>RE: BurdaStyle: Where do you find sewing inspiration?

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Well as is one of my usual habits, I was zipping around BurdaStyle checking out the new stuff, when I found THIS. Well, as not my usual style I decided to comment. I rarely ever say anything over there, so no one even knows I’m there half the time! LOL! Anyways, here is my answer:

***Where do you find sewing inspiration?***

EVERYWHERE! My mom was a seamstress, sew I was already sewing at age 6. I was 16 when I graduated from a fashion design college. In the 20+ years since, I have created tons of patterns and sew all my own fashions.

I not only create my own patterns, but I also design my own fabrics as well. I paint up watercolors and than get short runs of the fabric printed up. I get ideas for a lot og my designs from nature: birds, cats, the sky, waterfalls, trees – everything inspires me to paint. Than the fabric made from the paintings inspire the flow of the dress pattern as well.

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B002O88DXC&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
Erte is my biggest inspiration. Much of my designs are reinterpretations of his designs. I just love his art deco and flapper styles.

Also, Japanese Kimono, esp those from the Momoyama period (1500′s). I love sewing kimono, because the lines are simple and allow for display of big bold fabric prints, which thus allows me to create huge print fabric designs as well.
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0300094078&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
***What magazines, websites, books do you look at for project ideas?***

Dover Books are my #1 source of inspiration. You see, I’m a life actor, which I means I CosPlay 24/7/365 and have for years. My daily wear consists of recreations of garb from the 1500′s – 1800′s as well as the 1920′s. Dover reprints tons of French, fashion illustrations, vintage paper dolls, Goody Lady, etc. Of course they are the ones who reprint Etre’s fashion prints as well.

National Geographic and Smithsonian Museum books are huge sources of inspiration as well. I get lots of ideas from cultural photos and antique paintings. I enjoy creating ethnic and historic bases patterns.

And than of course there’s my #1 source of inspiration: comic books. Yep, you heard me: comic books! I’m a huge fan of comic books, manga, graphic novels, super heroes, etc, and well, like I said, I’m really big into CosPlay, so of course a lot of what I design was inspired by comic books. http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B00112A12I&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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RE: BurdaStyle: Where do you find sewing inspiration?

Well as is one of my usual habits, I was zipping around BurdaStyle checking out the new stuff, when I found THIS. Well, as not my usual style I decided to comment. I rarely ever say anything over there, so no one even knows I’m there half the time! LOL! Anyways, here is my answer:

***Where do you find sewing inspiration?***

EVERYWHERE! My mom was a seamstress, sew I was already sewing at age 6. I was 16 when I graduated from a fashion design college. In the 20+ years since, I have created tons of patterns and sew all my own fashions.

I not only create my own patterns, but I also design my own fabrics as well. I paint up watercolors and than get short runs of the fabric printed up. I get ideas for a lot og my designs from nature: birds, cats, the sky, waterfalls, trees – everything inspires me to paint. Than the fabric made from the paintings inspire the flow of the dress pattern as well.

Erte is my biggest inspiration. Much of my designs are reinterpretations of his designs. I just love his art deco and flapper styles.

Also, Japanese Kimono, esp those from the Momoyama period (1500′s). I love sewing kimono, because the lines are simple and allow for display of big bold fabric prints, which thus allows me to create huge print fabric designs as well.

***What magazines, websites, books do you look at for project ideas?***

Dover Books are my #1 source of inspiration. You see, I’m a life actor, which I means I CosPlay 24/7/365 and have for years. My daily wear consists of recreations of garb from the 1500′s – 1800′s as well as the 1920′s. Dover reprints tons of French, fashion illustrations, vintage paper dolls, Goody Lady, etc. Of course they are the ones who reprint Etre’s fashion prints as well.

National Geographic and Smithsonian Museum books are huge sources of inspiration as well. I get lots of ideas from cultural photos and antique paintings. I enjoy creating ethnic and historic bases patterns.

And than of course there’s my #1 source of inspiration: comic books. Yep, you heard me: comic books! I’m a huge fan of comic books, manga, graphic novels, super heroes, etc, and well, like I said, I’m really big into CosPlay, so of course a lot of what I design was inspired by comic books.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

Obsessed? I’m Not Obsessed… REALLY, I’m not!

When Next You See Me I’ll Look Like This:

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Categories: About me · Anachronism · Anachronist · Business · CosPlay · Gothic · Life · Lifestyle · Maine · Old Orchard Beach · SCA · Wendy C. Allen · comic books · cosplay in public · costume making · costumer · costumes · creativity · cross dressing · crossplay · drag queen · dressmaking · fabric · fashion · fashion design · fun things to do · inspiration · interesting facts · life blogging · medieval · my thoughts on… · painting · pattern making · patterns · sewing · sewing a costume · sewing a kimono · sewing advice · theater

Tagged: About me, Anachronist, Black Bobcat Fashions, BurdaStyle, CosPlay, cosplay in public, dressmaking, EelKat, Erte, inspiration, Japan, kimono, pattern making, Purple Peacock Patterns, sewing, The Rabbit Hole, Wendy C. Allen

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RE: BurdaStyle: Where do you find sewing inspiration?

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B000SKWETM&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr

Well as is one of my usual habits, I was zipping around BurdaStyle checking out the new stuff, when I found THIS. Well, as not my usual style I decided to comment. I rarely ever say anything over there, so no one even knows I’m there half the time! LOL! Anyways, here is my answer:

***Where do you find sewing inspiration?***

EVERYWHERE! My mom was a seamstress, sew I was already sewing at age 6. I was 16 when I graduated from a fashion design college. In the 20+ years since, I have created tons of patterns and sew all my own fashions.

I not only create my own patterns, but I also design my own fabrics as well. I paint up watercolors and than get short runs of the fabric printed up. I get ideas for a lot og my designs from nature: birds, cats, the sky, waterfalls, trees – everything inspires me to paint. Than the fabric made from the paintings inspire the flow of the dress pattern as well.

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B002O88DXC&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
Erte is my biggest inspiration. Much of my designs are reinterpretations of his designs. I just love his art deco and flapper styles.

Also, Japanese Kimono, esp those from the Momoyama period (1500′s). I love sewing kimono, because the lines are simple and allow for display of big bold fabric prints, which thus allows me to create huge print fabric designs as well.
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0300094078&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
***What magazines, websites, books do you look at for project ideas?***

Dover Books are my #1 source of inspiration. You see, I’m a life actor, which I means I CosPlay 24/7/365 and have for years. My daily wear consists of recreations of garb from the 1500′s – 1800′s as well as the 1920′s. Dover reprints tons of French, fashion illustrations, vintage paper dolls, Goody Lady, etc. Of course they are the ones who reprint Etre’s fashion prints as well.

National Geographic and Smithsonian Museum books are huge sources of inspiration as well. I get lots of ideas from cultural photos and antique paintings. I enjoy creating ethnic and historic bases patterns.

And than of course there’s my #1 source of inspiration: comic books. Yep, you heard me: comic books! I’m a huge fan of comic books, manga, graphic novels, super heroes, etc, and well, like I said, I’m really big into CosPlay, so of course a lot of what I design was inspired by comic books. http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=spacedock13-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B00112A12I&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

Obsessed? I’m Not Obsessed… REALLY, I’m not!

When Next You See Me I’ll Look Like This:

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Categories: About me · Anachronism · Anachronist · Business · CosPlay · Gothic · Life · Lifestyle · Maine · Old Orchard Beach · SCA · Wendy C. Allen · comic books · cosplay in public · costume making · costumer · costumes · creativity · cross dressing · crossplay · drag queen · dressmaking · fabric · fashion · fashion design · fun things to do · inspiration · interesting facts · life blogging · medieval · my thoughts on… · painting · pattern making · patterns · sewing · sewing a costume · sewing a kimono · sewing advice · theater

Tagged: About me, Anachronist, Black Bobcat Fashions, BurdaStyle, CosPlay, cosplay in public, dressmaking, EelKat, Erte, inspiration, Japan, kimono, pattern making, Purple Peacock Patterns, sewing, The Rabbit Hole, Wendy C. Allen

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NaNoWriMo RE: Limited medical training; restraining and caring for someone

RE: Limited medical training; restraining and caring for someone

[quote=akozete]My characters are in an isolated area. The group usually includes a doctor and a couple of nurses, but they’ve gone off to do something else, and the only person left with any medical experience is the cook, who used to be sort of a field medic and occasionally fills in as an extra assistant. He’s good to have around in an emergency, but when the doctor left, it was with the assumption that the main group would be able to get back to civilization and a real doctor pretty quickly if necessary, which is no longer the case.

