by Allyson Lindt | May 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
In case you’re reading this, but don’t pay attention to anything else on the internet anywhere, you may have missed this. Yesterday, the CDC (Center for Disease Control), released its plans of how it would handle a zombie epidemic. The announcement went...
by Allyson Lindt | May 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
The one post on this blog that gets more hits than any other is not a blogfest entry. They’re near the top, but this one continues to trump them all. It’s about gender and writing and how the two are connected. A bit of background for anyone who...
by Allyson Lindt | May 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
I am a huge fan of action movies. If those movies are associated with comic books, I near squealing fan-girldom. The more intense the better. I’m willing to overlook gaping plot holes (the first time through), in favor of pretty, high-action, eye-candy. I grew...
by Allyson Lindt | May 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
I don’t schedule blog posts in advance. I mean, every once in a while I do. For about the first week after I started my last job I had blog posts scheduled, because I had enough time and inspiration to write them. Time usually isn’t the issue, it’s...
by Allyson Lindt | May 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
I have a major pet peeve. I have a couple of them, but this is one very few people know about. Not because it’s a secret, or I’m ashamed of it, but because it’s not the kind of thing that comes up in polite conversation.Them: I hate it when the cable...
by Allyson Lindt | May 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Leigh over at That’s Write is hosting a blogfest of humorous proportions today. An epic idea to begin with, but even better for a Monday because everyone needs a little pick me up to start their week. Basically, hit up all the blogs for a laugh or 90+ and let...
by Allyson Lindt | May 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Since the introduction of print on demand, self-publishing has skyrocketed. Ten years ago if you wanted to publish your own book, you had to have hundreds or thousands of dollars to invest in that initial print run. And then you had all those books you had to sell or...
by Allyson Lindt | May 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
In case I hadn’t said so yet, I am once again in the middle of a major revision of a story I proclaimed done just a couple of months back. I’ve set aside all my other projects to focus on this one. I didn’t think I would at first. I thought I might...
by Allyson Lindt | May 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Coffee Mate is my new best friend. They’ve made their peppermint mocha flavor a year-round thing instead of a seasonal thing. Which really doesn’t have anything to do with writing except the ritual of it all. When I worked in an office (way back when a...
by Allyson Lindt | May 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
My brain is not in stream of consciousness mode today. So instead of a rambling blog post, or even worse, subjecting you to the rewrite of my first 250 words of Uriel’s Fall, I have a link. Check it out. Be inspired. Allow yourself to dream.Where do you find...
