http://lauraraeamos.com this is not a mommy blog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:47:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No really, this is novel research, lol! ;) Try it out! http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/07/21/novel-research/ So after having a bout of cold feet on my 1st person alternating POV narrators, 35% into the second-ish draft of my novel, I decided to look through a few of my all-time favorite books and see how they were done. I was very surprised to find about 90% ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/07/20/by-request-favorite-1st-person-novels/ Password-locked entries are to keep search engines out (or at least I hope it works that way!), and to maintain some amount of privacy on the most guarded projects of mine. But if you’re a friend or a fan in the least, then you’re welcome here. For any password-locked entries, ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/07/12/a-note-on-password-protection/ This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/07/12/character-bio-meme-danny-lexi-hannah/ Because I've been traipsing about the English countryside for the last couple weeks :) 167 pictures in total, click through for the full set. http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/06/16/why-i-havent-been-writing/ Out hiking in the woods. It's dark and ominous, about to storm, the kind of day that inspires stories... No, really, we're a mile from home and about to get rained on. Chapter 5 continues to be this big fat black hole, where I keep putting things into it, and ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/05/24/last-week-summed-up-in-tweets/ A conversation with the real live people in my head. [Note: If you are not a writer, this post may be disturbing for you. But don't be alarmed. In some professions, it is quite normal to converse with the voices in your head.] Danny, to me: What the hell? ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/05/03/be-afraid-be-very-afraid/ Chapters 1 and 2 are fine. Chapters 6 and 7 are fine. Chapters 8, 9, and 10 are in pieces, but have potential, and will probably end up fine. But chapters 3-5 are not fine. They feel like soggy bread, you know, like when a bit of sandwich ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/04/17/soggy/ Once upon a time, I thought I'd finish the first draft of my novel by the end of May. A silly girl I was, hopeful, bold, and too many clouds in my head. In reality, the end of May approaches quickly, and the novel is expected to reach ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/04/14/be-assured-its-not-the-end-yet/ Now I know why the last people left our new place - supercute apartment, but the woman upstairs takes a shower at 4:45 every morning, and the pipes/tub floor or whatever is LOUD AS HELL!!! But otherwise, I'd probably still be in bed, snuggled up against my honey and sleeping like ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/03/12/no-really-thank-you/ Our new walking trail in Burke, VA. Now with bridge spam and radioactive creeks! 12 new pics on my Flickr page :) http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/03/09/dude-its-like-brain-surge/ Well, that pretty much just says it all. January rocked my socks off! February... not so much. Between snow days and moving (again), my brain was put on standby and nothing was accomplished. Except for moving. We accomplished that. But no writing. Barely even any ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/03/08/february-which-failed-to-exist-in-an-epic-way/ I love this quote from Lorrie Moore's "How to Become a Writer": "Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/02/01/progress-it-exists/ The very month I decide that I'll post them weekly. I have been writing though, but just feeling antisocial and a little bit invisible. I added a works-in-progress page (linked in the about box, currently, on the sidebar). I need to get around to redesigning this thing properly some ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/01/27/look-at-me-not-posting-any-progress-reports/ My hubby wanted to help me reach 20,000 words on the novel. I'm not sure this one will make the final cut, but it was a nice effort. Thanks honey :) An alternate reality Danny and Lexi story, by Jim Amos Danny raised the chainsaw until it was at head-height ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/01/18/an-alternate-reality-danny-and-lexi-story/ So here is where I back up all that nonsense I committed to for this new year. Two of these goals are going to need some pretty hardcore planning, I think. the ass kicking: I'm starting Jillian Michaels 30-day Shred, which I'm doing 5 days/week rather than daily, but I'll do ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/01/05/did-i-say-that-out-loud/ I don't do New Year's resolutions (they're always just begging to be broken), but I do have some goals for 2010. Maybe resolutions and goals are the same thing? For some reason, a goal feels less likely to be broken than a resolution. Who knows... Anyway, ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2010/01/02/the-obligatory-new-year-post-2010/ not a musician: Playing this week, "I Will Follow You Into the Dark," by Death Cab For Cutie. (listen here, good guitar lesson here.) I'm in love with this song this week. It's quiet and beautiful, and it inspired a heartbreaking little story idea. not a film critic: Into the ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2009/12/14/climb-a-mountain-reach-for-the-stars/ Oh sheesh, I think I have book #2 brewing in my head! Can I finish book #1 first, please? Take a number, ideas, get in line, single file, and no cutsies! (I assure myself this time, book #1 will not be abandoned for book #2, no matter how it begs! ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2009/12/07/progress-report-take-a-number-get-in-line/ I'm a sucker for a good love story, whether that be romantic or platonic love. I don't consider myself a romance writer, but I do write a heck of a lot of stories about love, whatever form it might manifest itself in. (And I have a theory, that ... http://lauraraeamos.com/2009/12/02/writing-about-love/