Monday's Muse 2015-03-30

The lyrics of "Undisclosed Desires" by Muse.

Yep. Perfect storyline! My heroine is going to prove to the WORLD that her "temperamental" antagonist is worthy of everyone's love, not just hers!

Except, instead of temperamental we're going to describe him as mercurial to prove that we, like, have a good vocabulary.

And, we're going to be the new Fifty Shades.

This is going to sell!

Monday's Muse 2015-03-23

According to my Muse, there is an easy way to deal with writer's block! I'm not entirely sure that this should apply to the children's book I'm writing, but I'll trust her.

Monday's Muse 2015-02-02

I went through today's Amazon recommendations, and two of the stories are about plucky heroines that inherit a hotel/inn, and then try to not fall in love with the guy that thinks that he should have inherited, or the guy that broke her heart when she was sixteen and visiting Nana or whoever owned the inn beforehand.

Awesome! That sounds like an easy enough story to write, and since it's a guaranteed publishing in, done!

Intentions for 2015

Jennifer Crusie is right. New Year's Resolutions just put pressure on you to actually have will power, energy, and the ability to complete tasks.

Who actually has that?

Intentions are so much better.

I intend to write more. 

Check. It only took ten days to complete this post. Actually, at the time of writing this very sentence, I cannot guarantee that I will actually complete this post.

I intend to have more sex with my husband.

Or with myself. Or with my BOB. Either way. Orgasms every day, please.

I intend to keep my house tidier.

Ha!

I have a 2 and 4 year old boy! I hope you didn't fall for that one!

I intend to enjoy every moment with my children and my husband.

Even when they're being whiny, throwing temper tantrums, and running their syrup-covered hands down the hall walls on the way to the bathroom.

My husband is in no way included in the sentence directly above this one.

I will lose some weight. And/or get into better shape.

I'd be happy with five pounds for the year, at this point, because let's face it: I gained weight in 2014.

I intend to paint the inside of my house this year.

Which leads me to:

I intend to get my house organized and de-cluttered.

Please see the third intention, above.

I intend to go camping with my family more.

And, not the kind of camping where you drag a house behind your truck, park it next to a million other trailers beside a major highway. The kind of camping where there's one other family camping on the other side of the lake, and you may hear a logging truck go by once in awhile. Oh, and you're sleeping in a tent, and if you're lucky, the floor to the outhouse won't be completely rotten, just a little rotten.

I intend to not let my mom's micro-management bother me.

Starting now.

Or maybe tomorrow.

I intend to laugh more, especially with my children and my husband.

This seems more reasonable than the fourth intention, above.

I intend to not let my whiny little bitch out. 

I'd like to add ever on to the end of that, but I may have to give her one PMS day per month. But only one. Because, a week or two is probably driving everyone around me a little bit crazy. I know it's driving me crazy. And then I just feel guilty, so I cry more, etc. etc. Bitch.

Okay, she gets one day per month for the first six months (starting in February. Ahem.), then that's it. The skank is getting cut out of the family.

I think that these are all doable. And, I should be able to stay sane during the process.

BMBR: The Bottom Line by Sandy James

This is a cute romance in the "Ladies who Lunch" series about a breast cancer survivor and the carpenter that she hires to work on her house.

It was a decent story with the usual back and forth of miscommunication, misconceptions and trust issues.  There's also a lot of descriptive, normal sex.

That being said, I felt compelled to finish the story, but I didn't feel compelled to jump my husband after reading it, but I'm going take into consideration that he fell asleep watching hockey, and that my uterus is gearing up for a wonderful Christmas present. Yay.

Bottom line: these books are 3-4 bucks as an e-book, and that would be my maximum. It was worth it, but I'm not dying to get the others in the series. Probably would if I needed something easy to read and sweet.

BMBR: Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner

Started buying her books a few years ago. Have thought about moving her to Kindle but bought this one at Costco when I saw it. My dad likes mysteries so easier to share this way.

Almost done. So fucking close. I brought it to work do that I could sneak a page in here and there. Left it in the car. Fuck.

I think that I know who did it, and it's killing me not knowing for sure.

Bottom line: One of her best. Definitely good enough to buy ebook if that's cheaper, but good enough for the real book version, too!

Muse Monday

My muse hath spoken again.

She gives such great advice, doesn't she? I love that she's on the same page as I am about the "dream resolution".

I don't know how else I would've ended my story about about how the world is dying and it's climate is producing an environment that is conducive to the growth of slime molds and wicked awesome bacteria that can devour an entire cow in about 10 minutes in such a way as to not, like, totally freak out my readers!

Whew!