Archive for July, 2007

The Bitter End Again and Again

Saturday, July 28th, 2007 Posted in Works in Progress, Writing | 4 Comments »

I've been here before. I'd hoped it wouldn't be like this. I'd hoped that this would get better with practice. I'm five thousand words from the end ... Read more..

Sing It Like Prince: Controversy

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 Posted in Bandwagon, Reading | No Comments »

To quote the Purple One, "I just can't believe all the things people say (Controversy!) ". There seems to be a whole lot of postin' going on at Smart ... Read more..

Bad Versus Worse

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 Posted in Things I think About When I Obviously Need to Be Asleep | No Comments »

Completely random and apropos of nothing except the use of the abbreviation for the word "versus" in the post above, here are three movies I'd like to see packaged as ... Read more..

I Can Has Books: Redux

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 Posted in Contest, Reading | No Comments »

Just as I was running out of the books I ordered with the gift certificate I won in Bam's July contest, I won another book (Marjorie M. Liu's Soul Song) ... Read more..

It’s the Same Dame

Friday, July 20th, 2007 Posted in Movies, Writing | 4 Comments »

Yesterday I linked to David Denby's piece on modern romantic comedy films in general, and Knocked Up in particular. While discussing older romantic comedies, Denby casually lumps The Lady ... Read more..

Ultimate Temptation

Sunday, July 15th, 2007 Posted in About Me, Lazy Slob | No Comments »

It's summer. TV's all in reruns, weather outside is broiling--there's nothing to distract me from writing, right? Wrong. My darling SmartAss got a PS3 this weekend. ... Read more..

Here be Dragons…

Thursday, July 12th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Best to take care of the figurative dragons first...RWA has roused the fiery ire of many a small-press, ePubbed and aspiring author. I won't waste time explaining when Carrie ... Read more..

To the 21st Century, and Beyond!

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 Posted in 70 Days of Sweat, Get This, Writing | No Comments »

Newsflash: Bettie discovers Google Reader. I know, I know. What rock have I been buried under all this time? But, fact is, I was in the habit ... Read more..

10 Haters Capped

Monday, July 9th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I'm supposed to be writing 2000 words today, so what the hell am I doing on youtube? I blame my darling husband. Youtube is like a virus that ... Read more..

70 Days of Sweat

Sunday, July 8th, 2007 Posted in Contest, Works in Progress, Writing, iPimp | No Comments »

I just read about Allison Kent's 70 Days of Sweat challenge, so, of course, I had to go over and sign up. The challenge is to write your novel ... Read more..