Wynderlon

Yeah, I’ve been busy. I got a new job, which starts in a month and a few days, so I’m preparing myself for that. I’m also feverishly, fiendishly, desperately trying to meet my deadline for edits with The Blood Queen. I’m sending it to my beta readers (my lovely critique group, as well as some other wonderful volunteer individuals) by July 9th, but that means I’ve got a horrific 35-pages-a-day editing schedule (40 is even better). (Okay, I know some people out there are probably going, “What? 35 pages a day? Does someone want the whaaa-mbulence?” To these people I say…”Want to edit my book for free?” )

Anyway, that is my life in one glorious nutshell. I haven’t done anything really interesting. And besides a terrifying nightmare I had last night that involved a baby doll that came to life and crawled over my face while cooing “Ma-ma, ma-ma” in a creepy little kid’s voice, I have nothing much to report. Hopefully that’ll change in the next few days as my editing starts reaching the hilt. Who knows? Maybe I’ll go crazy and make a blog post where I say “I am a fish” over and over again, or maybe “I am the lizard queen!” Although I think if I’m going to go insane, it’ll probably be around mid-August when the new job “honeymoon period” should wear off.

ANYWAY, since there’s not much to say…have a music video!

I really like this song. And I think I like the music video too. There’s a frenzied feeling to it that I think illustrates what I’m feeling a lot of the time.

I think I found this through Inkygirl. But, hey, if his mission was to interest someone in his book via an amusing, anecdotal music video…mission accomplished.

…but this isn’t a birthday post (I’ll probably do that Sunday, since I’m going to really be celebrating Saturday).

This is a post to update my last one, which was a bit (*ahem*) depressed and stressed out. I threw off my problems to focus on myself yesterday (sometimes you gotta make it all about yourself) and I had a wonderfully enjoyable day full of friends, loved ones, and celebrations. I also got a helluva lot of writing done. Is it kinda sad I decided to write on my birthday? I don’t think so; I had a full day and writing is really enjoyable for me. Plus, I finally finished a major scene, one between Tayce and Dorian, which I had been planning since the beginning of the book. It came out beautifully, I enjoyed writing it thoroughly, and I’m excited to see what reaction it’ll get from the critique group.

I’ve also decided that, for this book, Tayce and Dorian’s relationship theme song is “What Would Happen” by Meredith Brooks. It’s pretty fitting for the romantic subplot they go through.

Anyway, the awesome thing is that with that chapter done, I now know how many chapters are left: three. I have three chapters of “Tayce” left and then I’m done. I can’t believe it.

And now I’m off to fill out more paperwork (joys), then I might find a quiet spot somewhere and do a tad more writing. I’m so close to the end that I’m really excited to finish!

I actually like Lady Gaga’s music, and her outfits are wild. But this music video may top all the previous ones. It’s bizarre…oh, and not work safe (and look! It’s Beyonce and the Pussy Wagon from Kill Bill!). Enjoy

I don’t even know where the last week went. I can’t believe it’s Friday already. I’m desperately trying to finish the next two chapters of Tayce since I won’t have time this weekend, but it’s slow going, mostly because I had a horrible night’s sleep and my brain feels mushy inside my skull. Though, lately, I’ve been having really vivid, strange dreams. I’ve found that my creativity coincides with the time I have vivid dreams at night; it’s like my brain doesn’t shut off when I close my eyes, it wants to keep writing. Mom would say my brain is just going through “a bit of spring cleaning.” I actually like dreaming, some of the stuff my brain comes up with leaves me flabbergasted in the morning, wondering where the heck that came from (and no, I don’t usually have sexy dreams, unfortunately(?), usually it’s just really weird stuff like flying carpets and camping trips in the middle of my university and mysterious escalators and Green Men).

Anyhow, last week I’ve been listening to Faunts a lot, a band that John and I found through the Mass Effect video game. The ending credits song is “M4 Part II” by Faunts, and we loved the song so much we got the soundtrack. I then found the music video online and I got to say it’s pretty awesome. Kind of sad and full of crustacean blood, but still pretty awesome.

John and I now refer to the crab as “Flag Crab,” and we’ve decided we don’t care what the music video implies, Flag Crab is only sleeping at the end.

Thought I’d quickly post, a quick “Hi!” as it were. I didn’t get a lot done today, yet it was a busy day. I spent a lot of it trying to outline “Tayce” and get my background information together and in one place. Along with some other chores (the list is long and boring). Anyway, I did find a great new song that I listened to while writing a pretty steamy scene in “Tayce.” I’m going to track it down on Amazon and see if I can buy the track.

And now, I’m off to read a chapter of IT (which is one of the few Stephen King novels that I love and tend to read again and again. And, it’s a story that always manages to creep me out big time. *shudder* Clowns) while my homemade guacamole cools. Then…yup, you guessed it. Champagne and the next 4 episodes of Supernatural.