Posy’s Desk

Posy’s goals, inspirations, thoughts on life, and favorite office supplies.

The Kinsey Scale

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Read While You Vote

I have the perfect solution for the long wait Americans might have to endure while voting on Tuesday. How about buying a book, uploading it to your e-reader, iPad, or phone, and settling in to read about two guys falling in love with each other. Oh, and I have the perfect book for you. But, before I get to that, I should make sure you know where to go to vote.  Google has some nice tools for you to use.  Either do a search for “Where do I vote?” or go here to not only input your address, but also see a sample of what will be on your ballot.…

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Less than 24 hours!

It looks like Fall Into You will be available at 11pm tonight on the Dreamspinner website.  I don’t know if that’s EST or CST, but *squeeee* I’m excited. I’d better get my butt in gear and start editing my latest project again.  Life needs to slow down so I can write some more.  I miss it.

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Mojito, Coming Up

Hemmingway called the Mojito his favorite drink, but the now-popular drink you can buy pre-made in bottles at your local liquor store has been around long before Ernest Hemmingway described it. Drinkswap tells us… Mojito is a traditional Cuban cocktail which became popular in the United States during the late 1980s, and has recently seen a resurgence in popularity. But it seems the drink goes back even further, perhaps beyond Cuba, where Hemmingway encountered it, to Africa. The mojito is a tasty cocktail with a questionable history. The first mojito drinks were reportedly mixed by the pirate Sir Richard Drake, supposedly made from a precursor to modern day rum in the…

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Come Play in my Sandbox

I’m reading the galley proof of Fall Into You and ran across a thought Simon has. YOU never know when you meet people if they’re going to be significant in your life, shifting and moving parts of you and having an impact on your soul, or if they’re just going to play in your sandbox awhile before moving on. If they end up being significant, you don’t know how long they’ll stick around either. Over the years, I’ve had friends who’ve only played for a short time and some who’ve been around for years. They’ve all been important, adding or taking something away. I think about those people who have…

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National Coming Out Day

Tomorrow is National Coming Out Day. You may hear news from people you know, or you may hear nothing at all. Either way, this day was conceived as a way for LGBTQ people to celebrate coming out and help raise awareness of the LGBTQ community and civil rights. In my state of Minnesota this November, people are being asked to vote on an amendment that will write discrimination against LGBTQ Minnesotans into our state constitution if passed.  If you live in Minnesota or know anyone who does, have a conversation with them and ask them to vote NO. It wasn’t that many months ago that I finally, officially checked the…

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I DID IT!

I’m doing this too, writing about my high while I’m experiencing it.  I realize I’ll probably look back weeks from now and roll my eyes at myself, but who cares.  Haha.  How often do people experience true, unfettered joy? Joy is most certainly what I’m feeling.  I’ve just finished writing three books.  In two and a half months, I wrote 250,000 words.  It may never see the light of day or the backlight of an iPad or e-reader, but more than anything, I’m just so glad I stuck it out and finished. I’ve been keeping in close contact with an author friend throughout this summer as I wrote, and I’m…

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Driven to Write

I’ve been writing like a possessed woman this summer, nearing 190,000 words in a little over 2 months.  Part of that is because I’ve had this story in my head for nearly two years and it was well fleshed out.  Another part was that I discovered with Camp NaNoWriMo how much visuals helped motivate me to meet my goal.  The other part is summer. I’m lucky enough to have summers off, and I’ve always attempted to write during the summertime.  This is the first year I’ve actually accomplished that though.  As I see the summer coming to a close, I’m starting to freak out a little, especially when I woke…

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Changing a Character’s Name

I’ve gotten nearly 90K words into my story and I had a change of heart. I had to change the name of a secondary character because it just wasn’t working. Part of it was that I hadn’t considered her last name. How dumb is that? Luckily, it’s going easier this time around.  The last time I did this in a story, I struggled forever. In fact, I’m still struggling with that change, the character’s old name popping into my head when I tell people about my novel. It’s crazy how ingrained these names become. One tool that helped me a lot this time was the Baby Name Explorer on babycenter. I love the…

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Tender Kisses

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a kiss quite as beautiful as this.

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