No Ghosts. . . On Halloween?!?!

I was told last night, by a friend, that a waiter at Manresa Castle told her that the stories about the castle being haunted were made up for marketing purposes. Hmm I guess that means that I’m going to have to go ghost hunting and FIND those ghosts! I mean, they were on TV on the MOST TERRIFYING PLACES IN AMERICA, so they gotta be there somewhere! Don’t they?! LOL!

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Tis the Season to VOTE!

HEY! I’ve added a new poll to my blog site! It’s a Bill to combat the Counterfeiting and Infringement of online materials! I hope to see some of my manuscripts there one day. VOTE!

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Scarier Than A Ghost!!

What’s scarier than ghosts?! Missing Data; that’s what! I am working on the final chapters of my work that I plan on submitting ASAP and I was just finishing the very end of one of those chapters and POOF! It was All Gone! That was very exciting in a very scary way if you ask me!

Now, I’m not a techno wizard, and I just received an HP Mini Notebook for my birthday from my bf and it’s always doing stuff that I’m not expecting! But wiping my monitor clean of a WHOLE Chapter is a first!

Luckily for me, my bf, who IS a techno wizard (at least a good deal more than me), was sitting by my side, so he reaped the benefit of my harried few moments of anxiety. LOL! (Now I can laugh about it, but at the time …) Of course, he found it and brought it all back up on screen for me and I was able to finish up and SAVE it! He also put an icon on my machine so I can fix it if that ever happens again!

How about you? Have you ever had anything techno or otherwise happen to you that you thought was scarier than a ghost?!


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Doing the NaNo

Next month (November), I’m going to be doing the NaNo! (No, it’s not a dance.) LOL! Next month is National Novel Writing Month during which writers commit themselves to writing a fifty thousand word novel within the thirty days of the month.

I did it last year and I “won” by completing the first draft of my work in progress. Now I’m polishing it up and getting it ready for submission to an editor. That’s the way it works. You write like crazy for thirty days, giving no regard to the story’s grammatical cohesion, etc. You just write. (The rest can be fixed later.)

I’m working real hard on polishing last year’s novel, and now I’m excited about what next month’s novel will give me to work on! (Of course, I know I’ll win again.) My NaNo award is now posted in my email’s sig tag, but with the award I’ll receive next month, I’m going to start posting them here, in the AWARDS section of this page.


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Challenges

This is kinda COOL! Today is 10-10-10! (I wonder what is forecast for today?!)

But I digress . ..

This month (October) I’ve decided to do the BIAM challenge. I’ve never done this before but it sounds like an excellent way to get my work in progress finished! Wish me luck!
How about you? Do challenges inspire you to finish projects?


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This Could Not Wait!

We were unable to get one of the haunted rooms at Manresa, but we got one right acrosss the HALL! (and there's still the little girl who wanders the hallway) FUN, FUN, FUN! My bf says we should get one of those ghost hunting things where we can trap one in a box. LOL!

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This couldn't wait!

We were unable t get one of the

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more on that Haunted Castle!

Remember that blog I posted last week about the Haunted Castle that my RWA chapter is going to have a Writer’s Retreat at?!

It’s Manresa Castle in Port Townsend, Washington, and on the night of September 28, 2010, I watched an article about the Castle on the MOST TERRIFYING PLACES IN AMERICA TV show!!! It’s a most Terrifying Place in America!! There's a little girl, a grieving young woman, and a man there!! (all dead, of course) This is going to be an Exciting Retreat!!

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