I am personally a huge fan of ecards, they're free, they're quick and it looks like you care about someone when really you totally forgot about their, birthday, illness, wedding or birth of their child.
Yep, I've sent ecards for all those reason.
However, it's not ok to send a twenty minute ecard. Nope.
It's not ok to send a Jacquie Lawson ecard as an invitation for your 4 year olds birthday party.
Nope.
A Jacquie Lawson ecard is long, interactive and requires me to sit at my computer and click the damn fairy fifteen times just to find out the time and location of the birthday party.
NOT COOL.
That's just the lastest thing that occured in my craptastic morning.
My daughter peed on the floor.
My dog tore up a diaper
My coffee maker wasn't working and it took 3 minutes to fix it, and when I did, I burnt my fingers.
It's cold out.
I'm still drowning in paper work.
And then I had to deal with a 20 minute E CARD!!!!!
I'm still debating if I should do a contest for my 75 followers.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Road Trip Wednesday- Best Book of October
I started this month in a book binge in an effort to distact myself from waiting for an evaultion for an agent. I started reading a lot. Then I got the crititque back- over all very positive but needs some rewrite.
I lost all motivation to read or write and I've spent the last half of the month playing Plants Verse Zombies.
In fact right now, as I writing this, I'm avoiding my rewrites.
But I read the following books
The Ice Queen
It was my first grown up book in a long time. It was a solid read but I quickly rushed back to YA.
Hush hush
Simply put: the worst book I've read in 5 years. I won't go into detail, because I don't life bashing books on my blog but I do want to be honest. This book just wasn't for me.
Hex Hall
This book had GREAT promise but sort of whined in the end.
Paranormalcy
Fluffy goodness in a candy coating. Although the cover is BEAUTIFUL it doesn't really fit with the overall tone of the book. There's about a BILLION reviews of this book all over the blogosphere.
The magical life of Long Tak Sam
graphic novel of a biography of a magician the whole world has completely forgotten about.
But the best book was The Ghost and The Goth.
I loved it. I really did. I sort of want to write fan fiction about it. It the first book I've read in a long time that after I finished it, I rushed to the author's website to find out of there was going to be a squel. YAY THERE IS!
Was it great litearure? By no means. It was fluffy fluff coated in a layer of more marshmallowy fluff. And you know what... it was AWESOME.
Basic Premise. Bitchy Cheerleader girl gets hit by a bus and the only one who can see her ghost self is a goth guy. It will take you two - three hours to read it. You'll laugh, you'll be shocklying moved by the story and the characters.
I lost all motivation to read or write and I've spent the last half of the month playing Plants Verse Zombies.
In fact right now, as I writing this, I'm avoiding my rewrites.
But I read the following books
The Ice Queen
It was my first grown up book in a long time. It was a solid read but I quickly rushed back to YA.
Hush hush
Simply put: the worst book I've read in 5 years. I won't go into detail, because I don't life bashing books on my blog but I do want to be honest. This book just wasn't for me.
Hex Hall
This book had GREAT promise but sort of whined in the end.
Paranormalcy
Fluffy goodness in a candy coating. Although the cover is BEAUTIFUL it doesn't really fit with the overall tone of the book. There's about a BILLION reviews of this book all over the blogosphere.
The magical life of Long Tak Sam
graphic novel of a biography of a magician the whole world has completely forgotten about.
But the best book was The Ghost and The Goth.
I loved it. I really did. I sort of want to write fan fiction about it. It the first book I've read in a long time that after I finished it, I rushed to the author's website to find out of there was going to be a squel. YAY THERE IS!
Was it great litearure? By no means. It was fluffy fluff coated in a layer of more marshmallowy fluff. And you know what... it was AWESOME.
Basic Premise. Bitchy Cheerleader girl gets hit by a bus and the only one who can see her ghost self is a goth guy. It will take you two - three hours to read it. You'll laugh, you'll be shocklying moved by the story and the characters.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
YAY 75 Followers
75 followers WOOT
Thank you so much!!
Thanks for reading, commenting and clicking the follow button!
Should I do a contest? Hmmm? Let me know in the comments.
Monday, October 25, 2010
What did I do?
Sometimes people give you a gift and you think, what the hell were they thinking.
Other times they give you a gift and they tell you what they were thinking and you still think, what the hell?