Unfortunately, one of their number has just snapped: they’re not sure if she’s taken something or if she’s just gone mad (she’s never been quite right in the head, but she’s always seemed harmless enough), but she’s been muttering to herself, failing to respond to most stimuli, has extremely dilated pupils, apparently tried to attack my MC, and, according to the people left to watch her (who are lying, but no one has realized it yet), had been battering herself against the door of the room the MC managed to lock her into. The rest of the characters are agreed that she needs to be restrained before she hurts someone (probably herself), but I don’t know how this would best be accomplished, and I’m not sure how my cook would be likely to go about it. The doctor did leave behind most of her medical supplies and would probably have had what she’d have needed for this kind of situation (although it’d be basic and only intended as a stopgap until they could drop the person off at a real hospital), and I don’t want the cook making any serious, dangerous mistakes. I’m also not sure if there’s anything else he should do afterwards, given that he and the rest of them will be stuck with the crazy character for at least a few days–should he just watch that she’s not obviously injuring herself, or is there some other care he should know to give her?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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You and me write the same types of characters it seems. I got a doc that up and left a character with folks who’ve no idea how to handle him. He’s an extreme paranoid schizophrenic and prone to violent outbursts, due to extreme irrational phobias (such as fear that the house has come alive and is about to eat him, etc.). In my stories, the doctor is always busy off making house calls (it’s an old setting) cause he’s pretty much the only doctor in the area, so my schizoid gets left in the care of well meaning but uneducated folks quiet often.

My MC gets just like you describe your girl, only he also starts picking things up and just throwing them. Not really at any one, just throwing things around. (He can see “people/ghosts” that no one else sees, and that’s why he’s throwing things. He’s trying to get the “people/ghosts” to leave him alone. But the real people in the room with him, are not aware of this, they think he’s just gone nuts and thrown things for no reason.) He’s also Autistic, so even when he’s not having an “episode” his ability to coherently communicate with others is limited at best. Like most Autistics, he can write long lengthy descriptions of what he is feeling and on paper communicates perfectly, but his ability to speak verbally is limited at best, and like most “normal fols” that we Autistics have to deal with, no one is willing to read his written words, because they don’t have the time to. (Or course, if they don’t have time to read what the Autistic person wrote, than how would they have had the time to listen to them had they said the words instead of written them?) Most times he just sits quietly humming to himself and staring up at the ceiling – which is why the doctor sees no harm in leaving him with none medical folks, because usually he’s not hard to look after. It’s only when he starts seeing the “ghost/people” that he goes off in an uncontrollable and violent fit.

Usually, they try to hold him down, and tie him to the bed so he can’t hurt any one until they can get the doc back. If his house keeper/butler is on duty, the butler usually has the key to the manor’s medicine supply and starts just pouring stuff down his throat hoping something will knock him out for a few hours. Yep, I write classic Gothic: big manor houses owned by raving madman whom women fall madly (and illogically) in love with. LOL!

So, that’s how I handle it when my MC is having an “episode”. Don’t know if that is really helpful to you or not.

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In your case, I’m assuming that you have a modern day setting, based on what you’ve said. (Mine was 1700′s setting, so even when the doctor is there, there is very limited things that can really be done.) I would assume that some one in your group was wearing a belt, and would try to use it to strap the girl to a bed (if there is a bed) or a chair, or even just use it to tie her arms behind her back, so as to restrain her to some extent. They may try to wrap a blanket around her first, than hold it down with a belt, sort of making a make shirt straight jacket, to keep her from hitting or kicking any one.

I’m afraid I’ve never heard of valum and as for sleeping pills???? I’ve never seen a first aid kit with sleeping pills in it before. From what you are describing your girl is either Autistic or Schizophrenic, possibly even Schizotypal Asperger’s Syndrome (which I have myself, btw) which is an Autistic person who also has Schizophrenia. and no doctor in his right mind would ever recommend over the counter meds to either one. And believe me, that’s saying a lot, because I write about Autistic and Schizophrenic characters for a reason – both run deep in my family varying in cases from mild to out right off the wall outlandish to seriously dangerous to every one around them (and also Diabetes and Bi-Polar and had to care for a coma victim for a year as well. ) I write what I know. I have to deal with out breaks and episodes (including my own) on a weekly basis and we have med kits EVERY WHERE as a result – bathroom, bedroom, car, living room, etc.

(I’m just the one who always ends up taking care of every one, but boy do I feel like every one in the family thinks I’m their personal doctor some times – and I’ve never had any medical training at all!!! Believe me – it’s stressful and does not help my own symptoms any at all.)

In real life, what I do, the medical kit will have the person’s prescriptions in it. It will also have a chart in it, which say with meds are for what and how much to give when, and how to give it. Some meds are in pill form, but most are in vials and so I have to know how to remove bubbles from the vial, insert the needle, fill the needle to the right amount, and than where and how to inject the needle. The doctor is likely to have given the chart and meds to some one AND had that person give the girl a few test shots before leaving them alone with her. I know that is what doctors do, because, that IS what real doctors do.

Know that in real life, a doctor would never, never, never, NEVER leave a character like this alone with some one unless that some one had gone through a training course (which would last a week or more) taught by the doctor, and than had lived with the character AND a visiting nurse for another few weeks, so that the doctor was confidant that the person could handle be left alone with the patient if such an episode did occur. (I know this from personal experience.) This is not some thing that doctors do “just because” either – it is a federal law (in the USA), they ARE REQUIRED by the government, to have trained a relative or close personal friend in how to care for the patient, other wise the patient is NOT allowed to leave the hospital to begin with. And than that person is supposed to be with the patient AT ALL TIMES. It’s the law.

So, there should be some one in your group whom the doctor gave her meds to, and who knows how to give them to her and whom has already been giving them to her on a fairly regular basis, assuming your characters are in the current time period in the USA .

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Of course, you hit at foul play, so, the doctor could have unwittingly given the med kit to the character who may just have tossed it out the window and is now pretending they don’t know how to deal with this situation, even though in fact they do, because of some vile deviant motive, yet to be revealed. They could even be causing her to have the episode – maybe she needs certain meds through out the day and they haven’t been giving them to her on purpose? Maybe they know she has an irrational phobia that triggers these episodes – say she’s morbidly afraid of spiders and they put a spider on her hand, thus causing the episode to begin with. That sort of thing. The rest of the group would be clueless about what was going on and how to deal with it, and the one that is supposed to be helping her, could be pretending to be clueless as well.

Or, is it possible, that the situation is such that the person who knows what to do in these situations is now dead or unconscious? The doctor was confident leaving, because that person was alive and well when he left, but now that person is for whatever reason, completely unable to tell the others what to do to calm the girl down. That seems to be a very likely thing to have happened, and would thus result in the rest of the group panicking. Also, the girl would feel a deep connection of trust to the one who takes care of her, and seeing that person now dead or otherwise out of it, could very well have been the trigger to send her into her current episode. (Autistics and Schizophrenics are both prone to panic attacks triggered by separation anxiety and stress overload.)

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As for your cook. It sound like he doesn’t really know her too well, and he’s just there sort of filling in, on a just in case basis. Is that correct? That’s how I’m reading what you wrote at least. I could easily see him making a lot of mistakes, just because he is not familiar with the girl’s particular quirks and habits, phobias and fears. He could easily do something to trigger and even worse episode, with out realizing it, just by doing or saying something that frightened her. In both Autism and Schizophrenia you would be dealing with a person that has extreme paranoia and irrational fears of things that most people find ordinary – for example she may be terrified of spoons and think that any one holding a spoon is trying to kill her, and your cook may try to give her liquid meds via a spoon, causing her to become even more violent when she sees the spoon, but your group and the cook, would have no idea that the spoon was what triggered the attack – the doctor probably knew about this, but would not have thought to mention it seeing how he left assuming they would get to where they were going safely. So your group could be dealing with a potential explosive situation here that could get far worse and they would have no way of knowing what her fear triggers are.

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I would also suggest that you do a bit of Googling and look up so info about Autism, Schizophrenia, and Schizotypal Asperger’s Syndrome. Especially, look up the medical journal type sites, sites written by real doctors.

