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I don't believe I ever put this up here in this journal, either! For shame!

This is one of my most favorite drabbles that I've ever done. I played on what might have happened and came up with...

Title: Salvation
Character: Lily
Word Count: 463
( I can't tell you who the other character is... you just have to trust me )

*sigh* It makes sense to support the writers instead of whining so here I go.

I got this from the

wga_supporters community, originally posted by

bardicvoice.

I read through the community and it does make sense. As a writer, even an unpaid, untested one, I should support these people who are asking for a cut of something they created. It's their words that we watch over and over again on DVD and iTunes downloads. Why shouldn't they get a cut?

And I don't want a TV full of reality shows. It smacks of that Doctor Who episode that I can't remember the name of that deals with Satellite 9. A world of either continuous news or continuous reality shows. No fun!

Someone mentioned that this strike doesn't just affect the current writers but all those people that are struggling to break into the business or will someday be in the business.

I'm not exactly sure what I can do other than to complain to the networks if it becomes unindated with too many reality shows or reruns. Someone else on the site mentioned looking for good articles and support the newspeople that are writing about the strike. I could make sure I'm only giving out true information in the inevitable conversations about what's going on.

Oh My Heavens! This was heaven sent once again.

kris_reisz posted a great blog from Philip Pullman about how to write a book. And the Kris proceeded to write about how he doesn't outline either and I sighed with relief.

Every year people talk about outlining their NaNo and I've never, ever been able to outline so I got worried that once again I was doing it wrong. It doesn't feel wrong when I just write so I've always just done it but sometimes, for instance around the 10k count which I hit yesterday amid the bustle of Panera, I think that maybe it could be easier if I outlined.

I couldn't do it in junior high. I'm not going to do it now.

*grins*

Edit... On second thought, I do sort of outline. About a day ahead. For instance, today I'm going to write about Triss and her obsession with Taylor's eyes. I've known about that since yesterday. Today sometime I'll figure out what I'm writing tomorrow. And so on. And so forth.

Tonight was the Loreena McKennitt concert!

OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!

It was sooooo good! I had tears in my eyes nearly the entire time just because I was so amazed that I was hearing those great songs in such a great venue. Granted, we were really high up and the balcony was a bit too steep for my liking (I was a bad fan and didn't stand for the encores) but we could see the stage really well since we were straight back and could see the whole group.

She pretty much did an entire set of songs that I knew. If you've seen the PBS special from Nights from the Alhambra, you would have known the set. Seeing the music being played was just as cool as listening to it. The guy on violin (or filddle as they called it) was AWESOME but the lady on cello was not to be out done. The program is still out in the car so I can't give you a list of some of the other random instruments but I do remember that there was a Hurdy Gurdy because we had a long conversation about it.

I ended up buying the 3 disc set of Nights from the Alhambra because I really wanted the DVD that came with it. Can't wait to watch it. I got so many good ideas and had such a good time. It will bring up good memories!

Thank you Dawn and SaraJo for the ticket! Quite possibly the best birthday present EVER.

to sign up for NaNo. It's done and I'm official once again. Sad to be changing my "area" because I'm moving from a very active area to one that is considered "everything but Boise" which means it's packed with people who don't necessarily live by one another. There seems to be an active Twin Falls group (about an hour away) and I'm going to try to get to at least one meeting once I get moved.

I can't imagine NOT doing NaNo. It's what I do every November. It would be more stressful to not be doing it. This is who I am... a glutton for punishment.

Stop by and visit if you've signed up. I'm Larinzia Hope just like always. Used to be from Colorado Springs, Colorado. Now I'm from Carey, Idaho.

Every year on Labor Day, Ketchum ends the summer with the Wagon Days celebration. This draws people from all over the WORLD! People are packed in like sardines as they watch the parade and participate in all the activities. Businesses have one final hurrah before the slow season before ski season starts.

They cancelled it this year because of the fire. This will hurt an already financially depressed community.

But the good news is that they've only had brief flares up on Bald Mountain and it hasn't gotten too close to the ski lanes and equipment.

