Archive for January 26th, 2006

And a 3rd moment

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

I just realized that the villains in both of my books having villains are named Miguel.

I don’t think I’ve ever known a Miguel personally, but it does make me wonder about those past lives of mine.

Two moments today…

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

The funny one (synopsis for the Big Book):
The absolute hardest part of writing a synopsis for me is the “wrap-up” paragraph—the one that says all is resolved, they’re madly in love and watch the horse’s tail swish as they ride off into the sunset.
So in order for me to move past that point and start […]

Shannon vs. Word grammar check

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

I don’t write with Word’s spelling/grammar check running. Those squiggly lines are actually a roadmap to insanity, right there. But I always run a spellcheck on it before printing it to do a real read-through. On my desktop the grammar function is totally shut down. Clearly when the monkeys are taking a break from […]