Everyone likes a bad boy. It used to be pirates and regency rogues, and these days it's often werewolves and vampires. We've taken the things people used to frighten their children and turned them into misunderstood heroes, and had a sexy good time doing it. Things that go bump in the night are bumping and grinding with the heroine at the end of the novel instead of getting staked by van Helsings.
What's out there that still makes you think "dangerous" before you think "sexy?" Have we gone as far as we can with this, or are the baddest boys still to come?
Warning!
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
NaNo anyone?
November is National Novel Writing Month. Each year people sign up and try to write 50K in the month of November.
It's a definite challenge. You're not supposed to self edit but to keep pressing forward. Something I can't do LOL. I always edit the previous page or two before I start writing again. It puts me back at the place I was before I had to stop.
I unofficially made NaNo one year. I had already started the story so I didn't get to count it officially.
I'm going to shoot for NaNo this year but we'll see if I make it. I'd like to but I'm not going to stress if I don't make it.
How about anyone else? trying it? avoiding it?
Mechele Armstrong
where Sensuality and Wonder collide
http://www.mechelearmstrong.com
It's a definite challenge. You're not supposed to self edit but to keep pressing forward. Something I can't do LOL. I always edit the previous page or two before I start writing again. It puts me back at the place I was before I had to stop.
I unofficially made NaNo one year. I had already started the story so I didn't get to count it officially.
I'm going to shoot for NaNo this year but we'll see if I make it. I'd like to but I'm not going to stress if I don't make it.
How about anyone else? trying it? avoiding it?
Mechele Armstrong
where Sensuality and Wonder collide
http://www.mechelearmstrong.com
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
My dream house
Doesn't really look like a dream house, does it? lol. At least not how you would imagine a dream house, but to me, it is.
One thing I've always wanted to do is rehab an old Victorian just like this one. Big wrap around porches, fancy woodwork, nooks and crannies galore, maybe even a ghost or two. New homes just don't have the character older ones do. Or the history.
My husband says with a house like this, we wouldn't need to rehab it, just color our hair black and change our names to Adams...:) Gotta give him credit for humor, I suppose.
So what's your dream house? A cabin on the lake? A beach cabana? A penthouse deep in the heart of Manhattan? Do you want it stark white and contemporary or full of mahogany woodwork and antiques? Or are you somewhere in between?
Trista
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Banned Books Week
Do you? I bet you do and don't even know it. Check out the lists at the ALA.
Mechele Armstrong aka Lany of Melany Logen
Where Sensuality and Wonder collide
The future's never been so sexy
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
They all are special
In their own way.
I'm talking about stories of course. All of them are unique and mean something to me. I always say, "Well X is special because of blah blah" and know people think I'm full of it because I say that about each one (same first, different blah blah). They all have their moments.
The current release, Another Night, Another Dream is special because it's my first spelled out BBW. It's also a neat story because so much happens in the game of Truth or Dare. Bodies and souls are bared. I really had a fun time writing it.
Mechele Armstrong aka Lany of Melany Logen
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Leaving on a jet plane..;
Actually, nope, it's a road trip. Soon, I'm going on vacation! The plan is to go to Hershey and Gettysburg.
My husband hates going on vacation LOL. He didn't do it that much as a kid and has no frame of reference. Hopefully, he'll have some fun on this one. We've had some trip nightmares from the sunburns to the sick kids to the hotel losing our reservation. Maybe that's why he hates to travel?
Me, we went on a vacation every summer. It was usually the highlight. I was a major geek who lived in the boondocks so summers weren't all that fun. But oh, how I looked forward to vacation.
We went quite a few times with my grandparents. My grandfather used to poke me to look at scenery instead of reading my book. Probably what I'll have to do with oldest as we drive North.
But my favorite memories of vacation are the ones where my dad went. He didn't take off often from work to do anything so it was special when he traveled with us. Some of my best vacation memories are the ones where he went. Once we went to Niagara Falls. LOL he drank $5 worth of iced tea because they kept coming over to refill it and he didn't realize they were charging him. On the way home that trip, we stopped at Hershey.
So yeah, looking forward to this trip with my little family to a place that I have fond memories visiting with my parents.
See you on the flip side!
Mechele Armstrong aka Lany of Melany Logen
http://www.mechelearmstrong.com
http://www.melanylogen.com
My husband hates going on vacation LOL. He didn't do it that much as a kid and has no frame of reference. Hopefully, he'll have some fun on this one. We've had some trip nightmares from the sunburns to the sick kids to the hotel losing our reservation. Maybe that's why he hates to travel?
Me, we went on a vacation every summer. It was usually the highlight. I was a major geek who lived in the boondocks so summers weren't all that fun. But oh, how I looked forward to vacation.
We went quite a few times with my grandparents. My grandfather used to poke me to look at scenery instead of reading my book. Probably what I'll have to do with oldest as we drive North.
But my favorite memories of vacation are the ones where my dad went. He didn't take off often from work to do anything so it was special when he traveled with us. Some of my best vacation memories are the ones where he went. Once we went to Niagara Falls. LOL he drank $5 worth of iced tea because they kept coming over to refill it and he didn't realize they were charging him. On the way home that trip, we stopped at Hershey.
So yeah, looking forward to this trip with my little family to a place that I have fond memories visiting with my parents.
See you on the flip side!
Mechele Armstrong aka Lany of Melany Logen
http://www.mechelearmstrong.com
http://www.melanylogen.com
Monday, June 1, 2009
Laugh and the world laughs with you
My dad used to say that all the time. Laugh the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry alone.
I thought I'd share a few favorite comics for a few laughs. LOL on a deadline, I need all the laughter I can get.
Jeanne RobertsonIf you ever hear her "Toni's perk trip" you'll know why.
Jeff Allen A fight over a chicken when he was a newlywed.
John Pinette Disney World in August. That's all I'm saying.
Jeff Dunham On a stick!
Bill Cosby. From the playground to Noah's Ark to labor, he makes everything funny.
These are a just a few. I'm back to writing. But it was nice to laugh a little.
Mechele Armstrong aka Lany of Melany Logen
http://www.mechelearmstrong.com
http://www.melanylogen.com
I thought I'd share a few favorite comics for a few laughs. LOL on a deadline, I need all the laughter I can get.
Jeanne RobertsonIf you ever hear her "Toni's perk trip" you'll know why.
Jeff Allen A fight over a chicken when he was a newlywed.
John Pinette Disney World in August. That's all I'm saying.
Jeff Dunham On a stick!
Bill Cosby. From the playground to Noah's Ark to labor, he makes everything funny.
These are a just a few. I'm back to writing. But it was nice to laugh a little.
Mechele Armstrong aka Lany of Melany Logen
http://www.mechelearmstrong.com
http://www.melanylogen.com
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