( Newest pictures )

The Castle Rock Fire is 38 percent contained and has burned about 25,000 acres.
( Some new pics and maps )

Title: What Remains

Word Count: 5683
Warning: Implied death, illness

Prompt: For a writing challenge at

originalficfest using the following lyrics -
our lives are made
in these small hours
these little wonders,
these twists & turns of fate
time falls away,
in these small hours,
these small hours still remain

-Small Wonders (Rob Thomas)

***
( Summary: Summer camp makes the difference for one girl. )

Straight from

blackholly's website (better known as the author, Holly Black) .... The Spiderwick Chronicles trailer!!!!! This reminds me that I need to pick up the next books in the series... and get Ironsides, too! I'm behind, I'm behind!

And if you've never read Holly Black's books before... you're missing out! Tithe is... beyond wonderful! It's the reason I wanted to start writing faeries because her faeries are AWESOME. Go. Ready. Enjoy!

I need to move this list and make it open. This is all the books I've recieved from paperbackswap.com! And the list keeps growing although not nearly as quickly as it was. If it's struck out, I've read it. If it's in italics, I've sent it to someone else.
( The list... )

Here's something I wrote at Christmas but forgot to post. I think I was going to post the pic of the actual teapot but I'm never going to remember to go and get it so...

Title: A Little Magical
Word Count: 2072
Object: White Leaf Teapot
Characters: Megan (Tillie & Myrrah)
( Just a little something... )

This is one of the stories I wrote over the Christmas break. I wish I had a pic of the actual brown pot it's written for because it's a real piece of pottery that my sister made in her ceramics class last semester and it's COOL! Anyway, I don't know why I've been holding onto this other than sometimes it's good to hold onto things for awhile just to make sure they still feel right when you need them again.

Title: Bottled Up
Word Count: 5257
Characters: Patrice, Jace
( How Patrice and Jace meet )

144 total books in 2006! Here's the list...

And then the new one will start right... NOW!
(!! - Recommended)
(** - Read for Adult Reading Program)

~~~December~~~ (14 books ... total pages 37487)
119. A Swiftly Tilting Planet :: Madeleine L'Engle 278

118. Darwinia :: Robert Charles Wilson 372

117. The Midnight Disease (The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain) :: Alice W. Flaherty 266

116. Falconer :: John Cheever 211

!!115. Miss Garnet's Angel :: Salley Vickers 342 (36360)

!!114. Wicked Lovely :: Melissa Marr 328

113. Neverwhere :: Neil Gaiman 370 (R)

!!112. The Glass Harmonica :: Louise Marley 369

111. Quieter Than Sleep :: Joanne Dobson 303

110. Shadows All Around Her :: Catherine Mulvaney 357 (34648)

109. Maskerade (Discworld) :: Terry Pratchett 358

108. Light a Single Candle :: Beverly Butler 217 (R)

107. Deerskin :: Robin McKinley 309

106. The Dead Girls' Dance (Morganville Vampires Book 2) :: Rachel Caine 248

~~~November~~~ (6 books ... total 33179)
105. The Brethren :: John Grisham 440 (33179)

104. The Adventures of Blue Avenger :: Norma Howe 229

!!103. Special Topics in Calamity Physics :: Marisha Pessl 514

!!102. The Wood Wife :: Terri Windling 292
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!!101. The Thirteenth Tale :: Diane Setterfield 406

100. In the Blink of an Eye :: Julie Miller 251 (R) (31298)

~~~October~~~ (7 books... total = 31047)
99. Warriors - Into the Wild :: Erin Hunter 272

98. Stray :: Rachel Vincent 618

97. Girls who like Boys who like Boys :: (edited) Melissa de la Cruz & Tom Dolby 285

96. Serving Crazy with Curry :: Amulya Malladi 238

95. Shakespeare's Kitchen :: Lore Segal 225 (29634)

94. The Maytrees :: Annie Dillard 216

93. Golden :: Jennifer Lynn Barnes 247

~~~September~~~ (12 books... total = 28946)
92. If Angels Burn (A Novel of the Darkyn Book #1) :: Lynn Viehl 291

