Getting to Know You blog hop

The 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.

Today did not go according to plan

I couldn't wake up. It's day 2 of being vaguely dizzy (and not sugar related). At least I remembered the blog hop. I didn't to do laundry until late. Didn't get lunch til nearly 3 and since it was long john's I got sick, way sicker than the last two times. Time to face it NO fried foods any more. But I love them. I didn't eat any dinner.

At least the blog hop seems successful. now if only my writing was. I've finally hit the awkward part in my story.

I sliced my index finger open from tip to first joint. at least it's on the side (on the damn foil cover of a dressing bottle)


Look at the cool art I got from ookamikagakusha that goes with my story Sunrise, Sunset. Isn't it adorable?




And since it feels like I've worms inside me (that's the only way I have to describe the weirdness) have some links and I'm going to go back to failing at writing.

Sad but special A 4 year old gets his final wish.

this 80 year old woman inspires and amazes me


I need this

Since I never watch these kinds of things I had no idea Star Search had this many stars on it.