Forgot to give a shout out on what the prize is for the August drawing.
How about a Faerie to celebrate the completion of the first book in the Magic series!
Lizzie
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Booklover 0226
Still need you to contact me with your info before the end of August or the goodie bag goes into the pot for a drawing later in the year.
lizzietleaf@comcast.net
Lizzie
lizzietleaf@comcast.net
Lizzie
Monday, August 16, 2010
I've Become Submissive!
“Never thought I’d be a submissive!
Here it is Wednesday again and my day will pretty much go as it has each middle-of-the-week day for the past month.
Right now, I’m contemplating what to wear. I know color is enjoyed, and patterns seem to be greatly appreciated, so I’ll dig through my closet to see what meets the criteria. In a couple of hours, I’ll get in my car and drive across town to my destination. There I will spend the next few hours being totally dominated, dancing to the demands of another being.
Today there will be no work accomplished, even though the current book is starting to flow. Instead, I’ll be on call to cater to another’s wants and desires. Even my trips to the bathroom will be based around their mood.
I’ve never seriously considered dominance as a lifestyle, but the fleeting thoughts I have entertained were always with me in the dominant role. I envisioned me as the strong, leather-clad mistress; whip in hand, as I directed my subject to do my desires. That’s not the case now on my regular Wednesday liaisons. My outfits are selected for color, comfort and easy to care for. Color to stimulate the eye of the beholder, comfort for me as I sit and rock while my clothes catch the flow of spew that is sure to come several times during the day and will end up in the laundry tomorrow.
You see, on Wednesdays my new mistress is a lady of high demands. But who can blame her. Though not dressed in leather, at not quite four months she has nothing better to do than demand the things that make her world comfortable and who better to submit to those demands than her grandmother. And if I am submissive enough, my reward will be one of her delightful smiles.”
Now I find myself pretty much in the same boat as two years ago when I first wrote the above piece. Wednesdays have evolved into Tuesdays, and she’s a little over two years old vs. four months, but she’s still a lady with a mind of her own. Instead of demands through screams, she tells you what she wants (most of the time) and how she wants it done…her way, of course. She still loves color and prefers to select her own outfits (some most interesting), that often garner comments when we’re out and about doing fun stuff.
Is it worth taking a day out of my week, each week to dance to her wants, whims, desires and demands? You bet! Because in between all of those are the rewards…the hugs, kisses, giggles and the “I love you,” that comes at the most unexpected moments. I don’t see where I can go wrong, even if looming deadlines force me to write faster on the days she’s not making me laugh…or pull my hair out at times. And I still get those 'delightful smiles.'
Lizzie
Here it is Wednesday again and my day will pretty much go as it has each middle-of-the-week day for the past month.
Right now, I’m contemplating what to wear. I know color is enjoyed, and patterns seem to be greatly appreciated, so I’ll dig through my closet to see what meets the criteria. In a couple of hours, I’ll get in my car and drive across town to my destination. There I will spend the next few hours being totally dominated, dancing to the demands of another being.
Today there will be no work accomplished, even though the current book is starting to flow. Instead, I’ll be on call to cater to another’s wants and desires. Even my trips to the bathroom will be based around their mood.
I’ve never seriously considered dominance as a lifestyle, but the fleeting thoughts I have entertained were always with me in the dominant role. I envisioned me as the strong, leather-clad mistress; whip in hand, as I directed my subject to do my desires. That’s not the case now on my regular Wednesday liaisons. My outfits are selected for color, comfort and easy to care for. Color to stimulate the eye of the beholder, comfort for me as I sit and rock while my clothes catch the flow of spew that is sure to come several times during the day and will end up in the laundry tomorrow.
You see, on Wednesdays my new mistress is a lady of high demands. But who can blame her. Though not dressed in leather, at not quite four months she has nothing better to do than demand the things that make her world comfortable and who better to submit to those demands than her grandmother. And if I am submissive enough, my reward will be one of her delightful smiles.”
Now I find myself pretty much in the same boat as two years ago when I first wrote the above piece. Wednesdays have evolved into Tuesdays, and she’s a little over two years old vs. four months, but she’s still a lady with a mind of her own. Instead of demands through screams, she tells you what she wants (most of the time) and how she wants it done…her way, of course. She still loves color and prefers to select her own outfits (some most interesting), that often garner comments when we’re out and about doing fun stuff.