You might also want to read this site written by a patient with Schizotypal Asperger’s Syndrome: http://www.squidoo.com/Aspergers-Syndrome-and-Me to help you better understand what is going on inside the patient’s, head and see the world as they see it.

Sorry for the extra long post. Hope it helps you out some. Good luck with your story!

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A Meme For Brainstorming Persona Names… Funny!

Here’s my answers, what are yours?

1. Your rock star name (first pet, current car): Buttons 330

2. Your gangsta name (fave ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe): French Vanilla Combat Boot

3. Your Native American name (favorite color, favorite animal) Orange Moray Eel

4. Your soap opera name (middle name, city where you were born): Christine Biddeford

5. Your Star Wars name (the first 3 letters of your last name, the first two letters of your first name): AllWe

6. Superhero name (2nd favorite color, favorite drink): Blue Moxie

7. NASCAR name (the first names of your grandfathers): Charles David

8. Stripper name (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy): Topaz Jawbreaker (LOL!)

10. TV weather anchor name (your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Allen Austen

11. Spy name (your favorite season/holiday, flower): Halloween Blue Girl Rose

12. Cartoon name: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now): Grape Kimono

13. Hippie name (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree): Tortellini Pine

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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A Meme For Brainstorming Persona Names… Funny!

Here’s my answers, what are yours?

1. Your rock star name (first pet, current car): Buttons 330

2. Your gangsta name (fave ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe): French Vanilla Combat Boot

3. Your Native American name (favorite color, favorite animal) Orange Moray Eel

4. Your soap opera name (middle name, city where you were born): Christine Biddeford

5. Your Star Wars name (the first 3 letters of your last name, the first two letters of your first name): AllWe

6. Superhero name (2nd favorite color, favorite drink): Blue Moxie

7. NASCAR name (the first names of your grandfathers): Charles David

8. Stripper name (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy): Topaz Jawbreaker (LOL!)

10. TV weather anchor name (your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Allen Austen

11. Spy name (your favorite season/holiday, flower): Halloween Blue Girl Rose

12. Cartoon name: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now): Grape Kimono

13. Hippie name (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree): Tortellini Pine

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

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A Meme For Brainstorming Persona Names… Funny!

Here’s my answers, what are yours?

1. Your rock star name (first pet, current car): Buttons 330

2. Your gangsta name (fave ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe): French Vanilla Combat Boot

3. Your Native American name (favorite color, favorite animal) Orange Moray Eel

4. Your soap opera name (middle name, city where you were born): Christine Biddeford

5. Your Star Wars name (the first 3 letters of your last name, the first two letters of your first name): AllWe

6. Superhero name (2nd favorite color, favorite drink): Blue Moxie

7. NASCAR name (the first names of your grandfathers): Charles David

8. Stripper name (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy): Topaz Jawbreaker (LOL!)

10. TV weather anchor name (your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Allen Austen

11. Spy name (your favorite season/holiday, flower): Halloween Blue Girl Rose

12. Cartoon name: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now): Grape Kimono

13. Hippie name (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree): Tortellini Pine

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

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As my usual habit would find me doing, I was once again surfing the pages of Squidoo today where I found an interesting lens called Go With The Flow vs. Be In Your Flow . One section of that lens, asks the readers to answer a list of questions, which I have copied here to my blog so that I might answer them and do my usual ramble and rant as I do so. Here are the questions and my answers to them.

1. What would you like to spend most of your time doing?

Being creative: writing, sewing, drawing, painting, taking care of animals. I would really love to open a dress shop, for Goth wear and CosPlay costumes, cause I love creating stuff like that. Creating this and taking care of animals are the two thinks in life that make me the most happy, and so those are the two things I would like to do 24 hours a day, none stop.

2. What do you do, that while you are engaged in it, you feel energized and are enveloped in feelings that bring you peace, joy, comfort, and energy?

Well, I think this question was pretty much answered with my last answer to the first question.

3. What are you hoping to be able to do ‘when you have the time?’

Not so much when I have the time as when I have the money: two things, one to open a dress shop and two to have a place to live where I can fill my home with lots of feral cats that need someone to love them.

4. What do you think about doing when you notice that there will be time available at some point in the future?

Usually doing this creative, especially thinking: “Oh! I have time to finish that story I started back than but didn’t get finished yet.”

5. What are you doing when you feel that time is flying by?

Usually waiting. Waiting in the doctors office, waiting in the car to get from point a to point b, etc. When I’m waiting like that I get so frustrated, because I can feel all that time rushing past me and I’m not able to be using in in a more productive way. I hate to have to be in a position where I am not able to be doing something “worthwhile”.

6. What do you think about first thing in the morning or during brief moments of peace during your day?

How are my cats doing?

I wonder if Buddy’s feeling well enough to got to the beach today? (Buddy is my 13 year old dog with arthritis who loves to walk on the beach, but can’t always make a trip that long anymore.)

I hope my little brothers are doing okay.

I must get busy on this ot that project and get it done soon.

7. When you were a child, what activity did you enjoy the most?

Writing short stories, dressing up in fancy stuff, spending time with my cat and dog, and drawing pictures.

8. When you were a child, did you have a favorite game?

Yes, it was Clue and it’s still my favorite game. I also love(d) Yatzee.

9. What was your favorite song, your favorite book, or favorite creative activity?

At very young about age 4, my fave song was the Itsy-Bisty-Spider and BINGO, while my fave books were “Green Eggs and Ham”, “A Great Day For Up”, “Hand Hand Fingers Thumb”, “Kiss Me I’m Vulture”, “Me Too Iguana”, and “Inside Outside Upside Down”, and those books still rank among my fave even today. My favorite creative activity was to draw everything and anything.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods and did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use and where
My Art is For Sale Online.

Ask Yourself These Questions

As my usual habit would find me doing, I was once again surfing the pages of Squidoo today where I found an interesting lens called Go With The Flow vs. Be In Your Flow . One section of that lens, asks the readers to answer a list of questions, which I have copied here to my blog so that I might answer them and do my usual ramble and rant as I do so. Here are the questions and my answers to them.

1. What would you like to spend most of your time doing?

Being creative: writing, sewing, drawing, painting, taking care of animals. I would really love to open a dress shop, for Goth wear and CosPlay costumes, cause I love creating stuff like that. Creating this and taking care of animals are the two thinks in life that make me the most happy, and so those are the two things I would like to do 24 hours a day, none stop.

2. What do you do, that while you are engaged in it, you feel energized and are enveloped in feelings that bring you peace, joy, comfort, and energy?

Well, I think this question was pretty much answered with my last answer to the first question.

3. What are you hoping to be able to do ‘when you have the time?’

Not so much when I have the time as when I have the money: two things, one to open a dress shop and two to have a place to live where I can fill my home with lots of feral cats that need someone to love them.

4. What do you think about doing when you notice that there will be time available at some point in the future?

Usually doing this creative, especially thinking: “Oh! I have time to finish that story I started back than but didn’t get finished yet.”

5. What are you doing when you feel that time is flying by?

Usually waiting. Waiting in the doctors office, waiting in the car to get from point a to point b, etc. When I’m waiting like that I get so frustrated, because I can feel all that time rushing past me and I’m not able to be using in in a more productive way. I hate to have to be in a position where I am not able to be doing something “worthwhile”.

6. What do you think about first thing in the morning or during brief moments of peace during your day?

How are my cats doing?

I wonder if Buddy’s feeling well enough to got to the beach today? (Buddy is my 13 year old dog with arthritis who loves to walk on the beach, but can’t always make a trip that long anymore.)

I hope my little brothers are doing okay.

I must get busy on this ot that project and get it done soon.

7. When you were a child, what activity did you enjoy the most?

Writing short stories, dressing up in fancy stuff, spending time with my cat and dog, and drawing pictures.

8. When you were a child, did you have a favorite game?

Yes, it was Clue and it’s still my favorite game. I also love(d) Yatzee.

9. What was your favorite song, your favorite book, or favorite creative activity?

At very young about age 4, my fave song was the Itsy-Bisty-Spider and BINGO, while my fave books were “Green Eggs and Ham”, “A Great Day For Up”, “Hand Hand Fingers Thumb”, “Kiss Me I’m Vulture”, “Me Too Iguana”, and “Inside Outside Upside Down”, and those books still rank among my fave even today. My favorite creative activity was to draw everything and anything.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods and did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use and where
My Art is For Sale Online.

