I got my car today (finally) and am way excited since it's my very first car that I actually own all by myself. It's a '97 Pontiac Sunfire and it's awesome :D


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So even though he's a little bigger than Nazca in size, I don't really think Loki is any older than six, maybe eight months. He's definitely still a 'baby' kitty and absolutely cute and adorable now that he seems to truly found a home here (pst, Nazca's warming up to him and his cute playfulness too, she's just not admitting it...yet ;) )


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Everyone, welcome the newest addition to our little pride of cats: Loki :D


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Dear Me ( Read more... )

...what would they notice and why?

I went to Mountain Con yesterday and attended an interesting workshop hosted by Brandon Sanderson that dealt with all matters concerning plot. Talking about the difficulties of distinguishing between different character voices, we talked about an interesting idea concerning character and setting.

Let's say you have ( Read more... )

I guess we can book reading through the entire (!) Twilight saga under the same weird, masochistic compulsion that made me read through books like the Bible, the Book of Mormon, Goodkind & Co. - yes by now I do severely doubt my mental health, but hey, at least I know what I'm ranting about ;)

Like uh....a bestseller vampire saga that is mainly ( Read more... )

Seriously. Why the fuck do I own the complete Twilight saga now due to my overzealous mother in law a) fulfilling her bookclub commitment by ordering the entire - yes again, the entire! - set for me and b) she then tells me that she really liked the books, but that my ceaseless rants about the first book just cracked her up? Oh and apparently ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure we've all had that experience: We read an author who attempts to write about characters of the opposite gender than theirs and they horribly and often ridiculously fail. Now as a female writer who usually writes from male PoV's I've always been a little paranoid of said failure to convey an authentic male voice. Honestly between the ( Read more... )

Man, I had totally forgotten just how awesome this show is :D

Ruth (trying very hard to deal with the fact that her younger son is gay and she now knows about it): And David, if you have a special friend, he can come as well.

David: Why is my friend special?

Ruth: Alright. If you're having sex with any man I'd like to meet him. Is that better?

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Okay, so I'm sitting here ready to start working on the rewrite of Five and what do I see? Yes, I tend to randomly run across meme's at times. This one's from Writing on Wednesdays

Do you write fiction or non-fiction?  Or both?

Definitely fiction. Urban fantasy in this case 8)

Do you keep a journal or a writing notebook?

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