I've not posted in two months. I have not died, I have not fallen off the edge of an inter-planetary rift, and I have not (alack) moved to somewhere warm and secluded wherein I can live out my days as a happyhappy hermit. I have merely, boringly, mundanely, been Busy. And pregnant, but *wavey hands of dismissal* to that O:)
I know, I KNOW I keep saying that I'll be better, that I'll recommit, that I'll try harder this time and this time, I REALLY WILL blog more often and BE A BETTER PERSON... And I hope you know that I do mean it. Just as I hope you all know by now that I'll probably fail dismally :P That said, however, with the Impending Doom of the Parasitical Minion (aka I'm due Tuesday next week), I have actually been somewhat organised, and I has guest posts for you! Guest! Posts! People to say interesting and coherent things, JUST FOR YOU! Which is EXCITING! And warrants the totally ABUSE of CAPITAL LETTERS and EXCLAMATION MARKS!!
I also have two exciting announcements which really and truly DO justify the use of excessive exclamation marks (not that my lovely guests don't), but I'll get to those later. For now, here's what you need to know:
Today, Jan 17: Blog comes out of hibernation. It is sleepy and it's skin is a little saggy, like an under-nourished grizzly, but we loves it anyway.
Tomorrow, Jan 18: Exciting announcement number 1: I has book.
Jan 19: Exciting announcement number 2: You can has book.
Jan 23: The wonderful graphic artist Clare visits to share her thoughts on creativity.
Jan 30: We are joined by the awesome aspiring-songstress Rebecca to discuss what to do when random inspiration hits you on the nose in the middle of the night.
Feb 6: Author Emily Casey will be dropping by to discuss fairytales, and why they are awesome. In fact, they are so awesome that she wrote a fracture fairytale of her own, and The Fairytale Trap is a) now available and b) lots of fun and c) you'll have the chance to win a copy during her visit.
Feb 13: Author Krista Ball is going to join in the 'creativity' theme and share with us how on earth she's able to actually be creative when in her non-writing life, she claims she can't even match colours.
After that, hopefully I'll have enough *brain* to return. And no doubt I'll pop in and out in between guests - I want to show off the chair that Boyo & I have reupholstered (nearly) and of course, I'm sure there will be an obligatory minion picture in there somewhere too O:) :) (hopefully sooner rather than later, *hint hint* minion).
Happy 2012! May it be a fulfilling year for all of you :o)
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17 January 2012
08 August 2011
In Which I Say Stuff!!
Somehow, over the last few months I have acquired a couple of new followers. I've NO IDEA how this has happened, since apparently I am incapable of blogging and pretty much am only on twitter during school hols, but anyway, however you found your way here - hi! And thanks :o) And sorry. :D
Anyway, below is most of a post I started like two weeks ago, and then didn't finish. This is Me And Blogging at the moment - it's not that I don't think of things to say, it's just I never get around to saying them (although for a long time it WAS because I had nothing to say, mostly because I wasn't writing). So, without further ado, post:
So, it's been a long time since I actually had stuff to say on here. [no kidding; delaying this post by like 3 weeks made that even longer, woman!] I blame term 2 (I loathe term 2 with a passion; it's the busiest and most dismal term of all, not helped by ever-encroaching winter-lack of daylight) and the fact that my body has been preoccupied with other stuff. This, for example:
Rah. Crazy how much that thing messes with your brain.
But anyway, it's FINALLY holidays, and my brain is FINALLY kinda-sorta working again, and I Have Stuff To Say! Rawr.
First up, I just want to note that I've gone through and tidied all the meta pages; TBR Pile of Doom, Books Read, WIPs and Published Works are all now uptodate. Hurrahs! I just started Like Clockwork today, [being like 3 weeks ago] and I am LOVING it SO much. I honestly haven't been this enthused about writing since I wrote the first book in the series over a year ago. It's a really nice feeling. [but apparently not nice enough to get me past chapter one :P]
The fact that I have evil brain-washing clockwork fairies, plus friendship and learning to trust and broken promises and betrayals and assumptions-that-turn-people-evil, to look forward to helps. A lot.
