Music With Molly Starlite!

I continued my Periscope concerts last week and performed:

How Much (an original song I wrote that will be on my band's next album)
Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac
Wild Nights by Van Morrison
Troublemaker (an original song I wrote that will be on my band's next album)
Ordinary Life (an original song I wrote that will be on my band's next album)
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams (but I did the BJ Thomas version)

Request a song! This coming Sunday at 7PM, I'll be playing again! Find me on Periscope as molly_starlite ... This week, I'll be doing a tribute to Glenn Frey as well as some other songs, stuff I wrote and covers.

Write On!

For those of you who are new to my page, in addition to being a web designer, social marketer, and graphic designer for work, and being a musician and songwriter for fun, another of my hobbies is writing. To date, I've written four novels, a songbook, and my father's memoirs (links to buy below); I am currently working on the second volume of Dad's memoirs, two more novels, a book of short stories, a poetry book, and a cook book.

Suffice to say, my life is busy enough that I rarely have time to seriously devote to writing any more, but I've decided that I need to finish another novel and at least one other project before the end of the year. In that spirit, I am embarking on my own, personal FebNoWriMo. It'll be like NaNoWriMo except with fewer days and lower word count. I'm shooting to write 25,000 words between February 1st and February 29th (it's a leap year!), which means I have to write around 862 words per day to reach my goal.

Let me tell you, 862 words is nothing. When I was writing my espionage novel, Devil's Handiwork (not yet released), I routinely wrote around 3,000 words per day, but I think that is mostly because I outlined. A lot of writers don't outline, and, you know, whatever works for them. Me, I need an outline, even if I just toss it after it's done, I have a road map. As I am writing, I may deviate from my plans in the outline, and sometimes, that means that the books takes a dramatically different turn that what I'd planned, but that's okay! Most times, the deviation makes the whole thing better. But having a plan definitely helps me write: I wrote the second book in my Sorrow Stones Trilogy in 28 days using that method. I wrote the outline and then just elaborated on that sparse summary, often deviating from it, and the end result was something that I am really proud of, even though almost no one has read either it or the first one in the series.

So, keep me accountable, readers! I am going to post word and page totals every day in February. **finger crossed**

 Night Cry Print book on Lulu | E-book on Amazon | E-book on Barnes&Noble

A Night Borrowed Print book on Lulu | E-book on Amazon | E-book on Barnes&Noble

Hold My Beer! Print book on Lulu | E-book on Amazon | E-book on Barnes&Noble

Request A Song!

So, I just started doing a weekly show on Periscope where I play some music, and I am taking requests! Leave a comment with your song request and I'll choose 5 or 6 and play them on Periscope Sunday night at 7PM PST/10 PM EST - find me on Periscope as @molly_starlite. Last week, I played:

Big Black Ford (original song written by me)
Thirteen (Big Star)
Ex's and Oh's (Elle King - sorry about the bad punctuation, but that's the way the song's titled)
On The Turning Away (Pink Floyd)
You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive (Ruby Friedman)
Ordinary Life (original song written by me)

So... let me know what songs you'd like to hear and I'll do my best to include them!