L.E. DeLano's Blog, page 18
November 26, 2018
November 16, 2018
November 12, 2018
NaNoProcrastinator Extraordinaire – That’s Me!
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NaNoWriMo is in full swing and I got waylaid by an overnight trip to the hospital. It’s all okay now, just an overnight observation thing in the wake of a medication issue, but it’s been a few days now and I’m really having trouble getting back in the groove.
This is one of those times where you just have to take yourself firmly in hand and hammer it out. I know that. And I’ll get there.
But not right now because I have to update my blog . . .
And then there’s that other story that flitted through my brain . . .
And all the social media I need to schedule . . .
Sometimes a writer’s greatest enemy is herself.
Back to work.
November 6, 2018
It’s THAT Important
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Woke up vomiting. Rain is pouring a monsoon. Hand in splint. Still limping. I made it to the polls. No excuses, kids. It’s THAT important.
November 5, 2018
NaNoNoNoNoNoooooooooooo
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Wrote nearly 2200 words last night. Cat jumped on my keyboard. All was lost.
Save your work, kids. Don’t get so far into the zone that you don’t SAVE. YOUR. WORK.
Dammit.
November 1, 2018
October 31, 2018
I’m Stylin’ Today!
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Ravenclaw robe, Hogwarts headband, wand at the ready.
Happy Halloween everybody!!
October 24, 2018
#1lineWed
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“The key to making your life work out is believing that it will.”
I rub my hand over my eyes and peer at him through my fingers. “That’s exactly the sort of bullshit I get from my mom. I don’t need it from you, too.”
October 15, 2018
When You Find A Wonderful (But Unusual) Source For Your Book
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There I was, clipping along, the book almost done, when I hit the motherlode.
Yes, I’m writing a book that features a wonderfully sarcastic and witty Irish character. He happens to be a modern-day ghost of an ancient bard, so he’s got a lot of stories to tell. Being Irish, he tells them with great flair – of course.
And the inspiration for this book came out of a trip I took to Dublin, which I prepped and planned for by reading every travel site I could find, and subscribing to several Irish subreddits on Reddit. If you’re new to the internet or just not as addicted to it as I am, Reddit is a site aggregator, a large collection of interesting links, pictures, videos and conversational posts grouped by subject, or “subreddit.”
This particular Irish subreddit gave me a huge amount of material for my snarky bard. The topic was “favorite Irish insult.”
Hooo! It was awesome! So much snark! So much fun! I was roaring with laughter at some of them. My personal favorites?
He’s the “God bless them” child in the family
He’s got a face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle
I’d rather eat the warts off of a nuns back than kiss the likes of her
You’d better believe I’m using most of these. Sometimes you find source material in the least expected places, but that’s the stuff that makes it all come together.
October 11, 2018
Today’s aesthetic is just for Teen Read Week!
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What if you could inhabit a new version of yourself just by stepping through a mirror into an alternate reality? This is Jessa’s gift, but it’s not so thrilling when she learns she’s being murdered . . . everywhere.
