Southern Fried Chicas

I’m no longer published. I haven’t blogged on my blog in ages. Here is really the only place I still go by Melissa Blue. And ya know, the world did not come to an end. If some mysterical oracle lady came up to me the day I signed my publishing contract and told me, “One [...]

Quite simply I’ve been feeling overwhelmed (for months). That feeling put me in a “deer in headlights” state of mind (for months). I’ve known what I wanted to do with my writing career. I’ve known the end goal, the big picture but it’s the details that kept me imobilized(not to mention the gut wrenching fear).So [...]

It’s been two weeks since I last confessed.  I’ve always hated doing current events, especially in Economic class. Now it’s not because it was boring, but the only concept I understood was supply and demand. So it should be a surprise that (without internet access) I feel the need to stay up on current events [...]

It has been too long since I last confessed. 1. I’m currently without Internet. As a former Internet addict, I’m quite surprised at how much I don’t miss it. The really, really surprising thing is that what I do miss are the random things you can research. A sudden need to know where the word [...]

I guess you can say I’m at the lovely age where I find out how much I actually know. (Which doesn’t seem to be a lot at all.) Even things I normally believed in are getting shoved under the microscope just to double check. This week I’m realizing that I know a lot about the craft [...]

This will be going up late, because I’m not organized. It’s not laziness, but not being able to overcome the sense of being utterly overwhelmed. Right now my life is like a forest on fire and I don’t know what fire to put out first. It’s exactly how I feel about every ms I’ve written. [...]

Well unpublished ones. There are 9 mss on my hardrive just sitting.  I’ve lost count of first chapters or books that stalled at 20k. And quite frankly I don’t know what to do with them. My heart stops at the thought of deleting them. So that’s not an option. But, really, what do you do [...]

Right now I’m walking around with a big ball of grief in my chest. My uncle passed away last night. The grief comes more from losing him than any sense that he had so much more life to live. Yes, he was relatively young. I’m sure he’s had several regrets, but just talking with my [...]

My day used to start around six in the morning. Or if I was really pushing it, seven. I would wake the children up to get ready for school. By 7:20 I had be on the road to the babysitter’s house and my children’s school. By 7:55 I had to be at work. Really pushing [...]

I don’t just mean that in a hetrosexual way. I mean I love men. I love the way they smell–soap, laundry soap, cologne…pheromones. I love the swagger in their walk. Seriously, I fall a little in love when I see men interact with each other there’s just something so masculine and unguarded about men talking… [...]