Anny Cook's Blog, page 114

The Nature of Friendship

Friendship. People toss that word around as though it was a simple concept. But friends are precious gifts we don't always appreciate until they're there holding us up when we falter.I'm pretty even tempered. I rarely run off the rails. Don't usually get depressed or ticked off or irritated. But something happened to me last summer that robbed me of my self confidence. It leveled me in such a way

Losing in Style

There are losers...and then there are LOSERS. Which are you? Do you lose in style, going the extra mile?I have a theory. I believe that winning and losing is based on the final outcome, how we face it. Some losers show so much grace and panache that you just can't envision them as losers. And some winners are so ungracious and its-all-about-me that you won't ever see them as a winner.Losing--or

I've read that one...

So I recently discovered that one of my favorite authors writes under a different pen name. Picture me excited! Wow, more books!Imagine my disappointment when I found them unavailable. I'd read an excerpt from one of them and meant to come back at paycheck time to buy the book. Like so many things in life, I forgot. Now that book isn't available on any site as far as I can tell.Sigh. So this

Caturday Romance

Have a great weekend!anny

Interspecies Dating

I love interspecies dating in romance. The motto seems to be "Make a way." Cat, dog, elephant, three-toed sloth...there's room for all of them. Haven't seen a spider romance, but I once wrote one for Timothy Tick. Heck, I even wrote one for a couple potatoes.The thing about fiction is you can have almost anything you want. In an alien environment, the you set up the parameters and then you follow

Bouncing Boobs, Beltway Ballet

I rarely go more than five or six miles away from home. Yet in the last five days, I've been on the Baltimore Beltway three times. Driving on the Beltway is similar to watching a ballet zoom by at seventy miles an hour. Some cars swoop gracefully from lane to lane with apparent ease. Others sort of stutter dance uncertainly, hedging their bets until the last moment. And of course there are the

Apocalypse Then

Apocalyptic movies and stories aren't new. The first movie I saw was Mad Max. And in the ensuing years, they haven't changed a lot. The vision remains much the same through the different versions both in books and movies.In embarking on my own version I've inevitably hit a few snags. How bad are things? Really. For instance, in several movies I noticed that such things as electricity and water

Long Range Planning...

Today the hunk and I went to see a Financial Planner. The hunk's employer (in their usual fashion) offered a retirement incentive plan with a long lead time to consider it--30 days. So on the 22nd of this month he must notify his company if he plans to take the retirement package. And if his application is accepted, his last day will be the 29th.Of necessity, we needed to figure out whether we

Fine Art of Procrastination

I was going to organize my receipts for tax-time. No, they're not done.I was going to organize my royalty statements and make sure they were all entered on the computer spreadsheet. No, they're not done.I was going to update my series bibles so I'd know what the possibilities are for new stories. No, they're not done.I was going to update my list of non-words so I'd have something to choose from

Happy Caturday!

Rest, enjoy the beautiful weekend! anny