July 8, 2011

My latest article on "The Ward" by John Carpenter

My latest article on The Ward. Starring Amber Heard.

A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.

Rated "R", 88 min - Horror | Thriller | Supernatural - Released in limited theaters on July 8, 2011 (USA). This title will be released on DVD - August 16, 2011, according to Amazon.com. There's been buzz that some people have already purchased a legit copy, which is odd if it's just hitting U.S. theaters. It appears that it premiered in Canada September 13, 2010 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Taglines:  Only Sanity Can Keep You Alive.

Read complete article:
http://www.examiner.com/speculative-fiction-in-st-louis/john-carpenter-s-the-ward

July 7, 2011

Stretched

Stretched. That's how I feel lately. I can't get any writing done. Distractions, excuses. So many sites I check on every day. Researching alternate writing income possibilities, joining this and that, whew. Oh - and of course this morning I just had to clean out my recipe cabinet -  organizing, tossing out some stuff. And then it was essential that I restructure my workout routines - change the time and timing, group my exercises (ripped from magazines) into a pile for pilates and a pile for weights. [sigh...]

I think I may have to prioritize and eliminate non-essential tasks and some activities that are not moving me forward in my writing career. But which ones to scratch off the list?! Obviously I keep my website, this blog, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Goodreads, okay...okay...I need to stop there. I spend an incredible amount of time writing articles on movies twice a week for my Examiner.com page...but I feel it is important to showcase article writing as another ability besides my novels that I've written. Looks good on a resume. Let's see - I also have my other blog on enterparanormal.blogspot.com - I DO get traffic everyday to it...almost hate to light a match to it. But I could. My bulletin board - which also gets hits everyday - but NO ONE ever posts anything besides myself - could be deleted. After all, everything I put here goes there. Rarely does anyone speak of MySpace anymore. Facebook is the hotspot. Still - very hard to delete the account...suppose I could let it "sit" & just check it once a month...

I'm hoping by typing this out (concerning my disappearing time to write dilemma), it will force me to take action. I know everyone has the same 24 hours in day, 7 days a week. But I feel like a time warp fairy shows up daily and zaps me away for about 5 hours. Then, suddenly, I'll look at the clock and wonder - OMG - where did the day go?!?!