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Thursday Thirteen: Holiday Prep

Thursday Thirteen

I feel like such a Scrooge this year. Our house is the only one on the cul-de-sac that doesn’t have any lights up yet. With temperatures in the 70s and 80s here it STILL doesn’t feel like Christmas is less than three weeks away. My mom got 5″ of snow yesterday. I’m jealous. The kids are starting to ask more pointed questions about Santa this year, filled with comments about what other parents have told their friends. Ahh, the price of growing up.

Anyway, needed to think about these things and do this, so here’s the first 13 things I could think of that will help get our family in the Christmas Spirit.

 

13 Things To Get Ready For the Holidays

1. Finish coordinating gift lists with DH. Who have we forgotten? Can we avoid duplicates?

2. Hang the lights outside. This is always “fun”. Those “We Install Christmas Lights!” signs are looking pretty tempting!

3. Hang the wreath on the door. DD said she wanted to yesterday, but didn’t.

4. Remove any and all non-essential clutter from the living room so we can…

5. …buy a tree so we can…

6. …decorate it.

7. See if we need any new ornaments. Our Cinnamon Ornaments may need replaced, a bunch had broken last year.

8. Mix up some cookie dough and freeze it so I can bake a dozen when we want ’em.

9. Decide if we’re having Thanksgiving dinner again for Christmas. We usually do.

10. Go Caroling next Saturday with the Cub Scout pack, hopefully it won’t rain this year.

11. Mrs. Santa needs to find some jammies to leave on the kids’ beds.

12. Update my wishlist on Amazon and make DH and the kids update theirs too!

13. Spruce up the dining room table with some more festive decorations.

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

1 Susan Helene Gottfried 2 Gina 3 Patti Ann Colt 4 Jennifer McKenzie
5 Kelly McCrady 6 Alice Audrey 7 Gina Ardito 8 Debbie Mumford
9 Dayle 10 11 12


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Thursday Thirteen: NaNo Lessons

 

13 Things I Learned During NaNoWriMo

1. Priorities are important — especially when you have multiple projects all due by Nov 30th.

2. The month of October is for planning, start EARLIER than Oct 31st.

3. I definitely need a road map/game plan. This plan needs to be extremely more detailed. Lord SO_N_SO is not sufficient to get a grasp of his true character. Luckily, this was not the hero, but that little piece of cardboard was whispering that he’d like to apply for the job someday.

4. Progress is progress. Any progress is good.

5. My mornings are usually more productive than evenings, although a couple of my best runs were from 10-midnight after the kids were in bed.

6. I work better when someone else is working too — I knew this, it was just reinforced in Live Chat on Romance Divas. This is especially true when I’m not quite in the mood to be working. Getting 10 words down and knowing someone else is working against the same clock goes along way to finding motivation.

7. I can write 2-3k words a day when I put my mind to it — however my journaling and blogging and real life suffered for it. My kids & homework do not mix well during writing time. I need to teach them the benefits of #6. Martial Arts class time, however, was good for working on notes on paper.

8. It is possible to stuff my internal editor in a box for extended periods of time. I still haven’t really stopped to go back and read what I’ve written, except to ramp up for the next session. I will admit to some fiddling, but I noticed that I was zapping words instead of adding new sentences — not good for NaNo.

9. Peter Gabriel’s Passion CD is great for background noise. The rhythms build throughout and help keep the momentum going. Stomp — the found instrument percussion group — is also good for background music.

10. I need a wider variety of instrumental music in my iTunes. Lyrics distract me much more easily.

11. I’m more comfortable with letting conversation flow and then going back and filling in action beats and internal dialogue later. Long passages of descriptive narrative were often more like torture, especially if it was internal reflection about some deep emotional issue.

12. I was more comfortable in my heroine’s head, especially when she’s reacting to the off-stage hero.

13. I had a lot of fun doing this even though I won’t “win” with only 35,856 words still. It was a lot of work, but it was another form of a puzzle for me. Must. Solve. Puzzle. Having my spreadsheet that took Dunne’s Emotional Structure and Vogler’s Writer’s Journey diagrams and smushed them all together really made it easy to see where the patterns needed to go. Having that based on page numbers also felt like it helped me with pacing. But most importantly, I learned a lot about how my own personal process. I’m going to keep working on this one and then start the process again for the story that comes before this one, only at a much more reasonable pace while I start to unravel the mysteries of the self-editing process.

