by Heather Hambel Curley | Oct 18, 2012 | Writing
My uncle passed away unexpectedly last weekend. When people in my family die, we typically travel en masse to West Virginia to the same little funeral home in the same little town and then on to the same little cemetery. I remember being four years old in that funeral...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Oct 12, 2012 | Writing
I fell asleep twice during Project Runway last night. Twice. It’s an hour long show. So, obviously work is not getting done on my novel. My original plan was to get up earlier, my brain initially thought an hour earlier sounded good, and get in some writing time...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Oct 6, 2012 | Writing
Not that I really need to be thinking about it at this particular juncture, but today’s hot topic on one of my writing email lists is business cards. And, in turn, the tag line you choose to display on your business card. As I muddled through grocery shopping...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Sep 30, 2012 | Civil War, Writing
I also can’t write when I’m pregnant. I’ve had two children. Both times, without fail, anything remotely resembling creativity was sucked out of my very being and replaced by excessive hunger and the uncontrollable urge to pee. Pop out the kid. ...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Sep 5, 2012 | Writing
So, I don’t use a pen name. I’m starting to wonder if this is odd. I belong to several online writers groups and a larger, state wide writers group and, quite honestly, I was surprised to see TONS of people write under a pen name. “Blah blah...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Aug 13, 2012 | Randomness, Writing
Predictably, prime time was empty without the usual Olympic coverage. It’s a hard adjustment, let me tell you. But hey, here we are. Seventeen days and one fantastic closing ceremonies later (Scary Spice got FAT), I realized with notable horror that the next...