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Oct

Question Friday: Halloween Candy Edition

I have to admit, we haven’t bought any Halloween candy yet. I was afraid if we bought it last weekend it’d be gone before trick or treaters arrive tomorrow. Especially if it involved caramel or peanut butter and chocolate. But in that spirit: 1. Twix OR Kit-Kat OR Three Musketeers? 2. Licorice: black, red, OR yuck? 3. M&Ms OR Reese’s Pieces OR Peanut M&Ms? 4. Ringpops OR candy necklaces? 5. Skittles, SweeTarts, OR Smarties? Are you eating candy today? What kind? Bonus: What’s your favorite discontinued, impossible-to-find candy?

Oct

Favorite Characters

Jessica

I’ve read a bunch of awesomesauce books this month, and I found myself thinking, Ooh, this character would be on my list of all-time favorite characters. Then: Do I have a list? I guess I do now. Favorite Female Characters Scarlett O’Hara (Gone with the Wind) Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables et al) Deryn Sharp (Leviathan) Katniss Everdeen (Hunger Games & Catching Fire) Ruby Oliver (The Boyfriend List et al) Honorable mentions: Hermione Granger, Scout Finch, Elizabeth Bennett Favorite Male Characters Henry Tilney (Northanger Abbey) Peeta (Hunger Games & Catching Fire) Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) Remus Lupin (Harry Potter series) –Hmm, I can’t decide btw Cabel (Wake) and Seth (Wicked Lovely) Honorable mention: Oscar Banks (Candor) I just read Leviathan and Candor, and reread To Kill a Mockingbird, so those characters are particularly fresh in my mind. But I think they’re all valid, complex, interesting choices. ...

Oct

New York, New York

Jessica

I’m going to spend a weekend in mid-November in New York. Steve wants to see a play written and directed by guys he met (and drank in the Owl Bar with) at Sundance. And I’m going along ’cause while a super-experimental four-hour play isn’t necessarily my cup of tea (I love theatre, but four hours is a long damn play and there are clowns!) I haven’t been to New York for…ten years? I think it has actually been ten years. For my high school graduation present, my dad sent me and one of my friends to see Rent on Broadway. Yikes. Anyway. What should I see and do in New York? Where should we eat and drink? We’ll be taking the Bolt Bus. We’ll be staying in Brooklyn with our crazy friend Rob. There’s the play Saturday night. That’s….all I’ve got so far. Also, is anyone going to the SCBWI winter conference? My bestie, who’s writing her master’s thesis...

Oct

Question Friday: Pumpkin Edition

Jessica

Pumpkin pie OR apple pie? Pumpkin soup OR butternut squash soup? Pumpkin bread, zucchini bread, OR banana bread? Pumpkin spice latte OR gingerbread latte? Roasted pumpkin seeds: yay OR nay? What other pumpkin-themed treats am I forgetting? Are you carving a pumpkin this year?

Oct

Thankful Thursday

Jessica

Ooh, today is full of thankfulness! For shiny new words. Last week I was at 3K. Now I’m at 10K. I’m trying to get into the habit of writing at least 1000 words a day most days. For Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die writing lab. I am so easily distracted by Gchat or Facebook or using the online thesaurus. I’m forever tempted to get up and fetch some more Coke Zero or some hand lotion or whatnot. And I will polish a paragraph to death–before I even know whether it’s going to make sense and even stay. I’ve been setting Write or Die to Kamikaze for an hour and it’s been really helpful in keeping me focused. For my brilliant husband, who just read a pivotal ten pages for me. And then he grinned and I was all, "What’s wrong?" and he said, "I think this is my favorite chapter you’ve...

Question Friday: Halloween Candy Edition

Favorite Characters

New York, New York

Question Friday: Pumpkin Edition

Thankful Thursday

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