Okay I just swallowed my heart back down my throat and it is securely back in it's rightful place now.
My laptop decided to play a practical joke on me. I was sitting here looking up the legend of St. Elmo's in CO when all of a sudden everything went dead. DEAD, not even that electric blue battery charging light was smiling up at me.
This entire months writings have not been saved on a flash drive, and only choppily saved elsewhere.
I hit the start button, nothing. By the third time I picked up my phone to call my husband at work. I won't deny, I had full intentions of ranting and freaking out, fully expecting him to fix the computer over the phone, 45 minutes away all while smiling lovingly at me...
Luckily (not sure if for my husband or myself) the trickster booted right back up just like nothing ever happened, in fact I felt a little as though it was mocking me, making sure I knew who was really in control here.
Needless to say I will not let a day go by, let alone a month, with out saving my days work in every possible way that i know how!
I am all for a funny joke, however I did not find the humor in this one.
Check out Candace Haven's new book "Take Me If You Dare". She is awesome, and she is from Texas too!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
10 Words
I am a member of the Write_Workshop and today my mission is to go through the Dictionary and fine ten words that I have never seen before and use them in my prose. To be honest I am not real sure what a prose is, so I am just going to assume she is meaning my WIP (work in progress).
This is what my list tooks like:
Conflagration: a large and destructive fire
Plenipotentiary: invested with full power
Conurbation: an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
Tetchy: peevish; testy; irritable
Blackgaurd: a scoundrel
Cabal: a group that seeks power usually through intrigue
Plangent: beating with a loud or deep sound; also, expressing sadness
Laudable: worthy of praise; commendable
Obdurate: hardened in feelings or in wrongdoing; unyielding
Chthonic: dwelling in or under the earth; also, pertaining to the underworld
Thank goodness for Dictionary.com and their WORD OF THE DAY catalogue.
Wish me luck!!!
This is what my list tooks like:
Conflagration: a large and destructive fire
Plenipotentiary: invested with full power
Conurbation: an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
Tetchy: peevish; testy; irritable
Blackgaurd: a scoundrel
Cabal: a group that seeks power usually through intrigue
Plangent: beating with a loud or deep sound; also, expressing sadness
Laudable: worthy of praise; commendable
Obdurate: hardened in feelings or in wrongdoing; unyielding
Chthonic: dwelling in or under the earth; also, pertaining to the underworld
Thank goodness for Dictionary.com and their WORD OF THE DAY catalogue.
Wish me luck!!!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Day One
Today I created my own Blog. Why?
Because yesterday at my BPL meeting I was advised on ways to Self Promote myself. Why do I need to self promote?
Because I am an unknown writer who aspires to be published writer. SO here I am, sitting in the dark on my lap top with a needy kitten asleep on my chest, listening to the snores of my ten month old daughter, trying desperately to come up with something interesting to say...
To be honest, I am a little nervous doing anything like this. I have been writing for years and except for my husband and a select few others, it has been my deep dark secret. Stupid right?
My family and I took a trip to CO a week before school started back up and something inside of me just clicked. An idea for an awesome story came to life in my head on the drive home and hasn't hushed since. Along with non stop wheel turning in my head came the dire need to share my urging desire to write with any one and everyone. Hence how I found myself sitting in that little white room at the library, with my most supportive friend, introducing my children like characters to strangers to be critiqued by the BPL group. (Such a fantastic group of people.) And so now, here I am folks... Self Promoting!!!!!
Because yesterday at my BPL meeting I was advised on ways to Self Promote myself. Why do I need to self promote?
Because I am an unknown writer who aspires to be published writer. SO here I am, sitting in the dark on my lap top with a needy kitten asleep on my chest, listening to the snores of my ten month old daughter, trying desperately to come up with something interesting to say...
To be honest, I am a little nervous doing anything like this. I have been writing for years and except for my husband and a select few others, it has been my deep dark secret. Stupid right?
My family and I took a trip to CO a week before school started back up and something inside of me just clicked. An idea for an awesome story came to life in my head on the drive home and hasn't hushed since. Along with non stop wheel turning in my head came the dire need to share my urging desire to write with any one and everyone. Hence how I found myself sitting in that little white room at the library, with my most supportive friend, introducing my children like characters to strangers to be critiqued by the BPL group. (Such a fantastic group of people.) And so now, here I am folks... Self Promoting!!!!!
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