Some of you will remember that I entered a book manuscript in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition a few weeks ago. The first cut was announced today, and my work is still in the running. The number of entries has now been reduced to 1000, and the next cut, to 500, will be announced in about a month. Making that next cut means at the ( Read more... )

Blame QuickCasey for this one. While waiting around to see if we really get 15 inches of snow, it seemed appropriate enough:

( What kind of storm am I? )

I have nothing to hide and everyone else is doing this so...

Click here to: Ask me anything.

Or I suppose you could do it in a comment here, but then I'll know who you are. ;p

Lifted from Swift Fox:
( Questions and answers under cut )

Because Quickcasey did it first:

what kind of bear are you?
Your Result: panda bear

you are a gentle giant! you are loving and compassionate, and people like you are becoming endangered, but you have what it truly takes to be a great friend! if there where more people like you, maybe there wouldn't be so much evil in the world!
grizzly bear

black ( Read more... )

That visual meme

From many friends:

• If you like, post this meme and your current wallpaper.
• Explain in no more than five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
• Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!

Obviously, this is a still shot from the Dreamworks film, Spirit, Stallion of the ( Read more... )

You have a 45% chance of going to hell!


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And I'm avoiding work (well actually I did some already) so have this meme I stole from songdogmi and hellmutt.

( Who sleeps in bed next to you? )

I never make polls, but answering a meme about films over on Facebook inspired me to ask these questions of LJ readers.

Poll Silent film features

Something like this has been going around Facebook. I think it more interesting, though, to show both positive and negative choices ( Read more... )