Mirriam Neal's Blog, page 25

//In which I make a (probably) terrible decision

Iannounced it on the Book of Face but have yet to announce it here – I’m doing something uncharacteristic and weird. Instead of NaNoWriMo this year, I’m plunging into JuNoWriMo, with less than two weeks of preparation ahead of me. The reasons for this are simple – November is usually jam-packed with things like Thanksgiving, […]

kenna + celebrating 50k

I’ve been up to my elbows lately, learning how to balance writing + art. I’ve always had a kind of mental block when it comes to doing both – apparently, I can only handle so much creativity at once and have to pick which area through which to channel it. Fortunately, I think it ‘clicked’ […]

art: morpheus + masha

As some of you know, one of my birthday presents was a Daler-Rowney A3 sketchbook. It’s a thing of beautiful high quality, and I spent a happy hour or two yesterday getting HB and prismacolor pencil up to my elbows while sketching a somewhat dark interpretation of Morpheus. I promised you all I’d post more […]

YA Books Need to Stop

I don’t mean stop entirely. There are some perfectly good (awesome, in fact) young adult novels out there. Unfortunately, it’s hard to find them amid the piles of clichés and tropes and covers of pretty girls in prettier dresses. (For the record, there is nothing wrong with pretty girls or pretty dresses. I’m a fan […]

21 things

Five percent. This is the amount of music I enjoy without mental association with something else – favorite characters, or a novel, or even an idea. I think this is a writer thing, to be honest; I know I’m not the only one who does it. I work really, really hard to be a calm, […]

a bit of an offering

Last week the flu reared its ugly head, and stuck me in bed, miserable. It was probably the third-sickest I’ve ever been, and the only thing good that came of it was a full-series binge on Full Metal Alchemist. I’m recovering and now feel improved to the point of having only a really terrible cold, […]

Beautiful People [Sibling Edition] – The Montgomery Brothers

For this month’s Beautiful People I had a hard time choosing between sibling duos. It came down to a tossup between Morougha and Isyss from Kenna, or Jackson and Gideon Montgomery from the Salvation series. Vampire siblings or Urscummig siblings? Relatively good siblings, or undeniably bad siblings? I chose the Montgomery brothers, mainly because I […]

Free Barabbas

“Free Barabbas! Free Barabbas!” It’s hard to imagine those words leaving their lips; leaving our lips. Choosing a murderer over holiness. Knowingly casting your vote for the man who would not have been released, if it were not for this day. And yet, I wonder, what would have happened, had it gone the other way? […]

Price Tags: A Tale for Good Friday

Price tags. We lower our heads and let the world drape them around our necks like a hangman’s noose, or tie them around our wrists. Shackles, labeled without numbers. Instead of dollar signs, there are requirements. Those who fulfill the most requirements are put on display. This model starves herself and lays awake at night […]