Ask Yourself These Questions

As my usual habit would find me doing, I was once again surfing the pages of Squidoo today where I found an interesting lens called Go With The Flow vs. Be In Your Flow . One section of that lens, asks the readers to answer a list of questions, which I have copied here to my blog so that I might answer them and do my usual ramble and rant as I do so. Here are the questions and my answers to them.

1. What would you like to spend most of your time doing?

Being creative: writing, sewing, drawing, painting, taking care of animals. I would really love to open a dress shop, for Goth wear and CosPlay costumes, cause I love creating stuff like that. Creating this and taking care of animals are the two thinks in life that make me the most happy, and so those are the two things I would like to do 24 hours a day, none stop.

2. What do you do, that while you are engaged in it, you feel energized and are enveloped in feelings that bring you peace, joy, comfort, and energy?

Well, I think this question was pretty much answered with my last answer to the first question.

3. What are you hoping to be able to do ‘when you have the time?’

Not so much when I have the time as when I have the money: two things, one to open a dress shop and two to have a place to live where I can fill my home with lots of feral cats that need someone to love them.

4. What do you think about doing when you notice that there will be time available at some point in the future?

Usually doing this creative, especially thinking: “Oh! I have time to finish that story I started back than but didn’t get finished yet.”

5. What are you doing when you feel that time is flying by?

Usually waiting. Waiting in the doctors office, waiting in the car to get from point a to point b, etc. When I’m waiting like that I get so frustrated, because I can feel all that time rushing past me and I’m not able to be using in in a more productive way. I hate to have to be in a position where I am not able to be doing something “worthwhile”.

6. What do you think about first thing in the morning or during brief moments of peace during your day?

How are my cats doing?

I wonder if Buddy’s feeling well enough to got to the beach today? (Buddy is my 13 year old dog with arthritis who loves to walk on the beach, but can’t always make a trip that long anymore.)

I hope my little brothers are doing okay.

I must get busy on this ot that project and get it done soon.

7. When you were a child, what activity did you enjoy the most?

Writing short stories, dressing up in fancy stuff, spending time with my cat and dog, and drawing pictures.

8. When you were a child, did you have a favorite game?

Yes, it was Clue and it’s still my favorite game. I also love(d) Yatzee.

9. What was your favorite song, your favorite book, or favorite creative activity?

At very young about age 4, my fave song was the Itsy-Bisty-Spider and BINGO, while my fave books were “Green Eggs and Ham”, “A Great Day For Up”, “Hand Hand Fingers Thumb”, “Kiss Me I’m Vulture”, “Me Too Iguana”, and “Inside Outside Upside Down”, and those books still rank among my fave even today. My favorite creative activity was to draw everything and anything.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods and did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use and where
My Art is For Sale Online.

Ask Yourself These Questions

As my usual habit would find me doing, I was once again surfing the pages of Squidoo today where I found an interesting lens called Go With The Flow vs. Be In Your Flow . One section of that lens, asks the readers to answer a list of questions, which I have copied here to my blog so that I might answer them and do my usual ramble and rant as I do so. Here are the questions and my answers to them.

1. What would you like to spend most of your time doing?

Being creative: writing, sewing, drawing, painting, taking care of animals. I would really love to open a dress shop, for Goth wear and CosPlay costumes, cause I love creating stuff like that. Creating this and taking care of animals are the two thinks in life that make me the most happy, and so those are the two things I would like to do 24 hours a day, none stop.

2. What do you do, that while you are engaged in it, you feel energized and are enveloped in feelings that bring you peace, joy, comfort, and energy?

Well, I think this question was pretty much answered with my last answer to the first question.

3. What are you hoping to be able to do ‘when you have the time?’

Not so much when I have the time as when I have the money: two things, one to open a dress shop and two to have a place to live where I can fill my home with lots of feral cats that need someone to love them.

4. What do you think about doing when you notice that there will be time available at some point in the future?

Usually doing this creative, especially thinking: “Oh! I have time to finish that story I started back than but didn’t get finished yet.”

5. What are you doing when you feel that time is flying by?

Usually waiting. Waiting in the doctors office, waiting in the car to get from point a to point b, etc. When I’m waiting like that I get so frustrated, because I can feel all that time rushing past me and I’m not able to be using in in a more productive way. I hate to have to be in a position where I am not able to be doing something “worthwhile”.

6. What do you think about first thing in the morning or during brief moments of peace during your day?

How are my cats doing?

I wonder if Buddy’s feeling well enough to got to the beach today? (Buddy is my 13 year old dog with arthritis who loves to walk on the beach, but can’t always make a trip that long anymore.)

I hope my little brothers are doing okay.

I must get busy on this ot that project and get it done soon.

7. When you were a child, what activity did you enjoy the most?

Writing short stories, dressing up in fancy stuff, spending time with my cat and dog, and drawing pictures.

8. When you were a child, did you have a favorite game?

Yes, it was Clue and it’s still my favorite game. I also love(d) Yatzee.

9. What was your favorite song, your favorite book, or favorite creative activity?

At very young about age 4, my fave song was the Itsy-Bisty-Spider and BINGO, while my fave books were “Green Eggs and Ham”, “A Great Day For Up”, “Hand Hand Fingers Thumb”, “Kiss Me I’m Vulture”, “Me Too Iguana”, and “Inside Outside Upside Down”, and those books still rank among my fave even today. My favorite creative activity was to draw everything and anything.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

Publishing Your Novel? Find out more about Publishing Methods and did you ever wonder How to Start a Publishing Company?

Want to join Squidoo? Than you need to read EelKat’s Secrets To Squidoo Success and What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Are you seeking an online debate to join and tell the world what you think about it? Than you need to check out this List of Active Debates that are waiting for you to speak out on them!

Here is where you can find out How To Start Your Own POD Business to sell your art online and How I Became An Artist and What Art Equipment I Use and where
My Art is For Sale Online.

Ask Yourself These Questions

As my usual habit would find me doing, I was once again surfing the pages of Squidoo today where I found an interesting lens called Go With The Flow vs. Be In Your Flow . One section of that lens, asks the readers to answer a list of questions, which I have copied here to my blog so that I might answer them and do my usual ramble and rant as I do so. Here are the questions and my answers to them.

1. What would you like to spend most of your time doing?

Being creative: writing, sewing, drawing, painting, taking care of animals. I would really love to open a dress shop, for Goth wear and CosPlay costumes, cause I love creating stuff like that. Creating this and taking care of animals are the two thinks in life that make me the most happy, and so those are the two things I would like to do 24 hours a day, none stop.

2. What do you do, that while you are engaged in it, you feel energized and are enveloped in feelings that bring you peace, joy, comfort, and energy?

Well, I think this question was pretty much answered with my last answer to the first question.

3. What are you hoping to be able to do ‘when you have the time?’

Not so much when I have the time as when I have the money: two things, one to open a dress shop and two to have a place to live where I can fill my home with lots of feral cats that need someone to love them.

4. What do you think about doing when you notice that there will be time available at some point in the future?

Usually doing this creative, especially thinking: “Oh! I have time to finish that story I started back than but didn’t get finished yet.”

5. What are you doing when you feel that time is flying by?

Usually waiting. Waiting in the doctors office, waiting in the car to get from point a to point b, etc. When I’m waiting like that I get so frustrated, because I can feel all that time rushing past me and I’m not able to be using in in a more productive way. I hate to have to be in a position where I am not able to be doing something “worthwhile”.

6. What do you think about first thing in the morning or during brief moments of peace during your day?

How are my cats doing?

I wonder if Buddy’s feeling well enough to got to the beach today? (Buddy is my 13 year old dog with arthritis who loves to walk on the beach, but can’t always make a trip that long anymore.)

I hope my little brothers are doing okay.

I must get busy on this ot that project and get it done soon.

7. When you were a child, what activity did you enjoy the most?

Writing short stories, dressing up in fancy stuff, spending time with my cat and dog, and drawing pictures.

8. When you were a child, did you have a favorite game?

Yes, it was Clue and it’s still my favorite game. I also love(d) Yatzee.

9. What was your favorite song, your favorite book, or favorite creative activity?

At very young about age 4, my fave song was the Itsy-Bisty-Spider and BINGO, while my fave books were “Green Eggs and Ham”, “A Great Day For Up”, “Hand Hand Fingers Thumb”, “Kiss Me I’m Vulture”, “Me Too Iguana”, and “Inside Outside Upside Down”, and those books still rank among my fave even today. My favorite creative activity was to draw everything and anything.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Thank You for reading my blog’s RSS feed. Don’t forget to come to my blog and check out the links in my blogroll too!

