Kimberly Gardner

The boys from my new story, Sugar in the Raw, are playing nice, giving it up for me, and I’ve already got nearly 2,500 words done on the MS. Yay!

So in lieu of a real post–because I’m afraid to stop the flow–I’m going to share a link to a cool, and very helpful, site for building fantasy worlds. Continue Reading »

I blogged the other day about the new story I’m working on and gave a little peek at one of my heroes. That same day I began writing the opening scene of the story, that all important First Meet.

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This week I’m starting a new project. It’s a story for an anthology to be released later this year, and until a few days ago I had no clue what I was going to write about.

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I am perhaps the most name impaired person on the face of the earth. Luckily, all but one of my pets already had a name when I adopted them. Also lucky that I never had to name a child. The poor kid would be going to high school before I had decided on the exactly right name for him. Lol! Continue Reading »

From Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, 1594:

“      ‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
      Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
      What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
      Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
      Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
      What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
      By any other name would smell as sweet;
      So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
      Retain that dear perfection which he owes
      Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
      And for that name which is no part of thee
      Take all myself.”

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This is my new motto. I have it posted at my desk and popping up on my laptop just in case I forget. *g*

I’ve been stuck in a writing slump recently, not only not producing any words, but not even able to settle on a new project. Continue Reading »

Speaking as a writer, I’m in a very exciting place right now. In fact, it’s one of my very favorite places in the entire writing universe.

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