Archive for July, 2006
July 17, 2006
11:10 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
Didn’t write a word this weekend. I feel bad about it but I couldn’t muster up one word. Awful! Really need to get on it this week.
Instead, I cleaned out my kids’ clothes, cleaned out my sock drawer (I’m not kidding, I had socks in there that were 10+ years old - unreal!), did major laundry. You know, the fun stuff in life.
I’m going to admit it - I feel a bit uninspired. I’ve done lots of research for my next book, I’ve worked on an outline (though I really need to work on a timeline - that’s next), but I can’t figure out how to start it. Ugh! I think I’m putting too much pressure on myself and therefore am unable to come up with anything. I need to just let the fingers fly on the keyboard and see what happens.
Does anybody else do this? Have a decent plot and come up with all kinds of scenes/ideas for later on in the book, but can’t get the damn thing out the gate? Frustrating isn’t it?
July 14, 2006
11:33 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
…but I don’t give a damn. My main man on Big Brother won Head of Household last night and he was soooo happy. And now that he feels confident and on top of his game (however momentarily cos that’s how it is in that house), he is sooooo damn cute, I can hardly stand it.
I mean, look at him!
Yeah, yeah, I post about this guy all the time, but I can’t help myself! And last night the live feed cameras were on him while he talked and talked and talked - and got cuter and cuter and cuter. Sigh…
I have a sickness.
July 13, 2006
1:21 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
It’s pretty much done and it looks awesome! Well, at least I think so.
Check it out here.
So you wanna read an excerpt from Release Me? Look here.
July 11, 2006
12:35 pm • Filed under: Uncategorized
…I’m just about ready to send my Halloween story to the powers that be at Cobblestone. I need to go over it a few more times to make sure it’s relatively clean and then I’m sending that puppy off.
Good riddance, I say. Not that I don’t like the story, but it was such a struggle to write. So outside of my comfort zone. But enough of my whining.
And I came up with a title! Can you believe it? Haunted Dreams, I think. I don’t know if that title will stick, but that’s the best I can come up with right now. I suck at titles. Totally suck. All of the other titles I’ve heard for the various Halloween stories are so clever, so fun. Mine is just…blah.
Enough whining. I need to start working on the outline for my next book. And I need to work on promo’ing myself. My book comes out in a little over three weeks. Aaaah!
If you’re lucky I’ll post an excerpt soon. 
July 10, 2006
11:18 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
I stayed up too late Saturday night and it fried my brain for the rest of the weekend. Really. I went over to my girlfriend’s house - she lives across the road. She and another friend were hanging out - they’re the fresh divorcees of the group, so they’ve been lying low until recently. That whole “who gets the friends in the divorce” thing was hanging over their head and I told them I wasn’t about to take sides. Just because my husband had known Anastasia’s now ex-husband since they were 5 didn’t mean I wouldn’t hang with her.
Anyway, I went over there, had a few drinkies and did a bunch of man bashing. I didn’t bash my husband - he’s a good guy and I can’t protest about him. No, I was bashing their ex-men along with them.
It’s so sad to see what people do to each other when they split up. Mean stuff. That saying “there’s a thin line between love and hate?” So true. This person you married and planned on sharing your life with, have children with, etc. - you’re so in love with him/her it’s almost sick.
Then stuff happens, you can’t work it out anymore, you break up, you file the papers. You end up hating each other and do anything and everything you can to screw with their world.
My friend’s ex came to their house when she was gone and took EVERYTHING. Every spoon, every piece of furniture, practically every decoration hanging on the wall. All of it. What’s the point of that? So petty. And these two have children - children she took care of! So she’s sitting in an empty house with their children and he won’t give up a plate to her. Crazy.
So I stayed there til nearly 2 a.m. (!!!!) and woke up at 6 a.m. (!!!!) cos of my daughter. Went back to sleep but it wasn’t good sleep. Hubby watched kids but they kept coming in and out of the room til I finally gave up. Hence the fried brain and the lack of writing this weekend.
After listening to all of this, I’ve decided that’s why I like to write romance. Too much real world, everyone hates each other, divorce battles stuff can make you feel so depressed. I know this stuff goes on - hell, I’ve been divorced so I’ve lived it, but when faced with it every day, man - it sucks.
That’s why writing a love story is so great. Let’s you get caught up in the flush of first love. The rush of meeting someone new. Don’t have to deal with too much b.s. cos you know the HEA is just around the corner. That’s why I love reading it, too.
Why do you write/read romance?
July 8, 2006
11:45 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
Look at this guy! He’s saying to me (and all the rest of you ladies as well), “Come and get me. I’ll do anything you want.”
Ha! Gotta love it.
July 7, 2006
3:05 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
…Is here.
Check it out.
July 6, 2006
5:23 pm • Filed under: Uncategorized
Yes, I have become a member of another blog. This one is a little more informal though, which you can probably guess because of the title.
So visit The Slackass Clan. No formal schedule, no formal topics, just general blogs about doing anything but what we’re supposed to be doing. Like how we’re blogging, or reading, or surfin’ the ‘net instead of cleaning, writing, sleeping, or feeding our children…
Never mind about the feeding our children part. I do feed them, I swear. Really. Just let me finish this page first…
July 5, 2006
8:05 pm • Filed under: Uncategorized
Ok, here is the new look for my blog. Pretty cool, huh? It matches my website, which is debuting soon, soon, soon!
Laura from Swank Web Style designed my website, as well as this blog template. She’s done beautiful work and is great to work with, too.
I’ve also just started a newsletter. I will be sending the first one out soon - and it’ll give you contest information to win free stuff! Gotta love free stuff.
So sign up! Please! And let me know what you think of my pretty new blog.
Click to join karenericksons_newsletter
July 4, 2006
5:17 pm • Filed under: Uncategorized
Okay everyone, I want to let you know that starting tomorrow you can visit the blog The Word Flirts. Seven of us writers have gotten together to blog about the writing life and I think - no I know it’s going to be a lot of fun.
April is kicking off the blog tomorrow, and my first post will appear Friday, July 7th. After that, I will be posting every other Friday.
Other writers participating?
What a great bunch! We hope to see you at the launch tomorrow!
