Jess and I talked about housing options over the weekend. I don’t think I’m going to find this one, though…
Your home is a
Rough Wizard’s Ranch
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Author: etoiline
Ready to write
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The NaNoWriMo site officially opened for the season yesterday (or today, depending on where in the country you are), and I’m ready to write. November seems alternately too far away or way too soon. I had a nice brainstorm about this year’s story yesterday, and I think I’ve got a nice plot worked out. I keep having doubts about the originality of the story, which seems to be a trend with me, but I don’t *think* I’ve read anything like it…
I’ve noticed an annoying trend, though. Each year it seems like I have to use the ‘forgot password’ tool for the NaNo site, even though the computer has a cookie stored. And for some reason I’m not getting the email saying that I’ve requested a new one…so, blah.
I’m still catching up on missed sleep from the weekend, which I should tell you about…maybe later. Probably should do some work!
Herbed
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What herb are you?
Arrr.
StandardIt’s Talk Like A Pirate Day. Where’s the rum?
I was lucky enough to get into the private beta of Mint, and it’s really fun. Mint is a personal money manager that can get transaction info right from your bank or credit card so everything’s all in one place, and it’s secure, so you don’t have to worry about losing anything.
Why do it?
- A little financial organization.
- Insight into where their money goes, across all accounts.
- Email & SMS bill reminders and alerts.
- Personalized savings suggestions.
- It’s free.
I’ve got no financial interests to disclose, this is just fun software.
In case you’ve felt the burning desire to contact me in the past but disdain the use of the comment box, I now have a cell phone. Comment and I will send you the number…as long as I know you 😉 Fair warning: it’s a prepaid phone that costs money every time I turn it on, so it will mostly be off, and you will get voicemail. However, I will check my voicemail regularly, and the phone will mostly be turned on during weekends.
six
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I remember the call from my mother, and the absolute blue of the sky, and wondering, how?
Do you want to see it?
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You Should Be a Film Writer |
You don’t just create compelling stories, you see them as clearly as a movie in your mind. You have a knack for details and dialogue. You can really make a character come to life. Chances are, you enjoy creating all types of stories. The joy is in the storytelling. And nothing would please you more than millions of people seeing your story on the big screen! |
a royal birthday
StandardI turn 27 today, the 27th. Supposedly that’s the ‘royal’ birthday, or magic birthday, or whatever you like to call it. Pretty cool, regardless. Happy birthday to me. *cheers* I’ll have dinner with family tonight, and I spent the past weekend in Chicago with friends, so it’s been a very nice yearly ritual. And there’s a full moon tonight, whoo.
To my two cousins who share my birthday: enjoy it! Let’s have a good day.
Daemon
StandardWhat do you think? (x-posted at LJ, because that’s what I had open first…) You’ve got 12 days to decide if this is me (that gives you to the 26th, btw). Click and see it change, I guess.
One of these days I’ve got to read the books. Annoyingly enough, neither of the libraries in town have the series in one volume. Since I’ve already got a backlog of library books to read, I’ll have to wait and request each separately.
I know something you don’t know
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…but I can’t tell you or Carol Berg will kill me, haha. This weekend at Archon I had the privilege of hearing some of the beginning of Carol’s next book, Breath and Bone at a private reading. According to her, I’m one of about 7 people who know. Sweet! The book comes out in January, and I’m even more keen to read it now than I was after the end of the first book in the Lighthouse Duet, Flesh and Spirit when it came out in May. Excuse me while I squee.
Archon (the St. Louis sci-fi/fantasy/comics/pop-culture convention that’s really in Collinsville IL) was very good. I debated about going for quite a while, because it was so expensive this year. Archon 31 was also NASFiC, since Worldcon was awarded to a non-North American site (Yokohama, Japan). It was, therefore, a national con and not a regional one, and theoretically worth more, I guess. I have very limited con experience, so I can’t tell you if it really was bigger than normal (though some of my new con friends say it wasn’t). I knew Carol Berg would be there, and I really wanted to see what she had to say. I took at look at the programming and decided that it would be worth it to pay that much, and indeed, it was. Thank goodness I have a car that could make the forty-mile round trip now.
There were quite a few writing panels, and I’ve got many notes which are going to live in my manuscript folder. It was pretty cool to interact with authors and agents, some of whom I’ve only encountered on blogs. And it’s doubly cool to actually talk with the authors, most of whom are really nice and surprisingly approachable, especially for a shy girl like me (unless I’m talking about myself, sigh. then I seem to run on forever). It was wonderful to actually have a discussion with one of my favorite authors about writing (Carol sat down with me for an entire hour) and get some great advice. I was really intending to sit down this evening and write some on my novel, but the computer thwarted me with its one-two punch of slowness and browser-crashing in the middle of my entry, sigh.
18
StandardDaniel Radcliffe turns 18 today. Yahoo. How would you like to be the richest kid in England? And know how the character you originated is going to die/live? Sort of surreal, if you ask me.
And I only post this because the post I made three years ago about him turning 15 broke my site for a little bit, because I was silly when I started out here…
It was fun talking about HP when I got to work this morning. Nice to know I’m not alone in my like of the boy wizard.