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Here we go!

If you were my friend Ginger and you read that subject line, you would know that I am singing that in my head in an excellent Perry Farrell impersonation. Plus, remember Farrell's ice cream parlor? Is...

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Aw crap

So it would appear that I immediately forgot i was going to blog as soon as I started. Which is lame, but also fine, as no one reads this. And I think I'm okay with that, since I'm still not convinced...

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Clouds

Okay, so I'm doing picture research–trolling the internet for images that match what's going on in my head, that give me a feeling for what my mc experiences while she goes through what I put her...

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Blubber and The Breakfast Club

Okay so this post is long overdue, although no one reads this, so no one will ever know, so...whatever, even though this is actually one of those times I want other people to read it. Anyway. So the...

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7 weeks? Really?

Kay, so I have eight minutes before the boards come in and I have to go build. That sounds carpenter-y, but it's not. I work in animation.Um, super sweet awesomeness: I just won a book over at...

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If I were to Twitter...

I would Twitter about what song is currently running through my head. That's the only update I would ever give. But I don't twitter. Mostly because I don't understand it and have no idea how to go...

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Now playing...

(in my head) That 'do you hear what I hear' Christmas song. Is it called Little Drummer Boy or something? And how to show I'm referring to a song title? All caps? Quotes? Underlined? Italicized? Plus I...

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One time I met a guy who looked like Beck

And we were instantly attracted to each other. How often does that happen? And I was covered in fake mud at the time (I was an extra for a tv commercial, playing a cavewoman). My hair was dirty and...

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Three things I learned from reading THE HUNGER GAMES

1. First, I wish I knew how to link to stuff...that's why I haven't posted, because I couldn't link to that sweet picture of Beck when I talked about Beck. 1 (for real this time). You can weave in...

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My New Tiger Woods Philosophy:

It's up to me.How good my writing is, how well-plotted, compelling and satisfactorily concluded my story ends up, whether or not I get to the stage where I am ready to be published–it's all up to me.I...

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How the DMV is Awesome and Made My Birthday SWEET

So today is my birthday and here's what happened yesterday:I went to the DMV to renew my license before my birthday, which is, again, today, and I almost didn't pass the vision test because I got hit...

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How I Write Now

Sometimes people go to writing retreats where they learn stuff and also write a little, and sometimes they go to other writing retreats where they only write (and if this happens in a castle in the...

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For the Winning of Contests

I do sometimes win contests. I won a copy of PENELOPE once, before the movie came out, and was then surprised at the differences between them, but LOVED Christina Ricci's wardrobe in it, and then...

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Metal Mania. Always!

One of my favorite memories of being alive happened when I was fourteen and spending the summer in Florida where it is so hot and sticky that you can’t fall asleep at night and when it rains you run...

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Also an excellent Coldplay song

Okay, so I am terrible at blogging. Obviously. I am still not convinced that I have anything to say, in blog form, that anyone else needs to read. So I don't do it. But since I am obsessed with books...

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Come on, Self, Get It Together!

So tonight I'm wondering about My Brain vs. Myself. Sometimes I (Myself) intend (or don't) to do things but My Brain has other plans and I find out afterwards that I've been hijacked. This happens in...

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I'm On It.

Okay, so I've been reading this book on procrastination, and how to stop it. I love reading books on how to do things way more than I like actually doing things (which just feeds into my natural...

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Plus I Can't Even Chew. At All.

As I was lying back in the lying-back chair at my orthodontist this morning, I thought out a blog post. For this, my blog. I'm sure it was brilliant, or at least marginally interesting, but now, with...

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Rain, If You Really Think About It, Is Hilarious

Sometimes I get mildly irritated when people complain about rainy days and call them 'dreary.' And then I think, that's probably how people feel about me always making faces at the sun and wishing...

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NaNo-ing

Dear NaNo Novel,I've decided to keep track of what I'm doing every day to help you live. You are merely a slim, shiny idea right now, but soon you will be a mess of words and characters and wounds and...

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Fairy Dust

I was on a movie set one time (One Hour Photo, to be specific) and there was this crew guy that was all chatty and fun and he said something that just made sense to me yesterday. I mean, it made sense...

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Good Things Cost

good thing: adding something new to my ever-resolution listcost: actually sitting down and writing something new/Time + Effort*So I've been working on a list of New Year's resolutions even though I now...

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Conclusion: I Can Write, But I Need An Editor*

*an awesome editor. I mean, who doesn't?So there's this indie bookstore sort of near where I live, and I'd never been–or even heard of it–until a semi crashed into it (it's at the bottom of a hill) (it...

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In Which There Are Many Television Links

Is anyone watching V? I finally caught the pilot yesterday and I'm totally in. This can be one of my four* shows I'm allowed to watch regularly now that Dollhouse is ending *sob*. So V totally got me...

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Stirling is, Apparently, A Boy's Name (I Am Not A Boy)

Hi. Remember how determined I used to be about not going by my real name because of how it's like nails down the chalkboard of my soul when it's mispronounced (which is, like, most of the time for...

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