Cool Tidbit…

My first name is a Latin word that means, roughly, “rounded, polished, smooth, fine, elegant.“

It’s a close approximation.

Did You Miss Me?

Yeah, I know, I know. Been a while. I’ve been busy, see.

In the past approximate 2 months:

• I’ve turned a year older (30 is inching closer…)
• I took Thomas, my cat, to the ER and Vet for a serious condition that required a lot of money and a prescription diet.
• I found out my sister is having my NEPHEW
• My laptop computer crashed violently, and I’ve installed Linux on it (using it right now, in fact)
• My brother left for boot camp.
• I received my Wisconsin teaching license

Right now, I’m sick. Sinuses, I think, and definitely a pain in the butt. I’m heavily playing a Nintendo DS game called Hotel Dusk: Room 215. It’s an interactive mystery, and I’m enjoying it a lot.

My reading list includes…The Stone Mask (JLA/Batman novel), I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells, Night Echoes by Holly Lisle, The Silver Door by Holly Lisle, The Scent of Shadows by Vicki Peterson, and a non-fiction My Life Among Serial Killers (research purposes, don’t freak out on me).

I’ve been doing development work on my novel, find the holes and fillin’ them in, and fleshing out the rest. The story is better for this, and I hope to be writing again this week.

I signed up for a tw0-week online writing course, Writing Dialogue Cues and Body Language Like a Psychologist, by author Margie Lawson. It starts…Sunday. I’m looking forward to this one, since it’s an area I need to work on in my writing. In September, I plan to take another author’s course on sexual tension–also an area I need to work on.