My first ROW80 check-in
Last week I signed up for ROW80 so of course my world got all crazy and I got nothing done. So this Sunday I'm here to list my goals for the week.1- writing 1000 words per day. I can work on my WIP or write blogs, but no internet until I've written 1000 words.2- I will write a first lesson for a Create Diversity in Your Writing class I've been thinking of organizing.3- I will check out 3 review sites for submitting my book.4- Send my next two chapters to my critique group.5- Set up some more...
Castle in the Sky
I have another Hayao Miyazaki movie for you. Yes that should be enough for you to run out and get this movie, but if not I’ll prattle on. This is a great movie, beautifully animated, a fun excited story with chases and mystery, and fun Miyazaki steampunk going on. If that’s not enough o tempt you, Cloris Leachman does the voice of the airship pirate captain, and of course she fabulous. There is also the voice talents of James Van Der Beek, Mandy Patinkin, Andy Dick, Mark Hamill, and Anna...
Saving Grace
This is one of those movies that I own. It’s funny, sweet, charming, and has a great ending. Grace’s husband commits suicide, leaving her alone and shockingly horribly in debt, so she does what any normal middle aged house wife would do, she grows pot. Craig Ferguson plays her partner in crime, and as always the small village she lives in is filled with fun quirky characters.
Sci-fi romance with Frankie Robertson
I met Frankie Robertson at my RWA meetings, and she has been a wealth of knowledge and support. As I step into the world of self-publishing I am constantly grateful for her blog and that she still responds to my desperate freaking out emails! LOL! As a reader, my first love was science-fiction and fantasy, but then I discovered the romance genre. Now I enjoy blending the two, writing romantic fiction with an otherworldly twist. With a background in property management, occupational therapy,...
Old Loves
I love reading old books and not just because it makes me feel good to have read another "classic", but because they are windows into our past. I love learning about how a day went one hundred years ago. Or that in the 50s moms would have homemade baked goods waiting for their children at the end of the school day, and you didn’t wear underwear under your pj’s because you’d get too hot. I love learning about how they would eat, address each other, or get themselves to work. What was important,...
Zombie Apocalypse Training
For years I’ve been attempting to lose weight and get in shape. Last year I joined a gym with a friend who signed up for personal training then "forgot" to cancel it when we realized we couldn’t afford it. So anyway our trainer is evil, as all trainers apparently have to be, and as one can tell by my years of trying and failing to get into shape I’m not good at sticking to things especially when they are uncomfortable or down-right painful. So how am I getting through this? I think if it as...
I have a book cover!!!
I just got back with a book cover and I had to share it- I'm so super excited!
The Secret of Kells
This is a beautifully animated movie from Ireland. The art is so amazing you could turn the sound off and be completely captivated for the full length of the movie. But don’t do that because the story is a great one. I rarely give plot synopsis because I suck at them and it sounds all fake and stupid. I will say this movie makes me think, as I struggle to protect myself and my family for the dangers in life, am I forgetting any of the important things? Am I so caught up in my worries and fears...
How do you measure badassness?
I have to admit that for me an alpha male has to be a badass. I also like them to be intelligent, sweet, caring, and able to cook and clean, but in the end it’s the badassness that makes me swoon. So what kind of badass things do I like to see my men do? Okay, so being able to handle a weapon is hot. Not necessarily a gun, unless you’re doing something seriously badass, but swords, knives, or staffs, those are cool. Climbing a rope. This is...
Broth or Juice?
I made the work kids ramen the other night for dinner - just the cheap packaged stuff - nothing to get excited about. Anyway, after all the noodles were gone the kids wanted to know if there was any juice left. Shudder. For whatever reason that totally grosses me out. It’s not juice it’s broth. When I told them this, they all looked at me blankly as if no one had ever called the liquid part of soup broth before. What are they teaching in schools these days? I didn’t correct them again but...