Sometimes the gift isn't for me, sometimes it's for my two year old.
My Inlaws came back from a cruise. They gave back this for my daughter.
It's offensive on many levels. It's a bad sterotype. It's a chihuahua. And it sings La Bamba.
My daughter loves it. She played it once, and then again, and again, and again and again again.
We tried to distract her and turn it off. My daughter found the on off switched buried under a mound of fur in less time then it takes the dog to sing La Bamba.
When my husband asked, "what were you thinking?"
MIL answered I wanted to get the most annoying thing because you were so annoying as a kid.
I answered, "yeah but I didn't know you as a child and I didn't do anything to warrant this punishment."
Happy Monday everyone!
Other times they give you a gift and they tell you what they were thinking and you still think, what the hell?
Sometimes the gift isn't for me, sometimes it's for my two year old.
My Inlaws came back from a cruise. They gave back this for my daughter.
It's offensive on many levels. It's a bad sterotype. It's a chihuahua. And it sings La Bamba.
My daughter loves it. She played it once, and then again, and again, and again and again again.
We tried to distract her and turn it off. My daughter found the on off switched buried under a mound of fur in less time then it takes the dog to sing La Bamba.
When my husband asked, "what were you thinking?"
MIL answered I wanted to get the most annoying thing because you were so annoying as a kid.
I answered, "yeah but I didn't know you as a child and I didn't do anything to warrant this punishment."
Happy Monday everyone!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Welcome to my life
Help: I'm drowning in paper work, meetings, planning, grading, recording, and general real life.
Anyone else feel like their real life gets in the way of their writing and blogging and social interactions?
I'm heading back into the writing process. ONE LAST set of revisions before I send it off to agents.
Sunday I had 2 hours to work... I wrote three sentences.
Maybe this weekend I'll get more in.
Anyone else feel like their real life gets in the way of their writing and blogging and social interactions?
I'm heading back into the writing process. ONE LAST set of revisions before I send it off to agents.
Sunday I had 2 hours to work... I wrote three sentences.
Maybe this weekend I'll get more in.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Road Trip Wednesday- Comp Titles
So a comp title is a book that is similar to yours but way more famous. It's to help a agent understand where your book would belong on a book shelf.
For my book How To Pwn Noobz a comp title would be Scott Pilgrim Verses the World and Things Not Seen. (Thank you Ms Ortiz for the suggestions... You are in fact a mighty T-Rex)
For my book Penny and Hank, well it's a retelling of the Demeter Persephone Myth--- But if I had to make a comparison it would be a little like The Ghost and The Goth meets The Bullfinch's Mythology.
For my book New York Karma the comp title would be Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist for adults.
And for the book I've never written and never plan to, it's a mix of Twilight with a dash of Harry Potter and a tidbit of The Stand and a whole lot of smutty smut smut and some sex too and the whole thing is about a werewolf questioning his sexuality and the ghost who is trying to convince him he's straight.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The Logic of a middle school student
I've been teaching my 7th graders The Raven by Poe for the last week.
We've watched The Simpsons version of it.
We read it.
We listened to a professional actor read it. T
hen we translated the entire poem into modern language. I am personally a BIG believer in doing this. It's how I've been able to understand all the classics I've read.
My version of McBeth has WAY more uses of the word "dude", than Shakespeare intended.
So after a week worth of studying the most famous American poem, a student raised his hand and said
"I have a question. Why didn't the narrator just walk out of the room instead of spending five stanzas yelling at a bird?"
GENIUS!!!!!
Yes. I agree.
I also question the interior design choose of putting a bust of Pallas over your chamber door. One slam of the door and that statue's is a murder weapon.
We've watched The Simpsons version of it.
We read it.
We listened to a professional actor read it. T
hen we translated the entire poem into modern language. I am personally a BIG believer in doing this. It's how I've been able to understand all the classics I've read.
My version of McBeth has WAY more uses of the word "dude", than Shakespeare intended.
So after a week worth of studying the most famous American poem, a student raised his hand and said
"I have a question. Why didn't the narrator just walk out of the room instead of spending five stanzas yelling at a bird?"
GENIUS!!!!!
Yes. I agree.
I also question the interior design choose of putting a bust of Pallas over your chamber door. One slam of the door and that statue's is a murder weapon.
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