Some Girls Are is now available for pre-order on amazon, amazon.ca and chapters! It looks like it’s coming out January 5th, 2010–the same day as Alyson Noel’s third installment in The Immortals series. Very cool!
SGA was also listed in Publishers Weekly’s Spring 2010 Sneak Previews, along with quite a few other books I’m really looking forward to reading.
Meanwhile, I’ve been in creative limbo, slowly trying eke out words while stuff goes on around me that demands nearly all of my attention and emotional energy but I guess that’s life and that’s the way life is sometimes. I will say this: it’s VERY frustrating when your heart is in something, and the rest of you is being pulled in all different not-awesome directions.
Sooo I’m hoping to level off enough to focus soon. Or else. And this basically means I’m currently in a weird position of trying to recharge my batteries and give myself a break without taking a writing break because taking a break from writing is pretty much impossible for me to contemplate (I know someone who can attest to this coughLoricough).
Mostly I have been attempting battery recharging by watching horror movies and waiting for a shift and trying to be content with an output of like three words a day*.
FASCINATING, I know. They are very good movies at least. Minus 28 Weeks Later, which sucks after the banging opening. And the Dawn of the Dead remake which I guess is not very good so much as very satisfying. And I guess that could be said for the Friday the 13th remake too.
Anyway.
* I AM NOT CONTENT WITH AN OUTPUT OF THREE WORDS A DAY.
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publication date
Thursday July 23rd, 2009 @ 9:19pm
280 words, 18 sentencesmeta stuff
categories: fall for anything,movies,some girls are (your mom),writing
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You didn’t think the Dawn of the Dead remake was good? I thought it was fantastic – just some of the ideas they implemented alone. The rooftop zombie game alone.
I can watch it endlessly on repeat and I like watching it but mostly, I think it got a little ridiculous toward the middle and end (I know it’s a zombie movie, but), minus a few moments. I keep hoping for more every time I pop it in. I love Ving Rhames in it, though.
You know what would be AWESOME to do right after SGA comes out in January?? GO PARTY WITH YOUR FRIENDS IN NYC TO CELEBRATE!!!
*whistles*
IDK WHAT YOU COULD POSSIBLY BE INSINUATING MISS EMILY.
But I am having a BABY on January 5, 2010. COPYCAT.
(Okay. So the baby will come whenever it pleases. But that is its estimated date of arrival.)
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omg.
WILL YOU EVER LOOK AT ME THE SAME WAY. WILL YOU FOREVER THINK I PLANNED IT THIS WAY.
~*shifty look*~
28 Days Later was a great great film. Hollywood obviously saw it’s potential (and how much it cost against the cash it made) and decided to cash in with 28 Weeks Later….what a shame. However, 28 Days Later is still a great movie, no?
YES! I LOVE 28 Days Later. It is one of my all-time favourites. I think the opening of 28 Weeks Later was fantastic and could’ve gone so many different (& better ways), but it turned out to be such a disappointment.
And yet I still own it… :)
Woohoo, I can finally go and pre-order!
I can sympathize on the three words a day (life shouldn’t mess with our writing time!)- but all that movie-watching has to be a good thing, I’m thinking! I actually thought 28 Weeks Later was okay (not nearly as awesome as 28 Days which I love to death but not awful) and I really liked Dawn of The Dead. I don’t know why, because I’m not a big shopper, but I love the idea of being stuck in a mall idea. And a zombie baby – aaaah.
Are you watching Torchwood this week? Just fantastic. I’m terrified of the 456.
I’ve been meaning to ask you this forever and don’t think you have ever written on the subject but have you read any of the many zombie comic books out there? If yes, which? If no, I could recommend some.
I GUESS you made SGA before I made the baby. So I GUESS it is all right.
CK: I agree! Life shouldn’t mess with our writing time! It should be untoucable. I really liked the opening of 28 Days Later, but I was so expecting the plot to go somewhere different. And ultimately, I really enjoy watching Dawn of the Dead and I like it, but I’m not sure I’d call it good, heh. That sounds so snobby. And TORCHEWOOD IS BREAKING MY HEART.
Brian: This is so sad and don’t think less of me–I am not big on zombie comics! It is a total character flaw.
Annika: ~*PHEW*~
To each their own :) Hey, I have a complete collection of The Secret World OF Alex Mack books. I can’t talk about other taste in reading :) I’m not huge into zombie comics myself. I like Marvel Zombies just for how goofy it is and the only actual zombie book I liked when I read it from the library was Walking Dead.
Write a zombie novel. I was listening to Love Today by Mika last week and suddenly this great scene of a girl running through her high school and fighting off FAST zombies started playing in my head. I honestly don’t know why. But it was great.
On Amazon SGA is categorized under – “dysfunctional relationships”! haha, I like it.
I’ve always wanted to write a zombie novel. FAST ZOMBIES ARE SO CREEPY! When zombies happen, if they run, we are all so screwed. Aaah, zombies. And hee–I noticed that about SGAS. I was also briefly categorized under “Abuse.” It’s a feel good novel if ever there was one. ;)
Horror movies. Interesting way of recharging the batteries. My idea of recharging is spending the whole day in bed (my preferred reading spot) with a stack of romance novels…and my husband off doing a near full-day of male bonding with his BF.
That’s a pretty rockin’ way to recharge too!!