Progress is gooooooood

for the liver.

Seriously though, I managed to cut an entire chapter of the manuscript today and start somewhere completely new. I wrote two new pages which I haven't done in a while now with everything we've had going on. I won't say I'm back in the groove since that would be a lie for what my groove used to be. And yet I feel hopeful because I might be nearing the groove :) That's always a good thing.

Grooveless=bad
Nearly groovy=good

So good it is :)

Have a good night.

Misty

Writing, Playing and Figuring Stuff out

So HELLO! How's everyone doing? Summer is finally upon us and I am feeling good. I have a book that needs to be seriously edited/rewritten/revised that hopefully will come out from Draumr Publishing in the next six or seven months called Strings Attached. It's part of a series that Rida Allen started with The Crooner. Good stuff that! My hero is a guitar player which is a career I've never written before. And I think my heroine has just become an electrician instead of a magazine writer. LOL!

I'm also working on writing the text/story for an online game. If you've never played a hidden object game I suggest you go at least play a free trial over at bigfishgames.com or Spin Top Games. Both great places with a lot of fantastic games. So back to my part. Orchid Games, who has put out several beautiful Solitaire games asked me to help them write a hidden object game that has really turned into an adventure game. The experience has been very cool! I never have had to depend on only dialogue to convey the story and let me tell you it is HARD to make a romance happen when you primarily have them talking to each other through letters and tubes! I can't wait for it to come out! We're almost done :)

I also have a submission out with a newer digital publisher that I am waiting for word on, though I don't expect to hear anything until August on that.

And finally, I am targeting Superromance with my next new project. This line at Harlequin has been my favorite for years! I flirted with submitting to them before and have received several very positive rejections from them over the years but I've never submitted consistently to them. I hope to do so with my current project. I love the stories they put out and would be proud to call myself one of their authors! There I said it, and now that it is in black and white I feel like I've solidified it for myself.

Phew! That was a long post after a long absence. :) If you've read this blog at all, you'll know that I hate to say I'm going to do this more often because I always end up disappointing myself. But I will say I'm going to try now that I have some really positive stuff going on and hoping to make more positives happen.

Take care,
Misty

New Book Out!

No, not one of mine, though I hope to have something new soon :) But a friend of mine, Victoria Allen, has a new release today called Aces and Eights and I highly encourage you to run on over to Captiva Press and get one of your very own. It's a short, erotic romance tale and looks fascinating! So speed mouse, don't click through websites and get yourself a slice of Victoria Allen!

Since I have never mastered the whole embedding links thing so it has a cute little HERE that you can click, here's the whole link:
http://placidapublishing.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=18_20&products_id=8

Until later :)
Misty

Snow, snow and more SNOW!

Well, I haven't been here though I have no excuse. Moving on...

I am totally addicted to hidden object games. I just had to put that out there. Something about finding all the hidden things and especially when they are mixed with adventure games. LOVE! And now I get to help write one!!!! Woot! It will hopefully be coming out through Orchid Games. I highly recommend going over to orchidgames.com and picking up one of their solitaire games. THEY ROCK! But be prepared to get sucked in and do nothing else. I'm just warning you...

On the writing front, there isn't much right now other than I am writing every day, even when I don't really want to. Which is good for me. Grows character!

Ta for now! Off to more writing where I wrangle my muse and hog tie him while I type out my five pages.

Misty

Back from the Be-ach!

Okay, so I went to the beach in Delaware because one of my awesome friends bought a beach house and let us take a test run. I am in love and can't wait to go back. I do not have a cool time line break down of what I was doing there like Natalie. Nor do I have a rambling one like Vicki Smith (or Wiki Smit if you have listened to our impromptu ridiculousness on Megan's Twitter or Facebook about microwaves). I do not have a thorough one like Vicky Burkholder either. But that doesn't mean I didn't have a blast :)

It was wonderful and so very relaxing. Lots of writing done. Since I am trying something new I decided in my normal all or nothing fashion to try it completely new and took out my tablet and chisel. Just kidding, but I am writing this book long hand which on the one hand is like OMG it's going to take FOREVER and I can type much faster, and on the other hand it is very freeing and has forced me to think a little bit more before moving on to the next word or phrase. If I had a third hand, I would say it was fun (and I'd be a favorite at stag parties!).

I wrote about 55 hand written pages in a cool composition notebook like the ones I used to use in elementary school for english stuff - generously donated by Wiki Smit since it was the one fricking tool I did not bring. I had my laptop and AlphaSmart and yet still wrote it out long hand. But it's working. And honestly that's all that matters to me :)

I will say that it snowed between 7 and 10 inches while we were there. Seriously! Snowing on the beach. It was awesome. The whole thing was.

Misty

Week 2 and dreaming

Actually - and surprisingly - I'm doing very well on my habitforge stuff. It's amazing what having to say no and start over again will do to my psyche :)

Have you ever had a dream that seems so real you wake up and have to take a moment to reorient yourself to the real world? I had one the other night and shot straight up in bed, absolutely convinced that my husband had divorced me and we had a second child that I could not for the life of me find. It was very disconcerting, not to mention that it started my whole day off poorly. I wonder why they seem so real and what they are all about. Needless to say, my husband is not planning on getting rid of me (not that I know of LOL! He doesn't even know our bank account number without asking me, I think he'd have a hard time functioning) and we are definitely not having any more children, but it was really strange. Have you ever dreamed of something so real it hurts to wake up?

I have a book that details what certain dreams mean but I've never been able to effectively use it. I either can't remember what exactly happened or nothing specific stands out to be interpreted. I don't think I've ever dreamed of falling, there are no specific animals in my dreams, or watches, or dark trees, or anything like that. But I do have recurring dreams of certains rooms or houses I've never been in. I always own them and they look either Victorian or Medieval to me :) I have no idea.

I took a class once and have read many books that suggest thinking about a problem in your story before you go to bed and you will often dream about the answer, your subconscious doing the work for you while you are asleep. Inevitably I have some freaky dream that involves chickens running around or being in high school again though I'm my current age while every one else is the age they were then.

So that doesn't exactly work :) Is there anything you do to control your dreams?

Just wondering :)

Misty

Making and Breaking Habits

I am not one for making resolutions, especially since whenever I have in the past I've always broken them. But a new site HabitForge.com has come to my attention through my friend Natalie and it's too good to pass up. You set a goal, you have to do it for 21 days to make it a habit. Every day they email you to see if you've made your goal. If yes, you move on to the next day with a congrats. If not, you are back at square one, buddy, so soddy cho ta matty.

So I'm on there. I've done my goals every darn day and it rocks!!! Plus, the added embarrassment of having other people see that I have failed is enough to spark me :)

Try it out!

Misty