My NaNo novel this year focused on three girls heading to Ann Arbor- two for college, and one to escape her family. Although, the Ann Arbor in the book is actually much more like the Ann Arbor I knew in 1993-5. I still miss the NAC ( Read more... )

So on one of the NaNo communities someone asked about killing a character- the writer wasn't sure she (I'm guessing she, I could be wrong) wanted to do that because she was getting attached to said character ( Read more... )

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One of the reasons that I have problems watching a lot of TV shows is simply lazy writing. By that I mean- fact check people, it's not that hard. I don't blame the actors- generally they're trying to do their best with the material given to them.

If you haven't watched Season Three of House, MD, and you plan to, I suggest you stop reading.

( Anne's Rant )

I find it interesting that at least three of my friends have posted this morning about rather weird dreams they had. For my part, I did NOT have a weird dream last night, mine was the night before. There were zombies, and lots of dead people. But it was okay because it was an action movie sort of thing and Jason Statham was my boyfriend. :) So it ( Read more... )

So two of my current Shiny!! distractions are in form of DVD- namely the Connections series with James Burke, and the BBC's Planet Earth ( Read more... )

Weekend- Thursday was dad's surgery, Friday was relaxing, Saturday and Sunday were stressful (for reasons I don't want to go into). However! The situation causing the Sat-Sun stress was quickly alleviated Monday morning. All is well. On that front. My work got a bit annoying (I was ALL caught up, and ahead in some areas and bossman tells me to be ( Read more... )

Bleah, I'm sick and I don't like it. Which seems to be a common thread on my FL these days. I actually stayed home from work today! *gasps in shock* just couldn't manage to drag myself in. Considering that I then slept the entire morning away, I would say that my taking the time off was needed. Sasha was thrilled- she had a lap to sleep the morning ( Read more... )

So a character I'm working on is a fox-shape shifter (there will be some borrowing of the Japanese Kitsune idea- which works well for me since there is a great deal of contradictory information there ( Read more... )

Folks, with the weather advisory- it's looking like it's going to make more sense to cancel again... I would really like to see people, but I'm also really tired from a mostly lousy weekend ( Read more... )