Posts By: MJ Pullen
M.J. Pullen is a distracted writer and the mom of two boys in Roswell, Georgia, where she is absolutely late for something important right now. Her books include quirky romantic comedies and playful women's fiction. She blogs erratically with writing advice, random observations, and reflections on raising very loud kids and dogs. Join her Distracted Readers newsletter list for updates, free content, giveaways and more.
Front Field For today’s blog, I’m including some pictures from our family farm in South Georgia. These were taken back in December 2008. I have always loved the farm, and always struggled with what it represents. The farm has been in our family since the late 1800’s. It’s part of who I am, and memories […]
This morning I stepped onto the Wii Fit for the first time in a while. I had to replace the batteries just to get it going after months collecting dust. If you have a Wii Fit, or have used one at someone’s house, you know that the little guy ‘talks’ to you when you weigh […]
Happy New Year, y’all! Hope everyone enjoyed their winter holidays. Here’s a picture of me doing who knows what on the beach last week: Seriously, what am I doing here? Embarrassing beach dancing aside, I do feel very refreshed after spending some quality time with my family doing absolutely nothing. When the holiday break started, […]
You may have noticed that I’ve added a new page to the blog listing what I’ve been reading. I got the idea from another author-blogger and thought it would be interesting to see how having the list impacts what and when I read (if at all) or what people think about my writing. Actually, I’d […]
Well, folks, it’s November 28th, time for a status update. If you are one of those root-for-the-underdog, “maybe she’ll pull it out of the fire at the last minute and surprise us” kind of readers, I’m sorry to disappoint you. I think it’s highly unlikely I will write 32,940 words in the next 59 hours […]
It seems writers are always talking about voice. Finding your voice, choosing a voice for a story… and even, on some occasions, hearing voices. (No one ever said we writers were the most mentally stable crowd.) On a personal note today, I’d like to join the rest of the University of Georgia’s Bulldog Nation in […]
Perhaps against my better judgment, I am participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) this year. As I might have guessed when I signed up, I am more than 50% behind pace to complete the 50,000 words in my latest novel, REGRETS ONLY. With each day that passes, it becomes less and less likely that […]
Last night we took the boys Trick-or-Treating with some friends and had a great time. I didn’t know whether Monkey would be able to keep up with the four- to seven-year-old crowd on his little two-year-old pirate legs, but he was a champ. I don’t think he cares much about the candy yet — last […]
I’ve had language on the brain this week. First and rather unpleasantly, there is the language of the law. Despite a house-wide lack of sleep, the major disruption in our family right now relates to one poorly-written phrase in an outdated will of my father’s. It’s a long story I can’t tell in detail, but […]
I posted my last blog entry seven weeks ago today. Two days later, my son was born. A beautiful 8-pound baby boy who looks like his father and loves to be held by his mommy. He is my treasure. Big brother is so proud — already trying to show him the ropes. The birth was […]
