Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters

Okay, the results are in. Based on a random drawing where I hold out all the entries and say to my husband, “Here, pick three,” these are the lucky winners:
Elizabeth
Herb
Sanjay
Congratulations!
For all of you who didn’t win this month, be sure to enter again for August. You can’t be chosen by a [...]

Let me direct your attention to Lady T’s blog for today. She says it better than I could.
In particular, please click on the Pink video she’s included in there. I hadn’t seen that before, and it’s right on the money.
Technorati Tags: Pink, Stupid Girls, Lindsay Lohan, Lady T, [...]

Brace yourself before you watch this. It’s awfully hard to take.
This only adds fuel to my case against hugging. Please, men, if you’re ever tempted to do this, know that we don’t actually like it, and from then on you’ll be one of “those guys” and we’ll say horrible things behind your [...]

My husband had a crazy friend (crazy in a non-endearing way) who, during one of his more manic phases, laid out his whole plan for quitting his job and spending two years traveling around the world. He was so stoked about it–all the places he’d see, the exotic foods he’d eat, the fact that [...]

For all you men out there who think the cleverest way to propose may be spelling out your girlfriend’s name in the snow (you figure out how), maybe you ought to look at this instead.
Thanks to Barry for the tip.

I’m working on a screenplay right now, and it’s both pleasure and pain.
Pleasure, because it’s always fun to try to bring to life the action and dialogue playing in your head. I don’t know about other authors, but whenever I write a novel I can see the story like a movie in front of [...]

Thanks to all of you who wrote in, proving the enduring excellence that is The Princess Bride. Line after quotable line, that movie does it. We are better people for it.
Which, of course, draws me to the opposite. I know we can’t all agree on the worst movie we’ve ever seen–there are [...]

For those of you who think Christians are all about judgment and rules and corruption scandals like Ralph Reed’s, here’s a bright spot from yesterday’s church bulletin:
“The [Methodist] Annual Conference is formally opposing a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban gay marriages. Demomination leaders said that marriage is threatened by forces [...]

I have this feature on my website that allows me to see how it is people find the site. (Don’t worry, it’s not giving me any personal information about you, like your e-mail addresses or how much time you spend on the internet versus actual face time with real people. We all need [...]

First of all, no one is allowed on this blog ever again unless you admit with every cell of your body that The Princess Bride by William Goldman is the best movie ever made, and for those of you who have read the novel, that it is the best novel ever written.
Are we square?
Okay. [...]