91. A Nameless Witch :: A. Lee Martinez 320

90. The School of Night :: Alan Wall 294 (28335)

89. Magic or Madness :: Justine Larbalestier 271

!!88. So Yesterday :: Scott Westerfeld AB

!!87. Fledgling :: Octavia E. Butler 316

86. The Cat Who Went Bananas :: Lilian Jackson Braun AB

!!85. Finding Home :: Jim Daly 231 (27454)

84. Toast - The Story of a Boy's Hunger :: Nigel Slater 235

!!83. The God of Animals :: Aryn Kyle 305

82. Catfantastic :: (edited) Andre Norton & Martin H. Greenberg 320

81. Ella Enchanted :: Gail Carson Levine 232

~~~August~~~ (12 books... total = 26131)
80. Circle of Magic - Sandry's Book (Book 1) :: Tamora Pierce 252 (26131)

79. Touch of the Wolf (The Pack - Nocturne) :: Karen Whiddon 253

!!78. Kissing in Manhattan :: David Schickler 274

77. Aunt Dimity Goes West (Book 12) :: Nancy Atherton 227

76. Rupert Everett - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins (The Autobiography) :: Rupert Everett 406

75. Through the Looking Glass - Further Adventures & Misadventures in the Realm of Children's Literature :: Selma G. Lanes 239 (24719)

74. The Eyre Affair :: Jasper Fforde AB (R)

73. Keeping You a Secret :: Julie Anne Peters 250

72. Out of Time :: Lynn Abbey 311

!!71. An Abundance of Katherines :: John Green 215

70. Season of the Witch :: Natasha Mostert 395 (23704)

69. Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood :: Meredith Ann Pierce 241

~~~July~~~ (8 books... total = 23068)
68. Evening :: Susan Minot 264

67. Stardust :: Neil Gaiman 333 (R)

!!66. Threshold :: Caitlin R. Kiernan 307

!!65. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) :: J. K. Rowling 759 (22164)

64. Blood and Chocolate :: Annette Curtis Klause 264

63. The Kingdom Keepers :: Ridley Pearson 325

62. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) :: J. K. Rowling 652 (R)

61. Burning the Map :: Laura Caldwell 282

~~~June~~~ (7 books... total = 19882)
60. Fire and Fog (Fremont Jones Mystery Book 2) :: Dianne Day 257 (19882)

59. The Camelot Caper :: Elizabeth Peters 334

58. Catching Midnight :: Emma Holly 310

!!57. The Shipping News :: E. Anne Proulx 337

56. Good Night, Mr. Holmes (Book 1) :: Carole Nelson Douglas 393

55. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) :: J. K. Rowling 870 (R) (18251)

54. The Strange Files of Fremont Jones (Fremont Jones Mystery Book 1) :: Dianne Day 244 (R)

~~~May~~~ (7 books... total = 17137)
53. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) :: J. K. Rowling 734 (R)

52. The Last Continent (Discworld 22) :: Terry Pratchett 390

51. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) :: J. K. Rowling 435 (R)

50. Tripping to Somewhere :: Kristopher Reisz 368

49. Cover of Night :: Linda Howard 428 (15210)

!!48. A Walk in the Woods :: Bill Bryson 274

!!47. Tattoo :: Jennifer Lynn Barnes 260

~~~April~~~ (10 books... total = 14258)
46. Wolf Moon :: Charles de Lint 245 (14258)

45. In the Forest of the Night :: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes 147

44. The Changeling Sea :: Patricia A. McKillip 153

43. Journal (The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Amy Zoe Mason) :: Kristine & Joyce Atkinson (undefined)

!!42. Never Never :: Will Shetterly 226

!!41. The Looking Glass Wars :: Frank Beddor 358

!!40. Blood Bound :: Patricia Briggs 292 (13129)

39. The Empire of Ice Cream :: Jeffrey Ford 319

38. Silver Bough :: Lisa Tuttle 337

!!37. Changeling :: Delia Sherman 274