Is it worth taking a day out of my week, each week to dance to her wants, whims, desires and demands? You bet! Because in between all of those are the rewards…the hugs, kisses, giggles and the “I love you,” that comes at the most unexpected moments. I don’t see where I can go wrong, even if looming deadlines force me to write faster on the days she’s not making me laugh…or pull my hair out at times. And I still get those 'delightful smiles.'
Lizzie
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Samantha Storm Dishes about Samanta Storm!
Domestic Goddess Wanted
I’m the first to admit I’m a bit of a slob. I never make the bed, I can easily ignore dishes in the sink, and I never think about doing laundry until there isn’t a stitch of clean clothes left to wear.
I’ve been married for eighteen years and my husband married me with the full knowledge that I am not a domestic goddess. Throughout our marriage we’ve divvied up the chores. Being a far more organized person than myself, I can tell you that on his watch the house is much neater and the laundry is done in a timely manner.
When it comes to cooking, between the two of us we can almost make a solid week’s worth of meals. I rock the scrambled eggs and he is a genius with a tuna fish sandwich. But we could not truly survive without pre-packed meals and junk food.
So you can imagine my horror when a year ago I was suddenly faced with a life altering situation—- I had to stop eating anything with preservatives in it. No pre-packed meals, no junk food. I was only supposed to eat whole foods and things made from scratch.
This change in my life wasn’t by choice, I had come down with a case of chronic fatigue, eating well was on the list of things I had to do to get better.
Things made from scratch--When I heard those words I admit I panicked. Fantasies about being fabulously rich and having a personal chef flitted across my mind, but unfortunately the ugly reality was if there were going to be meals made every day from scratch somebody was going to have to make them and that somebody was going to have to be me.
I remember the first time I lived on my own, calling my mom and asking her how long it took to boil and egg. How the heck was I going to pull this off? I had no idea, but I figured at forty-three it was time I learned how to cook.
And so it began. There were a lot of not so great meals in the beginning, but as I chugged along the food got better and I started to enjoy myself.
I can’t believe I am saying this but now I actually like to cook. There is something really satisfying about making something from scratch and having people “ooh” and “aw” after it. It’s the same satisfaction I feel when people read the stories I write. I guess I can now list cooking as one of my hobbies.
Do you have any recipes you would like to share? I’m always on the lookout for something new to make. I have a rocken recipe for apple salad and if you have never tasted watermelon salsa then you really need to give me a shout.
When I am not cooking you can find me working away on my writing. I have a bunch stories up as free reads you can access on my website: http://www.samanthastorm.com/
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Welcome, Celina Summers!
It seems my attempts to post Celina's blog from my cell phone didn't work. Due to lots of computer issues that I may (or may not) rant about at another time, Thursday's blog didn't make it up. Today, instead of my rantings, you get the opportunity to enjoy Celina's thoughts.
Also, a winner's name will be selected from those who comment for a PDF of Mythos 1.
So, here it is today. Celina Summers is a friend/editor/author, whom I have no doubt, as an author, will be NY published soon.
During high school, I won several writing competitions including national awards for history and mythology. I was also a national champion in Greek and Latin mythology. (See where the story ideas come from?)
I attended college in Tennessee, where I developed an overwhelming love for UT football. A one-act play I wrote for a master class while in college was produced - "Puppets".
It was only then that I realized my education did absolutely nothing for my immediate professional future. Given a choice between law school and summer stock theatre, I took theatre and remained in the acting/directing/designing profession for ten years. This career took me all over the eastern United States.
Eventually, however, I got tired of living other people's words (except for Shakespeare, naturally) and decided to try something different.
After a car accident that left me unable to work for three years (and left me with untold medical bills and a very successful disc replacement operation) I began reworking the first book I wrote. It has since developed into a projected ten-book high fantasy series, of which eight books are finished. (For those of you keeping count, that's about 2 million words) I also started a second mainstream project last year, a two-book dark fantasy series currently in rewrites.
In my spare time, all six hours of it a week, I enjoy reading, old Katharine Hepburn movies, new sci-fi/fantasy flicks, a mean game of euchre, numerous vodka martinis, (chilled, straight up, only a teensy splash of vermouth with both an olive and a lime wedge) and Rolling Rock beer.