Ask Yourself These Questions

As my usual habit would find me doing, I was once again surfing the pages of Squidoo today where I found an interesting lens called Go With The Flow vs. Be In Your Flow . One section of that lens, asks the readers to answer a list of questions, which I have copied here to my blog so that I might answer them and do my usual ramble and rant as I do so. Here are the questions and my answers to them.

1. What would you like to spend most of your time doing?

Being creative: writing, sewing, drawing, painting, taking care of animals. I would really love to open a dress shop, for Goth wear and CosPlay costumes, cause I love creating stuff like that. Creating this and taking care of animals are the two thinks in life that make me the most happy, and so those are the two things I would like to do 24 hours a day, none stop.

2. What do you do, that while you are engaged in it, you feel energized and are enveloped in feelings that bring you peace, joy, comfort, and energy?

Well, I think this question was pretty much answered with my last answer to the first question.

3. What are you hoping to be able to do ‘when you have the time?’

Not so much when I have the time as when I have the money: two things, one to open a dress shop and two to have a place to live where I can fill my home with lots of feral cats that need someone to love them.

4. What do you think about doing when you notice that there will be time available at some point in the future?

Usually doing this creative, especially thinking: “Oh! I have time to finish that story I started back than but didn’t get finished yet.”

5. What are you doing when you feel that time is flying by?

Usually waiting. Waiting in the doctors office, waiting in the car to get from point a to point b, etc. When I’m waiting like that I get so frustrated, because I can feel all that time rushing past me and I’m not able to be using in in a more productive way. I hate to have to be in a position where I am not able to be doing something “worthwhile”.

6. What do you think about first thing in the morning or during brief moments of peace during your day?

How are my cats doing?

I wonder if Buddy’s feeling well enough to got to the beach today? (Buddy is my 13 year old dog with arthritis who loves to walk on the beach, but can’t always make a trip that long anymore.)

I hope my little brothers are doing okay.

I must get busy on this ot that project and get it done soon.

7. When you were a child, what activity did you enjoy the most?

Writing short stories, dressing up in fancy stuff, spending time with my cat and dog, and drawing pictures.

8. When you were a child, did you have a favorite game?

Yes, it was Clue and it’s still my favorite game. I also love(d) Yatzee.

9. What was your favorite song, your favorite book, or favorite creative activity?

At very young about age 4, my fave song was the Itsy-Bisty-Spider and BINGO, while my fave books were “Green Eggs and Ham”, “A Great Day For Up”, “Hand Hand Fingers Thumb”, “Kiss Me I’m Vulture”, “Me Too Iguana”, and “Inside Outside Upside Down”, and those books still rank among my fave even today. My favorite creative activity was to draw everything and anything.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Thank You for reading my blog’s RSS feed. Don’t forget to come to my blog and check out the links in my blogroll too!

Ask Yourself These Questions

As my usual habit would find me doing, I was once again surfing the pages of Squidoo today where I found an interesting lens called Go With The Flow vs. Be In Your Flow . One section of that lens, asks the readers to answer a list of questions, which I have copied here to my blog so that I might answer them and do my usual ramble and rant as I do so. Here are the questions and my answers to them.

1. What would you like to spend most of your time doing?

Being creative: writing, sewing, drawing, painting, taking care of animals. I would really love to open a dress shop, for Goth wear and CosPlay costumes, cause I love creating stuff like that. Creating this and taking care of animals are the two thinks in life that make me the most happy, and so those are the two things I would like to do 24 hours a day, none stop.

2. What do you do, that while you are engaged in it, you feel energized and are enveloped in feelings that bring you peace, joy, comfort, and energy?

Well, I think this question was pretty much answered with my last answer to the first question.

3. What are you hoping to be able to do ‘when you have the time?’

Not so much when I have the time as when I have the money: two things, one to open a dress shop and two to have a place to live where I can fill my home with lots of feral cats that need someone to love them.

4. What do you think about doing when you notice that there will be time available at some point in the future?

Usually doing this creative, especially thinking: “Oh! I have time to finish that story I started back than but didn’t get finished yet.”

5. What are you doing when you feel that time is flying by?

Usually waiting. Waiting in the doctors office, waiting in the car to get from point a to point b, etc. When I’m waiting like that I get so frustrated, because I can feel all that time rushing past me and I’m not able to be using in in a more productive way. I hate to have to be in a position where I am not able to be doing something “worthwhile”.

6. What do you think about first thing in the morning or during brief moments of peace during your day?

How are my cats doing?

I wonder if Buddy’s feeling well enough to got to the beach today? (Buddy is my 13 year old dog with arthritis who loves to walk on the beach, but can’t always make a trip that long anymore.)

I hope my little brothers are doing okay.

I must get busy on this ot that project and get it done soon.

7. When you were a child, what activity did you enjoy the most?

Writing short stories, dressing up in fancy stuff, spending time with my cat and dog, and drawing pictures.

8. When you were a child, did you have a favorite game?

Yes, it was Clue and it’s still my favorite game. I also love(d) Yatzee.

9. What was your favorite song, your favorite book, or favorite creative activity?

At very young about age 4, my fave song was the Itsy-Bisty-Spider and BINGO, while my fave books were “Green Eggs and Ham”, “A Great Day For Up”, “Hand Hand Fingers Thumb”, “Kiss Me I’m Vulture”, “Me Too Iguana”, and “Inside Outside Upside Down”, and those books still rank among my fave even today. My favorite creative activity was to draw everything and anything.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

All about Lord Sesshomaru’s garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin’s Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.

Thank You for reading my blog’s RSS feed. Don’t forget to come to my blog and check out the links in my blogroll too!

Ask Yourself These Questions

As my usual habit would find me doing, I was once again surfing the pages of Squidoo today where I found an interesting lens called Go With The Flow vs. Be In Your Flow . One section of that lens, asks the readers to answer a list of questions, which I have copied here to my blog so that I might answer them and do my usual ramble and rant as I do so. Here are the questions and my answers to them.

1. What would you like to spend most of your time doing?

Being creative: writing, sewing, drawing, painting, taking care of animals. I would really love to open a dress shop, for Goth wear and CosPlay costumes, cause I love creating stuff like that. Creating this and taking care of animals are the two thinks in life that make me the most happy, and so those are the two things I would like to do 24 hours a day, none stop.

2. What do you do, that while you are engaged in it, you feel energized and are enveloped in feelings that bring you peace, joy, comfort, and energy?

Well, I think this question was pretty much answered with my last answer to the first question.

3. What are you hoping to be able to do ‘when you have the time?’

Not so much when I have the time as when I have the money: two things, one to open a dress shop and two to have a place to live where I can fill my home with lots of feral cats that need someone to love them.

4. What do you think about doing when you notice that there will be time available at some point in the future?

Usually doing this creative, especially thinking: “Oh! I have time to finish that story I started back than but didn’t get finished yet.”

5. What are you doing when you feel that time is flying by?

Usually waiting. Waiting in the doctors office, waiting in the car to get from point a to point b, etc. When I’m waiting like that I get so frustrated, because I can feel all that time rushing past me and I’m not able to be using in in a more productive way. I hate to have to be in a position where I am not able to be doing something “worthwhile”.

6. What do you think about first thing in the morning or during brief moments of peace during your day?

How are my cats doing?

I wonder if Buddy’s feeling well enough to got to the beach today? (Buddy is my 13 year old dog with arthritis who loves to walk on the beach, but can’t always make a trip that long anymore.)

I hope my little brothers are doing okay.

I must get busy on this ot that project and get it done soon.

7. When you were a child, what activity did you enjoy the most?

Writing short stories, dressing up in fancy stuff, spending time with my cat and dog, and drawing pictures.

8. When you were a child, did you have a favorite game?

Yes, it was Clue and it’s still my favorite game. I also love(d) Yatzee.

9. What was your favorite song, your favorite book, or favorite creative activity?

At very young about age 4, my fave song was the Itsy-Bisty-Spider and BINGO, while my fave books were “Green Eggs and Ham”, “A Great Day For Up”, “Hand Hand Fingers Thumb”, “Kiss Me I’m Vulture”, “Me Too Iguana”, and “Inside Outside Upside Down”, and those books still rank among my fave even today. My favorite creative activity was to draw everything and anything.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:

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>Did a real item inspire your NaNoWriMo story this year?

