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Podcast-Thingie: Not Total Rubbish

I survived another week of True Blood. This deserves a celebration.

Instead you get another twenty-minute podcast. I’m so giving.

Click the damn link and listen to the podcast.

Too Much Self Love

Get your heads out of the gutter, guys.

We’re talking body image today. Major media has its own idea what we should look like. These standards change hourly and are completely unrealistic. For most of the human population. For the few who happen to meet the standards, they’re suddenly a puppet for the media or weak-willed for giving into the bullshit rhetoric.

The people calling bullshit? They’re supposed to be the ones standing up for our right to be us. I’m looking at a certain musician, whos...

Podcast-Thingie: Do You Even Continuity Check?

Three episodes in and I’m so close to washing my hands of this show, at one point while recording the podcast, I dropped my head in my hands and questioned my decision to see this thing through to the end.

Yes. This episode of True Blood is that bad.

You know the drill. Click the link to listen to the podcast.

Character Interruptus

Please say I’m not the only author this happens to. I’m happily trucking along on the current WIP, pounding out 2k words in an hour or so. Suddenly everything hits a wall. Not because I’ve lost touch with the characters or plot. They’re all right there, staring at . . . a newcomer. Who doesn’t belong in this book or universe.

*facepalm*

Grab a trusty (falling apart, with half a blank page left, but if you lose the damn thing, you’ve lost the entire fucking book series) notebook and jot down wha...

Brain Ooze

For the last few weeks, I’ve tried to set a schedule for myself. Thus far, it’s failed in wondrous ways. Mostly because of self-sabotage. That’s w hole ‘nother blog conversation, though. One I’m not to keen on writing. So, yeah.

But after some deep conversation with myself–in the middle oft he night, because sleep is a fickle bitch incapable of reading a watch–I’ve figured out a way to set a schedule that’s not really a schedule. I’m not locked into doing one task every day at the same time. I...

Oh, for the Love of . . . .

Spectacular photos of [athlete]‘s heroic game

The [athlete] was stellar, setting a record for most saves in a [game].

Wait, what?

hero (ˈhɪərəʊ)

— n , pl -roes

1. a man distinguished by exceptional courage, nobility, fortitude, etc

2. a man who is idealized for possessing superior qualities in any field

3. classical myth a being of extraordinary strength and courage, often the offspring of a mortal and a god, who is celebrated for his exploits

4. the principal male character in a novel, play, etc

Have...

Podcast-Thingie: Angst True Blood Style

Oh goodness, I was on a tear for this podcast. Want an example? Okay . . . .

“[Writers], quit using queers to buffer your shitty writing.”

Yup. It was that sort of episode. Warning: Adult Language.

Click the link for this week’s Podcast-Thingie

Internal Error

Nope. Nothing to see here today.

Best keep moovingon, folks.

Come back tomorrow for Podcast-Thingie, covering S7E2 of True Blood.

Gesundheit!

Fellow author Wendy Sparrow has released another book, Past My Defenses into the wild. This one has teeth . . . and a serious case of the sneezes.

Synopsis:

Vanessa is the fastest Lycan around. In wolf form, the only threat she can’t outrun is her allergies. After a feline dander-bomb takes her down, she wakes up naked in a cage staring at a hot park ranger who had no idea what he’d trapped. But ooooh, he smells so good. Mine.

Dane hoped to tame the silver wolf in his kennel, but all bets are of...

Make Progress

The other day a Tweet flew by on my timeline that honestly made me grind my teeth and minimize the window so I didn’t smack someone. I was so annoyed, I didn’t even click the blog link associated with said mini rant. Why? Because it’s stupid attention-seeking writer dribble. Another way for my ilk to fluff their plumage and say, “I know the best way to be a writer, and it goes against EVERYTHING all the big-name writers tell you. So obviously I’m right because I’m not a conformist sheeple.”

Bl...