Sunday, May 27, 2007
Webkinz...Who knew? Rough Draft Challenge update.
Well, obviously, my daughter knew since she now owns three and surprisingly enough, I thought the idea cool. But what I did not know is that these things are hotter than those rotating Rudolf’s at Christmas time. (Come on you know that you guys really think those things are cool! Especially the ones with the fake snow. Can we Southerners help it if we are frozen precipitation deprived and have to rely on styrofoam balls to get our snow kick?)

So back to the subject at hand, you can have Webkinz or Lil’kins and they come with all these different animals. I’m thinking lions and tigers and bears but the dd (dear daughter)told me that she hasn’t seen any bears, but hippo’s, blue ones, are apparently quite the thing.

These puppies are the new beanie babies of this generation. The thing that makes them cool, in my daughter’s words, is that each little furry critter comes with its’ own internet password into the…yes, wait for it…

The Webkinz world.

Now it is kinda cool and I found myself thinking that whoever came up with this idea is making a bloody mint because we can only find them at our Hallmark store or specialty stores. So if you have a child that you need to buy a present for from the ages of 7 to 15 you now have ze perfect gift idea. (grin)

Well onward with my update for the week.

I didn’t write a blooming thing this week.

There, I said it and I feel horrible. Actually I can’t really say I didn’t write anything because I did write this post and I have a bunch of notes on my TWAB journal where I had been stymied by this little problem I had with my antagonist and my protagonist, but, after having a little eureka moment earlier this week I think I’ve gotten that solved. Hmm…well, at least I think it’s solved. Either it is or I’ve just been wasting the last three days trying to figure out what the moon cycles are and how they affect the tides and such. Living at the beach all my life I knew that the phases of the moon ruled the tides but I want it to rule more…

Cause I’m special like that.

And when you write a book, especially one that is part fantasy you get to make all the rules. How cool is that? You just have to make sure you stay consistent and that the rules aren’t stooopid. (yeah, I know I spelled it wrong, but that is how I say it when I am trying to be sarcastic. Thought I would share.)

And I don’t want my rules to be stooooopid, cause that just gets you a bunch of grief because then people will read your book and get ticked off, maybe throw it against a wall somewhere or maybe even ping their husbands or partners in the head with said book, and then wammo next thing you know you’re in court because it’s all your fault (cause you have stooooooopid world rules) that they incapacitated their maybe loved one.
Altogether better to just figure it out and run it by some test readers first. Right Bonita?

So hopefully I’ll be able to get back to the nuts and bolt of writing the actually first draft next week, which is really Monday.

And somewhere in next week I also have to find time to do laundry, grade papers, do final grades, etc, etc.

Who needs sleep?

God Bless Maxwell house is all I can say.

Hope everyone has a great Monday!

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2 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

That is quite correct. I eagerly await!

Blogger Lynn said...

Sounds like we've both had a May full of stooopid things. I'm hoping to have some down time next week. Will let you know so we can finally chat. Hugsies!

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