Synopsis: A substitute teacher’s adventures working in an urban, inner city school district. Excerpt: In Which We Experience Middle School Math (note: this is straight copied-and-pasted from my NaNoWriMo manuscript work-in-progress, not edited AT ALL) I had my first assignment for middle-school math. This meant I’d spend the day teaching 6th, 7th, and 8th graders [...]

I decided to do NaNoWriMo this year sort of last minute, as in 2 weeks before. Even then I did not have a story idea until the day before. Finally settled on writing a story about substitute teaching in an urban school system. Write what you know, eh? LOL Finished with 780 on November 1st, [...]

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. More: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano I’m doing it this year! I’m excited because this will be my first fiction novel. Feel free to add me as a writing [...]

It’s done! It’s official. I had the final hearing on my name change this past week. I had to give a little speech on why I wanted to change it, including the significance of each name. I changed my middle name and my last name. It was kind of annoying because the magistrate was all, [...]

I finished the Artist’s Way, now working on the sequel book Walking in This World.

I finally got a gently used computer for my upstairs office/writing/sewing room See more progress on: buy a used desktop for my writing room

Decided to keep the color in my logo, just deepened the colors. updating on the site(s) soonish. mspmedia.net