Snow, snow and more SNOW!

Well, I haven't been here though I have no excuse. Moving on...

I am totally addicted to hidden object games. I just had to put that out there. Something about finding all the hidden things and especially when they are mixed with adventure games. LOVE! And now I get to help write one!!!! Woot! It will hopefully be coming out through Orchid Games. I highly recommend going over to orchidgames.com and picking up one of their solitaire games. THEY ROCK! But be prepared to get sucked in and do nothing else. I'm just warning you...

On the writing front, there isn't much right now other than I am writing every day, even when I don't really want to. Which is good for me. Grows character!

Ta for now! Off to more writing where I wrangle my muse and hog tie him while I type out my five pages.

Misty

Back from the Be-ach!

Okay, so I went to the beach in Delaware because one of my awesome friends bought a beach house and let us take a test run. I am in love and can't wait to go back. I do not have a cool time line break down of what I was doing there like Natalie. Nor do I have a rambling one like Vicki Smith (or Wiki Smit if you have listened to our impromptu ridiculousness on Megan's Twitter or Facebook about microwaves). I do not have a thorough one like Vicky Burkholder either. But that doesn't mean I didn't have a blast :)

It was wonderful and so very relaxing. Lots of writing done. Since I am trying something new I decided in my normal all or nothing fashion to try it completely new and took out my tablet and chisel. Just kidding, but I am writing this book long hand which on the one hand is like OMG it's going to take FOREVER and I can type much faster, and on the other hand it is very freeing and has forced me to think a little bit more before moving on to the next word or phrase. If I had a third hand, I would say it was fun (and I'd be a favorite at stag parties!).

I wrote about 55 hand written pages in a cool composition notebook like the ones I used to use in elementary school for english stuff - generously donated by Wiki Smit since it was the one fricking tool I did not bring. I had my laptop and AlphaSmart and yet still wrote it out long hand. But it's working. And honestly that's all that matters to me :)

I will say that it snowed between 7 and 10 inches while we were there. Seriously! Snowing on the beach. It was awesome. The whole thing was.

Misty

Week 2 and dreaming

Actually - and surprisingly - I'm doing very well on my habitforge stuff. It's amazing what having to say no and start over again will do to my psyche :)

Have you ever had a dream that seems so real you wake up and have to take a moment to reorient yourself to the real world? I had one the other night and shot straight up in bed, absolutely convinced that my husband had divorced me and we had a second child that I could not for the life of me find. It was very disconcerting, not to mention that it started my whole day off poorly. I wonder why they seem so real and what they are all about. Needless to say, my husband is not planning on getting rid of me (not that I know of LOL! He doesn't even know our bank account number without asking me, I think he'd have a hard time functioning) and we are definitely not having any more children, but it was really strange. Have you ever dreamed of something so real it hurts to wake up?

I have a book that details what certain dreams mean but I've never been able to effectively use it. I either can't remember what exactly happened or nothing specific stands out to be interpreted. I don't think I've ever dreamed of falling, there are no specific animals in my dreams, or watches, or dark trees, or anything like that. But I do have recurring dreams of certains rooms or houses I've never been in. I always own them and they look either Victorian or Medieval to me :) I have no idea.

I took a class once and have read many books that suggest thinking about a problem in your story before you go to bed and you will often dream about the answer, your subconscious doing the work for you while you are asleep. Inevitably I have some freaky dream that involves chickens running around or being in high school again though I'm my current age while every one else is the age they were then.

So that doesn't exactly work :) Is there anything you do to control your dreams?

Just wondering :)

Misty

Making and Breaking Habits

I am not one for making resolutions, especially since whenever I have in the past I've always broken them. But a new site HabitForge.com has come to my attention through my friend Natalie and it's too good to pass up. You set a goal, you have to do it for 21 days to make it a habit. Every day they email you to see if you've made your goal. If yes, you move on to the next day with a congrats. If not, you are back at square one, buddy, so soddy cho ta matty.

So I'm on there. I've done my goals every darn day and it rocks!!! Plus, the added embarrassment of having other people see that I have failed is enough to spark me :)

Try it out!

Misty

Back from winter vacation

Here I am! Had a great set of holidays and my birthday in there somewhere. My father actually bought me a book. He has never that I know of bought my birthday present, that is for my mom to do or for me to just get moolah, but he bought me a book MONTHS AGO! I am muy impressed and can't wait to dig in. It's called The Haunting of America. Go DAD!

Just finished a fabulous book by Susan Gourley. Her first fantasy and I am completely and utterly hooked on the series already. Come on, Sue, hurry up with the next one!

I honestly do not know why I ever say I am kicking around any certain idea or the genre I want to write it in. Inevitably (and invariably, for that matter) the very next thing I do is change my mind and feel like an idiot. So I'm not saying this time. Suffice it say that I've changed my mind and am tinkering with something else.

Misty

I've got nothing

I opened this page thinking I would come up with something brilliant to talk about since it is Monday and all things should be brilliant on Monday and it is blog day. But honestly, I have nothing. I feel weird having nothing and think I should post something interesting, but it's just not coming to me. But I don't want to not post (love those double negatives) because then I might get out of this lovely habit I am trying to instill in myself. Hmmm.

In other news, I am toying with some new book ideas. I have one book (the one I wrote for NaNo) that is being put aside right now because it essentially has to be rewritten from scratch and I'm too close to it right now to do it justice and still keep all my hair on my head. So in the meantime I am kicking around an idea that's part paranormal, part cozy, part romance kind of. It's something to do during the chaos of the holidays that will perhaps take my mind off of the other book.

It's my hope that in doing something completely different I will rejuice myself for later. We shall see!

Misty

Gearing up for Holiday stuff

Holy cow is my calendar full! And not always with the good fun stuff like parties where the food is great :) My daughter is in dance and has 2 performances on Sat so we have a very very busy week on the lead up to that. But I have to share really quick that I got to sit in on her tap class last night and GOD! do I love the sound of tapping!!! I don't know why but it resonates inside me somehow and now she is doing real tapping instead of the beginner stuff and it is awesome. I always get chills when the shows have tapping and all that stomping noise just runs through me. (So yes there is another weird fact about me. I should run over and put that on my website)

On the publishing front, I'm having a really strange series of ah-ha moments that have to do with going back to the basics. And it is wonderful though it is tinged with a certain "Don't I already know this? And why do I always forget it?"

Misty