[It does. Very much. But what DOESN'T help is realising that a few things need to be sorted out in the first book first. So drafting is on hold and I've just yesterday (like really yesterday) drawn myself up a revision timetable for Sanctuary, which has me finishing right on December, which is rather full of happiness. But more on that in another post.
For now, suffice to say that I am going to endeavour to post about once a week, now that I no longer feel like the living dead (just the living exhausted ;)), and if I don't, you're free and welcome to come after me with pitchforks, knives, and other uncomfortably pointy objects.
Thus concludeth perhaps the most pointless and rambly post I believe I've ever written. Oi.]
Anyway, below is most of a post I started like two weeks ago, and then didn't finish. This is Me And Blogging at the moment - it's not that I don't think of things to say, it's just I never get around to saying them (although for a long time it WAS because I had nothing to say, mostly because I wasn't writing). So, without further ado, post:
So, it's been a long time since I actually had stuff to say on here. [no kidding; delaying this post by like 3 weeks made that even longer, woman!] I blame term 2 (I loathe term 2 with a passion; it's the busiest and most dismal term of all, not helped by ever-encroaching winter-lack of daylight) and the fact that my body has been preoccupied with other stuff. This, for example:
Rah. Crazy how much that thing messes with your brain.
But anyway, it's FINALLY holidays, and my brain is FINALLY kinda-sorta working again, and I Have Stuff To Say! Rawr.
First up, I just want to note that I've gone through and tidied all the meta pages; TBR Pile of Doom, Books Read, WIPs and Published Works are all now uptodate. Hurrahs! I just started Like Clockwork today, [being like 3 weeks ago] and I am LOVING it SO much. I honestly haven't been this enthused about writing since I wrote the first book in the series over a year ago. It's a really nice feeling. [but apparently not nice enough to get me past chapter one :P]
The fact that I have evil brain-washing clockwork fairies, plus friendship and learning to trust and broken promises and betrayals and assumptions-that-turn-people-evil, to look forward to helps. A lot.
[It does. Very much. But what DOESN'T help is realising that a few things need to be sorted out in the first book first. So drafting is on hold and I've just yesterday (like really yesterday) drawn myself up a revision timetable for Sanctuary, which has me finishing right on December, which is rather full of happiness. But more on that in another post.
For now, suffice to say that I am going to endeavour to post about once a week, now that I no longer feel like the living dead (just the living exhausted ;)), and if I don't, you're free and welcome to come after me with pitchforks, knives, and other uncomfortably pointy objects.
Thus concludeth perhaps the most pointless and rambly post I believe I've ever written. Oi.]
03 February 2011
Five Things You'd Never Guess
Totally schlepping off Liana's post from last week, here, but hey. Bear with me.
I had this awesome plan at one point that I'd send a welcome dm to each new follower on Twitter, so say hi and thanks for the follow. Ditto new followers on the blog. Only, right after I had implemented this idea, my net started having issues, and so did my laptop. I couldn't run TweetDeck; I couldn't even use the Twitter website after the first refresh. Urgh.
But anyway, I would very much like to say hi to you all, and thank you very much for following me in whatever guise you choose! Really, I'm not quite sure why people who don't know me follow me*, since I frequently make little sense, often spam Twitter with insanity, am totally sporadic in my appearances, and am rarely sensible (yes, that was worth mentioning twice) - but HEY! THANK YOU!! You guys rock. Knowing you're all out there reading (you are reading, right? This isn't just a conspiracy to make me feel all happy about having followers while never realising that they're all fake, is it?) makes the whole talking-to-the-internet thing so much less weird. Because we all know sharing personal details with total strangers who live halfway around the world is way less weird than talking to yourself, right? RIGHT?? O:) :D hehe.
* People who know me follow me because otherwise a) I'd hunt them down, and b) they'd never know anything about me otherwise. I am the world's biggest failure** at gossip, including and especially my own.
