Today was a semi-frustrating day at work, again due to unnecessary meetings with parents.  I don't even want to go into it.

But there was a cool thing.  The cool thing was that I had lunch with the library staff and the visiting author, Myke Bartlett.  In the session he had with my class, he talked about "The Hero's Journey", which was interesting ( Read more... )

Here is a post about things that make me happy.

Happy #1: Gro Hammerseng
Larvik won the Champions League! I got up at 3:15am to watch the live stream from the European Handball Federation website and almost died of stress when Larvik was losing 25-23 in the last minute AND THEN THE LIVE STREAM FROZE.  Turned out Larvik lost the second semifinal 25 ( Read more... )

So, my friend Ingrid is currently working on the sex scene for her novel, and our conversations these last few days have revolved around buttsecks and lube bad sex scenes in fiction. What makes a bad sex scene bad? How does one write a good sex scene? Are the terms "love tunnel" and "lady business" ever called for ( Read more... )

This year is another year where I'll be too busy to even contemplate participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).  But I just heard of this thing called NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month - did the title make you crack up too? lol) which sounds a lot easier.  So I will be posting everyday in November, woot!  Of course, I ( Read more... )

.... there, got your attention ( Read more... )

I wasn't feeling well so I went to bed really early, but then I woken by blips and I thought I was dreaming, but I wasn't, and I went to my computer and skype was flashing ( Read more... )

So the results of my last poll are as follows:

Fantasy wins by a narrow margin as the genre of choice.
Most of you prefer that I write brain fluff instead of deep meaningful thingies.
Every single one of you want there to be lesbians in my novel.
The majority don't want kittens.
The majority do want VikingsAnd finally, most of you think I can ( Read more... )

In my infinite procrastination, I've gone and signed myself up for NaNoWriMo. So this November I will be writing a novel ( Read more... )

I won an LG Micro Hi-Fi system today in a raffle. That was cool ( Read more... )