~~~March~~~ (9 books... total = 11907 pages)
36. The Probable Future :: Alice Hoffman 322

**35. Unshapely Things :: Mark Del Franco 305 (11585)

34. Shadowland (The Mediator Book 1) :: Meg Cabot writing as Jenny Carroll 245

**33. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - A Memoir :: Bill Bryson 268

**32. Almost French - Love and A New Life in Paris :: Sarah Turnbull 304

**31. Sword and Sorceress XVIII :: (edited) Marion Zimmer Bradley 308

**30. Navy Husband :: Debbie Macomber 334 (10155)

**29. The Fourth Bear (Jack Spratt Investigates Book 2) :: Jasper Fforde 378

**28. Dime Store Magic (Women of the Otherworld Book 3) :: Kelley Armstrong 414

~~~February~~~ (12 books... total = 9029 pages)
**!!27. The Meq :: Steve Cash 404

**26. Greywalker :: Kat Richardson 341

!!25. Sword & Sorceress XIX :: (edited) Marion Zimmer Bradley 314 (8284)

24. Faerie Wars :: Herbie Brennan 368

**23. Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin (Book 10) :: Nancy Atherton 227

**22. Fool Moon (The Dresden Files Book 2) :: Jim Butcher 342

**21. Jeans - A Cultural History of an American Icon :: James Sullivan 268

**20. Silent Bob Speaks (The Collected Writings of Kevin Smith) :: Kevin Smith 325 (5928)

19. Old Magic :: Marianne Curley 317

**!!18, Broken for You :: Stephanie Kallos 368

17. A Wind in the Door :: Madeleine L'Engle 211

16. Glass Houses :: Rachel Caine 239

~~~January~~~ (15 books... total = 4468 pages)
**15. 44 Scotland Street :: Alexander McCall Smith 325 (4468)

14. The End (ASoUE Book 13) :: Lemony Snicket 337

13. Meet the Austins :: Madeleine L'Engle 216

**12. Full Moon Rising :: Keri Arthur 372

11. The Penultimate Peril (aSoUE Book 12) :: Lemony Snicket 353

10. The Grim Grotto (aSoUE Book 11) :: Lemony Snicket 323 (2865)

9. The Slippery Slope (aSoUE Book 10) :: Lemony Snicket 337

8. Vampire High :: Douglas Rees 226

7. Earth, Air, Fire, Water (Tales from the Eternal Archive #2) :: (edited) Margaret Weis 304

**!!6. The Sidewalk Artist :: Gina Buonaguro & Janice Kirk 209

5. Sorcery & Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot :: P. Wrede & C. Stevermer 316 (1466)

4. The Carnivorous Carnival (ASoUE 9) :: Lemony Snicket 286

**3. Sunshine :: Robin McKinley 405

2. A Wrinkle in Time :: Madeleine L'Engle (R) 211

1. Elsewhere :: Will Shetterly 248

BOOKS MUCH TOO SMALL TO COUNT
The Beatrice Letters :: Lemony Snicket

Daniel Handler: The Real Lemony Snicket :: Hayley Mitchell Haugen

Sleeping Ugly :: Jane Yolen

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Fic: Salvation
Fic: Salvation
Gotta love me some TV... and the writers
Yes! Perfect!
The way Saturday nights should be spent
I COMPLETELY FORGOT
44 thousand acres and 44 percent contained
Some new pictures of the fire
Orig Fic: What Remains
Hooray for a new movie that I can't wait to see!
The books to be read List
Original Fic: A Little Magical
Orig Fic: Bottled Up (an Allen Street story)
Book List - 2007

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Entries tagged with 2007

Fic: Salvation

Fic: Salvation

Gotta love me some TV... and the writers

Yes! Perfect!

The way Saturday nights should be spent

I COMPLETELY FORGOT

44 thousand acres and 44 percent contained

Some new pictures of the fire

Orig Fic: What Remains

Hooray for a new movie that I can't wait to see!

The books to be read List

Original Fic: A Little Magical

Orig Fic: Bottled Up (an Allen Street story)

Book List - 2007