What to do, what to do? Do people even read fiction anymore? Lots of people are writing it, but who's reading it? How many times do I hear someone say something like, "But is it true?" Or "I like true stories about real people." Real people? Who are they? The people on reality television? Eeek! …
Author: mapelba
I'm a writer, artist, teacher, mother, wife, daughter, friend, coffee addict... What else? A success, a failure, a mess, a fan, a hater of housework, a lover of dogs, a liberal, an obsessive, and a bunch of other things that probably would never occur to me. I reveal myself in more ways in my writings and art than in any list of adjectives. And whoever you are, I hope most of all that you are a reader.
Running Away
Writing a blog in real time and writing a novel (what? in fake time?) is messing with my head. I feel like that guy in Stranger than Fiction when the psychiatrist tells him he has schizophrenia and he keeps telling her he doesn't. Oh the voices! But of course I'm the narrator and sometimes I …
Writer on the Roof
Sometimes I think being a writer is a bit like working really hard to scale the walls of a skyscraper when you're terrified of heights.
Wow, you’re tall.
This blog is supposed to be about the writing life and the life of my characters. But this I just have to go on about. So, I decide to put my blogs on Globe of Blogs, and there is this amazing list of topics to check regarding said blog. These categories are divided into categories …
omg…what do you mean I have to work?!
Today vacation ended and I had to head back to school, and my heart was not in it. There was a time when new notebooks, pens, highlighters, and textbooks gave me a thrill--I mean few things say my future's so bright as a new notebook. I could spend way too much time picking just the …
A Little Bit of a Jerk–But Not Too Much of a Jerk
One character who gets talked about in the blog is Tim. Course, since he doesn't work at The Sunlight, he doesn't get a word in, but he's a presence all the same. But he's also a character in the novel I'm working on which takes place before the blog begins. So I know things about …
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One Sign of Writing Too Much
When you dream that paper with words scrawled over every piece is dropping from your finger tips, maybe you've spent a lot of time writing. Just a possibility. My fingers actually feel tired this morning...
Evil Characters
In the novel I'm trying to finish now, a girl is wrecking havoc on her sister's life. It amazes me how many characters I find to help her in this endeavor. Where do these people come from? An unoriginal question, but it's hard not to ask it when these vindictive, cruel, thoughtless people come out …
a scan for alien tech
Well, I can't do a scan for alien tech ala the Doctor or Captain Jack, but I feel like an alien has taken up residence in my laptop and only a professional is going to get the blighter out of there. Unfortunately, while the Doctor saves the day for free, earthling techies do not. But …
mercie and her future
Tonight Mercie has a date. How ridiculous this date is going to be remains to be seen (the night is young!), but it will not lead anywhere. This is a note to my future NaNo self that she must be single come November. Very single. And celibate (as these two things not necessarily related). I …
Marta Pelrine-Bacon 