Category: MOVIES

• What was I thinking?!

  Yes, I used two, count them, TWO, punctuation marks because my situation is a question and an exclamatory. Read onto find out why. If you’re a reader of this blog, know me personally, or even just hear about me from someone else, you probably know I’m a writer. People have paid me for my words, […]

  Carrie Dalby

  June 23, 2011

  Anxiety, blog, blogging, BLOGS, Catching Fire, children, CORRODED, editing, Hawthorne, Hunger Games, Laurie Halse Anderson, LHA, procrastination, WFMAD, WIP, WRITING

• Of Books, Movies and Music

  Haven’t done much writing lately, but my WIP, Corroded, is over 38000 words now—131 double spaced pages. It only took a couple years to get to where I am, but I’m here! To think I used to push out complete drafts of novels (200-300 pages) in less than a year—but that was B.C. Before Children. […]

  Carrie Dalby

  January 27, 2011

  books, Clueless, CORRODED, Jane Austen, Mitch Malloy, MOVIES, MUSIC, READING, WIP, WRITING

• The Dreaded Year-end Blog

  Or shall we call it “The New Beginnings Blog”? Yes, that’s much better. See, barely a year older and already wiser. Speaking of birthdays, here’s a picture of my most awesome gift. I’d get frustrated with it but it’s too much fun. Whoever created this is an evil genius. Since I changed my New Year’s […]

  Carrie Dalby

  May 6, 2010

  3-D, birthday, blog, books, Brunonia Barry, family, goals, kids, Laurie Halse Anderson, MOVIES, Newbery, READING, Wonderland

• New Year, Better Me

  I skipped last week. And I don’t want to muddle through any hum-drum excuses or anything. (Cough. Cough.) All the blogs I read have posts wrapping up the blogger’s 2009 thoughts so I figured I’ll actually go along with a trend. I’ve enjoyed a year of raising kids and appreciating the differences between boys and […]

  Carrie Dalby

  January 5, 2010

  goals, Katherine Paterson, kids, MOVIES, parenting, READING, WRITING