30 Day Writing Meme: Day #27.

Instead of blogging my answer...I recorded it. If the link doesn't work for you leave a comment and I will write out my answer. :P

http://h1.ripway.com/knittergirl17/Untitled (35).wma

...of the day

Facts of the day:

* Rather a blue-ish sort of day.

* I haven't been feeling the greatest. Right now I'm so plain exhausted I don't think I can move to go to bed. A lot of trouble sleeping lately, which is probably what's the matter with me.

* Long day at work.

* No coffee.

* Missing certain people.


Highlights of the day:

* A phone call from a dearest friend.

* Working on a letter to another friend.

* Texting three good friends.

* Reading "Good Night, Mr. Tom".

* Watching an episode of "House".

* Remembering nicknames that I love.


Randomity of the day:

* Hearing a three year old ask, "Mom, can I have a cucumbuh."

* New music is the bees knees.

* Someone calling me an "angel". *snort* Yeah.


Thoughts of the day:

* Robin Hood is cute.

* Sleep is wonderful.

* Sometimes it's too darn hard to be cheerful.

30 Day Writing Meme: Day #26.

26. Let’s talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your main characters and post your favorite picture of him!

As you've seen in my previous posts, I NEED pictures of my characters so that I can visualize them better...I don't ever draw my characters. I'm a lousy artist. And I've never had anyone else draw them either...I just google pics. or look on stock photo websites. :D

Okay, so I've already posted pictures of Mark, Karrie, William, River, and even Teagan...so I shall post a picture this time of Charlie Kaye, who just MAY be the main character of my newest NaNo series...(that's a big maybe lol.)

Charlie (Charlotte) Kaye. Young woman. Bit of a geek. Solves mysteries. And that is all you're allowed to know for now. :P

30 Day Writing Meme: Day #25.

25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.

Mark & Karrie have a dog named Asta...yup, a wire-fox terrier...just to have a reminder that Mark & Karrie were inspired by Nick & Nora Charles. ;) Mark gave him to Karrie as a gift in...I think it was in "In Blackest Night" but I'm not positive. Hm. lol.

Then River Davies has a dog (can't remember if I decided what kind yet...but it's a large dog...) named Higgins. And I have yet to decide if Teagan Harper will have a pet. I like dogs, if you couldn't tell. :P The pets don't have a big part in my story...at least they haven't so far. So there really isn't much to tell about them. :)

30 Day Writing Meme: Day #24.

24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What’s the most interesting way you’ve killed someone?

I'm actually very willing to kill my characters if the plot demands it...so long as that character isn't Mark. I put my foot down when it comes to Mark. :P Most of the time, when I kill someone I like, it's just how it comes out...I don't plan it. It just happens. SPOILER: Like Judy from "Pearls in Her Hair"...she wasn't supposed to die and I was very bummed when she did. :P

The most interesting way I've killed someone? I wouldn't say any way is interesting...lol. Shot, strangled, hanged, stabbed, tortured....um....I haven't done death by burning yet or drowning...I don't go into details with my murders, but I DO write murders. :P

30 Day Writing Meme: Day #23.

23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story—from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?

Well, most of the novels I've actually finished were written during NaNoWriMo...so generally I start planning a month in advance for NaNoWriMo...then I can write the novel in the month's time. Last year, I started writing my novel and got to 50,000 in 15 days, decided I hated the story, and started another, finishing it by the 30th. So that was 100,000 in one month and two novels. :P

For a novel that I'm just writing any other time of the year...it usually takes me FOREVER. Cuz I don't have the pressure of NaNo on me, so I'm lazy and don't work on them as much. ;) It took me like a year just to write "There on the Titanic"!! :P

30 Day Writing Meme: Day #22.

22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you’ve never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not.

Why not post the scene that no one's ever read before instead of talking about it?? :P


Okay, so I'm not sure if any of you have read this bit, but I always find it amusing to re-read as it was a friend's idea to write this scene down...especially the bit about the sky being green. Yup...inside jokes. :D


A loud crash outside of the room interrupted them, however.
“If I got a dollar for every time I was interrupted, I'd be rich!” Mark complained, hurrying to see what was happening.
A young boy was lying on the floor, his face in the middle of a rug. A second young boy stood over him, his foot on his back, holding him down.
“Take it back! Take it back!” the second boy was shouting.
“Jacob, get off of him! Right now!” Mark scolded him. “Go finish packing up in the back room. Now.”
The boy skulked back down the hall, with a fierce glare at the first boy, who still lay on the floor.
The first boy was still moaning into the rug.
“The sky is purple.” he said.
“No it's not. It's green.” Karrie was obviously enjoying the spectacle.
“No, it's blue.” the boy changed his mind.
“Daniel, that's the floor, not the sky, now get up!” Mark rolled his eyes in exasperation.
“My head!” the boy held a hand over the bump that was coming out on the back of his head.
“I'm thinking you deserved it, the way you've been irritating Jacob lately. Now go on upstairs and help Mr. McColly with his books.”
“The sky's still green!” Karrie shouted after the boy.
“You should go home to lie down.” Mark said.
“No, no, no!” Karrie frowned harder with each no.
“You're acting up, Karrie.” Mark said in stern tones. She couldn't quite tell if he was being stern or if he was just teasing her again.
She tried her puppy eyes. They didn't work.
“Come along, I'll have one of the boys drive you home. I think you need a nap.”
“I've had a nap.” Karrie protested.
“You need another. You're acting skonklish.”
“I am not! I'll BE skonklish if you make me take a nap.”
“Do you want me to call your mother?”
Karrie gasped in horror, “You WOULDN'T!”
“Wouldn't I?” Mark marched back down the hall towards the room that had the telephone.
Karrie squealed and hurried faster for the outside door.
“I'm going! I'm going!” she called back.
Mark grinned wickedly and called for one of the teenage boys that still hung around the agency.
“Drive Mrs. Ingleford home, won't you Barney?”
“Will do, Mr. Mark!” 'Barney' grinned donkey-ishly.
“Barney. How much would it take to bribe you to say you took me home but you really take me somewhere else?” Karrie grabbed the boy's arm when he got closer.
“Nothing doing, Mrs. Ingleford.” Barney shook his head good-naturedly.
“Drat.” Karrie wrinkled her nose.
“You's gonna have a baby?” he looked at her bulging stomach.
“No, I'm going to have a watermelon.” she snapped back.
His eyes widened at her tone, and he shut up.
She sat crankily in the car, as he clambered in the driver's side. Mark came up to her side of the car and leaned through the window to kiss her goodbye.
“Have a nice nap, darling. I'll see you at dinner.”
She had to smile after his kiss.
It was a whole street later that Karrie suddenly realized something.
“He didn't tell me about his phone call! And I didn't get to see what that book was!!!!” she positively growled.
Barney watched her out of the corner of his eyes rather nervously.
Pregnant women. He thought. Crazy! Totally bonkers!
(Taken from "In Blackest Night")