Real life
November 24, 2011 | Real life
No whining from me today.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
No whining from me today.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Colin, the hero from A Very Demon Christmas With his glamour in place is a typical tall, dark, and dangerously sexy kind of guy. With a few, um, special features.
Eventually he becomes what he was meant to be — one scary air demon. It’s darn hard to find accurate pictures of my imaginary friends.
The story is scheduled for release December 20th. I can’t wait to see what the cover artist does!
Sharing the love, just ’cause it’s good to be prepared.
Lots of things scare me. Heights is definitely on that list. Fear of falling is instinctual and there for a good reason — falling hurts. But I grow stronger (just like characters) by facing my fears and acting anyway.
Anything involving the big ladder makes my tummy lurch alarmingly. Going up the ladder is something I do with trepidation, but coming down is ten times worse. I know this to be true, but it still doesn’t make sense. Is it the visual of having to look down that makes it so much scarier? Or is it just that we usually fall down?
What scares you?
If you’re a frequent reader of this blog, you already know what a serious geek I am. One of the top ten reasons I wanted to write was for the intellectual challenge and the perennial learning I thought would be involved. I was right!
The more I study writing craft the more I have to learn. There are infinite layers to telling a good tale. This is a good thing.
The other day the internet quit working at my house. Sort of — wireless router was still lit up and the ISP modem glowed with steady green lights, but Windows said there was no connection. Half an hour of trying this and that later, IE was working but not Firefox. Another half hour of trial and error, I paused, thinking I might actually get a lot more done unplugged.
Finally after one and half hours of unscheduled, and totally unproductive, fooling around the connection was solidly back and both browsers functioning smoothly.
I’m addicted to the web. It is the best research tool ever. The internet is also an easy way to stay in touch with friends and family. But I can’t deny it sucks time. Next time it goes down, it may stay there for the count.
So here I am, minding my business by updating this website and checking to be sure there are fresh posts ready for each day this week. A casual glance at comments section reveals there’s nothing I need to respond to, but 666 comments have been made and approved.
I’m too superstitious to stay with that ominous number. Someone needs to leave a comment or else I’ll have to delete one. But if I eliminate a comment the next time someone is kind enough to respond to a post I’ll have the same problem…
A day off is wonderful, but here’s the downside; whenever I take a break from writing a couple of dozen new ideas pop into my head. This relaxing business is a whole lot more hazardous than it looks.
As seen at the dog park:
Those little dudes really do have an attitude.
See the long haired German Shepherd puppy? Absolutely adorable, huh? Smart too. He enjoys soccer, fetch, bones, running, jumping, and hose water. ‘Cause I’m a total softie for dogs, I puppy sat all summer. The lawn is missing from the shade garden. There are new scratches on several doors and the shiny hardwood floor. Traces of that fluffy coat continues to cling to furniture, rugs, and drapes.
I love everything clean and orderly and even pretty. This is a very difficult state of affairs to maintain even without a large dog lounging about the house. Add a huge pup to the resident senior dog and just decently clean becomes challenging.
A visceral inner conflict is entertaining in fiction. In real life…not so much.
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