Thursday, March 11, 2010
Rock the Boat!
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been working with the newbies attending this year’s RT. A few nights ago, I really don’t remember why this came up, but I mentioned my favorite of the Jack Sparrow scenes from the last movie. The one where Jack realizes the only way to return from the far side of the world is to rock the boat…But Jack, being Jack, doesn’t bother with trying to explain his brilliant deduction. He simple begins to run from side to side and due to his sheer confidence – or madness – the others follow his lead.
And viola! It works.
Now, I’ve been working on editing together a small collection of blogs from the ship to present to the newbies and one of the more brilliant entries comes from Captain Hellion. You all know the one… Everything I Know About Writing I Learned From Captain Jack Sparrow
(Did I say I was editing? Uh…no, not editing, Hel. I’d never edit you! The blog is perfect…though I think you might want to update the info on what you’re currently working on… Just saying!)
So, Hel presents 12 perfectly logical rules, er…guidelines…to follow as a writer. I want to add a 13th… Have the confidence to rock the boat.
I love how Jack throws himself into his task. He knows he’s right. Or if he doesn’t know, he believes he’s right and goes for it with everything ounce of energy inside that luscious body. He just goes for it.
Thinking about how Johnny created this role begs the question, which came first… Jack or Johnny? Johnny has been rocking the boat most of his acting career and doing it quite well. Again and again, he put together a character, then waited to be fired from a project, certain he’d gone too far this time. And we may never know the roles he didn’t get because of this tendency. Ah! But the roles he did get! And what they can teach us about moving forward with confidence and the going for it philosophy of life.
I look at Edward Scizzorhands, Ichabob, Jack, Charlie, Sweeny, the Mad Hatter…and bless Johnny Depp, a writing pirates hero!
Now, I’ve been navigating some heavy seas lately and simply have no time for lack of confidence. I must trim my sails, tighten those lines and hold that wheel with the conviction that what I am writing is the right course to steer. So, I consider Jack.
Because what I write rocks the boat. Especially this newest story. My silverton story as I call it. The Kraken’s Mirror. I finished this story last week and am already doing some basic editing. I have an extremely clear vision of this story in e-print. (Is there such a thing? Well, there is now. I just coined it. Or borrowed it if it already exists. I am a pirate, I can do that. No. I do do that!)
I can see myself selling it, pitching it, no bwah ha ha this time, but a *wink *wink perhaps. And I’m throwing myself into this project with the total abandon of Jack, rocking that boat.
I wrote a heroine who is 53 years old. She’s short. She’s got a mix of grey and brown hair. Her boobs droop. She’s got cellulite. She curses like a sailor when having phenomenal sex. And throughout most of the story she is convinced she’s insane.
I wrote a hero who is 65 years old. He’s got an old man’s butt. A few strands of dark blond snake through his silver grey hair, which is elbow length. His body is covered in scars from 50 years of pirating. And he’s cursed with good luck. (Resulting in only scars and why none were death wounds.) And he plots, seduces and uses his curse quite effectively through the story.
I’m mixing Alice in Wonderland with Pirates of the Caribbean with Peter Pan with some hints of steampunk (steampirate, doncha know!)…with senior citizens!
They say I’m mad. I say I’m rocking the boat and loving every minute of it. I’m challenging the paradigm! I’m creating a genre!
And if no one can recognize the brilliance of this story, I will give it away. I will post it on my website, I will find a way to see it read. Nope, don’t know where or how. I’ll deal with that if it comes to it.
There’s a real freedom to rocking the boat. Risk? Sure, but if life isn’t an adventure, what the hell!?
So, the discussion for this Friday… (To which I will be in and out. Sorry, pirates…I’m attending my first steampunk convention but it starts late for you east coasters, so I think I’ll be OK to attend to the blog. If I disappear…I’m lost in steamland.)
How do you rock the boat? If you don’t now, how would you like to rock the boat? Challenge the paradigm of your genre? