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If you write and use a pseudonym, why did you decide to use one? And how did you pick your writing name?  If you write and use your own name, why did you decide not to use a pseudonym?  Just curious! Thanks!

I wanted to let everyone know there's a fun, eight week writing challenge going on! Each week, a different writer will contribute the next chapter in a Blaze story started by Rhonda Nelson.  Click on the link to read each new chapter, which will be posted on Mondays. 

I think I'm going to be sick. I just went to back up my writing files to my thumb drive, which lives on my keychain....and it's GONE.  G-O-N-E.  I'm not so upset about losing the drive itself -- you can get 2GB ones for pretty cheap -- but it's got copies of all my writing files on it!

As a prepublished author and one who's enjoyed participating in all the different contests offered by eHQN (both official contests and the ones on the writing challenges board), I've discovered something very important about my writing.

I don't know who I want to be when I grow up.

So, tonight I went to the mall and, spur of the moment, decided to get my hair cut.  It was too long, and I'd been fighting it daily, so I knew it was time.  I went in at 8:30pm, and was the only customer there. I got my shampoo (you've GOT to have that done -- it's the best part of the deal, in my opinion!) and then the girl asked me how I wanted my hair cut.

I'm suffering from a serious case of writer's apathy. Not block, because I have ideas. I just don't have whatever energy it takes to write them down. I've got a half written Nocturne Bite that needs to be completed. I have a Super that needs to be edited so I can FINALLY send it out the door.   I've got four other projects started, just waiting for me to come back to them. 

Okay, 'fess up.  What are some of your biggest time wasters?  Sure, we've all got time that's solidly booked, but I'm talking about free time, small as it may be.

That's where I get ideas for my writing.  Seriously.    Sometimes the story comes to me full blown, and it takes all I have to get it down on paper (er, computer!) before it disappears. That little story fairy is a fickle one -- she likes to take away as much as she gives if you're not fast enough! Other times, she gives me one small idea and leaves the rest up to me.

Today, I got an autographed copy of DANGER AT HER DOOR by Beth Cornelison (thanks, Beth!!!) which I won at the monthly SRS Chat.  It got me thinking about how much I love this site and the reasons why.  Where else can you get one-on-one with your favorite authors? Where else can you find other people who understand the sheer need to write, like we need to breathe?