Thought Patterns

From Regal Crest Enterprises, LLC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Regal Crest Enterprises is happy to announce the acquisition of "Butch Girls Can Fix Anything", a novel by Paula Offutt.

"Butch Girls Can Fix Anything" is a lesbian romance set in the fictional town of High Pond, NC. It follows three females as they learn not only about the others, but about themselves. Kelly Walker can fix anything-except herself. Grace Owens seeks a stable community of friends for herself and her daughter. Lucy Owens wants help her with fourth-grade math. As their stories unfold, each must deal with her own version of trust, of risks, and of what makes someone strong.

"Butch Girls Can Fix Anything" will be released in the Yellow Rose line, Regal Crest Enterprise's lesbian romance imprint, with a tentative date of February 05, 2007.

About joining the RCE team, Paula says "This is just the beginning of what I hope will be a wonderful, long relationship with Regal Crest." RCE is extremely pleased to have Paula join us and we believe this will be the first of many great books from this talented author.

Regal Crest Enterprises, LLC

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Like, wow. Isn't this freakin' great?? I'm going to be a book-published author! I've been on a high for a week now. I'd be all calm then it'd hit me again like a cattle prod.

Widow of Martin Luther King dies

Coretta Scott King, the widow of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, has died aged 78.

Mrs King had carried on her husband's work for racial equality after he was assassinated in 1968.

She fought successfully for a national holiday in memory of him and founded The King Center in Atlanta to preserve his legacy….

News of the mother of four's death was reported by former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young to US network NBC television.

Mr Young, also a civil rights campaigner, said Mrs King had died in her sleep on Monday night. Mrs King had been in poor health in recent years.

She suffered a serious stroke and heart attack in 2005, and earlier this month missed the public marking of her husband's birthday for the first time in two decades.

(full story)

I am over at Wikipedia, looking up time stuff–in particular circadian rhythms. The science of studying circadian rhythms is called Chronobiology or Chronomics.

The University of Virginia has an interesting section called Biological Timing Tutorial, in addition to a decent glossary of time/circadian terms.

Another term used is biorhythm although there are skeptics who say it is not a science but a pseudoscience.

I am not a morning person. I am more of a night owl. My most creative time period is from 4-6pm until at least 1am. I also do not like sunlight. I wear sunglasses even when it is raining (I am of the opinion diffused lighting is worse than non-diffused). I also have sleep apnea, but I don't see how that could be related to my night-owl-ness since I can snore loud enough to rattle windows no matter where the sun is.

What has always bothered me is that everyone is so concerned with getting the circadian rhythm reset either through light therapy or other means. Insomnia is a greater concern, true, but what if I get my 8 hrs in the day time? Not much can be found about night owls. I am still looking.

(as an aside, the Skeptic's Dictionary has an entry for alien abduction. Not sure if I want to read it or not tho)

Last night, I went to bed the same day I got up. Very rare for me.

Then I slept 12.5 hrs. Another rarity considering the dogs.

I think I've been abducted by aliens and one of them was crazy enough to try and take control over my body.

If I could put time in a bottle
I'd spend every moment with you…

(or something like that)

When writing, time is important, at least to me as a writer. I sometimes get hung up on it, trying to keep track of the days of the weeks and the months and the seasons and… When I read, I do the same thing. If it was Friday night in the last chapter, it better be Saturday when they wake up the next morning.

In BG1, most of it takes place in the late fall through winter. The follow season or two are much faster. Which means I had to correctly place the holidays and make sure they put on coats. Since it was winter, the days are shorter so there would be less time for outdoor activities. In BG2, it is mostly late spring through winter. Hotter'n heck. So when they dress up to go out to dinner, they won't be wearing turtlenecks.

I try to not mention time since that means I would need to keep track of it. Readers want to get lost in your story and little things like time will pull them out.

But time has to be mentioned, else there is no base, no foundation. If they go outside with jackets on, will they smell the flowers from the hanging planters on the porch? If they sit on the back porch and watch the sunset, then they'd see the sunrise from the front porch.

I am blah blah-ing about this because I am fussing at myself.

Writer, heal thyself? No, Writer Plot Thyself?

Now, I admit, I am out of some of the loops. I am not all that familiar with the more on-the-edge rock groups and grunge and most certainly know very little about rap.

Apparently there is a thing called 'crowd-surfing'. What this is is when someone is carried across the crowd, over the crowds' head. Never knew there was a name for it.

Check this out:

Now, I am all for inclusion and I reckon in the crowd, that's the only way he could see any of the band. And, after all, they lowered that one guy through the roof on a pallet.

I came across this at WheelchairJunkie's forum. Someone said they'd have to try it, what's the worst that can happen. Someone replied with this:

Hey, like I said, I'm all for inclusion.

Sources:
WheelchairJunkie thread
WCJ original of the first image
WCJ photo album
ConsumptionJunction, the original source for the second image

I have several on-line friends who are writers.

There's Sophia, who recently got married.

Then there's Erin, who is a new mom.

And there's Heather (aka Kaitiana) who is also a new mom.

And there's Jess (aka Irysangel), who is like me, just lucky to remember recent events.

At any rate, I caught Heather/Kait in the Forward Motion chat room tonight and we got caught up. I'm putting up an image page of her, the husband, and the alien.

I need to poke around in my bookmarks and find those for Erin, Brian and Ender.