Book update:

#7: The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
This is the sequel to Hyperion, which I had on my last list. I enjoyed this one as much as the first book. The author kept me guessing through all the twists and turns. I found myself surprised at the end, which doesn't happen often. I loved it and hope to read the Endymion series soon.

#8: The ( Read more... )

Books 2011 - all three were great reads.

#6: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
This book has been in print since the early 90s, which means I've seen it in the bookstore a thousand times. Somehow it escaped my radar. Thankfully, I listened to a podcast that recommended it and I'm so glad they brought it to my attention. The book was one of the better ones I've ( Read more... )

A new year, a new list of books. This year I'm trying to focus on some specific kinds of non-fiction. See if you can guess what kind based on the list below. It takes me longer to read non-fiction, so my goal for 2011 is 75 books. That would be the smallest amount of books I've read in the last 3 years, so I think it's definitely doable.

#1: On ( Read more... )

I think my whimsical mood from yesterday is striking me again. I'm at a point in the day where I'm ready to start writing. The first thing I think is that I need to connect my iPod so I can find the appropriate music to set the mood. What pops into my head is Sebastian saying "First we've got to create the moooood." And now this is stuck in my head ( Read more... )

I'm proud of myself, so I have to share. Remember about a month ago when I mentioned that I was writing again? At that time I was working on a short story based on a dream I'd had. At the time I posted about it the story was 23 pages long. By the time my October deadline came around to submit it to wheezinggirl I had hit 50+ pages (though only sent her 45, it ( Read more... )

It's taken a week, but I think I've finally come off from the post Dragon*con depression. No, wait. That's not the right word. It's the word all the D*C people are throwing around but that implies melancholy, sadness and longing. That's not what I had. I had more of a strange time with the incredibly surreal 4 days of D*C meeting abruptly with ( Read more... )

I don't know what it is about headaches that make me feel like writing. I've had one on and off for the last 3 days. It's making me think about Dreams Remembered and a short story idea that I've had floating around in my head for the last 5 months. Yeah, that's some big time procrastination on writing that one down. I met with a friend of mine last ( Read more... )

Last week when I had my massive headache and was laying in bed trying to calm my brain down enough to sleep I came up with an idea for a short story. It would take place in the same world as Dreams Remembered (my novel that's still in process), and is about Morpheus.

One of the lines in the story that I was thinking was: "The lord of dreams is ( Read more... )

Some days I love the internet. :-) Take yesterday for instance. I periodically check my email throughout the day. In the afternoon I had a message saying that someone had posted a comment on one of my lj entries. Turns out is was a comment from a few posts back (this one) where I had done a 50 book challenge update. One of the books I read was ( Read more... )

Too good to pass up on. I saw this on
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