Super Suday Update

It's snowing here. But not as much as last week, thank goddess! And after this week, the temperatures will rise out of the teens and single digits, and we might someday see the end of Old Man Winter.

I see in news around the blog sphere that someone has finnally cast Johnny Depp as a vampire. I've always thought he would make a superb one. I've in fact cast him for the role as Jett Drakulya from my third book--but that's just my dream team.

The movie is a Dark Shadows remake and Eva Green has been cast to play Angelique. I think that her eyes are haunting, I'm sure she will make a wonderful Angelique. (I have not had a chance to investigate this, so give me a while, I'll get on this.)

I am currently doing pin-point edits on my second book. This involves going through with my "find and replace" option and finding certain words that I either use too much, or use and shouldn't use because of bad habits of writing. Like the word "just", or "so", or "very", and "suddenly"--the list goes on. Bad habits are hard to quit in writing.

As a matter of fact this brings up what I'm going to introduce to my blog. Not bad habits, so much, but something I will call "Frustrating The Writer".

This past week when I saw someone posting about one writer's use of adjectives throughout her books, I had a great idea for a new post. This blogger was wondering about this author's use of adjectives and how this very shameful rule-breaking was suddenly okay for this very famous writer. It came down to the fact that this was "her style" of writing. There is a big difference in what a writer's style becomes, and what rules they break. There's a thin line, in fact, when it comes to style and what is allowed.

My newest addition to Lorelei's Muse will be about rule-breaking in writing, not so much as to why they are broken, but there might be some of this as well. "Frustrating The Writer" will give my thoughts on this, and writing rules that best-selling authors break, and things I've seen, or experienced while trying to learn the craft. I hope to expose these rule breakers, explain a few and why they are frowned upon--or at least considered "pet-peeves" by agents and editors. My hope is to give any of you who are "new" to writing, or finding yourselves frustrated by the rules, that you need to understand that rules can be broken as long as we adhere to the most basic rules of grammar. Especially if you are trying to find your voice.

Well, that's it for my Super Sunday Update. If you are having a party today you are excused from visiting my blog until well after the guacamole dip and chili is consumed and the party favors are all picked up.(Wow, I actually knew how to spell guacamole--that's just wild!)

Muse's Changes & Additions

My new header in place, I think it suits the site. What do you think? My friend John created it. I won't say how, perhaps something like when Frankenstein made his monster--only this came out so much better! He was sending me all these great wallpapers (my two footers here) with the old film legends in them, Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman, and I asked if he could make me a new header.

Done.

Speaking of additions, John is joining my blog to infuse it with his knowledge of the great horror classics; the wonderful black and white films that many of you either grew up with and fell in love with, and still find enjoyable. I plan to introduce him this week, so please come by. He will be giving us insight into the film Nosferatu, this week. John's post title: John's Corner of Horror--which suites his expertise and knowledge of a subject the both of us found a common ground with. He is especially fond of Dracula films, but others are just as interesting to him, and I think everyone will enjoy reading some of the facts many of us never knew the behind-the-scenes, or where a film was made, and the actor(s) involved, and their little quirks.

And I'm nearly done with Dean Koontz's Prodigal Son I'm hoping to make a full report on it this weekend. There's much to say about it, and thus I don't want to wander into a review here. Koontz's work deserves a whole post on anything I've read by him. This work is still an on-going series. I know, for a fact that another book in the series is coming out in 2011. I'll have more on that, once I can get my notes together.

Tomorrow is Wednesday and Sumkio has sent me her post for this. I know that many of you enjoy her take on things she has been reading. This week she gives us a little insight into her own tastes on A Bibliophile's Foible (see? there's that word again).

This week should have something for everyone, so be sure and stop by.