have finished a screenplay, started a new writing project, abandoned [...]
State of the WriMo
Yesterday marked the end of NaNoWriMo and – genius me – I didn’t get around to my word validator until too late. So, I have no official word count, only what my little MS Word spits out. I’m going with that… Coming in at 47,225 words is UNTITLED!!!!! I fell short, but I’m counting this [...]
I can read!
Book review for Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl by Susan McCorkindale: I have to admit, I have completely mixed feelings about this book – I didn’t like it, but I DO like it all at once. Weird, I know. I initially picked it up because I have secretly been contemplating becoming a Farmgirl myself. I’ll [...]
NaNoWriMo 2009
November 1st rolled around with a bang this year… at least for me. Fresh off the writer’s high of my out-of-genre experience, I have been writing up a little storm here at Frog Central. Perfect timing for NaNoWriMo! If you’re unfamiliar, check it out. Sure, it’s a few days late, but don’t let that stop [...]
Open Letter to David Foster Wallace
Dear Mr. Wallace, I’ve done it… twice. I have read Infinite Jest… twice. It only took me 10 years and more than a dozen attempts, but I have done it and I am not pleased with you. At all. Let me start by saying that I get it – ok… it’s a social commentary (a [...]
