This comedian does an amazing rendition of what The Three Little Pigs might have sounded like if Shakespeare had written it. And, of course, ensured to be as hilarious as possible. Watch!
Now, I’ve never been a huge TV watcher. In fact, I grew up without a TV for most of my childhood. Some people might call that child abuse (lol) but I’m actually rather thankful for it. I think it helped contribute to my love of reading and writing and many other things. It also had another side-effect: I hate commercials. Now, I’m still exposed to commercials on the radio, but even then I have little patience. If an obnoxious enough commercial comes on, I will simply turn it off. My tolerance for commercials is extremely low. However, every so often you get a really good commercial. There’s a special place in my heart for those. I don’t even really mind that they’re trying to sell me something. Like the following:
So this weekend, I attended WANACon! WANA stands for We Are Not Alone, and it’s a community of writers online. WANACon is an online conference (the second so far) that I attended last year, and then again this year. Want to know how awesome it was? Here’s a sample from the little social (PajamaCon) session that kicked it off. According to Gry (another attendee), this is Danish humor:
The next day there were TONS of talks – not as much infodumping as I recall from the first one (which I actually rather liked) but tons of interesting and engaging speakers. Kristen Lamb was one of my favorites – I hugely respect her for her work with writers and her writing itself, and she’s an all-around fun person. She summed up Lord of the Rings as a story where an evil ring needs to be thrown into an evil volcano before darkness covers the world. …It’s strangely accurate, however humorous. If you’re a writer, her blog is a must read. She also has a book out that’s extremely helpful, I recommend it.
The second conference day was awesome too. The idea of writing a unicorn horror story even came up at one point (I’d read it). One presenter talked about websites. It inspired me to tweak mine, but it also admittedly made me feel a little insecure about it and wish I had money to throw at a website designer. Alas, more money is going out than coming in at the moment. *sigh* One day… Anyways, I got a couple of those infodump sessions I was looking for this day too. Hurray!
In other news, I found an editor! I sent her my short story, so hopefully everything goes well! I’m very excited… and nervous. Regardless, this means the short story should be up soon! I will, of course, make an announcement and link to it the moment it’s up. :D
And finally, my scalemail costume has been coming along nicely. I work on this project on and off (more off than on, most times). Here are the update pics:
It has come to my attention that there is a very important decision to be made:
Now we all have our fandoms of choice. I must admit that Doctor Who would be my favorite fandom… but would the sonic screwdriver be my tool of choice? Honestly, I think I might go for the wand… as awesome as having a sonic screwdriver would be, I think the wand is more versatile. Oh the conundrum.
Well, it’s about time I got this ball rolling. I confess, I’d planned to start blogging sooner than this, but life has a way of taking the reins away sometimes, doesn’t it? Step one of getting them back is realizing you’ve let them go, and thankfully I’ve reached that point. I’ve got a book to publish; it’s time to get to work!
Now I’m going to be as honest as possible – I find this whole blogging thing pretty scary. I’m not the type who is naturally inclined to spill my life on the internet. That being said, I want to create a connection with my audience, and to do that, I need to give first! As much as I might like to hide away like a little mouse, safe in my nest, all the new and exciting (and shiny!) things are out there in the wide, scary world.
So, now that life has calmed down (relatively speaking), I’m going to start blogging regularly. I know it’ll teach me a lot, and I hope to meet some awesome people! So please, if you even sorta want to comment, do! I’d love to hear from you.
Look for a new post next week!
See you then,
Stephanie
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