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

1 Tempest Knight 2 Ava Rose Johnson 3 Gina 4 Susan Helene Gottfried
5 Heather 6 Carrie Lofty 7 Ember Case 8 Alice Audrey


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Thursday Thirteen: Happy Thanksgiving

Thursday Thirteen

 

13 Things I’m Thankful for Today

1. My Husband — He puts up with me and all my baggage. He believes in me even when I don’t. *tonk*

2. My Monsters — Thing 1 and Thing 2 — They may drive me insane, but I love them dearly. They have their precious moments too. Every time I sniffle now, the boy asks if I want my nasal spray so I can breathe again. So sweet.

3. Extended Family — We often drift away from our families, taking them for granted, but I’m thankful they’re a part of our lives even when we live so far away from everyone else.

4. Friends — These people help keep me going. I don’t appreciate them enough on a regular basis, but I try to make their lives easier when I can as well.

5. A Comfortable Cave — We’re a bit too comfortable in it at times, but I’m very thankful that we still have a roof over our heads and we were merely inconvenienced last month with the wildfires. Luckily very few people we know were directly affected by the fires as well.

6. A Comfortable Life — I’m very thankful for the fact that I don’t have to worry about whether there’s enough money in the couch os we can go get something to eat for dinner or having to count every penny at the grocery store. I like walking in and picking up what looks good and in the brands I know taste good. Yes, I’m spoiled now. See #1.

7. Our Health — I’m thankful that for the few problems we have, there are effective treatments. It could always be so much worse and I feel blessed that we have options.

8. Creativity — I’d have gone insane a long time ago without the need to be creative. You can’t escape the creative forces in our house between the music, the art, the craft supplies which are often used in very creative ways, to the kitchen where recipes are only starting points.

9. Romance Divas — Especially the FlanTastics, Cup o’ Noodles and everyone else that hangs out in the Live Chat room looking to challenge and commiserate.

10-13. Modern Conveniences — I so could not have survived 100 years ago without computers, the internet, microwaves and indoor plumbing. I mean, I could have, but I wouldn’t have wanted to. Now, 200 years ago, as long as there were servants to do most of the things we take for granted like the cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc tha seem like chores today… we don’t know how easy we have it because of all the other obligations heaped on us.

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

1 Savannah Chase 2 Heather 3 Jennifer McKenzie 4 Haven Rich
5 Alice Audrey 6 7 8

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Thursday Thirteen: Candy Loot!

At our house, Halloween Candy lasts until Valentine’s Day. I may have actually forgotten to throw out last year’s loot. While it’s bundled into Ziploc bags with the kids’ names on them, I can resist the temptation. It’s that whole out of sight, out of mind thing too. We only had two bunches of trick-or-treaters come by the house last night. This was in addition to the 4 we sent out to beg for sugar. DD’s figured out that our neighborhood gets better hauls than her friends who live in apartment complexes with lots of kids so she’s usually inviting someone else along for the fun. DH said they saw like five other groups last night. Ahh, the joys of living in a community with mostly retired folks.

Ok, so _why_ does candy last that long at our house? DD is a type I diabetic, so we dole it out in small quantities over time. The next couple of week’s she’ll think of it constantly and beg and cajole for pieces at every possible chance. Eventually, the out of sight, out of mind thing will kick in for her as well and it’ll sit lonely and ignored in the cupboard until I think to grab something to toss in their lunch box.

I decided I’d make a cheat sheet this year as I’m tired of looking everything up all the time, so I picked the 13 most popular candies at our house and figured out the carb counts for a single piece. This way I can refer back and easily add up the totals so she can take the correct insulin dose easily even when mixing and matching. BTW, the Daily Plate was helpful for figuring out the unlabled ones — they also have calories and other nutritional info.

1. Nestle’s Crunch Fun Size 8.67g
2. KitKat Snack Size 9g
3. Pay Day Snack Size 10g
4. Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Snack Size 8.33g
5. Milky Way Fun Size 12g
6. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (1 piece) 12g
7. Reese’s Mini Peanut Butter Cups 5g
8. Twix Fun Size 10g
9. Butterfinger Fun Size 15g
10. Almond Joy Fun Size 10g
11. Plain M&Ms Fun Size 12.5g
12. Skittles Fun Size 17.5g
13. Starburst (2 squares) 8.25g

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

1 Deb 2 Jennifer McKenzie 3 Susan Helene Gottfried 4 Tempest Knight
5 Gina Ardito 6 Kelly McCrady 7 8

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Thursday Thirteen: Evacuated!

