True Blood

Last night's episode felt a lot like being bludgeoned over the head with violence against women. ( Read more... )

True Blood

Last night's episode felt a lot like being bludgeoned over the head with violence against women. ( Read more... )

True Blood

Last night's episode felt a lot like being bludgeoned over the head with violence against women. ( Read more... )

Writers Block: Dreams

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Do you usually remember your dreams at night? Do you analyze and/or record your dreams in your journal? Are there any recurring themes?

Submitted By detroitlions60

More often than not, I don't remember my dreams. When I remember them it's usually because they either struck me as quite odd/interesting/wha-huh? or because they frightened me.  I don't frequently have nightmares so when I do I tend to remember them. For instance, last week, I remember having one that was at least partially a memory and partially just fear.

A few months ago I had someone come to my door late at night and knocked -- repeatedly -- then tried the door knob. This scared the crap out of me, and I suppose it belatedly made it into a nightmare that I had last week where the same incident happened in my dream only, as I stood in the hallway, the person magically appeared in my foyer... and it was Capt. Phil, the crab-fishing sea captain that died on The Deadliest Catch... only it wasn't the guy who seemed so nice on the show.  He was terrifying and ghostly, and I tried to get away, grabbing my keys to hit the car alarm button that just wouldn't go off while I hit the garage door opener to escape out the back before running to my neighbor's house screaming for Mr. Horton to open the door... while Capt. Phil stole my car...

Huh.

I have no explanation for the dream.  None at all.

Recurring dream throughout my life:  Realizing that I have missed an entire semester (or more) of calculus (university or high school.  It could be either), haven't attended classes, don't know when or where the class was to meet, but knowing that  I will flunk unless I make an 'A' on the final exam... and I always hated calculus and haven't had the class in a bazillion years and how the frell am I to pass a final exam on it?!
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Writers Block: Dreams

:
Do you usually remember your dreams at night? Do you analyze and/or record your dreams in your journal? Are there any recurring themes?

Submitted By detroitlions60

More often than not, I don't remember my dreams. When I remember them it's usually because they either struck me as quite odd/interesting/wha-huh? or because they frightened me.  I don't frequently have nightmares so when I do I tend to remember them. For instance, last week, I remember having one that was at least partially a memory and partially just fear.

A few months ago I had someone come to my door late at night and knocked -- repeatedly -- then tried the door knob. This scared the crap out of me, and I suppose it belatedly made it into a nightmare that I had last week where the same incident happened in my dream only, as I stood in the hallway, the person magically appeared in my foyer... and it was Capt. Phil, the crab-fishing sea captain that died on The Deadliest Catch... only it wasn't the guy who seemed so nice on the show.  He was terrifying and ghostly, and I tried to get away, grabbing my keys to hit the car alarm button that just wouldn't go off while I hit the garage door opener to escape out the back before running to my neighbor's house screaming for Mr. Horton to open the door... while Capt. Phil stole my car...

Huh.

I have no explanation for the dream.  None at all.

Recurring dream throughout my life:  Realizing that I have missed an entire semester (or more) of calculus (university or high school.  It could be either), haven't attended classes, don't know when or where the class was to meet, but knowing that  I will flunk unless I make an 'A' on the final exam... and I always hated calculus and haven't had the class in a bazillion years and how the frell am I to pass a final exam on it?!
( Read more... )

Writers Block: Dreams

:
Do you usually remember your dreams at night? Do you analyze and/or record your dreams in your journal? Are there any recurring themes?

Submitted By detroitlions60

More often than not, I don't remember my dreams. When I remember them it's usually because they either struck me as quite odd/interesting/wha-huh? or because they frightened me.  I don't frequently have nightmares so when I do I tend to remember them. For instance, last week, I remember having one that was at least partially a memory and partially just fear.

