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And Sarah gives away yet more stuff

Come one, come all -- going to the one who amuses me most with his/her description of the need for this book, the Writers' Digest "Twenty Master Plots and how to build them."

You have a week or till someone strikes my funny bone.

I have about twenty books on plot and most of them repeat themselves.  Partly because when I first got published I couldn't find a plot with two hands, a cane and a seeing eye dog!

Okay -- leans back -- amuse me.

Wherein Sarah Gives Away Stuff

Remember sometime back I told you I'd be giving away some of the writers' books cluttering my shelf?

The first up is Writing Dialogue by Tom Chiarella.

Tell me why you'd deserve it and amuse me.  I'll notify the winner via LJ message, and he/she can then send me address and postage. 

Going once, going twice...

(I must clear the bookshelves.)

So You Want GOOD e-reads?

Well, one of them at least is very good.  Go to http://savethedragons.nu/   where my friend Dave Freer is posting chapter by chapter of his novel Save the Dragons.  The impetus for doing it right now is that he's moving from South Africa to Australia and needs money to take his several animalia along.  Those of you who have pets, think how it would feel to abandon them as you face a totally strange country.  And besides the novel is worth it.

Then there is this: 

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You Might Be A Writer If

*This was the work of a post meeting party for my writers' group round about 2000.  Because people came and went from the group I don't remember the quorum that afternoon, though I can swear to my husband, Dan Hoyt and to Rebecca and Alan Lickiss, as well as Jennifer Roberts and Barbara Nickless.  I'd forgotten all about this till I found it in my hard drive while looking for something else.*

You Might Be A Writer If...

...you have knock-down, drag-out arguments with your significant other over ve

And yet more kitten

Valeria sitting on my husband.  As you see her training as a writer's cat continues. :)  Advanced shoulder sitting while writer reads, in this case.

The kitty progresses

Her name is Valeria Victrix -- Val, for short, and also Brownie :) -- after the little girl character in Operation Chaos.  this is from Yesterday and our friend Charles, who would like to keep her, is holding her.  We'll see if he DESERVES her.

Our vet said about three weeks.  Not eating yet, nursing well but the night feedings are killing me.  Her right eye is almost okay today.  I'll take picture later.  She climbs all over me and caught on to "writer surpervisor is my job" by sitting on the ke

In which I stuff my bra

Orphan kitten.  girl.  Very young  Sleeping in my bra.
Send good thoughts.  She's very young.

Light a candle

In the nineteen eighties when Solidarity looked like they had a chance against the government of Poland, the first significant crack behind the iron curtain since the Prague spring, a whisper went around "Light a candle."

I lived in Portugal then and our media assured us it was all very complicated and we just couldn't know what to do.  We knew exactly what to do.  We lit candles.  Real ones, on my parents' cement and stone balcony, electrical ones in the windows of those houses that didn't have

Blogging today at MGC

*Considering how most of my days are still being devoted to sleeping -- I think this grief thing is more difficult than I thought! -- I don't know how coherent it is, but...*

http://madgeniusclub.blogspot.com/

A French Polished Murder

*This is the novel I'm trying to finish, slightly hampered by fact I'm NOT in a funny mood just now.  Ah well, maybe tomorrow.*

A French Polished Murder

By Elise Hyatt

The Fast And the Electrically Furious

We were thirty years old – and, in his case, a couple of months -- when I came to the sad conclusion that I would have to murder my friend Benedict Colm.

This was as sad as it was necessary, but there was no getting from the fact as my son, Enoch – whom I called E in an attempt to save him therapy