 

We came back from Legoland to drive into a wall of smoke from the fires out in Ramona on Sunday afternoon. We decided we’d better pack our bags just in case and have everything ready to go in case we needed it. I would have happily unpacked it all unused! We decided we’d pack the van and parked it outside about 2am and grabbed some sleep. We woke up around 5am and could see the flames crawling over the next ridge So over. It looked like lava flowing down the canyon. We went to one of the evac shelters and spent the morning there and decided to head out to the coast to a friend’s house we stayed there until about 2 am and then drove to Anaheim to a hotel. We switched hotels just to get internet access, but we’ve been focused on what’s been going on at home. No writing this week! So, once you’re away and have time to stop and think, you begin to think about what you left behind. I must say, after having come home to a house fire before, it’s MUCH nicer to have a chance to pick and choose what you want to save than not.

UPDATE: We’re back home, the air quality here is slightly better than Anaheim: this morning you could smell the smoke from the fires up that way in the hotel air conditioning. DH’s office is a bit smelly, but our house up on the hill isn’t too bad. We lost some roof tiles to the wind on Sunday night, but that seems to be the extent of it.

13 Things We Should Have Grabbed or Done Monday Morning

 

1. Bathing suits: cabin fever and kids don’t mix well when you have a great view of the hotel pool. At least we can’t see the castle as Disneyland from our room.
2. Chargers for the Nintendo DS: cabin fever and kids don’t mix… DH did find an adapter, phew!
3. More underwear! Always a good thing.
4. Camping Bin: flashlights, batteries, air mattresses, emergency radio… DUH! I think this will do ouble duty from now on
5. Weekend Fish Feeders: I hope they haven’t eaten each other. I also hope the water isn’t toxic.
6. Some Playstation 1 games we already paid too much on eBay to replace once after the aforementioned house fire.
7. The autographed book one of Harry Potter and many other autographed books and CDs
8. The limited edition letterpress prints and other stuff in DH’s art portfolio
9. Our Tent: we might have stayed at the first evacuation center… *shrug*
10. PB&J: had the loaf of bread and sandwich meats, but DS won’t eat those *eyeroll*
11. Copy of email and phone contacts — had some, not all. Thank goodness for forums and mail2web.com!
12. DH’s car: we probably should have left it out in the driveway, not in the garage
13. Claritin! DS and I could breathe much easier if we had some… oh, right, it’s in the camping bin… *headslap*

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

1 Lorelei James 2 Ava Rose Johnson 3 R.G. Alexander 4 Amelia June
5 Gina Ardito 6 Cassandra Curtis 7 Jane E. Jones 8 Savannah Chase
9 Susan Helene Gottfried 10 Kelly McCrady 11 Alice Audrey 12 DD Mills
13 vixen 14 Sandra Schwab 15 Morgan St. John 16 Carrie Lofty
17 Unusual Historicals 18 Jennifer McKenzie 19 frustrated writer 20

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Thursday Thirteen: Loving Ways

I’ve been reading Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex by Dr. John Gray lately. The metaphor is absurd, but the logic and insights behind it are sound. I picked it up on a whim to see some concrete examples of the different ways that men and women communicate and react to emotional intimacy — very cool book in that respect. I’ve already gotten several ideas on how to improve the conflict between characters and various ideas on how to better show the growing romance between a hero and a heroine and some of the obstacles they may be setting up for themselves.

 

13 Ways to Show and Need Love

We think of these as ways that women show love, but they are also the ways in which they feel and recognize that they are loved. A woman’s ability to love is recharged when she feels these needs are being met.

1. Caring
2. Understanding
3. Respect
4. Devotion
5. Validation
6. Reassurance

Men recognize love when they are on the receiving end of these types of affection.

7. Trust
8. Acceptance
9. Appreciation
10. Admiration
11. Approval
12. Encouragement

13. Hot Monkey (more than ’nuff said)
What? You didn’t think I would/could be completely serious did you?

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

1 Lorelei James 2 Ava Rose Johnson 3 R.G. Alexander 4 Amelia June
5 Gina Ardito 6 Cassandra Curtis 7 Jane E. Jones 8 Savannah Chase
9 Susan Helene Gottfried 10 Kelly McCrady 11 Alice Audrey 12 DD Mills
13 vixen 14 Sandra Schwab 15 Morgan St. John 16 Carrie Lofty
17 Unusual Historicals 18 Jennifer McKenzie 19 frustrated writer 20

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Thursday Thirteen: Procrastination!