>One thread on the NaNoWriMo forums asked the question: What item is your story inspiration this year?

This year I plan on taking one image from the books “The Mysteries of Harris Burdick” and using that as my story framing. I’ll take clues from the image for setting, characters and even maybe where the story might go. I figure if the images from that book were good enough for Stephan King to base a story on they are more than good enough for NaNoWriMo. I’ve had the book for ages and use the images as writing prompts a lot but this will be my first novel.

So what about you? Is there a tangible object starting your imagination this year?

Here is my answer to that question:

My story is titled “The Ruby Throated Hummingbird”, I came up with the title about 2 years ago, but didn’t have a story to go with it. I just thought it would make a great story title. Well, now I’m trying to figure out a story to go with it, right? So, here’s where my “item” comes in:

Years ago, I used to have a beautiful silver pin in the shape of a hummingbird, but one day I lost it. I went back to all the stores and places we went, but I never found it again. I was about 12 years old at the time. Anyways, it gave me the idea, what if there was a simalar pin made in ancient times, that was lost, only it was worth a fortune and several museumes were offering giant rewards to anyone who could find it?

Thus I get the idea to write an adventure/fantasy… I’m thinking Carl Barks style adventure set in a fantasy world backdrop. I’m planning to send my hero off after this “lost treasure”, and have him end up in the deep jungle where there’s a lost civilization that is totally cut off from the rest of the world and is totally differant from humans as we know them. Not sure yet if it’ll be a “magic realm” or not.

At the moment, I set mine in the middle of a lush green jungle, probably South America or PNG but not sure yet. I was thinking that maybe their city was in a volcanic valley, where the mountains were so tall and so forbodin (rumbling and spouting lava) that the people never dared leave the vally, while at the same time outsides thought it was just on big volcano so never went into the valley. That’s how I’m planning to isolate my city anyways.

I was thinking of having an oracle of some sort in my story, but I don’t much about oracles. But I was thinking of having some sort of “holy building” in the center of the civilization, with a priestess of some sort where folks go to seek advice.

So there you have it. My idea came from a pin that I lost some 20 years ago!

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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It’s that time of year again. Have you signed up for NaNoWriMo 2007 yet? Sign up today and let the world’s #1 writing contest begin!

Did a real item inspire your NaNoWriMo story this year?

One thread on the NaNoWriMo forums asked the question: What item is your story inspiration this year?

This year I plan on taking one image from the books “The Mysteries of Harris Burdick” and using that as my story framing. I’ll take clues from the image for setting, characters and even maybe where the story might go. I figure if the images from that book were good enough for Stephan King to base a story on they are more than good enough for NaNoWriMo. I’ve had the book for ages and use the images as writing prompts a lot but this will be my first novel.

So what about you? Is there a tangible object starting your imagination this year?

Here is my answer to that question:

My story is titled “The Ruby Throated Hummingbird”, I came up with the title about 2 years ago, but didn’t have a story to go with it. I just thought it would make a great story title. Well, now I’m trying to figure out a story to go with it, right? So, here’s where my “item” comes in:

Years ago, I used to have a beautiful silver pin in the shape of a hummingbird, but one day I lost it. I went back to all the stores and places we went, but I never found it again. I was about 12 years old at the time. Anyways, it gave me the idea, what if there was a simalar pin made in ancient times, that was lost, only it was worth a fortune and several museumes were offering giant rewards to anyone who could find it?

Thus I get the idea to write an adventure/fantasy… I’m thinking Carl Barks style adventure set in a fantasy world backdrop. I’m planning to send my hero off after this “lost treasure”, and have him end up in the deep jungle where there’s a lost civilization that is totally cut off from the rest of the world and is totally differant from humans as we know them. Not sure yet if it’ll be a “magic realm” or not.

At the moment, I set mine in the middle of a lush green jungle, probably South America or PNG but not sure yet. I was thinking that maybe their city was in a volcanic valley, where the mountains were so tall and so forbodin (rumbling and spouting lava) that the people never dared leave the vally, while at the same time outsides thought it was just on big volcano so never went into the valley. That’s how I’m planning to isolate my city anyways.

I was thinking of having an oracle of some sort in my story, but I don’t much about oracles. But I was thinking of having some sort of “holy building” in the center of the civilization, with a priestess of some sort where folks go to seek advice.

So there you have it. My idea came from a pin that I lost some 20 years ago!

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Save the Goldeneagle

It’s that time of year again. Have you signed up for NaNoWriMo 2007 yet? Sign up today and let the world’s #1 writing contest begin!

Did a real item inspire your NaNoWriMo story this year?

One thread on the NaNoWriMo forums asked the question: What item is your story inspiration this year?

This year I plan on taking one image from the books “The Mysteries of Harris Burdick” and using that as my story framing. I’ll take clues from the image for setting, characters and even maybe where the story might go. I figure if the images from that book were good enough for Stephan King to base a story on they are more than good enough for NaNoWriMo. I’ve had the book for ages and use the images as writing prompts a lot but this will be my first novel.

So what about you? Is there a tangible object starting your imagination this year?

Here is my answer to that question:

My story is titled “The Ruby Throated Hummingbird”, I came up with the title about 2 years ago, but didn’t have a story to go with it. I just thought it would make a great story title. Well, now I’m trying to figure out a story to go with it, right? So, here’s where my “item” comes in:

Years ago, I used to have a beautiful silver pin in the shape of a hummingbird, but one day I lost it. I went back to all the stores and places we went, but I never found it again. I was about 12 years old at the time. Anyways, it gave me the idea, what if there was a simalar pin made in ancient times, that was lost, only it was worth a fortune and several museumes were offering giant rewards to anyone who could find it?

Thus I get the idea to write an adventure/fantasy… I’m thinking Carl Barks style adventure set in a fantasy world backdrop. I’m planning to send my hero off after this “lost treasure”, and have him end up in the deep jungle where there’s a lost civilization that is totally cut off from the rest of the world and is totally differant from humans as we know them. Not sure yet if it’ll be a “magic realm” or not.

At the moment, I set mine in the middle of a lush green jungle, probably South America or PNG but not sure yet. I was thinking that maybe their city was in a volcanic valley, where the mountains were so tall and so forbodin (rumbling and spouting lava) that the people never dared leave the vally, while at the same time outsides thought it was just on big volcano so never went into the valley. That’s how I’m planning to isolate my city anyways.

I was thinking of having an oracle of some sort in my story, but I don’t much about oracles. But I was thinking of having some sort of “holy building” in the center of the civilization, with a priestess of some sort where folks go to seek advice.

So there you have it. My idea came from a pin that I lost some 20 years ago!

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Save the Goldeneagle

It’s that time of year again. Have you signed up for NaNoWriMo 2007 yet? Sign up today and let the world’s #1 writing contest begin!

Did a real item inspire your NaNoWriMo story this year?

One thread on the NaNoWriMo forums asked the question: What item is your story inspiration this year?

This year I plan on taking one image from the books “The Mysteries of Harris Burdick” and using that as my story framing. I’ll take clues from the image for setting, characters and even maybe where the story might go. I figure if the images from that book were good enough for Stephan King to base a story on they are more than good enough for NaNoWriMo. I’ve had the book for ages and use the images as writing prompts a lot but this will be my first novel.

So what about you? Is there a tangible object starting your imagination this year?

Here is my answer to that question:

My story is titled “The Ruby Throated Hummingbird”, I came up with the title about 2 years ago, but didn’t have a story to go with it. I just thought it would make a great story title. Well, now I’m trying to figure out a story to go with it, right? So, here’s where my “item” comes in:

Years ago, I used to have a beautiful silver pin in the shape of a hummingbird, but one day I lost it. I went back to all the stores and places we went, but I never found it again. I was about 12 years old at the time. Anyways, it gave me the idea, what if there was a simalar pin made in ancient times, that was lost, only it was worth a fortune and several museumes were offering giant rewards to anyone who could find it?

Thus I get the idea to write an adventure/fantasy… I’m thinking Carl Barks style adventure set in a fantasy world backdrop. I’m planning to send my hero off after this “lost treasure”, and have him end up in the deep jungle where there’s a lost civilization that is totally cut off from the rest of the world and is totally differant from humans as we know them. Not sure yet if it’ll be a “magic realm” or not.

