The Novelty Girls

Watch that ball drop in Times Square! I hope the coming year is everything you’re wishing for!

You Will Keep Your New Year’s Resolution

You planning on making a resolution that’s smart, attainable, and perfect for where your life is.

NOT resolutions. Never that!

So…here goes! I’m in to all sorts of genre’s, so be prepared.

Children’s / Picture Books
Plot and complete 2 picture books and send them to agents and/or publishers.

Young Adult
Plot and complete 2 YA’s and send them to agents and/or publishers.

Cobblestone Press
Plot and complete 3 novellas for CP.

Samhain Publishing
Plot and complete 3 novellas for SP.

OK….It’s out there. You’ll have to help keep me on my toes…er…at my computer screen. So, what about you? What are your writing goals for the year?

OK Hubby mentioned it was Friday today, and I didn’t believe him. Apparently the holiday messed with my inner clock and calendar. That’s been okay this week, he’s been home to help out with kids and food and Dawg, but next week it’s just me and the munchkins. EEKS.

I’m just going to take this time to wish you all a happy Whichever Winter Holiday you celebrate (if any) and best wishes for the calendar flipping over from 07 to 08.

Thanks for being with us this year, and hope to see more of you in the new one.

Hope your holidays rock around the Christmas tree!

You Know a Lot About Christmas

You got 9/10 correct You know tons about the history and traditions surrounding Christmas. When you celebrate the holidays, you never forget their true meaning - or all the little fun details. Random Christmas fact: Most Christmas trees are edible. The needles are a good source of Vitamin C.

If you want a nice, happy Christmas post…move on. This is your only warning.

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Lately, I’ve been having a lot of strange dreams. I don’t remember all of them when I wake up. I ought start keeping a dream journal by the bed, but it hasn’t worked too well in the past when I’ve tried it. Anyway, I had a dream the other night that’s been haunting me since. It was about a conquered kingdom, a bastard princess, slavery, romance, betrayal, and a quest to restore the kingdom—and escape when the plot was uncovered and failed.

Needless to say, there’s a lot in the actual dream that would need to be altered to make sense, because dreams don’t exactly function on logic. But it was cool, and my mind keeps twining around “What could I do with this? Hmm…”

It’s not the first time I’ve had a dream turn into a novel. I actually have the first novel in a trilogy plotted and on the backburner that was inspired by a few disconnected scenes from a dream. Really ought get back to writing that one someday.

Has anybody else had story dreams like this? What do you do?

You know-I love Bing and old fashioned Christmas carols better than most. I love chestnuts roasting and Jack Frost nipping etc etc etc. But a few years ago-I found a Holiday song that tops them all. I fell in love with it. It so encapsulates the season of giving that I couldnt resist sharing it with you.

I’m such a sucker for these quizzes…what kind of Christmas ornament are you? I mean, who thinks of these things? I love it!

You Are a Snowman

Friendly and fun, you enjoy bringing holiday cheer to everyone you know!

Well….that’s actually NOT true. It’s just somewhere out of the ordinary and I’ve never attempted to go…well….write that is. Children’s stories. I have a couple of YA ideas in my head, but I’d never even thought about writing something for the 5-8 age group. Which is so…NOT…erotica. LOL But I did it, a few weeks ago. From an idea I got from one of my girls. It just came to me fully idealized in my head and I sat down and wrote it….and I do mean…actually “wrote” it by pencil in one day. I let my daughters read it first, then let a couple of writer friends read/critique it, then a few friends who had kids the age the book would be appropriate for. Oh..and one of my kids teachers too. They all seemed to like it.

So, now….wait for it….here’s more *dark* territory….it’s off to agent / publisher land. Gasp! Ideally, you’re supposed to wait anywhere from 4 weeks to 3 months for a response, depending on the agent or publisher. But I still find myself opening up my email everyday or going through the caller ID on my telephone waiting for a request or acceptance or the dreaded rejection. It’s maddening I tell ya.

Soooo…wish me luck. Have a great Saturday. Mine is gray and rainy.

Lyric

“Refresh”. Such a pretty word. I remember when it used to mean sleeping twelve hours, waking up happy, and feeling good about myself, the world, and life in general.

Now it’s just the F5 button on my keyboard.

Generally, ‘refresh’ now means continual pressing of said button, watching the same page load, reload, and then load again. Usually with the same result, I might add. “watched toast never pops”? “Refreshed pages never change.”

RD is still down. The Yahoo! group is nice, but it’s not the same.
I’m still waiting on word for a submission, and although I’m pretending total indifference…I’m not indifferent. Of course, it’s sort of the same “I just want an answer”ness I have about the baby: I don’t care if it’s a boy or a girl, if it’s an R or a contract…I just wanna know.

*refresh*

Yeah, ninny that I am, when writing this post, I hit F5 instead of the numeral 5. That wasn’t good.
And I still didn’t have any new email.

So, we need a new word for ‘refresh’. For that calming, relaxing, rejuvenating thing we used to do, before the word was synonymous with the F5 button. Suggestions?

I’m sort of partial to “chocolate orgasm”, but yknow ymmv.