** Well, maybe the second worst. My husband is totally worse than me at passing on Important Familial News.
So! A point! I can has one! *waits for you to revive from the shock* Five things. Specifically, five things that hopefully none of you (unless you're directly related to me, because that a) is totally cheating and b) makes it challenging for me) know about me, or could guess.
... Gosh. I'm so glad I have two days to write this post, because this is harder than I thought.
1) I hate the idea of shooting at living things, it takes 8+ months to get a gun licence in most of Australia and you have to belong to and regularly attend a police-sanctioned gun club in order to qualify for one (ie, guns are really, really uncommon and I know like two people who own one) AND YET I have, in fact, fired an illegal weapon O:) At cans, not a live thing ;)
2) I rescue spiders from the house and the husband, who is a reflexive squasher.
3) My brain DOES NOT function before 8am, I hate mornings, I am a total night owl - and yet given the option, I do my best writing in the morning.
4) I once (reasonably) seriously considered applying to the airforce to be a fighter pilot. Why didn't I? Yeah, see number 1: shooting at live things. ;)
5) Although I live and breathe all variants of the fantasy genre in my writing, I never read a fantasy novel (other than the Narnia series) until I was fourteen. Thanks, Ashtah, for introducing me to Terry Pratchett (Moving Pictures, for the record). My life has never been the same :D
There you go! Five things. Your turn, please! Give us some random facts about your life :D
I had this awesome plan at one point that I'd send a welcome dm to each new follower on Twitter, so say hi and thanks for the follow. Ditto new followers on the blog. Only, right after I had implemented this idea, my net started having issues, and so did my laptop. I couldn't run TweetDeck; I couldn't even use the Twitter website after the first refresh. Urgh.
But anyway, I would very much like to say hi to you all, and thank you very much for following me in whatever guise you choose! Really, I'm not quite sure why people who don't know me follow me*, since I frequently make little sense, often spam Twitter with insanity, am totally sporadic in my appearances, and am rarely sensible (yes, that was worth mentioning twice) - but HEY! THANK YOU!! You guys rock. Knowing you're all out there reading (you are reading, right? This isn't just a conspiracy to make me feel all happy about having followers while never realising that they're all fake, is it?) makes the whole talking-to-the-internet thing so much less weird. Because we all know sharing personal details with total strangers who live halfway around the world is way less weird than talking to yourself, right? RIGHT?? O:) :D hehe.
* People who know me follow me because otherwise a) I'd hunt them down, and b) they'd never know anything about me otherwise. I am the world's biggest failure** at gossip, including and especially my own.
** Well, maybe the second worst. My husband is totally worse than me at passing on Important Familial News.
So! A point! I can has one! *waits for you to revive from the shock* Five things. Specifically, five things that hopefully none of you (unless you're directly related to me, because that a) is totally cheating and b) makes it challenging for me) know about me, or could guess.
... Gosh. I'm so glad I have two days to write this post, because this is harder than I thought.
1) I hate the idea of shooting at living things, it takes 8+ months to get a gun licence in most of Australia and you have to belong to and regularly attend a police-sanctioned gun club in order to qualify for one (ie, guns are really, really uncommon and I know like two people who own one) AND YET I have, in fact, fired an illegal weapon O:) At cans, not a live thing ;)
2) I rescue spiders from the house and the husband, who is a reflexive squasher.
3) My brain DOES NOT function before 8am, I hate mornings, I am a total night owl - and yet given the option, I do my best writing in the morning.
4) I once (reasonably) seriously considered applying to the airforce to be a fighter pilot. Why didn't I? Yeah, see number 1: shooting at live things. ;)
5) Although I live and breathe all variants of the fantasy genre in my writing, I never read a fantasy novel (other than the Narnia series) until I was fourteen. Thanks, Ashtah, for introducing me to Terry Pratchett (Moving Pictures, for the record). My life has never been the same :D
There you go! Five things. Your turn, please! Give us some random facts about your life :D
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