Diary of a Mad Romance Writer

The daily musings of Kara Lennox, Harlequin romance author.

<-----Coming June 2008

The first in the Second Sons trilogy.

Cooper Remington has been overshadowed by his older brother his whole life. Now, an unexpected inheritance gives him the chance to strike out on his own. He is now the proud owner of a fishing charter service. But the beautiful redhead he finds living on the boat might have something to say about who inherited what.

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In another life, I create and sell Memo-Pause(TM), the wearable notebook for the foxy but forgetful woman. Here are a few of the styles:

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Betty Skelly: Hi Kara I am back again here in your webhome. I am so so so busy- doing scrapbook, visiting myJapanese ladies friends (I have 8 ladies) and looking around the neighborhood of what kind of stuff we got here iin Yokosuka. I was looking forward to upload photos to my blog but I just got busy. Never got a chance to visit friends and leave footprints. Till next time CIAO

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Betty: Hi Kara, I am here again...still alive and kicking. We are a bit settled here n Japan. Boy! I was looking your book here at the Naval base, it is not available. I may get some to your own site and order there. Boy! we are enjoying our stay here...so far so good. People are nice. My family went to visit Disneyland here in Tokyo, you might like to visit at http://www.skellytavels.info CIAO

Pika: been a while since I visited your blog... I'm glad youre still writing

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Kara: Amelia--If I buy a lot of food, you-know-who just eats it faster! Betty--Japan! Wow!

betty: Hi Kara, I never visit here again. Happy New Year. We got busy- we will be moving to Japan

amelia: glad you liked the gifts. To have food you need to buy a lot of food as well as go to the store. It seems to work for me.

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Kara: hey, Betty! Glad your house didn't sink! That would be a major bummer.

Betty Skelly: Hi Kara, been awhile I did not come here. I was busy, we went back to FL again and we got lots of sunshine. We missed the flood here in Northwest but I am thankful that our house did not sunk. We live in a hill and the house was built 1 foot up the ground. I called my friend if we have flood but then it is only at the bridge about 2 miles away from my home. Glad everything went ok. How are you? Got a new book working again huh! cool!

Garf: care to exchange link?

Kara: Hey, Betty! Good to see you. I gotta have the sunshine or I get very depressed!

Betty Skelly: Hi Kara, it is been awhile I did not visit you here but I was trying to read an updates. Happy thanksgiving and wished you have a wonderful time in CA. Wished I can get some sunshine. We are pretty much gloomy here.

Kara: Thanks, J! The wordmeter can be found at zokuto.com. Usually I make it a "Page-O-Meter."

J: I like the blog of yours. It's cool how u r keeping track of what u r writing. And I think that CATCH OF THE DAY Word-OMeter is cool.

Monday, July 23rd 2007

7:44 PM

Wow, what a long day!

Pages Written Today: At least 5
Where did I walk/ride? To Norma's, 2580 steps (that is so lame!)
Affirmation of the Day: I am a writing dynamo!

I got up at 6:30 to watch the Tour de France. Very exciting day. Just when I think I know what is going to happen, these guys surprise me.

The rest of the day I worked. I mean, I worked hard. I started with 127 "comments" in my manuscript. These are notes I made to myself when I did the read through--scenes that need to be revised, points that need to be researched, lame descriptions that need to be jazzed up, questions that need to be answered, inconsistencies, dropped plot threads, flat dialogue, etc. etc. etc.

Today I whittled it down to 116. I added five pages, but I also cut a whole lot, so God only knows how much I really wrote today.

So what better wayt o celebrate than to eat dinner at Norma's? I had a bowl of potato soup and half a BLT. Very satisfying.

Tomorrow is a rest day for the bike riders, so I'll be sad! But maybe I can get more work done. It's hard to get anything done when you're spending four hours a day watching men in tights.

Thanks for visiting,

Kara