Getting to Know You blog hop
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cornerofmadnessThe Like a Virgin pitch contest I'm in has this really cool blog hop. Like the title says, it's your chance to get to know me.
1.How do you remember your first kiss?
I barely do. We weren’t really boyfriend/girlfriend. I remember being back stage of a school production and it was mostly just for fun. I think I only really remember it because in less than six years, he was gone by his own hand. I still feel sad about it. Now if you had asked about second kisses, I could tell you all about that. It was that bad.
2.What was your first favorite love song?
Boy, that is a toughie. I can never pick favorites. I was never one to have an ‘our song’ either. But since my feet are to the fire, I’m going to go with Bryan Adams’s Heaven. It’s a beautiful song and it came out just as I was transitioning from high school to college. There were some equally beautiful times once I got through that transition.
3.What’s the first thing you do when you begin writing for the day?
Really, I have no set thing I do. Sometimes I sit with pen and paper, other times I have the computer. Usually I do have tea and water to drink and music to keep my mind from wandering.
4.Who’s the first writer who truly inspired you to become a writer?
I honestly can’t say here either. It’s probably a tie between Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas. My writing ‘career’ started at age 10 with fanfiction for Star Trek & Star Wars. After that I also got heavily into Lords of the Rings so I have to give J.R.R. Tolkein his due, and I was also into anything Agatha Christie wrote. Those four really shaped my early years.
5.Did the final revision of your first book have the same first chapter it started with?
Yes it did. Granted a very altered first chapter, but the story always started the same way. The thing that changed the most was the first sentence. Writing those grab you by the throat and don’t let go kind of opening sentences isn’t easy.
6.For your first book, which came first: major characters, plot or setting?
Usually it’s characters, but in this case I think the characters and the setting arrived at the same time. I was living in South Dakota and hanging out in Deadwood and thought, now this is a great setting for an urban fantasy. They're always in glitz cities, and I wanted something different. (Okay, technically this isn’t my very first book, but the first one I thought was worthy of trying to market.)
7.What’s the first word you want to roll off the tip of someone’s tongue when they think of your writing?
Exciting!
Note: I DID go in and allow anonymous commenting in case anyone from the blog hop wanted to say hello. I didn't realize you could not do that on an individual post. I'll leave that enabled for a week or so before returning to the non-anonymous.
Find the other blogs on the hop here
Helps if I remember the badge.
1.How do you remember your first kiss?
I barely do. We weren’t really boyfriend/girlfriend. I remember being back stage of a school production and it was mostly just for fun. I think I only really remember it because in less than six years, he was gone by his own hand. I still feel sad about it. Now if you had asked about second kisses, I could tell you all about that. It was that bad.
2.What was your first favorite love song?
Boy, that is a toughie. I can never pick favorites. I was never one to have an ‘our song’ either. But since my feet are to the fire, I’m going to go with Bryan Adams’s Heaven. It’s a beautiful song and it came out just as I was transitioning from high school to college. There were some equally beautiful times once I got through that transition.
3.What’s the first thing you do when you begin writing for the day?
Really, I have no set thing I do. Sometimes I sit with pen and paper, other times I have the computer. Usually I do have tea and water to drink and music to keep my mind from wandering.
4.Who’s the first writer who truly inspired you to become a writer?
I honestly can’t say here either. It’s probably a tie between Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas. My writing ‘career’ started at age 10 with fanfiction for Star Trek & Star Wars. After that I also got heavily into Lords of the Rings so I have to give J.R.R. Tolkein his due, and I was also into anything Agatha Christie wrote. Those four really shaped my early years.
5.Did the final revision of your first book have the same first chapter it started with?
Yes it did. Granted a very altered first chapter, but the story always started the same way. The thing that changed the most was the first sentence. Writing those grab you by the throat and don’t let go kind of opening sentences isn’t easy.
6.For your first book, which came first: major characters, plot or setting?
