I’m Making Myself Crazy(er)

Ever since someone tweeted out a link to a doll house furnished as a haunted/witch's house, I have been obsessed with the idea of doing a similar one, but even moreso with the idea of putting together one furnished like the home of Andrej and Anne-Marie. Fueling my addiction has been EBay where I found …

Meet Rowena

I was trolling on EBay this morning, and BAZINGA! This is the spitting image of one of the new vampire characters in my NaNo novel, right down to the shade of lipstick. Even the hairstyle is almost exactly as I envisioned her.  Ok, it's a little creepy, being wrapped in plastic like this, but what …

Setting Goals

I've never been one to use writing prompts to get myself writing. You've probably seen them, all kinds of open-ended one liners like "The peanut butter was on the counter..." and you're supposed to run with it and write a paragraph, or 500 words or something. Those things just leave me cold, I get nowhere. …

Courage

Just a thought for today. My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage! -- Aunt Frances, "Practical Magic" (1998) I've always loved that quote, and I love that movie, which is substantially different from the book by Alice Hoffman …

Some Tarot Eye-Candy

OhmygodohmygodohmyGAWD!! You have to see this! It's a "Lovers" Card I just found on deviantART, by an artist who goes by "bluefooted". If he/she doesn't do an entire Tarot deck, I may have to throw myself from the highest parapet in the land. You can click it for an even larger view. I am in …

No Time

If only there was a way to get around having to sleep. I've had several more ideas for stories lately, but no time to do anything with them. I'm still revising the vampire novel and am determined not to move onto something else until I feel satisfied with that. I'm just afraid that if I …

Inspired Monday

As Mondays go, today is not too bad (so far). Halfway through, and nothing dreadful yet. The Nebbish is out of town for a couple days (YAY!). That cheered me right up when I remembered. Most of the time I answer him as briefly and cheerlessly as I can. Anything else and he would take …

Support Your Local Demon

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out …

Out of Ideas?

I think it's safe to say most of us have more ideas than we will ever get around to developing. They fly at us out of nowhere, and usually at the least convenient time (like when we're driving, or in a meeting at work, out of a sound sleep at three o'clock in the morning when …

The Enemy

Today's breakthrough in my writer's block is courtesy of Sully Erna, frontman of Godsmack, more specifically his song "The Enemy." I've got a bunch of new characters to draw up now, and I have to decide their lifespans. Some will be like the red shirt guys on Star Trek (they're always the ones that get …