 

Besides perfectionism, procrastination is my next biggest issue. Way back in college, it used to be a running joke that for me a study break was when I took a break and studied. I’m finding similar issues these days as I find myself reluctant to face certain truths or balk at actually writing them down. I don’t recommend any of these methods, but maybe it’ll help you recognize your own self-sabotage tactics.

13 Signs You May Be Procrastinating

1. You catch yourself humming as you go to gather laundry and you HATE doing laundry.

2. You noticed a speck of dust and rush to grab the feather duster and proceed to run it over every surface in the house.

3. You obsessively check your email. Discounts on Viagra and the possibility of your non-existent eBay account being compromised are beginning to look interesting.

4. You find yourself jumping up in the middle of a sentence to go check some minute detail because you were just reading about it and want to get the quote exactly right.

5. Balancing your checkbook becomes your highest priority even though you just did it yesterday. It MIGHT have changed.

6. You need to go check if there are any new posts on your favorite forum, RD always delivers when you need a distraction.

7. You find yourself drinking more water, not because you’re necessarily thirsty, but it means more trips to the bathroom to “think”. Oh, and the plants are probably thirsty too.

8. You play with the fonts. See! It looks better that way… courier is too icky. Times New Roman is boring! What you need is a fresh look at your writing… how about something to put it in context? Regency Script, Copperplate or even FUTURA?

9. Hmmm? Was that your stomach that just growled? Snack time is always good for a few extra minutes.

10. That song playing is driving you nuts! The shuffle isn’t shuffling randomly. You swear it’s picking out favorite songs just to annoy you.

11. You catch yourself staring at the phone, willing it to ring. Maybe the kids forgot something at school. That’ll burn a half hour or so to find it and then drive over and back.

12. You must have some bills floating around on your desk that haven’t been paid. What starts out as a hunt for one unpaid bill, turns into a marathon desk-organizing mission.

13. It’s only Friday, but you’re already pondering what to put in next week’s TT. Hey, if you do one a day for a week, you won’t have to worry about them for a while!

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

1 Gina Ardito 2 Heather 3 Susan Helene Gottfried 4 Carrie Lofty
5 Unusual Historicals 6 Debbie Mumford 7 Deb Logan 8 Rene Lyons

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Thursday Thirteen: Criticize This!

 

13 Reactions to Criticism

This entry might not be as entertaining as the previous ones, but it’s something I’ve had to think about as I put my first piece out there and asked for opinions. It was a terrifying experience to put myself in such a vulnerable position, but my desire to learn more and become better at this had to come first. I absolutely refuse to acknowledge which of the following, if any (oops I just admitted to the last few didn’t I? Oh, well.) that I’ve gone through with this or any other writing i’ve asked someone else to look over.

1. Take everything personally. They hated your writing, ergo they hate you.
This one isn’t worth the time and energy it will take to maintain the grudge, the esclating tensions and figuring out how to get around the restraining orders. You’re better off putting your energy into something else for a while and coming back to it with fresh eyes to see why they didn’t like it.
2. Whine about how it’s perfect in your head and it won’t come out correctly on the page.
This needs to be worked out between your inner artiste and your internal critic. They’re both fighting for control and you’re losing. Make them work for you, not against you. They each have their place in the process, send ’em back to their corners, bribing them with chocolate if necessary. No one likes whiners, Wendy.
3. React to each critique as if it were gospel.
You need to know your story well enough to know what is useful and dead on. You are going to get different opinions and possibly contradictory ones from every reader. Some of the suggestions are going to be wrong for your work. Read everything, but think about it too and learn something from it.
4. Resist the urge to argue.
Again, probably not the best use of everyone’s time and energy. Save the passion you feel and put it into the conflict between your characters.
5. Scrap everything you’ve done, they don’t get it.
Sometimes this might be a valid response. However, it is probably an overreaction.
6. Everyone loved it so much that you run around the office burning bridges cause you’re gonna quit and write full-time.
Woah! Just a bit premature there. You’re going to have to face all those cube dwellers again in the morning after reality smacks you upside the head. Prepare yourself for the inevitable question, “So, when ya gonna write a REAL book?”
7. Everyone loved it so much that you run out and hire an assistant and a publicist.
Again, jumping the gun. Make sure you have the foundation necessary to support yourself before you are responsible for other people’s livelihoods.
8. Assume a lukewarm reaction means you suck at writing and you give up.
There are forces outside your control, young grasshopper. It may have been a bad day for them to read it. It may not have been that particular person’s cup of tea. Put it away, leave it alone. Go do something else for a month or longer. Then, come back to it and see if you agree or can see why.
9. Obsess over every detail that was pointed out as a problem.
Soon your dreams will be filled with demons chasing you, demanding that you sacrifice everything to them in order to make everything perfect. Either that or you shouldn’t have eaten that burrito so late. You need to evaluate WHY it was brought up as an issue, but obsessing isn’t usually required.
10. Abandon your writing in the name of studying the craft.
Don’t get so bogged down in reading about what other people have to say about how it should be done that you lose sight of your own instincts. Take the time to practice what you’re learning. Writing exercises are not 100% mental. (Wouldn’t that be cool though — to have a direct brain to computer COM port? Just think and it appears on the page?) You should never stop learning, but I know I have to practice the theory to learn it and understand it.
11. You cannot base your self-esteem and self-confidence on a critique or review.
We are more than our craft. If you put your work out there with the right mindset, you will be rewarded. If you go out asking for help and wanting to learn. I guarantee you, you will learn something. It may not be what you thought you wanted to learn, but it will be a valuable lesson.
12. Read everything more than once, but don’t obsess.
The further you can get your mind from the work critiqued, the better. Hold on to everything and look back at it and the work both with fresh eyes. Take what makes sense and use it. Learn something from everything — even if it’s just how not to say something.
13. Learn, grow, expand, and keep going.
When you put something out for criticism, you’re gonna get it. It may not be exactly what you’re looking for, but you’re gonna get it. Roll with the punches and learn more about your craft and your self in the process.

