Thursday, December 31, 2009
What will your Bird of the Year be this year?
I have a New Year’s Day tradition. It comes from being a birder for years, and being Wiccan. The idea is that the first bird you see on New Year’s Day is your bird for the year. It will be a sign for the year, or how the year will go. Example; say you saw a Starling, high odds of that in most of America. Starlings travel and nest in large flocks, and especially roost in large groups so your new year could be full of group issues. It could be a message to be more social in the coming… Read More
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Want a Brighter Attitude and more Productive Writing then Exercise
I’ve spent most of my life living inside my head as if my body was just a container for my imagination. The first hint I had that there might be more to the whole body thing was Judo in college which led to weights and running. For the first time I saw the potential in this physical form. It was a new concept for me. I had been a bookworm and drama geek in high school. I was thin because of genetics and luck, but college would be the first time I tried to shape my body, make it stronger,… Read More
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
Holiday Peek at Flirt the next Anita Blake novel
As a Christmas Eve/Yule present to all of you guys here is a first peek at “Flirt” the next Anita Blake novel. It will hit the shelves on Febuary 2nd 2010, but for your holiday viewing here is how it all begins. http://www.laurellkhamilton.org/flirt.html
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
When Your Head Turns Ugly, Get Your Demons a Union Card
What do you do when you’re convinced the writing you just finished is crap?
Well, it might be crap, but odds are that it’s not. Most writers are perfectionists at heart. We’re always searching for that perfect word, the exact phrase to convey the emotion we’re trying to get the reader to feel. We build worlds out of air and words and imagination and we want them to be real and interesting. Sometimes we put the bar pretty high for our lonely little words on paper. You should have high goals for your writing, but you should give your writing… Read More
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Solstice is past, but the Holiday Marches On
Visited with Trinity this morning and heard all about her adventures with Chinese acrobats and the Titanic. She and grandparents went to Branson, Missouri where they saw both. The largest, permanent Titanic exhibit in world is there. They all had a blast.
Phone calls to New York about business that happened while I was on vacation. Then more of the Anita Blake comic to look at. Wips (works in progress), and Finals. We’re nearly to the end of The Laughing Corpse in the artwork. Cool to see it in pictures after living in my head in words for so long.
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Great Lizard Caper
I like wild life. I mean I have a biology degree and have been fascinated with animals from my earliest memories. No, really, one of pre-two-year-old memories is of finding a group of lady bugs at the base of a tree hiding under the grass that covered the base of said tree. But I like my wild life outside the house. The treaty Jon and I have with spiders is stay out of sight and you live, come too close and your life expectancy shortens. Being bitten by a brown recluse about three years ago has not softened my view… Read More
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Birds, birds, everywhere
No pages today, in fact I never opened up my lap top. Jon and I have spent the day watching the ocean spill across the sand. We’ve purchased groceries, a Solstice present for Trinity. It was just so her we couldn’t pass it up. We have joined a health club so that we can exercise while we’re here. I brought my binoculars and bird book this time so we could look at the passing fauna up close, but some of the fauna came to us. This afternoon we were sipping tea on the balcony and an American Kestrel flew up… Read More
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