It's hard to come up with a great story idea. You spend a lot of time and thought worrying over it. I write fantasy primarily, so I was always trying to think ahead—what tropes are overdone? What kind of races should I use? Are there too many stories with Elves? I'd sit at my desk and fidget and fuss for hours over it. But since I've been editing, I'm finding a lot of new authors constantly question themselves in the same manner—what can I do that hasn't been done before?
I'm going to make it easy for you. You ready?
There's no such thing as a story idea that no one's done before.
No matter how hard you try, some Johnny Know-It-All is going to look at your book cover and say, "Oh, wait a second—this is just another Lord of the Rings/Gone With The Wind/Da Vinci Code/Twilight/Harry Potter/whatever."
Now here comes the good part—no one has ever told that story the way that YOU are going to tell it.
It is impossible for a human being to precisely duplicate another's thoughts. Let's say you sit two writers down and direct them to write stories about kids who do magic. One might come upon with Harry Potter; the other may come up with Narnia. You see, it's all about the creative process and how we, as individual writers, implement it. Sure, you can waste a lot of time worrying about whether someone else has told a story about a woman's life during the Civil War. As a matter of fact, lots of writers have told a story with that theme and basic plot—but those stories are going to be different from your story. Your story will be just as individual and distinct as you are—so why not tell it?
Once I learned this lesson, creating a new storyline became a lot easier for me. It enabled me to go back into the stories of history—Greco-Roman mythology, for example, and utilize those sources for my work. In my Mythos series, I'm gleaning all the original classical sources about these individual myths and retelling those ancient stories in my own narrative style.
So don't worry yourself into a fret trying to come up with a perfectly original story. Instead, concentrate on telling the best story you can, in your own particular and original voice, and you'll find that no one else in the world has told your story.
http://www.aspenmountainpress.com/new-releases/mythos-3-beloved-of-a-
mortal/prod_335.html
Blurb: After a prophecy that Thetis’ son would be greater than his father, the male gods of Olympus shun her. She is now an outcast, wandering the mountains in Greece and seething against the petty motivations of the other immortals.
Peleus is a Greek hero and warrior prince. On a visit to the king of Iolcos, he fends off the advances of the Queen. When she lies to her husband and claims Peleus is in love with her, the King strands Peleus on a mountain. Only the intervention of a beautiful immortal saves him from a horrible death.
Peleus and Thetis fall in love, but their future is uncertain. Can Peleus overcome the obstacles the gods have set in his way? Or will Thetis be strong enough to fight for the man she loves? When a goddess is the beloved of a mortal, only the help of those who love her can save her from the anger of the gods.
Also, a winner's name will be selected from those who comment for a PDF of Mythos 1.
So, here it is today. Celina Summers is a friend/editor/author, whom I have no doubt, as an author, will be NY published soon.
ABOUT CELINA
I've been writing for a long time. I started writing poetry when I was very young (like, seven) and progressed fairly quickly to short stories. I wrote my first full-length novel (horrid, by the way) when I was 17.
During high school, I won several writing competitions including national awards for history and mythology. I was also a national champion in Greek and Latin mythology. (See where the story ideas come from?)
I attended college in Tennessee, where I developed an overwhelming love for UT football. A one-act play I wrote for a master class while in college was produced - "Puppets".
It was only then that I realized my education did absolutely nothing for my immediate professional future. Given a choice between law school and summer stock theatre, I took theatre and remained in the acting/directing/designing profession for ten years. This career took me all over the eastern United States.
Eventually, however, I got tired of living other people's words (except for Shakespeare, naturally) and decided to try something different.
After a car accident that left me unable to work for three years (and left me with untold medical bills and a very successful disc replacement operation) I began reworking the first book I wrote. It has since developed into a projected ten-book high fantasy series, of which eight books are finished. (For those of you keeping count, that's about 2 million words) I also started a second mainstream project last year, a two-book dark fantasy series currently in rewrites.
I am married, live in southeastern Ohio, and have two teenaged daughters and many, many, many cats--one of whom is perched stubbornly on my lap as I try to write this. Just for kicks, their names are Satan, Impy, Dante, Gabriel, Pixie, Meowkovitch, Crookshanks, Volunteer, Elf, Muggle, Asphodel and Biscuit-the kitten. (obviously, those are the cats and not my daughters.)
