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MySpace Layouts MySpace Layouts MySpace Codes MySpace BackgroundsCalifornia native. I love animals, the arts and entertainment. I'm also into astronomy, psychology, cooking and world history. I have 3rd degree burns on my arm and face because of a car accident when I was 20 months old and I am also deaf. I am the proud mama of an overactive but VERY artistic child. I write articles about ghosts and hauntings for the Shadowlands site and I also review books for Crescent Blues. I love to read books on a variety of subjects. I've written two nonfiction books, one novel and two poetry chapbooks. More books are on the way! I write from home as well as being a stay-at-home mom. My site is at: http://dmcwriter.tripod.com/
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I Am A mom
I Want Love
I Have My freedom
I Wish For peace
I Hate Posers
I Fear Violence
I Hear Nothing!
I Search For friendship
I Wonder About the meaning of life
I Regret Saying things
I Love being a mom
I Ache To be close to someone
I Always Have faith
I Usually Am easygoing
I Am Not A liar
I Dance When the mood strikes.
I Sing With all my heart
I Never Trust easily
I Rarely Go out with friends
I Cry Over little things
I Am Not Always Perfect
I Lose Control easily
I'm Confused When it comes to numbers and machines
I Need Better stability in life
I Should Plan better, try harder and be persistant
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My Interests

I LOVE COFFEE!! Collects: Books, dolls, coins, gemstones, recipes and knives/daggers/swords. Likes to read books on a variety of subjects and watch movies. Interested in astronomy, wolves and wolf preservation, history, psychology, the arts and media, current/world events, medicine, cultural issues, parenting, cooking and science/technology subjects. I'm on DA at http://greenwolf103.deviantart.com/
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I'd like to meet:

All kinds of people! I love meeting new people and making new friends!

Music:

Likes '80's music. It's all I can remember before I lost my hearing. Sort of familiar with fairly recent music.

Movies:

Big Fish, Sixth Sense, Arsenic & Old Lace, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 50 First Dates, Frailty, the Godfather movies, Rocky movies, The Thorn Birds, The Matrix, A Beautiful Mind, The Count of Monte Cristo... to name a few. ;)

Television:

La Femme Nikita forever!!!Also likes: Law & Order, ER, CSI, The Simpsons and the nanny shows (Super Nanny and Nanny 911).

Books:

Check out these other great books:How to Write a Damn Good Novel by James N. Frey
Blessings by Anna Quindlan
The Pacific Between by Raymond K. Wong
Live in the Moment by Julie Clark Robinson

Heroes:

Firefighters -- everywhere.

My Blog

WRITING CONTEST! Win a signed copy of one of my books!

ENTER TO WIN A SIGNED COPY OF MY DARK AND HORROR POETRY CHAPBOOK! Want a chance to win a signed copy of my poetry chapbook, TOPIARY DREAMS? Now's your chance with the writing contest going on from Oct...
Posted by Dawn on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:43:00 PST

Remaining goals for the year

My weekly "writing to-do" lists are a temporary thing of the past. Since I have gotten so much accomplished using a "weekly writing to-do" list, I am able to focus more of my energies on my book proje...
Posted by Dawn on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:38:00 PST

Editing hard copy

In a previous blog post, I outlined how I was going to edit a manuscript of mine: Step 1: Change the names back to before. Step 2: Go over entire manuscript and fix overuse of names (insert pronouns) ...
Posted by Dawn on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:08:00 PST

Changes to the E-zine AND Call for Submissions!

The Burning the Midnight Oil Book Zine will have some changes. Not only is there a Web site being planned for a Spring, 2008 launch, but I've come to notice something: This E-zine FOR writing parents ...
Posted by Dawn on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:28:00 PST

I broke one of my rules

This week, I broke one of my rules. My rule is: "Once I submit something, forget about it and work on something else until I get a response." In this case, the "something else" were the first 3 chapte...
Posted by Dawn on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:26:00 PST

The downsides of writing a nonfiction book

I recently went over my "book project list," in which I've got listed ALL of the books I am either currently working on or planning to write later. There are A LOT of books on there! More are added as...
Posted by Dawn on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:44:00 PST

Update on the haunted houses book

Even though I'm writing my haunted houses book on the computer, I've come to realize something: I'm definitely going to have to create a file for it. Specifically, an ACTUAL file -- and not one on the...
Posted by Dawn on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:09:00 PST

No writing work last week -- and thats OK

For most of last week, I was sick with a cold. A cold may seem to be a "small" thing to be sick with, but I'm the type of person who, whenever sickness strikes, gets REALLY sick. (Maybe that's because...
Posted by Dawn on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:51:00 PST

Survey wake-up call

This morning got off to a bad start. I had to deal with TWO writing-related frustrations that really left me steamed: An editor who said he'd run my article this month must've changed his mind because...
Posted by Dawn on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:03:00 PST

Having fun in the name of research

I enjoy watching movies. Sometimes, though, I watch movies purely for study and research. (Same with TV and talk shows.) That may sound like fun, but sometimes it can annoy other people. Namely, other...
Posted by Dawn on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:19:00 PST