Ok, so I got eliminated from the Apprentice's Challenge at WQ and am back at Hobbiton, so go vote and get me back up there! Thanks

Watched FotR for the I-don't-have-the-slightest-clue-what-time, and was again reminded just how damn hot that elf is. Sigh. I want to be in a movie just for the pointy ears. If Cate Blanchett said that, then so can I.

Call it dividing energies, but now I can be totally happy. I've got a modern-day vamp/werewolf story and a fantastic medieval magic story with elves and I don't have to figure out how to combine the two. You know what's funny, sometimes I almost feel like the story is already written in my head, it's just the getting it onto paper (or in pixels as the case may be) is the difficult part. I feel like I have to carry around a tape recorder all the time so I can record those random bits of insight that make the story come together. Course, then I'd look insane, talking to myself all the time...like anyone cares! I wonder though, if I can be 'dark' enough to do justice to Decadence. I think I have read enough to know, but it's like writing romance. Sure I had my share of heady stuff, but a) it was a long time ago and b) I am considerably older and better-read than I was then, so my experiences with romance are probably a little out of whack. And I'm not a dark person, so it will be interesting to see what I can dredge out of my subconscious...glad y'all like it, anyway.