In my spare time, all six hours of it a week, I enjoy reading, old Katharine Hepburn movies, new sci-fi/fantasy flicks, a mean game of euchre, numerous vodka martinis, (chilled, straight up, only a teensy splash of vermouth with both an olive and a lime wedge) and Rolling Rock beer.
CELINA'S THOUGHTS!
It's hard to come up with a great story idea. You spend a lot of time and thought worrying over it. I write fantasy primarily, so I was always trying to think ahead—what tropes are overdone? What kind of races should I use? Are there too many stories with Elves? I'd sit at my desk and fidget and fuss for hours over it. But since I've been editing, I'm finding a lot of new authors constantly question themselves in the same manner—what can I do that hasn't been done before?
I'm going to make it easy for you. You ready?
There's no such thing as a story idea that no one's done before.
No matter how hard you try, some Johnny Know-It-All is going to look at your book cover and say, "Oh, wait a second—this is just another Lord of the Rings/Gone With The Wind/Da Vinci Code/Twilight/Harry Potter/whatever."
Now here comes the good part—no one has ever told that story the way that YOU are going to tell it.
It is impossible for a human being to precisely duplicate another's thoughts. Let's say you sit two writers down and direct them to write stories about kids who do magic. One might come upon with Harry Potter; the other may come up with Narnia. You see, it's all about the creative process and how we, as individual writers, implement it. Sure, you can waste a lot of time worrying about whether someone else has told a story about a woman's life during the Civil War. As a matter of fact, lots of writers have told a story with that theme and basic plot—but those stories are going to be different from your story. Your story will be just as individual and distinct as you are—so why not tell it?
Once I learned this lesson, creating a new storyline became a lot easier for me. It enabled me to go back into the stories of history—Greco-Roman mythology, for example, and utilize those sources for my work. In my Mythos series, I'm gleaning all the original classical sources about these individual myths and retelling those ancient stories in my own narrative style.
So don't worry yourself into a fret trying to come up with a perfectly original story. Instead, concentrate on telling the best story you can, in your own particular and original voice, and you'll find that no one else in the world has told your story.
Mythos 3: Beloved of a Mortal
http://www.aspenmountainpress.com/new-releases/mythos-3-beloved-of-a-
mortal/prod_335.htmlBlurb: After a prophecy that Thetis’ son would be greater than his father, the male gods of Olympus shun her. She is now an outcast, wandering the mountains in Greece and seething against the petty motivations of the other immortals.
Peleus is a Greek hero and warrior prince. On a visit to the king of Iolcos, he fends off the advances of the Queen. When she lies to her husband and claims Peleus is in love with her, the King strands Peleus on a mountain. Only the intervention of a beautiful immortal saves him from a horrible death.
Peleus and Thetis fall in love, but their future is uncertain. Can Peleus overcome the obstacles the gods have set in his way? Or will Thetis be strong enough to fight for the man she loves? When a goddess is the beloved of a mortal, only the help of those who love her can save her from the anger of the gods.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Our August Entertainment Menue
In addtion to my blitherings, we have a great lineup of guests!
August 5th Celina Summers
August 12th Samantha Storm
August 19th Lucynda Storey
August 26th Marie Treanor
September 1 (technically not August, but close enough) Kate Douglas
Not bad for the Dog Days of Summer!
Lizzie
August 5th Celina Summers
August 12th Samantha Storm
August 19th Lucynda Storey
August 26th Marie Treanor
September 1 (technically not August, but close enough) Kate Douglas
Not bad for the Dog Days of Summer!
Lizzie
Monday, August 2, 2010
July's Monthly Prize Winner!
Hi everyone. Hope you had a great July. Can you believe it's already August? This is the point when it hits you (or at least me)...Fall is just around the corner. Summer is really flying by.
Enough of meandering down the lost path of summer and on to accouncing todays' winner of the July goodie bag.
The winner is booklover0226!
booklover, send an email to lizzietleaf@comcast.net with you snail mail addy. You have until August 31st to get the info to me or the prize will go into another month's drawing.
Lizzie
Enough of meandering down the lost path of summer and on to accouncing todays' winner of the July goodie bag.
The winner is booklover0226!
booklover, send an email to lizzietleaf@comcast.net with you snail mail addy. You have until August 31st to get the info to me or the prize will go into another month's drawing.
Lizzie
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