by Allyson Lindt | Oct 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve mentally started this blog entry about ten times since yesterday morning. One draft is still sitting in my ‘posts’ list with no title. I don’t remember any of those ideas now, but I do remember it felt like I’d be reaching to...
by Allyson Lindt | Oct 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’m going to do NaNo next month. Two jobs ago, I never had a problem finding time to write. I went to work and during my lunch hour or down time, I typed stuff out. Working at home kind of killed that for me. I got tied...
by Allyson Lindt | Oct 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
I stumbled on (was pointed to, follow the blogs that had them, whatever) two great posts about religion yesterday. Normally I’d link, but I know both authors struggled with whether or not to post them in the first place, so I’ll ask them to step forward...
by Allyson Lindt | Oct 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
…And this is why in November I have to pay attention to new old shiny instead of old new shiny. Because apparently, this story hasn’t written itself:Conner’s gaze never focused on the ceiling, eyes staring at something beyond the prison roof. He didn’t...
by Allyson Lindt | Oct 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
When I was ten, we moved. This was crushing to me as a ten-year-old because all of my friends were in the old school, not the new one. The place we moved was a new housing development, complete with a new elementary school opening up the next fall (as opposed to the...
by Allyson Lindt | Oct 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
A few years ago, a happy little west-coast girl wrote a series of vampire books that make women everywhere swoon at the sexiness of the supernatural leads and the realness of the main character. This was a fantastic time for YA novels because it meant that...
by Allyson Lindt | Oct 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last week someone asked me to explain why I had twenty-four apples when they only showed that I had twenty-three. The answer was simple from my perspective. Because last time they asked, I only had twenty-three, and I didn’t realize they expected to be updated...
by Allyson Lindt | Oct 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
*deletes irrelivent story*What? Yeah, I know, I push my luck trying to make these things all tie together sometimes anyway, but that was one that was really better off behind password on WDC. *Waves at work person reading my blog*.I was listening to music again this...
by Allyson Lindt | Oct 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
I was listening to music this morning. I do this most mornings when I have to work, because quite honestly talk radio grates on me. Any talk. Morning DJ’s, NPR, whatever. It works for some people, it doesn’t work for me. The morning and afternoon...
by Allyson Lindt | Oct 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
This morning I got to work and went to reach for my trusty ‘ol water bottle. It’s not really that old, but It took me a week to pull the labels off of it in various meetings, so we’ve bonded now. And…*gasp* it wasn’t there. My water...
