Dear Kate:

You are an inspiration!I am humbled. While you manage to get your WriMo ass moving, I am stuck in readers paradise. I got the latest JD Robb book in the mail yesterday. As if WriMo wasn't difficult enough, now I have to share my writing time with my reading time (and I even started knitting again!)! Yowza!

Okay, so I read those Tessa Dare books that you made me read - and then I mailed the latest one to you. Thanks for the push. I did enjoy them and they were very easy and comfortable reads. Like wearing old slippers with new soles. The characters were fresh, the heroes believable (if a bit dominating) and the heroines were not too prissy!

Now I have to get into my Eve Dallas mindset. Ready to absorb the intricacies of being a famous NYC cop of the future, married to the richest man in the known universe. Your grandfather is already asking me if I have finished it... we soak them up! Will get back to you, when I have finished, to let you know what I thought!

Hugs and kisses, Wendy Pan

National Novel Writing Month (OR: Why I Might Be Writing Nonsense in this Blog for a While)

So National Novel Writing Month has started once again, and once again I am testing my sanity (and creative abilities) to see if I can write 50,000 words in a month.

So far, I'm 1/25 of the way through, and I'm feeling pretty good. But ask me about it again in a week.

I'm working with an idea I started toying with last year at about this same time; I remember it really coming together on the ride from San Diego to San Francisco to see my cousin for Thanksgiving. I honestly haven't given it much thought since then, and 2,000 words in, it's already very different from what I originally had planned. We'll see what happens.

In the spirit of the paranormal age, I'm aiming for something with a paranormal bent, but grounded in the real world. Should be fun, right? Yeah, well we'll see.

I might need to use this as a forum to write through some ideas and philosophies, so be ready. There's a lot more rambling to come.