Usually it’s characters, but in this case I think the characters and the setting arrived at the same time. I was living in South Dakota and hanging out in Deadwood and thought, now this is a great setting for an urban fantasy. They're always in glitz cities, and I wanted something different. (Okay, technically this isn’t my very first book, but the first one I thought was worthy of trying to market.)
7.What’s the first word you want to roll off the tip of someone’s tongue when they think of your writing?
Exciting!
Note: I DID go in and allow anonymous commenting in case anyone from the blog hop wanted to say hello. I didn't realize you could not do that on an individual post. I'll leave that enabled for a week or so before returning to the non-anonymous.
Find the other blogs on the hop here
Helps if I remember the badge.
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#lv14
Date: 2014-04-18 07:50 pm (UTC)Re: #lv14
Date: 2014-04-18 08:03 pm (UTC)My story is a paranormal mystery.
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Date: 2014-04-18 08:19 pm (UTC)I had that phase in music much later in life.
no subject
Date: 2014-04-18 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-18 09:35 pm (UTC)Yes, it still makes me sad to think about him and a life cut short.
Re: #lv14
Date: 2014-04-18 09:59 pm (UTC)Don't we all?
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Date: 2014-04-18 10:02 pm (UTC)I vaguely remember one of my first kisses? It was on a band bus, and we were bored. Or it was a kissing contest, I'm not sure which. Both, most likely. The guy and I eventually became pretty good friends, and I wish I could find him again, but he appears to have disappeared off the face of the planet.
Like A Virgin Writing Contest
Date: 2014-04-18 10:04 pm (UTC)From CS Severe
Date: 2014-04-18 11:15 pm (UTC)#lv14
Date: 2014-04-19 01:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-19 02:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-19 02:35 am (UTC)Re: #lv14
Date: 2014-04-19 02:36 am (UTC)Re: From CS Severe
Date: 2014-04-19 02:41 am (UTC)Re: Like A Virgin Writing Contest
Date: 2014-04-19 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-19 02:46 am (UTC)A lot of people on the hop put in kisses from grade school and there were probably some of those. I made it a kiss where I actually knew what I was doing. That's too bad about your first kiss. Mine is literally gone
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Date: 2014-04-19 02:51 am (UTC)That's too bad, on so many levels.
K Zahm
Date: 2014-04-19 02:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-19 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-19 03:20 am (UTC)Re: K Zahm
Date: 2014-04-19 03:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-19 03:21 am (UTC)yeah. his suicide note said it was over student loans
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Date: 2014-04-19 10:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-19 01:27 pm (UTC)That's even worse.
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Date: 2014-04-19 02:09 pm (UTC)Yeah. Honestly even back then I thought it was something more. He had only been out of college a year and in the 80s it would have been THAT big of a loan. His one sister is gay and I always wondered if he was as well and that played into it. Of course we'll never know.
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Date: 2014-04-19 02:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-19 02:42 pm (UTC)Yeah, like the guy who committed suicide rather than pay his child support. There had to be more to it than that, he was only behind about a thousand dollars.
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Date: 2014-04-19 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-19 04:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-19 04:09 pm (UTC)yeah, that's sad too
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Date: 2014-04-19 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-19 04:23 pm (UTC)Love Star trek/Star Wars.
Thanks and same to you.
lv14
Date: 2014-04-19 07:49 pm (UTC)Re: lv14
Date: 2014-04-19 07:54 pm (UTC)#lv14
Date: 2014-04-19 09:49 pm (UTC)Re: #lv14
Date: 2014-04-19 09:56 pm (UTC)I've been doing fanfic FAR too long to deny it.
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Date: 2014-04-19 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-20 01:45 am (UTC)#LV14
Date: 2014-04-20 05:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-20 05:59 am (UTC)(Yes, there is a geeky judge in this contest. LOL)
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Date: 2014-04-20 03:20 pm (UTC)Good to know there are other geeks in this!
Re: #LV14
Date: 2014-04-20 03:21 pm (UTC)