Vampire Vocab

Botanic gardens, Kathy Reichs…great day.

Love Denise. Route 66 was awesome!

I was thinking last night: what do mirrors see? What if mirrors were people who could see, hear, and smell, but were just paralyzed inside their frames and glass? So I decided to write a story from a mirrors perspective. I hadn’t planned it, so it just went where it wanted to go, and that [...]

Interned at Northwestern and watched House.

Happy Birthday. I know that now you’re Liz, or Elly. I know you’re growing up. But I’m stubborn. So you’re still Lizzy to me. Two years ago, I was starting 8th grade, and I wrote a letter to myself (which I posted). It said that I wished I could be your friend and your sister. [...]

So…who votes I start my series of bestselling and creepy vampire novels now? I write like Anne Rice I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!  

Girl Scout camping trip was fun.

For the record, I am a Bones fanatic. Love it, love it, love it. So of course I had to read the books that started it all. Deja Dead was a beautiful, charming detective story. (That is, if you find eviscerated bodies charming.) I loved this Temperance Brennan, loved her different back story and character, [...]

No internet all week…rural Indiana.

Last night, I don’t remember all of my dream, or even most of it. I just remember holding a skeleton hand made out of fondant and being in a rush to find a plastic bag to save it in. They say dreams are reflections of our subconscious. It is times like these when I seriously [...]