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...
View ArticleAw 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...
View ArticleClouds
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...
View ArticleBlubber 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...
View Article7 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...
View ArticleIf 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...
View ArticleNow 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...
View ArticleOne 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...
View ArticleThree 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleFor 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...
View ArticleMetal 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...
View ArticleAlso 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...
View ArticleCome 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...
View ArticleI'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...
View ArticlePlus 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...
View ArticleRain, 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...
View ArticleNaNo-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...
View ArticleFairy 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...
View ArticleGood 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...
View ArticleConclusion: 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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleStirling 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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