Sunday, February 03, 2008

THOSE PESKY CHARACTERS AND NEW AND IMPROVED WEBSITES

MY CATS ARE SERIOUSLY FREAKED...
You Are a Rottweiler Puppy

Powerful, smart, and protective.
You're eager to growl at anyone you hate - but you're a big sweetheart inside.



Check it out. Let me know how you like my NEW AND EVEN MORE IMPROVED WEBSITE.
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They come by when you least expect it. Characters. Like this one. He wants to be in a novel. He'd prefer to be in a cozy mystery but he'll take a romance...or even a thriller. Like, uh, teenage mutant turtle ninjas . It's a role he's studied carefully. He was made to play it. He's a natural.

75 degrees and 8:21pm.

It was an exciting week. First of all I was taped to be on TV. On one side of me was Charles Memminger - a journalist I admire - and the other side? Gary Moore a Little Richard impersonator. Hey. You can't make this s*** up!
SEE ME HERE AFTER MONDAY It will be broadcast after the 9 pm channel 5 news and also be online.

Afterwards I met the WORLD FAMOUS LIBRARIAN Peg.

I tagged along with Peg and her husband and we wandered around Chinatown in the pouring rain then we all had dinner together. I SO love librarians who come visit me in Hawaii.
So now? Yes it's back to work. With those pesky characters. I need them to come up with at least 20,000 more words in a hurry.
"It was a dark and stormy night for the teenage turtle wannabe mutant ninja. Suddenly a door slammed. A woman screamed. A dog howled. The stock market plunged.
The body floated in the harbor. Meanwhile downtown, Sydney looked in the mirror and felt his growth of beard. Damn that testosterone...
Okay commenters. We have 19,949 words to go. It's all yours.

25 comments:

Chris Eldin said...

Congratulations for your T.V. interview!!!! Is any of it on YouTube? I'd love to see it!


You can have the first 20,000 from my ms. It ain't going nowhere.

:-)

Do you need primary or secondary characters? This could be a fun writing exercise...

Tyhitia Green said...

Congratulations on your TV interview! How exciting! :*) I would love to participate, but I'm at work---and sick---and tired...

Holly Kennedy said...

Wish I could help but you're on your with those characters and your word count. I'm struggling with the same thing at my end :)

Congrats on the TV interview!

ORION said...

The interview will be on you tube and trust me...it is not your mother's interview...LOL

The Anti-Wife said...

Wow. A friend on TV. That is so cool!

Anonymous said...

I love your new, improved website -- much more professional and easier to use. Good job!
Zoroaster's Dog

Les said...

Lovely website. Even better - I love the bookplates!! Very cool. And how very exciting about the tv interview!

Maria said...

A tip for being on tv: don't let your hands flap around like startled birds.

I have only been interviewed on television once and all I could see were my flapping hands.....

And yes, thank you for stopping by my blog. I DID so enjoy your wonderful book.

I live in Nebraska. Hawaii sounds like some sort of dream. Another blizzard coming through tomorrow....

Les said...

Maria,

I live in Nebraska, too. What are we doing here? We should move to Hawaii. Pat probably has enough room on her boat. ;)

Sandra Cormier said...

That sea turtle reminds me of the dude in Finding Nemo.

Love the sunglasses. You're already hiding from the paparazzi and the stalkers.

Congrats on the interview!

ORION said...

chuplet- I'm such a dodo head...I was wandering around Gordon's office going "it's so DARK in here..."

Billie Wages said...

Thanks for visiting my site, and noting Anna Kay . . . if you scanned my blog, you'd see I've not been here long, don't know much, but am on a day-by-day journey to beat Myasthenia Gravis, my Road to Remission, plus to also give my children, grandchildren, and now great-grandchildren some long ago true tales from the 40s to date.

Putting me with my MG out before the public is the only way I can help let people know about this horrendous disease, (details at the beginning) it is rare (thank goodness there are not many of us ;). I welcome you (and any of your readers) to come back, and learn more about us . . . myasthenics . . . we are as snowflakes, each one of us different.

I plan to check out your book.

Ragdoll Billie on the Road to Remission
http://andlifegoesononedayonestepatatime.blogspot.com/
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/billiewages

ORION said...

Ragdoll has a siamese that looks exactly like girl kitty the motionless muse...

Billie Wages said...

Okay, what is a muse? You just opened up a whole new world for me. I am delving deeper from here. Hope I can gather enough eyesight to read your book; sure going to try it.

Just know that you have put a spark in an *older* lady's life. *s*

Now, off to check about getting an autographed copy of Lottery. I think John Grisham may be the only other author I have of autographed books.

Is everyone here an author?

Ragdoll Billie on the Road to Remission
http://andlifegoesononedayonestepatatime.blogspot.com/
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/billiewages

Billie Wages said...

Forgot . . . and is it wrong . . . to add an invite to my blog to learn more about Myasthenia Gravis, this rare disease I have? Though I have links . . . I'm not sure if asking that is wrong or not. This is all new to me.

Ragdoll Billie on the Road to Remission
http://andlifegoesononedayonestepatatime.blogspot.com/
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/billiewages

Wendy Roberts said...

Love the new website!

ORION said...

Ragdoll- no need for the invite as the link automatically appears on your name so people usually go check it out! Thanks for asking- the blog-o-sphere is full of these little etiquette details LOL!!
RE LOTTERY...
It's in large print, audio, books on tape and MP3 and ebook...

Definition of MUSE: A large or small object that may or may not be furry that may or may not move, eat, use the litterbox..but that inspires a writer to greater things...

Mary said...

LOVE the new website. Nice colour, great layout, and the dragonfly moves very effectively if you flip quickly from page to page (having first read them carefully of course)! :)

Therese Fowler said...

The new site looks wonderful!

Kim Rossi Stagliano said...

The new site looks great! Very clean, easy to read, terrific colors. Love it!

K

Nadine said...

Loved the new website! Also happened to be flicking channels the other night and caught the interview on NightTime! Congrats! And congrats that Hollywood is calling!

Bookfool said...

Congrats on the TV interview!

Love that turtle and the new look.

Can't help you with the writing; you're far better than I.

ORION said...

Don't be too sure of that
Bookfool!
ah nadine- You mean you saw me get tackled on air?

Nadine said...

I just caught the end of it, when he kept asking you the number that Hollywood had mentioned. I thought you handled the continued questioning like a pro, never revealing the answer and always with a smile on your face. You did awesome!

Kim Rossi Stagliano said...

I'm a Golden Retriever Puppy! WOOF!