Kari Neumeyer

I did it. 50,000 words in 30 days. While working 40 hours a week writing, receiving two rejection letters for my previous novel, making two trips to Los Angeles and, for the past week, coughing up both lungs repeatedly. No, you can’t read it. On account of it being a novel written in 30 days,Continue reading

Home Stretch Have written 45,000 words. Think I’m going to hit 50,000 by the end of the day Wednesday as planned. I hope. Was touch and go last week, but I caught up with a relaxing weekend, coughing at my mom’s. Went to the airport last night and was listening to the third loop ofContinue reading

Love, marriage and the little monster living under my toenail I’m just back from a Hollywood bachelorette and a fairy-tale wedding. (Two different brides.) So naturally I want to talk about toe fungus. Except no one wants to talk about toe fungus.

I lie I do think my novel is boring. It’s hard to write every day for two straight weeks, nevermind a whole month. I was doing so well and was totally on track as of Tuesday. And i thought, this Deepak Chopra, man, he’s really onto something. When I wake up at 7 a.m., IContinue reading

Fun K Crap. My novel has a plot problem. I will say that I am not having the same problems that I hear other one-month novelists have, in which they hate their characters or they think their books stinks. I think mine’s coming along. However, my main character, who is based on me, is comingContinue reading

Verite I have a stiff neck. I took a muscle relaxer last night and was incoherent when Rob called. Dragged myself out of bed at 8 to write, but instead read what I’d already written, read some blogs, listened to an entire CD and basically didn’t feel like writing anything for a full hour. ItContinue reading

Versatile It occurred to me that Jane Austen’s novels are pretty similar in nature, dealing with relationships, family and society. And confusion over who is in love with whom. Then I looked up Karen Joy Fowler’s other books. Excepting The Jane Austen Book Club, they’re all period pieces in very different settings! I’m up toContinue reading

Staying gold Deepak Chopra says that I should wake up between 6 and 7 a.m. The time change is a good time to experiment with this, and the novel writing challenge is good motivation for a girl who routinely stays in bed til 9:30 or 10 on work days. So I started the novel, whichContinue reading

Faery dust If someone told me I could take a pill and it would cure my TMJ — and my allergies — would I take it? Hell yeah! Why hasn’t anyone told me about MSM before? A shout out to Oscar Wilde, courtesy of my google homepage quote-a-day:“The only thing that sustains one through lifeContinue reading

They’ll use you up

This observation of my employer, by my biofeedback therapist, makes me think she’s treated some of my coworkers. The thing about burnout is that it makes you want to leave the profession entirely. One of the options to get me living in the same city as Rob would involve my moving to a PR kindContinue reading “They’ll use you up”