You'd think, being a writer, I'd have something clever or meaningful to put here, something of substance. Apparently, you were dead wrong. I'm writing because when I don't, I get a rash.

I have recently deleted everything I've written for fictionpress from my account. Nothing like a good purge after almost ten years on this site. I felt like it was time to start fresh.

Check out Faith O'Brien's AMAZING new historical fiction: http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2829828/1/ I highly, highly recommend it! Stop by, leave her a review and as always, keep reading and writing!

Clever or meaningful things other people have said:

"We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little."
-Anne Lamott

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."
-Emile Zola

"Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote."
-Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
-Robert A. Heinlein

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
-Red Smith

"I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop."
-Clarence Budington Kelland

"There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write."
-Terry Pratchett

NEWS:

So not to go all Stephenie Meyer on the world but here's a chapter by chapter playlist for Oliver and Margaret. You know, in case anyone is as big a dork as I am.

Chapter One - What Best Friends Are For

Any Time At All - The Beatles

All The Things I Do For You Baby - Herman's Hermits

We Are Going To Be Friends - White Stripes

Chapter Two - A Week Without Me

High School Never Ends - Bowling for Soup

The Art of Losing - American Hi-Fi

You're So Damn Hot - Okay Go

Wild World - Cat Stevens

Chapter Three - Peninsula

If It Kills Me - Jason Mraz

99 Times - Kate Voegele

Chapter Four - Middle School All Over

Go All The Way - Raspberries

Tearin' Up My Heart - 'N Sync

Things I'll Never Say - Avril Lavigne

Larger than Life - Backstreet Boys