Robin Lee Hatcher and procrastination

Captain’s Log, Stardate 12.27.2005

Made mochi with Kara and co. yesterday. That was fun and yummy, although my husband was less than ecstatic over eating fresh mochi. We had a lot of fun talking and hanging out with the Kawanamis and the Cathcarts.

If you haven’t already, hop over to First Novel Journey today and tomorrow for a two-part interview with agents and author Janet and Ron Benrey.

I visited Robin Lee Hatcher’s blog today (she has this uber-sexy pic of a hottie I think is Ken Watanabe) and found this best-selling author PROCRASTINATING! (hanaokolele!)

She’s such a sweet lady and a great author, I guess we’ll forgive her. ;)

I just listened to her “Keys to Creativity” workshops on my 2004 ACFW/ACRW Conference MP3s. If none of you have that, listen to it—she gives some great exercises.

Anyway, here is what she was procrastinating on:

* My name ... Camy Tang
* My childhood ambition ... to be a writer OR a singing idol
* My fondest memory ... marrying my wonderful husband even though I was totally overweight and looked so hideous in my wedding dress that my vain side will not let me watch the wedding video even now, four years later.
* My soundtrack ... “The Robe” by Wes King (I’ll post the lyrics sometime)
* My retreat ... my warm, soft, comfy bed OR my warm, breezy backyard under the tree whose type I have no clue about.
* My wildest dream ... being published
* My proudest moment ... winning the 2005 Noble Theme contest in the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller category, because that actually proved to me—perpetual self-doubter that I am—that I write decently and might even be published someday.
* My biggest challenge ... I should put something worthy and Christlike but in reality, my biggest challenge is eating less than 1500 calories a day and having the discipline to write as efficiently as I want to. Yeppers, I got NO problems being authentic.
* My alarm clock ... I am NOT a morning person. Do NOT call me before noon even if I’m up because my brain is still in bed despite the look-alike zombie typing at the computer. If I didn’t have an alarm clock, I would lose every job I ever did.
* My perfect day ... eight furious hours at my manuscript, a gourmet dinner miraculously appearing on the table that would be enjoyed by me and my wonderful husband, followed by some terrific action flick DVD.
* My first job ... library assistant at Wahiawa Public Library
* My indulgence ... an eating tour of Europe and Great Britain
* My last purchase ... books (duh!)
* My favorite movie ... I have too many to list. The last terrific movie I saw was Mr. and Mrs. Smith, because it was a hilarious spoof on the action movies that I love.
* My inspiration ... my bible. Even a verse or two is like sweet water on my heart.
* My life ... is such a blessing, I could cry if I thought too hard about it.
* My card ... my Amazon VISA card. Yeah, baby! Points for books!

Poll for the title of my book!

Captain’s Log, Supplemental Blog book giveaway: My Thursday book giveaway is The Wedding Caper by Janice Thompson . My Monday book giveaway is Thanks for the Mammogram! AND Reconstructing Natalie , both by Laura Jensen Walker . You can still enter both giveaways. Just post a comment on the blog posts above . On Thursday, I'll draw the winner for The Wedding Caper and post the title for another book I'm giving away. Pick my title! The Zondervan Marketing Department is torn about which title would be best for my debut novel. So you guys get to weigh in! Here are your choices: Solo Sushi Sushi for One Single Sushi Solo Sashimi Leave a comment about which you prefer and WHY. I’ll run this poll for a couple weeks to figure out which will be the title for my new book! TMI: Writing: I posted another "Health and the Writer" post at WriterQuotes , and an agent post at my Story Sensei blog . And in case you missed it, my review of The Guy I’m Not Dating by Trish Perry is ...

Mansfield Park (BBC 1986)

Captain’s Log, Supplemental Blog book giveaway: To enter, go to the blog links below and post a comment there. Valley of Betrayal by Tricia Goyer It Happens Every Spring by Gary Chapman and Catherine Palmer Jane Austen miniseries I love Jane Austen. She’s my favorite classic writer, and I even bought audiobooks of her novels and listen to them again and again. I also love Amazon.com and visit my Gold Box every day (not that I buy that often). One day I had a deal for the entire set of DVDs of miniseries produced by BBC of Jane Austen’s novels. No, I didn’t buy the set—but it made me curious, and so I put the miniseries on my Netflix queue. The miniseries are all rather old. I just finished Mansfield Park . I’m quite divided on it. Costumes: score 4. They were mostly really rather nice, appropriate to the character’s background and income, and not too flamboyant, although there were several places the women’s headgear was just way over the top. Acting: score 4. I l...

Got my books!

Captain's Log, Supplemental Okay, I'm still at the library and Captain Caffeine sent me these pics since I wasn't home when they arrived: MY AUTHOR COPIES ARRIVED! Wow, that's just so cool. And I'm so glad Captain Caffeine sent me pics!

Mon afghan

Captain's Log, Stardate 02.24.2009 I am extraordinarily proud of this. For Christmas, I wanted to knit something for my parents that would be really cool and personal, and sort of an heirloom. So I took the five family crests I had for my family (in Japanese, a family crest is called a “mon”) and graphed the designs on knitting graph paper so that I could knit intarsia panels of the mons. I knit 5 intarsia panels and 4 plain panels and then sewed them together to make an afghan. In Japan, family crests are carried by both male and female, so I used mons from both my parents' sides. Traditionally, mons are passed down from mother to daughter and from father to son, but there are sometimes cases of a son taking a mother’s mon or a husband taking his wife’s family’s mon and things like that. I know we have more than 5 family crests, but we’ve lost some of them. My mom tried to find them all several years ago, but could only find these five. The fans mon was actually...

Grace Livingston Hill romances free to read online

I wanted to update my old post on Grace Livingston Hill romances because now there are tons more options for you to be able to read her books for free online! I’m a huge Grace Livingston Hill fan. Granted, not all her books resonate with me, but there are a few that I absolutely love, like The Enchanted Barn and Crimson Roses . And the best part is that she wrote over 100 books and I haven’t yet read them all! When I have time, I like to dive into a new GLH novel. I like the fact that most of them are romances, and I especially appreciate that they all have strong Christian themes. Occasionally the Christian content is a little heavy-handed for my taste, but it’s so interesting to see what the Christian faith was like in the early part of the 20th century. These books are often Cinderella-type stories or A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett) type stories, which I love. And the best part is that they’re all set in the early 1900s, so the time period is absolutely fasci...

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