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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Oct
31
Halloween Updates
Posted in blog, dragon age, fangirl, Halloween, sliver of shadow, writing
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…such as they are. I’m a tad bleary since I ended up in the Urgent Care clinic last night with Lucy…who was running a temp of 106. Which freaked me out. (Tried it several times, 106, 107, Err. Tried another thermometer and it said 105. Yeah, off to the clinic/ER). She’s being treated for strep now, but it was a very long night. (She does look better this morning, though, so that’s good.) Oddly enough, I seem to recall one of my kids was sick like this last Halloween as well, which makes for a short trick-or-treating stint, but we’ll see how she’s doing later tonight. In the meantime, I did submit a list of potential reviewers to receive galleys of A Sliver of Shadow this morning – I only had a very limited number and there may have been some overlap between my list and the publisher, which means…
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Oct
28
How Apropos…
Posted in blog, costumes, my odd childhood, tampon ghost
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I’m actually vaguely tempted to try it. (I think the most creative I ever got was to make those little tissue ghosts with rubber bands and markers, but hey, whatever works… Also, just for fun I’m throwing up some vintage Collegeville Halloween costumes. Remember these awful plastic jumper things with the dead-doll eye masks? (With those funky lip things that used to basically just collect your sweaty drool when you were out Trick-or-Treating?? And the words FLAME RETARDED on the box cover – like, what? Were there so many choices of costumes in the 70s that you might actually choose the ones that would spontaneously burst into flame? <- Holy crap, it’s the Kraken from the original Clash of the Titans! Some serious cheeseball awesomesauce right here… <– I actually had this one – maybe 1983? I would have been in 3rd grade. Wow, I’m old. And wow, we had some seriously…
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Oct
27
I For One Welcome our Hello Kitty Overlords…
Posted in blog, books, Connor, cthulhu, hello kitty, word whores
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I just had to share this awesome Hello Cthulhu cake…because it is AWESOME. That and to express a little amazement at my son, who dropped $30 on books at his school book fair. Not that I ever mind my kids buying books – I would take that a hundred-fold over video games or crappy toys. I’m just surprised because he’s eight and that’s a lot of cash for someone that young. (Saved up from his birthday over the summer.) Definitely a trend I intent to keep on encouraging, anyway. Also, I’m over at Word-Whores today, talking a little bit about vampires and werewolves.…
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Oct
26
Vampire WTFkery
I don’t even actually have words for this. But have a little Halloween WTFkry on me. Or not. (And I suppose I’m going to have to dig up a link to this at some point…but not until I get home from work. Because reasons.) Edited to add: I found it on IMDB! Count Drac is back – and this time he’s sucking more than just necks! Count Gaylord stalks the streets of L.A. for the hunkiest victims to ever succumb to lust, as well as his enemy, the Marquis de Suede.…
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Oct
25
Stormy Brain
Posted in blog, craft, headache, writing
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Didn’t post earlier today because I had a migraine for a large chunk of it. Makes it hard to be enthusiastic about looking at the screen for sure. (I’ve take some Excedrin and it’s helped the pain part, but I’m *awfully* jumpy right now, so I’m not sure how helpful it will be for the rest of the night.) I did manage to do some actual brainstorming today – on paper. I’m at a bit of a crossroads with this third book, and I know it because my latest chapter is pretty much everyone just standing around and jabbering at each other. Always a sign for me that things are a little muddled plot-wise. Characters are often like actors. Sometimes they need very little guidance. Just point them in the right direction and they’ll ad-lib themselves into greatness. Others? Not so much. You could compare being a writer like being a…
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