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"Take A Pic Right Now…"

I saw this on Barb Ferrer’s and Megan Crane’s blogs and said what the hay!

Take a picture of yourself right now.
don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
post that picture with NO editing.
post these instructions with your picture.

Here I am, sans make-up and still drinking my morning cafe. :)


On another note, check out Linda Gerber’s Cyber Launch this week with 17 authors guest blogging and giving away books. Read my story on how the Chevelle in Invisible Touch ties in with my own teen years, and leave a comment for a chance to win a copy of Touch. :)

"Much Ado…"

Snagged from Barb Ferrer’s blog:


Your Score: Much Ado About…


You scored 21% = Tragic, 48% = Comic, 53% = Romantic, 31% = Historic

You Scored Much Ado About Nothing! First published in 1600, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s most enduring comedies, and probably his most performed to this day. Much Ado About Nothing tells the story of two pairs of would-be lovers and the hysterical events that happen surrounding the wedding. As Claudio and Hero prepare to marry, Don Pedro and his friends, bored with the length of preparation time, take it upon themselves in the meantime to play matchmaker to Benedick and Beatrice, two sharp-tongued would-be lovers whose love for each other is masked by the “merry war of words” in which they are engaged that both of them are too stubborn to lose. Based on your results, we believe you to be a quick-witted, light-hearted romantic who is probably very charming and charismatic. While your stubbornness may sometimes get the better of you, we are confident that you always eventually come to your senses and do what’s best. You probably have a lot of friends and we like you too!

Link: The Which Shakespeare Play Are You? Test

"What Kelly Means"

Snagged from Barb Caridad’s LJ:

What Kelly Means

You are a seeker of knowledge, and you have learned many things in your life.

You are also a keeper of knowledge – meaning you don’t spill secrets or spread gossip.

People sometimes think you’re snobby or aloof, but you’re just too deep in thought to pay attention to them.

You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.

You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.

At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow.

You are light hearted and accepting. You don’t get worked up easily.

Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is.

You are a free spirit, and you resent anyone who tries to fence you in.

You are unpredictable, adventurous, and always a little surprising.

You may miss out by not settling down, but you’re too busy having fun to care.

And if you have time, check out my monthly post this weekend at the MTV blog about television series!

"Meez Me"

I couldn’t help myself! I’ve been seeing so many writers “Meez” themselves that I had to give it a go. Total time-waster but fun. haha! Here we have Writer Me to the left and my character, Angel, from Graffiti Girl to the right. :)

"Books Read Meme"

I got this meme from Cherrye’s My Bella Vita blog. I thought it would be cool to try it out…

Instructions: In the list of books below:
Bold the ones you’ve read
Italicize the ones you want to read
Mark in RED the ones you won’t touch with a ten-foot pole (this is kind of drastic, but there are books I probably won’t read)
Put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf
Mark an asterisk (*) beside the ones you’ve never heard of
Seen the movie (#)

1. +#The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. #Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. #The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. #The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. #The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. #Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. *A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. #Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. *A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17.*Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. #The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. #The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. #Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. *The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. #The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. #The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. #East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. #Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. *Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. *1984 (Orwell)
35. *The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. *The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. *The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. *I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. *The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. *The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. *The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. +Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. +Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. *Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. *The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. #The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. #Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. #The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. *The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. #Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. *Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. *One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. +The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. *Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. #Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. #Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. #The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. *The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. #Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. #Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. *Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. *The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. *Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. *In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. #Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. *The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. #The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. #The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. +#White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. *A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

I read a lot but I don’t consider myself well read. There’s still alot for me to explore. I added my own movie key to the meme because where I haven’t read that many books, I have seen a lot of movies! :)

"Writer Procrastination Reason No. 5,432"

"What Should You Be For Halloween?"


Your Halloween Costume Should Be

A Flying Monkey

What a crack up! LOL! =D

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

"Big Procrast Day"

I had one of those BIG procrastination days yesterday. You know the ones where you blog hop, website hop, forum hop, and everything else besides writing.

I always get this way when my book is sort of up in limbo, and I don’t know where it will go next. Does that make sense? I need my future within my hands, darn it. LOL!

Anyway, per this blog post I did a search for “Writer Procrastination”, and I came up with the brief article titled, “Advice on Avoiding Writer’s Procrastination”. The opening lines are: “Need a shot in the arm to keep writing? How about a boot in the pants?”

LOL! That’s what I need, but I’d just say, “a kick in the ass!”

Anyway, this writer did the unthinkable.

“Procrastinators get no sympathy from me. In 1986 when a publishing company accepted my four-page book proposal, the catch was this: In order to meet their spring deadline, the editor would need the completed novel in six weeks. I did not have six weeks to devote to writing a novel. I was working full time at the university. I was teaching a night class in fiction. I was taking two graduate English courses that semester, both requiring research papers. I had an eight-year-old daughter. I was six weeks pregnant, and I felt awful.

I wrote the book in six weeks.

It won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Novel in 1987. It’s still in print.”

My hat off to her! I would never be able to pull that off! =D Her name is Sharyn McCrumb. And she’s a NY Times best-selling author.

"Should Be Writing"

From Tanya

What Kind of Novel Should I Write?
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Hmm, strange…

"Late Night Blog Stroll"

Funny thing. I did this good stretch of writing on the proposal, right? Then I got the procrastination bug and went on a late night blog stroll to blogs I’ve rarely visited. And gee, came across a post by Meg Cabot about the very thing I was doing??? PROCRASTINATING. Just loved her thoughts on how writers must find bizarre ways to procrastinate. If you run out of procrastination techniques, clicky-herey. She didn’t have a permanent link so check out the May 12, 2005 post.

Cindy Procter-King is on the dreaded agent hunt. She seems to label agents: Agent #1, Agent #2,…Agent E, Agent B, and Agent D. I’m a bit confused, but she has requests and that’s what counts–and that she’s funny too! I wish her good luck! = )

Read the Knight Agency’s Quest for the Young Adult Novel.

Why…shocking…this avoiding writing thing is contagious. It’s happening over here at Jennifer Ashley’s blog too. Watch out!

Oh, this is a good one! Diane Duncan has a good rant called The New Survivor Series. Please read this about fathers or rather husbands, I think. Funny!

Okay, I’m tired now. = )