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About Me

I am a full-time writer/editor for a trade magazine publishing company by day and passionate fiction writer by night. I am working on my first novel.

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My Interests

Writing, reading, golf, dogs, cats, hiking, working out, cooking, eating, blogging, internet surfing, health & wellness, home improvement, socializing, getting into deep conversations over a bottle of wine

I'd like to meet:

Writers and aspiring novelists to chat about the writing life and writing.

Music:

Everything except heavy rock, heavy metal, and gushy ballads. Love jazz.

Movies:

Love movies, too many faves to list.

Television:

Try not to watch a lot; but like CSI (the original), Intervention, Survivor, Friends, Star Trek TNG, Sopranos, The Apprentice, Judge Judy, medical shows, The First 48...

Books:

I have a huge TBR file, I love women's fiction, literary fiction, and romance.

My Blog

On haitus

Changed jobs. Now I'm the office manager of my husband's heating and hydronics business. He's working me to the bone. ;) I'll still be visiting my usual haunts...Please enjoy life, keep well, and kee...
Posted by Nienke - Writer on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:11:00 PST

Word Meanings

The Washington Post published a contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words. Here are the winners:1. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat s...
Posted by Nienke - Writer on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:49:00 PST

Advice for writers...

"Writing is like skiing - you will fall when you hesitate.""Do not reduce your story to outlines and sketches, notes and 3x5 cards. You will make your story finite this way and it will suffer because ...
Posted by Nienke - Writer on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:26:00 PST

Free books and contest!

S. William Shaw is having a free ebook give-away of his titles: The Santa Mysteries and Sherman Oak and the Magic Potato. He's also having a contest. Anyone linking to his give-away/contest entry can...
Posted by Nienke - Writer on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:05:00 PST

Isolated and schizophrenic...

You're The Poisonwood Bible!by Barbara KingsolverDeeply rooted in a religious background, you have since become bothisolated and schizophrenic. You were naively sure that your actions would help peopl...
Posted by Nienke - Writer on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:41:00 PST

Cat amp offers advice

Hobbled by amputation, Henry inspires othersThrough his rescuer, a disabled cat dispenses advice to humans in pain. ...
Posted by Nienke - Writer on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:51:00 PST

Writing links

Finishing Your Novel - by Timothy Hallinan Excerpts from Novel Writing: 16 Steps to Success by Evan MarshallJohn Baker has a great series on the phases of creating text....
Posted by Nienke - Writer on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:06:00 PST

You must want to fly so much...

"How does one become a butterfly?You must want to fly so muchthat you are willing to give upbeing a caterpillar."~Trina Paulus(Thank you Astralshepherd fo...
Posted by Nienke - Writer on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:03:00 PST

A few more words from Murray Suid

Nienke,I truly enjoyed guest blogging on THE WRITING LIFE the other day. Afterward, I found myself wishing that I could thank all those inventors who have given us this new medium for sharing our idea...
Posted by Nienke - Writer on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:59:00 PST

Speaking of words...

What these words really mean: 1. ARBITRATOR: A cook that leaves Arby's to work at McDonalds 2. AVOIDABLE: What a bullfighter tried to do 3. BERNADETTE: The act of torching a ...
Posted by Nienke - Writer on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:57:00 PST