At the moment, I set mine in the middle of a lush green jungle, probably South America or PNG but not sure yet. I was thinking that maybe their city was in a volcanic valley, where the mountains were so tall and so forbodin (rumbling and spouting lava) that the people never dared leave the vally, while at the same time outsides thought it was just on big volcano so never went into the valley. That’s how I’m planning to isolate my city anyways.

I was thinking of having an oracle of some sort in my story, but I don’t much about oracles. But I was thinking of having some sort of “holy building” in the center of the civilization, with a priestess of some sort where folks go to seek advice.

So there you have it. My idea came from a pin that I lost some 20 years ago!

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Birds and Roses: My cure for writer’s block

My writing goal is to write between 1,000 to 2,000 words per day. My average per day, is much less… more like 400 – 700 per day, once every three days instead of every day. Well, it’s better than nothing, and I’m still inching my way to my goal.

My problem seems to lie in that I get the urge to write at times when I just can’t write, but than at the time I set aside to write, I’m to bored or restless or want to read or whatever… anything that is not writing basicly.

I’ll be right in the middle of something, say walking my dog, or cleaning the catbox, when this great idea well pop into my head, with not a pen or paper in sight. Than an hour or two later, I’ll finally get to some paper, and I find I can’t think of what I wanted to write down, or else I can’t get it worded right, or worse I’ve forgotten it all together!

I write amazing outlines. You should see the detailed historical timelines I can come up with for my story ideas… than I sit down, my outline in hand, ready to type the story itself and nothing. I’ll just sit staring at a blank screen wondering what to write about.

Than I’ll start typeing away, got a 1,000 words before I know it… WOO-HOO! I’m done for the day! Than I read what I wrote. Not one word of it goes with the book I’m working on; instead it goes with some book idea I gave up on 4 or 5 years ago.

sheesh! Now I have to start all over again, cause those 1,000 words didn’t count!

I find myself doing this all the time… the result is I end up working on 4 maybe 5 stories at any one given time, and never finish them on deadline.

The up side: When I do get finshed, I have 4 or 5 stories finished at the same time.

I’ve got a flower garden… with tall rose bushes over 13 feet tall. There’s one on each side of the path, and they grew up entwining to make a natural archway. Little songbirds sing and twitter all day long. It’s so peaceful and relaxing. There’s these old mossy logs, I sit on to do my writing. I find that if I’m stuck on my typeing on the computer, that the best way for me to get back on focus is to pack up a few pens and a lot of paper and head out and sit in the garden. By the time it’s dark I’ll have 30 or 40 pages written and I get to stay up all night typeing them into the computer. For me that is the best cure for “writer’s block”. I can’t explain it, but I do my best writing and my highest word count writing when sitting in the garden, listen to song birds and writing in longhand.

~~EK

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Work From Home, Is It Possible?

Work From Home, Is It Possible?

Everyone asks this question, and for those of you with this goal, you prob’ly find yourself asking it more than most people.

Yes, it is, and not really that hard to start either, though most find it hard to keep going. First you have to ask yourself, what is it you want to do?

The most successful work at home jobs are the ones you created yourself…my uncle started working at home in the 1960’s building clay bricks, and building houses for people out of them…today he owns a multi-million corperation that not only builds houses but also building brick churches, but he still runs the buseness out of his home, and he works longer and harder than the average non-home worker.

My mom worked at home too, she was a professional seamstress, sewing fancy dresses for little girls, christening gowns, and cloth dolls. At one point she bought her own brick and mortar store (the house next door to us) and was selling to summer tourists (in Old Orchard Beach we see an average of 2 million tourists each month), but the shop proved to be a bigger home business than my mother had expected. She had no time to sew the crafts anymore, which was her passion, so after 3 years, she shut it down and sold her items to other shops on consignment instead. Now she is hoping to build a web site and move her opperation online by next year.

My dad, he worked at home too, he was a rought driver for the local newspaper, delivering the Portland Press Herald, the Sunday Telegram, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times to over 1000 customers 7 days a week 365 days a year, with not one single day off for the past 21 years… his annual gas costs are over $5,000 each year, and he goes through 3 to 4 cars a year, his annual income was under $12,000 a year.

Another uncle of mine works at home, as a real estate agent. He at one point cliamed to own a multi million dollar alpaca farm in Astrailia. (I can’t verify that as I have never been to Austailia, so never saw the farm myself). Last I heard he had given up on the real estate business in favor of yet another work at home business he had set out to create. Don’t know the details on that, or if it succeeded or flopped.

And yet another uncle works at home, buying juck from yard sales and reselling it at flea markets. His income is average of $10,000 a year, but he does this as a side-line hobby. If he set out to do this full time instead of part-time in his spare time, he could easily triple that figure.

I work at home: I am a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and I own a small press publishing house which I built myself from the ground up.

So in answer to your question, does work at home exist?

Yes, it does, but it is not a get-rich-quick-scam-artist-work-at-home; that type of work at home well banckrupt you quicker than you can blink. REAL work at home is when you take a skill and use it to help those around you. If you are hired by a business, they pay you for your product/service. If you start your own business, you get paid when your customers pay you. It may look like a private or small business to the world, but it is in fact you working out of your home and thus working at home. However, it is hard work, long hours, no vacation, you get dirty, you get tired, and in the long run, not working at home would have been much less stressful and much easier.

In short working at home is not a get rich quick scheme. Working at home IS NOT getting paid to take survies. Working at home is not, clicking on ads on Google. Working at home is you getting a business lisnce and settingup shop, either online or brick&mortar, and selling your product or services to your customers. Most people are not cut out for the hard labor and long hours of working at home, but for those of you who are, it’s the best thing you could ever do..

Remember:

Employers ask you to fill out a job application, and will ask for past job referances, your SSN, and your criminal records history.

If you did not fill out an application, you did not apply for a real job.

If you filled out an application, but paid for the application form, you got scammed!

and if you can’t find a business to work for: start the business you want to work for an be your own boss in your own home.

We know this, saddly from experiance.

Back in the early 1980’s my mom saw just such an ad in a magazine. BIG promises of lots of money. She sent the money in, for not one ad but 2 differant ones. The first promised big bucks for sewing baby bibs, the second for making beaded earrings. Both ads were pretty much the same: send in a certain amount of money and they’d send you the supplies, you make the items and send them back to them, they sell them. Simple, sounded great, my mom had at one time been a seamstress, she thought she could sew up a storm of baby bibs for a legit company to sell them. That’s what we all thought, we should have read the fine print…or rather, we should have taken a notice that there was no fine print to read! Or maybe that it was a P.O.Box and not an actual address that was listed in the ad, that should have tipped us off.

Well, the supplies came, most of it cheap junk that we could have gotten cheaper and better quality at a dollar store, my mom haveing been a profesional seamstress thought that useing this absolute crap to make these items seemed pretty stupid and unprofessional but, that’s the items the company used so that’s what they sent…alarm bells should have gone off than…we should have realized that no REAL manufacturer, is gonna use such poor quality supplies to make their goods.

Well, we (my mom, my dad, and me) set out to sewing baby bibs and beaded earings. Comes time to send the items back and low and behold, the P.O.Box had been cancled, the “company” turned out to never have existed, and we were stuck with a bunch of stuff we couln’t use or sell.

We learned a lesson. It wasn’t a very big investment, less than $100, but it was not money well spent…or maybe it was, because it taught us to look at these scams with open eyes and questioning minds.

We learned a lot of things:

We learned to read ads more closely.
We learned to question “companies” with ONLY a P.O.Box.
We learned to ask the company for a job application form.
We learned to ask for a history of the company.
We learned to do a background check on the company.
We learned to never pay money to get a job.
We learned to REAL manufatures don’t put ads in magazine classified.
We learned to that most manufactures only hire local residants, so that the employee has to bring the items right in to the factory to be inspected, before the company well accept and pay you.
We learned that REAL jobs assembling items for manufactures, are rare and few and far between, and that you could be on a waiting list for years before they need enough help to get all the way down to your name on their list.

Now we have the internet, and it seems that with it came millions more ways to scam people out of their hard earned money. Every day thousands of new Work-At-Home, Get-Big-Bucks websites are added to the net. A Google search will bring up millions upon millions of them.

When I look at these sites, with their promises of BIG MONEY. I laugh. You see I own more than 200 web sites, 12 fanlistings, and 13 private message boards. I know how to build a website, quite well, maybe not to proffessional standards, but pretty darned close, and than I see these scam sites: many of them are made useing Geo-Cities, Yahoo, AOL, Earthlink, and countless other “free home pages”. Right off the bat that fact alone should set off a RED WARNING ALARM in any person, but it seems that many people do not even notice this fact, and send their money in.