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

1 Amelia June 2 Morgan St. John 3 Jane E. Jones 4 DD Mills
5 Susan Helene Gottfried 6 Paige Tyler 7 Shelley Munro 8 Jennifer McKenzie
9 Sandra Schwab 10 Gina Ardito 11 Seeley deBorn 12 Tempest Knight
13 Unusual Historicals 14 Carrie Lofty 15 Julie 16 Heather
17 Christine d’Abo 18 Alice Audrey 19 Debbie Mumford 20

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Thursday Thirteen: You Go, Girl!

 

13 Things I Learned From
Romance Heroines

1. Always make sure your slippers and reticule match your gown.
2. Corsets weren’t worth the trouble, the best heroes like real women with curves too.
3. True love always conquers all, even if you didn’t recognize it at first.
4. Men like to be argued with — it catches their attention better than simpering.
5. That feisty old lady with the cane? Listen to her, she’s the brains of the bunch!
6. Alpha males can be tamed, housebroken and taught new tricks!
7. It’s not a house party until someone is forced to get engaged!
8. The best scents to wear are lemons, roses and lavender.
9. The best men smell like soap, sandalwood and linen.
10. Curling irons have only slightly improved in 200 years.
11. Phaetons, Porches — same difference. It’s all about the horsepower.
12. The man who appears to be your worst match is likely the best, unless he’s the villain.
13. Your toes will only curl for the right man, and they’ll curl every time, ifyaknowhattamean.

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

1 Seeley deBorn 2 Rhonda Stapleton 3 Paige Tyler 4 Jennifer Shirk
5 Morgan St. John 6 Jennifer McKenzie 7 Heather 8 Gina Ardito
9 Debora 10 Tempest Knight 11 Unusual Historicals 12 Carrie Lofty
13 Susan Helene Gottfried 14 Kate Willoughby 15 Savannah Chase 16 Debbie Mumford

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Thursday Thirteen: Bad Hero, Bad!

 

13 Things A Hero Should Never Say…

…when the heroine has just impulsively confessed her love and blurted out those three little words…

1. “No, no, no. This was just supposed to be about the sex!”
2. “Me too! I am great, aren’t I?”
3. “Why does every girl I kiss say that?”
4. “Huh? We’ve only been living together for, what? Ten years?”
5. “Me or how I make you feel, baby?”
6. “My wife’s not gonna like this.”
7. “What? Do I know you?”
8. “Why? I killed your kittens, stabbed your brother, ruined your sister, and have kidnapped you and have been holding you hostage for a week. Women!”
9. “Mmmmm…. I love you too, Monique. It was Monique, right?”
10. “Hold still, you’ve got something in your teeth.”
11. “What? Come out of there so I can understand what you’re saying.”
12. *belch* Pass me another cold one, babe. Dammit! Interception!”
13. Zzzzzzzzzz!

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

1 Jennifer McKenzie 2 Lorelei James 3 Amelia June 4 Seeley deBorn
5 Adelle Laudan 6 Heather 7 Tempest Knight 8 Savannah Chase
9 Robin L. Rotham 10 Elle Fredrix 11 Debbie Mumford 12 Morgan St. John

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