Melissa, Oh?

Was going to send you here to read, but their site has problems crashing during November so you can also read below:
 
The two sat in silence for several moments, enjoying each other’s company and speaking without words. They always had this way of feeling the other’s presence and moods, and tonight was no exception: Ryan was [...]

1. Writing a novel is not easy.
2. Writing a novel is one of the best things I will ever do.
National Novel Writing Month kicked off at midnight Nov. 1, and I was there with many of the rest of my peers, abstaining from fun Halloween partying in order to be alert and ready to write when [...]

My friend Beth wrote recently about creating a bucket list. She has inspired me to think about my own. What is it that I want to accomplish in my lifetime?
1. Write a novel.
2. Live in New York City.
3. Travel to all of the continents (this is Jeff’s idea actually, but I am on board!)
4. Become a [...]

On Nov. 1, when I disappear for a month from my regular life, I will be writing my first novel. Being that this is new to me, I’ve been thinking about how to get ready for this journey. Luckily, I am not alone – NaNoWriMo has about 60,000 signed up so far.
When I used to [...]

Diamonds and Alibis
Alibis and Diamonds
Dripping Diamonds
Diamonds, Lies and Alibis
 
What do you think?

Most of you may know I’m participating in National Novel Writer’s Month for the first time, which basically means you won’t be seeing much of me in November as I embark on my first literary journey.
I have been sorta kinda in the back of my mind trying to think of a plot. Today, it hit me. [...]

When I am sad or heartbroken, the positive thing that I can usually take from it is poetry or short stories or journal entries. When I am happy, my creative writing blows. Never really written about puppies or sunsets – not well, anyway.
The past several years have been mostly a happy time for me. Is that [...]

Before the end of the year, I will have completed my first novel. I have not started it yet.
Writing a book is something I have always wanted to do. When I was 10 I decided I wanted to be a novelist for a living. When I was 11 I decided that would be too hard [...]

Thoughts turn to poetry that rhymes
and pretty girls that taunt his mind
If he waits until he’s ready
What if ready doesn’t come

A trilogy of thoughts clogs his heart
Fifty-thousand words in 30 days
A writer’s blocked-up mind
can only think of red candles
and voices in his head
This one-bedroom isn’t big enough
for all three of us.

Written on August 29, 1994:
In ten years I would like to be out of college and married.
[10-year-later update: I was 4 years out of college, and I was married exactly 10 years and 6 days after this was written]
I want to be a journalist at a large newspaper, perhaps writing editorials.
[10-year-later update: I was assistant [...]