I have a confession to make. I hate Thanksgiving. Yeah, I said it. I hate Thanksgiving. Personally I cannot get behind a holiday that revolves entirely around eating so much food all everyone wants to do is sleep and feel sick. What I do get excited about is having the opportunity to see everyone. And [...]
In the wee hours of Thanksgiving morning I finished my NaNoWriMo novel. This is the second novel I’ve written – and the second one I finished this year. It clocked in at 53,341 words – compared to the first one which was 108,212. Yikes. Do you remember when I finished the first novel and was [...]
Yesterday I decided to do a test run of my dessert for Thanksgiving dinner. As is tradition, the royal family will be spending Thanksgiving with Lady Shutterbug and Princess Mobot’s family. Their mother requested that I bring “a chocolate extravaganza” as my personal contribution to the meal. I brainstormed for a while before I settled [...]
I can admit it. I loathe red carpets. They’re so unstructured and you never know what’s happening until it’s happening and it’s all sorts of stress. Okay, I like Janet Jackson as much as the next girl. I’m not a huge fan, but I can get down with Janet. I am however, completely dumbfounded by [...]
Inevitably, I have gotten behind on my blogging. I have a ton of posts that are lurking in the shadows, just waiting their turn to shine. Understandably, I’m behind on my blog reading too. My google reader is full to bursting, and I’ve gotten to the point where I just read the posts by people [...]
The extreme noveling conditions of NaNoWriMo have forced me to take a closer look at my writing process. Mostly I am the kind of writer who sits down at the computer and just lets it all out. There are usually a few key plot points in my head, but beyond those I just write until [...]
Let’s review my progress on the Pre-Employment Bucket List, shall we? Empty the DVR/Catch up on all my TV Shows Our DVR is currently at 79% capacity – up from 64% when I first made the list. Oops. Finish my t-shirt quilt I haven’t touched the quilt in weeks. And every night I sit at [...]
Today has been an appropriately grey and rainy day considering tonight I’m off to Forks (at least in my mind). I’ve been ruminating on everything I expect from tonight’s New Moon release for quite some time, if you’ll recall. In the wake of my completed novel I’ve opted to spend some time reviewing New Moon [...]
Things around here are a little weird these days. Exhibit A: In case you’re wondering, that split open waffle was delicious, thank you very much. I was in the car today and they were interviewing some author on the radio about his writing process. This noveling stuff follows me. I’m currently behind on my novel [...]
Today I nearly died of joy when I started going through my google reader and saw the title of today’s Cake Wrecks post was “All Your Base are Be Wrong to Us.” Nearly, died. All Your Base Are Belong To Us was one of the first ever viral videos* – I mean, this happened before [...]
