My descent into Twilight!

I'm Alive! Yes, I'm still here!

I can't believe my last post was on Sept 5th. Hurricane Ike caused alot of damage, not only to our house, but also to my creativity. The stress and worry of being without electricity, unable to get gas easily, and being unable to get back into my neighborhood due to flooding was more than I could handle.

On day five, after my little doggies escaped, I allowed myself one fit of hysteria, and then it was back to work. (The dogs are fine.) We still have a hole in our roof, but thankfully, it hasn't rained anymore. And we were lucky to regain electricity after only a week.

Of course, I can't blame my lengthy absence entirely on Ike. Most of it was due to my descent into Twilight. Yep! I'm officially a huge fan of the Twilight series.

http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/twilight_movie.html#11

I'd seen the previews for the movie, which is due to be release on Nov 21st. I was interested because, as a teenager, I loved vampire books. I read Interview With A Vampire in college. But Twilight was advertised as a teen novel. Still, I couldn't stop fingering through those books whenever I visited Barnes & Noble.

Finally, I just bought it (Twilight). I was so taken in by the Bella/Edward story that I read the entire novel in 12 hours. I ended up reading all four novels in four days! Obsessed! I barely ate. Stayed up till 3am just to read. A bowl of cereal is considered a healthy dinner.. right?! It was insane. So now I'm a Twilighter. Thank God I found a web site for fans over the age of 25!

http://www.twilightmoms.com/

So what's going on with my writing?.... Ummmmmmm. Yeah...I think it's going to take a while for me to get my inspiration back. Any advice? I'm open to suggestions.

Free Book Writing Software

I've been researching writing software to help me keep track of everything I'm writing with my books. Well folks, I just test ran a free writing software program that you must look into! yWriter4 is free and it's very cool. Go to http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter4.html to download it.

Take a look at the screen shots. It's very user-friendly. You can point and click your way to any screen you want. It separates your book by chapter and by scene. You can work on one scene at a time if you want. Add characters and delete characters at will. Want to move scenes around? Just point to the scene and drag it to the right spot.

I'm still playing around with it. But, so far, I'm real happy with it's performance. My only gripe is that I can't get the font any bigger than 10 when I print something. I've got an email in to the creator about that. It may be 'operator error'. That's easily fixed.

Do you use yWrite4? Let me know how it's working for you!

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