Fear of Success/Fear of Failure? Repost from Blogger

Terri_Molina — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:38:42 -0700

There are very few blogs I read, mainly because it's another excuse to procrastinate, but Murder She Writes is one of them. The link is for a post written by guest blogger and reviewer Andrea Sisco, author of A Deadly Habit: A Penelope Santucci Mystery. In her post Andrea writes:"What if I'm an utter failure? Or, what if I'm a success and then people actually expect something from me and ...

NaNo Write 2008 and House of Cards

Terri_Molina — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:13:05 -0700

Every November writers from all over the world commit themselves to a National Novel Writing Competition. The goal is to write 50K words in a month. RedRoom has decided to go one better and up the competition by giving a prize (randomly drawn) to the lucky author who happens to reach that goal. Since I usually don't do NaNo and really try not to set goals with my writing, I decided to give it ...

National Hispanic Heritage Month--and Reminiscing

Terri_Molina — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:39:10 -0700

From September 15 to October 15 the nation will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. I'm not sure when the holiday started or rather, when the nation decided to acknowledge it, but for as long as I can remember, there was always a celebration in my hometown, Port Arthur.Every third weekend in September my family (and I mean everyone in my family) would attend a three day "Mexican Fiesta" ...