A few months ago I had someone come to my door late at night and knocked -- repeatedly -- then tried the door knob. This scared the crap out of me, and I suppose it belatedly made it into a nightmare that I had last week where the same incident happened in my dream only, as I stood in the hallway, the person magically appeared in my foyer... and it was Capt. Phil, the crab-fishing sea captain that died on The Deadliest Catch... only it wasn't the guy who seemed so nice on the show.  He was terrifying and ghostly, and I tried to get away, grabbing my keys to hit the car alarm button that just wouldn't go off while I hit the garage door opener to escape out the back before running to my neighbor's house screaming for Mr. Horton to open the door... while Capt. Phil stole my car...

Huh.

I have no explanation for the dream.  None at all.

Recurring dream throughout my life:  Realizing that I have missed an entire semester (or more) of calculus (university or high school.  It could be either), haven't attended classes, don't know when or where the class was to meet, but knowing that  I will flunk unless I make an 'A' on the final exam... and I always hated calculus and haven't had the class in a bazillion years and how the frell am I to pass a final exam on it?!
( Read more... )

Audio Book Rec

When your job involves drawing for most of the day, you have a lot of time to listen... which is why I tend to listen to as many books as I read. Anyway, I think I may have an audio book rec -- The Alchemist and the Executioness.

The authors say that they had listened to a panel discussion complaining about women's roles in genre fiction and about the way that women were often reduced to nubile, sexy young things without families. The panel had wondered where the other heroines were? How about middle aged ones? So the writers decided to take the challenge and see what they could create.

I'm only half-way through the audio book (which seems to be an audible.com exclusive), but so far, I've been quite intrigued. ( Read more... )

Audio Book Rec

When your job involves drawing for most of the day, you have a lot of time to listen... which is why I tend to listen to as many books as I read. Anyway, I think I may have an audio book rec -- The Alchemist and the Executioness.

The authors say that they had listened to a panel discussion complaining about women's roles in genre fiction and about the way that women were often reduced to nubile, sexy young things without families. The panel had wondered where the other heroines were? How about middle aged ones? So the writers decided to take the challenge and see what they could create.

I'm only half-way through the audio book (which seems to be an audible.com exclusive), but so far, I've been quite intrigued. ( Read more... )

Audio Book Rec

When your job involves drawing for most of the day, you have a lot of time to listen... which is why I tend to listen to as many books as I read. Anyway, I think I may have an audio book rec -- The Alchemist and the Executioness.

The authors say that they had listened to a panel discussion complaining about women's roles in genre fiction and about the way that women were often reduced to nubile, sexy young things without families. The panel had wondered where the other heroines were? How about middle aged ones? So the writers decided to take the challenge and see what they could create.

I'm only half-way through the audio book (which seems to be an audible.com exclusive), but so far, I've been quite intrigued. ( Read more... )

Writing Meme

I feel like I'm cheating. Every passage I chose from Arriving Somewhere came up as Dan Brown. So I went all the way back to Perfect Vengeance and got this:

I write like
Stephen King

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

But, since Arriving Somewhere is the story that I'm working on currently, I fear that the Dan Brown thing is more accurate than a stalled fanfic from several years ago. (And I'm not really sure how Perfect Vengeance is King-like other than I have a big monster running around a fog-filled city.) Meanwhile, my blog post got Atwood! That's simply not fair.

Writing Meme

I feel like I'm cheating. Every passage I chose from Arriving Somewhere came up as Dan Brown. So I went all the way back to Perfect Vengeance and got this:

I write like
Stephen King

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

But, since Arriving Somewhere is the story that I'm working on currently, I fear that the Dan Brown thing is more accurate than a stalled fanfic from several years ago. (And I'm not really sure how Perfect Vengeance is King-like other than I have a big monster running around a fog-filled city.) Meanwhile, my blog post got Atwood! That's simply not fair.

Writing Meme

I feel like I'm cheating. Every passage I chose from Arriving Somewhere came up as Dan Brown. So I went all the way back to Perfect Vengeance and got this:

I write like
Stephen King

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

But, since Arriving Somewhere is the story that I'm working on currently, I fear that the Dan Brown thing is more accurate than a stalled fanfic from several years ago. (And I'm not really sure how Perfect Vengeance is King-like other than I have a big monster running around a fog-filled city.) Meanwhile, my blog post got Atwood! That's simply not fair.