A REAL company would not be useing a “free home page”…a small craft shop run by the sweet little old lady next door, might use a free home page to sell her knitting and cloth dolls, but she wouldn’t be asking you to send money to make money…no she’d show you a picture of her dolls with a price for each one. The Goth girl down the road might use a free site to peddel her homemade velvet capes, while the Wiccan next door lists home made soap on her MySpace. These are people like me and you who are working at home and selling what they make. These people are legit, and you’ll notice they never ask you to pay for a membership before they allow you to buy their products. These people are small business owners working from home.

The free sites that ask you to spend money to make money… those are the ones you got to watch out for. Those are the scams.

If you see a site made by a free home page site, and offering you lots of money for doing next to nothing, run for the hills, because there is no company that is going to use a free web host to seek out workers. Not a single one.

My hope in writing all of this is that it well help you to weed out the scams from the real work at home jobs.

To all: Good luck on your goal.

~~EK

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Quick One Minute Review: POTC 3

Just back from Pirates Of The Caribbean 3 with my three brothers. Super cool.

Johnny Depp is great, as is Johnny Depp, and so was Johnny Depp, and ohhh look there’s Johnny Depp over here and another Johnny Depp over there…. how many Johnny Depps can you count? LOL! Funny!

Best scene:
The Black Pearl cruising full speed and full sail across the desert sand dunes. Amazing!

Most amazing special effects:
The decent into the maelstrom! Awesome action packed scene!

Should win an award for:
Best movie wedding in history!

Shocker:
Crazed fan girls beware: DEATH ALERT; one of your fave pirates doesn’t make it to the end of the movie!

Best quote:
“Nobody move! I dropped my brain!” ~ Jack Sparrow or was that Jack Sparrow… oh wait, no, it was Jack Sparrow.

Insider advice to those who have yet to see it:
Stay until the VERY END… stay in your seat, and watch the words go by. AFTER the words go by, watch for a surprise “second” ending.
If you already watched it, and you didn’t stay to see what happens after the words go by… than you missed a very important part of the movie: YOU MUST GO BACK AND WATCH THE MOVIE AGAIN!

Ultimate question:
This movie didn’t actually “end”; like the ending of POTC 2, it ends with what appears to be the beginning of a POTC 4. Well there be a POTC 4? Has anyone heard?

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Anyone got any ghostly advice?

well, I came on here today, because I am working on my novel… the one for this chalenge this time! it’s a ghost story, about a haunted house with several assorted ghosts living in it.

the “prime ghost” is the ghost of a black cat

the secondary ghost is a spirit possessed tree in the front yard

other ghosts include a hell hound, a bride, and a group of “little people” (not yet sure what to call these guys, they are somewhat like drawves or gnomes or leprechuans)

basicly I’m looking for any ideas, anyone might have, that they think would be useful in writing a ghost story; I’m looking for ghost cliches, urban ghost stories, how ghosts came to be, why do they haunt the places they haunt, how did they become ghosts, how can they escape from being a ghost, why might they haunt one person and not another, why are some ghosts goos while others are bad, how do ghosts kill people and why, and just about any ghostly idea you can come up with.

thanks for your help.

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National TV-Turnoff Week, April 23-29

Today is the first day of  National TV-Turn Off Week, April 23-29

I have decided to write a list of 101 things for you to do during this week of no TV, should you decide to take on the challange.

1. Go for a walk on the beach.
2. Read a book.
3. Write a book in 7 days.
4. Volunteer at the local  animal shelter.
5. Do a crossword puzzle.
6. Dress up like a pirate.
7. Buy a camera and use it.
8. Play an hours-long game of Monopoly.
9. Grow a crystal garden.
10. Catalog your book collection useing the Dewey Decimal System.
11. Plan a family budget.
12. Go on a camping trip.
13. Plant a vegetable garden.
14. Watch the stars.
15. Sew, knit, or crochet a blanket for a cause (Snuggles, Linus Foundation, etc.)
16. Raise a family of sea monkeys.
17. Answer all those unread emails.
18. Pay your bills.
19. Start a petition.
20. Take your family out to a fancy resturant.
21. Look for BigFoot.
22. Take in a foster pet.
23. Spend a few hours browsing in your local library.
24. Donate pet food to a local shelter.
25. Take a walk around the block.
26. Have a chat with your mom or dad.
27. Go fishing.
28. Organize your DVD collection.
29. Build a personal website.
30. Write a short story for a fiction magazine.
31. Volunteer at the local  soup kitchen.
32. Go sight-seeing.
33. Put the pictures into the photo albums.
34. Throw a “Just-As-You-Are” party.
35. Attempt to prove aliens are real.
36. Visit a local museum.
37. Take your family to an all you can eat buffet.
38. Invent something new.
39. Start to tackle the list of projects that has been getting longer.
40. Head to an amusment park.
41. Take a cruise.
42. Sew a new dress.
43. Get a family photo taken.
44. Take a child to the zoo.
45. Write a letter to someone you haven’t seen in a while.
46. Attend an art show.
47. Vacuum the car.
48. Refinish an old piece of furniture.
49. Write an article for a non-fiction magazine.
50. Go boating.
51. Start a blog.
52. Attend a book reading.
53. Solve a mystery: play a game of Clue.
54. Visit with someone in a nursing home.
55. Go to the circus.
56. Head to your local swamp to pick fiddleheads.
57. Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.
58. Take a hike in the woods.
59. Visit an art gallery.
60. Open an online store (Zazzle, CafePress, etc.).
61. Take swimming lessons.
62. Quit smoking.
63. Plant a tree.
64. Cook a gourmet dinner.
65. Help your child with his/her homework.
66. Play a game of basketball.
67. Go birdwatching.
68. Wash the windows.
69. Get a makeover.
70. See a play.
71. Repaint your living room.
72. Read a story to a child.
73. Paint a masterpiece.
74. Go on a picnic.
75. Read a comic book.
76. Start a new career.
77. Organize a family reunion.
78. Study up on your family history.
79. Go on a diet.
80. Sing a song.
81. Write a poem.
82. Bake a cake.
83. Go horseback riding.
84. Set up an aquarium.
85. Write a letter to a prisoner.
86. Take up a new hobby, such as stamp collecting.
87. Spend the week looking for UFO’s.
88. Go rock climbing.
89. Dye your hair blue.
90. Wax your car.
91. Redecorate your bedroom.
92. Play video games with your child.
93. Write a business plan for your dream job.
94. Take dance lessons.
95. See a ballet.
96. Buy a box of crayons and draw.
97. Design your dream-house.
98. Make home-made ice-cream.
99. Dress-up and go to the opera.
100. Take you family out to a movie.
101. Visit a haunted house.
102. Write a list of a 101 things you can do.

Quote: “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” —Groucho Marx 

New Book Projects, Job Searches, & Seventh Sanctum

You may have noticed that the past couple of days, I have not been posting as often as I was; from 4 or 5 posts a day to about one every other day. There is a reason, quite simple. I got an idea for a new book, and spent the last few days researching it. As ever, one thing lead to another and now I’ve got ideas for three new books and have been working on them all at once. Of course, me writing longhand means I wasn’t online, meaning I was not here to blog. Sorry.

Other reason, is I’m still out searching for a job type job, but have yet to find one. As usual I am told that businesses just won’t hire someone who had never been to school, or someone my age who has never had a job before. (Apperantly, 7 years as a door to door salesman for Avon, doesn’t count as a job, nor does 27 years of writing… or so I’m told by interviewers.) It is getting quite depressing, as I have been seeking a job since May of 2006 and now May 2007 is just around the corner and still all of my endless applications and interviews have turned up nothing. I’m now having a hard time finding places that I have not yet applied to. I feel like I’ve run up against a brick wall, cause I’m still intent on finding a job, yet I can not find any place that I have not already been turned down.

Well, after a day of searching classified ads and online job searches, I have given it a rest for the night and am back here to say hi to you all and let you know what I’d been doing and thinking. Columbo is on TV right now, so I’m gonna go watch that now, after which I’ll be heading to Seventh Sanctum in search of some ideas for my 3 new book projects. Seventh Sanctum is such a great site, I get loads of ideas from them. If you haven’t checked them out yet, be sure to do so.

~~EK