Lori Sizemore

No, I’m not referring to Dickens or even Bronte.  I’m talking Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, MacGyver(!), even The Love Boat.  This awesome site, that I’m sure CBS operates, has episodes from classic tv.  And not just one or two.  It has the entire three seasons of Star Trek.  Good stuff, friends.  Happy holidays!

My family, being a bit of a blended family, will be celebrating this morning, tonight, and tomorrow morning.  So Monday’s post will serve as this week’s writing post, and whatever the holiday for you, I hope it’s a wonderful one.

You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need

–Rolling Stones

Your Sensuality Score is: 55%

You are quite sensual, but you don’t go overboard. You can appreciate a good piece of music (or pie) better than most people. While you love to treat your senses, you’re not greedy. You enjoy any sensual experience that comes your way, but you are not a slave to your senses.

I didn’t choose this quiz because my personal sensuality level matters, but because being aware of our senses, all of them, is crucial to a writer. I guess I might need a little work. ;-)

Or the prank call.  You decide!

Check this site out, getmooh.com.  It will call you (or someone else, I suppose) at a time and date of your specification, although I couldn’t get it to move past December.  *shrug*  The potential for abuse is pretty high here, so check it out while it’s still around.

At the very least, listen to the recordings, just for the amusement value.  Although, listening now, holy crap, did Alec Baldwin talk some smack to his kid or what (second recording down)?

Remember why you were doing it in the first place? Because while you were writing, you could fly. You could do magic. You were one of the immortals—and, dammit, isn’t being one of the immortals heady stuff? Remember? You have written because of love, and you know what that blood-pulsing, heart-pounding, adrenalin-high, I-can-do-anything rush is all about. You know.

-Holly Lisle (again)

From whence it came.

Movie in a Minute. It’s actually pretty amusing. And, hey, you know how we’re supposed to be able to condense our story to one sentence? Well, someone did it for these movies.

Writing fiction is a fire that burns inside of you, and burns you from the inside out. It sears away the lies you tell yourself, it sears away the masks you hide behind, and in the end it refines you the way fire refines gold.

–Holly Lisle

In addition to being a very talented writer, Holly Lisle gives and gives to the writing community.  If you’re a writer, go check her site out, because she has a lot of helpful articles, FAQs, and essays.