Spam Infiltration

Blogging

You may have noticed my sudden breach in spam detection–I obviously need to up the controls.  What’s puzzling is why I’m suddenly getting plastered, and how they’re getting through my spam block. Not that my detections are so great, just that the ‘bots didn’t get through before.  And if they had to bust in on the party, couldn’t

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Candygram

Uncategorized

I think I recieved my first candygram at age 8 or 9, but my most memorable was certainly the one my husband and I recieved when we were married.  It was filled with such darling comments as:  When the bride get CHUNKY and pops her BUTTONS you can buy her DIET food . . .

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A Baby-step Toward the 21st Century

Home in the Rookery

I burned some CDs last night.  Not noteworthy?  Well, brace yourself.  This is getting noted because . . . It was my first time! Incredible, really.  I don’t know how someone can grow up in the Nineties, have friends in college burning party music right and left, marry a computer-savvy guy, and live in a

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What a Flower Will Tell You

Just for Laughs, The Human Condition

I came across this interpretive list of flower meanings on Yahoo buzz. Rose (Love) Orchid (A Belle) Iris (My Compliments) Calla Lily (?) Sunflower (Pure thoughts) Amaryllis (Splendid beauty) Tulip (Declaration of love) Carnation (Pride and beauty) Hydrangea (Heartfelt) Bird of Paradise (Joyfulness) Chrysanthemum (Fidelity) Daffodil (Chivalry) Tiger Lily (I dare you to love me)

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Wake-up Call

Writing

Have you noticed how often in books (especially serial style ‘B’ books) the characters doesn’t know where they are when they wake up?  It seems like it crops up a lot, probably as a gimmick of the writer to bring the reader back into the picture, I’m guessing.  But how often in real life do

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Top Ten Reasons to Love Valentines Day

Just for Laughs

10 – Your darling might buy you something pink and sweet. 9 – You have a chance to revisit the weight you worked off since Christmas. 8 – You have a wider selection of cheap chocolate than any other time of the year. 7 – If you’re really lucky and really charming, you might get a heart pillow or a stuffed monkey. 6 –

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Craft – Jealousy

Crafting Pieces

Issret raised her head and pointed her ears down the hall.  Dust motes drifted in the sunlight which picked out the faded colors of the tapestries. Nothing stirred. Issret lay her head on a pillow of spun silver.  Her eyes were slits of gold.  Her body was still on her hoard. Her ears caught a tiny sound, no

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Geography for Fiction Writers

2 CommentsWriting

Everywhere I look there are writing classes offered . . . where’s the one in geography?  In my world creation I try to ‘grow’ a people as naturally as possible, paying careful attention to what their language illustrates about them and allowing for the influence that the terrain would have upon them. For intsance, it

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Rejection number . . . 11? 16? 24?

Writing

The Ghost Spider has been sent spinning out of Shadowed Realms.  The editor, Angela Challis, was reasonably positive though, which is always nice. I’ve also discovered the up side to recieving a growing number of rejection letters–they start to lose their sting.  I know I’m not the first writer (or the last) to discover this, but

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