Wise, Witty, and Wacky Wednesday
Ignorance is bliss. Most people laugh when they say this. “Like ha ha ha if only I didn’t know how many rat droppings were in hot dogs it wouldn’t be so difficult to eat them. I guess ignorance really is bliss. Ha ha ha.” It is also the truth. Being a home schooling mom and a writer has ruined many things for me. An example, pirates and historical romance in general. My son wanted to learn about pirates and castles when he was six. I was all excited. I love pirates and castles! So off to the...
Music and Musings Monday
After several lovely comments and my own need to put something in my blog I am going to expand upon my eight steps towards adding more cultural diversity into your life and your writing. Tip one is all about perspective and cheating. My YA series Phoenix Child has many characters from different cultural backgrounds and as the series continues they will be traveling all over the world. So how will I deal with all of these different POV’s, different cultural backgrounds, and how it affect the...
Foreign Film, 10 things, and Friendly Blog Friday
Okay as you can see this is a wild variety Friday post. I'm late posting my 10 Random facts post, then I'll give you my review for your perusal, then to end this blog post a check list to see if your blog is user friendly. But to start with I got an award!!! The wise and witty Rance Denton gave me this lovely award. There are rules of course. I need to post seven facts about myself- I'm cheating aka using my time management skills- and my 10 random things will be used for this too. I also need...
Wise, Witty, And Wacky Wednesday
With all the uproar over this post here about agents and editors asking for characters who are gay to be cut or made straight and characters of color to be made white- or represented as white on the covers I wanted to put in my two cents. This pisses me off and is yet another reason to self-publish my works. I have several characters of different ethnicity in my books as well as gay and lesbian characters. I don’t want my books to be Bleached and Ironed. It saddens me when I see authors talk...
Music and Musings Monday
All right- I am trying to expand my blogs- make them more interesting and engaging, and more then the twenty words I normally post lol! So Monday will now become----- Music and Musing Monday. I like to muse and ponder about all sorts of things- which leaves what I will write about wide open and hopefully a deeply exciting treat for all of you as you face the dreaded Monday. I will still post music, from around the world to help you shake off your Monday blues. I’m not going to try and make a...
Foreign Film Friday
Black Books from BBC is my pick for the fifteenth Foreign Film Friday. This is a quirky show which takes place in a bookshop. The owner Bernard Black is drunk, rude, and will use a broom to shoo customers out of his shop just because he can. Next door his long time best friend Fran jumps between encouraging his bad behavior and trying to keep him in line. Our third player is Manny who is sweet, kind, loyal,neurotic, and gets a cramp in his leg when he gets stressed out. Black Books is...
Wise, Witty, and Wacky Wednesday
I've decided to do the first campaign challenge for my Wednesday blog- the rules are below. I've never done any flash fiction because my grammar is so poor I get horribly nervous posting anything that hasn't been reviewed several times over- but I don't have a blog for today so here we go 🙂 Write a short story/flash fiction story in 200 words or less, excluding the title. It can be in any format, including a poem. Begin the story with the words, “The door swung open” These four words will be...
Music Monday
Elitsa & Stoyan was the 2007 Bulgarian entry for Bulgaria. I love the older traditional music woven in with modern beats. I have been reading We Are Not Alone by Kristen Lamb- it's amazing and over the next few weeks I'm going to be adding to my blog, hopefully making this more interesting 🙂 So please chime in let me now what you like and what doesn't work for you. Have a great Monday!
Foreign Film Friday
I picked Enlightenment Guaranteed for my fourteenth Foreign Film Friday. Most of us have at one point or another sought enlightenment, greater spiritual understanding, and higher purpose. Some of through prayer and meditation, some through pot and sex, some through physical activity. We searched in our late teens during college, when we hit our Saturn Return at 28, some later once the kids had grown and putting food one the table wasn't as much of a struggle. For two German brothers their...
Wise, Witty, and Wacky Wednesday
As of last night I didn't have any idea of what I was going to post, and then Lesann a new friend from the Write Campaign posted a video of a flash mob. I love flash mobs,for a moment people are smiling and happy, people are connected and in person! I think I read too much into flash mobs- but as a writer I probably read too much into just about everything! I see potential futures, and a hundred reason why something came about in the first place, and frequently this causes trouble- although I...
