Success!

Okay, it looks like crap, because sometimes what you see is NOT what you get (no matter what wysiwyg promises) but--MY WEBSITE IS UP!

Complete with links to all my webfriend's websites. So, kids...visit www.cyndisweet.com within the next few days and let me know if the links is workin' da ways de should.

I'm so punchy. Please 'scuse me. I'm so not a techie and my art major days are far behind me. So this has been an interesting experience. I want the underlines in the hyperlinks to go away, and they don't want to...but they're not in the work space, so I don't know they're there until I go live. So, so frustrating. It got so bad, today, I actually did laundry rather than sit at my computer and try to figure out what was wrong. Gasp!

Tomorrow, however, assuming my mother-law chooses to keep the smallest boy with her, I'll write. I'll actually sit down and work on a story. Maybe the laptop I bought from ebay will arrive. (And if it does, it will work...) Maybe I'll sit and read. Or, both.

What I really need to do is wash the kitchen floor. Thhhpt. Housework.

One thing I want to do is work on the characters in Nuts Over You. I have a fair idea of who they are, but something is missing. I don't like to do charts when it comes to characters because it seems like a tremendous waste of good writing time. I don't like to interview them, either--that just seems weird. Basically, I have to write them to get to know them. But what a waste o'time that is when you just want to finish the damn book. (Why? Why not enjoy the process instead of the product? And if it's a waste to write them, why not try charting them anyway?)

Pooh. Who is this person asking questions? Go 'way. I'm tired. LOL.

How do YOU learn about your characters?

Sigh

I've been trying to figure out how to get my website published.

It's not working.

The worst part is knowing that it's probably very simple. But to a technophobe like me, it's akin to flying to the moon. Even with instructions. I might as well be reading blahblahblah...

At any rate, I've been ignoring my blog in my attempts to get my other site up and running under the domain name, www.cyndisweet.com. Dont' bother clicking on the hyperlink; you'll only get the under construction page that my host put up.

I just hope that it doesn't stay there forever. Wish me luck. I'd rather be writing!

I'm baaack!

Moving!

After more than five days of not being able to log in to my blog for NO APPARENT REASON (scream), I've decided to move. This isn't the first time I've been locked out of my blog here at blogger. In fact, this is my third blog at this site; third, because the same thing happened with my other two.

So--that's it. Three strikes and you're out. Goodbye, Blogger. Hello, wordpress. And while I'm changing my blog site, I've decided to change my pen name. Why? Weeeellll...it's big, it's bulky and it makes a damn difficult domain. Plus, it sounds like a historical writer's name. And...well...I feel like it. So my new name is (insert trumpet sound here): Cyndi Sweet.

Or...Jayci Yates. I haven't quite decided. My friend Jennifer Shirk, who doesn't need a pen name because she's lucky enough to have married a man without a difficult to remember or spell Italian name (ahem), likes Jayci Yates. Yates is my maiden name and to be honest--I also think it's hard for people to spell. My entire pre-D'Attilio life, I heard this: What's your last name? Gates? Gates? Oh! Yates! Oh, I thought...

Not that D'Attilio (yeah, that's my last name) is easier to spell than Yates. Most definitely not. In fact, when I started dating the man who became my husband, it took me a month to even remember his last name--forget trying to spell it. Hence, my reason for trying to find the perfect pen name to begin with. It's purely a marketing decision.

Why Cyndi Sweet? As I thought about last names and pseudonyms, I realized that the best last names are those that are either nouns, verbs or even adjectives. Think of a person named Green. Right away, you picture the color and it's remembered.

Alliterative names are also easier to remember.

Anyhow, I figured that sweet is an adjective AND a noun (if you're someone who calls a piece of candy a sweet, as does a British-born woman with whom I work). And, it's alliterative.

So...there you have it. Cyndi Sweet, writer of comedic contemporary sweet (meaning no sex-aha!) romance. Fine thoughts for a woman not yet published. But there's no reason not to get my ducks lined up. Right?

Which leads me (and you, one of my two readers) to my new blog. I call it Write Away (how clever...bleh). And the address? www.cyndisweet.wordpress.com

I hope to see you there.