Archive for June, 2008
June 30, 2008 at 2:20 pm
· Filed under books, inspiration, writing
I picked up Twilight by Stephenie Meyer because it was at the top of every teen reader list on Amazon, my library actually had it (gasp!), in multiple copies no less, but they were checked out, and a thirteen-year-old in the book store told me the series was SOGOOD and I HAD to read them. (She told me a ton of other things too. We were there for a while.) Now, I’m always skeptical of a book that is this hyped. Just because Little, Brown’s marketing machine is working overtime, and now that the book’s been optioned for a major motion picture, there’s a studio pushing it too – none of these factors signify to me that a book is well-written or that I personally will like it. So going into this with that degree of skepticism, on top of which, weighing in at 500 pages it was most likely going to throw me off my 2-4 book per week reading goal, let’s just say I wasn’t very enthused.
But…I LOVED THIS BOOK.
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June 28, 2008 at 2:49 pm
· Filed under books, writing
I just finished How To Be Popular, by Meg Cabot, and I have to say it’s an excellent start to my YA reading list. Based on the title, I never would have chosen this book, but when I went to the library with my list of books and authors, Meg Cabot was one of the few I found in my local library’s crappy YA collection, and this was one of two books of hers that was actually there. Man am I glad it was!
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June 26, 2008 at 2:58 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized
I just updated the About page, which will help in navigating this blog.
I pasted the category list/descriptions in there too, which I will keep up to date when I add categories.
Ah, the Virgo in me!
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June 24, 2008 at 9:41 pm
· Filed under writing
I just attempted to continue where I left off with Victoria and HF yesterday, but I just can’t find my voice on it, so I’ve opened Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott to a random page, and at her suggestion, I will write about school lunches. I’m going to throw “I remember” in there too, to keep things flowing.
I remember buying lunch tickets. I remember when I first started elementary school, milk tickets were gray and lunch tickets were orange, and then eventually milk tickets were red and lunch tickets were yellow. I remember you’d have to buy lunch tickets from the trailer near the four-square area, because every school I ever went to, kindergarten through college, was under construction when I was there, and then was shiny new awesome the year after I left.
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June 24, 2008 at 3:38 pm
· Filed under books, inspiration, writing
I’m feeling confident in the writing schedule that I have established over the past week (well, it really established itself), and I’m psyched on the story I’ve been working on. I’m actually going to go back and label all the story pieces “Victoria” for now and create a category. Clearly that’s not even a working title, just main character’s name for now. I had professors in college who insisted upon working titles. I’m not into it. I’d rather write from the inside and have the story work itself out first instead of on some level trying to make the story fit some name that I came up with when I barely knew what I was writing. I suppose I could call it “Hottie Farmer.” Then maybe the title would do some good – inject the story with a sense of humor and not let me forget it. OK, “Hottie Farmer” it is!
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June 23, 2008 at 2:52 pm
· Filed under language, musings on creativity, overthinking, writing
I would like to clarify something about how I’m doing things around here. There is no editor on duty. Though I’ve spent the majority of my post-college life working primarily as a copyeditor, the left brain has no place in this blog. It is a right-brain-only zone.
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June 21, 2008 at 7:45 pm
· Filed under gardening, inspiration
Time for some pictures of the garden!
Things are growing, things are green, some things are starting to flower. Some things that were decidedly not growing (I’m talking to you, Christmas Tree Shop Dahlia bulbs!) have been replaced. For the first time in my three years of gardening, my garden is an ongoing work-in-progress, not just a spring project that gets pushed aside once beach weather hits. Then again, I may be speaking too soon, seeing as beach weather has just barely hit.
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June 19, 2008 at 4:06 pm
· Filed under overthinking, writing
I didn’t have email as a teen. I didn’t IM, text, Facebook. My dad got a cell phone when I was maybe a senior in high school, but it was the kind with which you had to carry a battery pack like a purse on your shoulder, like this:
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June 18, 2008 at 9:30 pm
· Filed under musings on creativity, overthinking, writing
First of all, man I missed this! You start writing and you end up somewhere completely different than you intended. I started off in my mind with a 10-12 year old discovering a witch’s cottage and I ended up with something like a 17-year-old Manhattanite on summer holiday discovering the summer enclave of maybe a Al Gore-loving english professor…?
God, I love fiction.
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June 18, 2008 at 3:57 pm
· Filed under inspiration, knitting, the List
I’m trying to get a head start on List item 22, knit a sweater, by researching patterns for the horrifying holiday sweater I have promised to knit for Dave, and I’m coming up short. I’m finding it hard to believe that the Internet, where geek subcultures merge—the very same Internet that brought us this expose—is not teeming with the holiday-inspired output of amateur pattern writers.
But I did find this, which rules.
My vision is a green sweater with red and green checkered sleeves and a giant reindeer head on the front. On the back, it will say “DAVE’S GOT SPIRIT! HOW ‘BOUT YOU?”
Clearly, I’ll be making my own pattern.
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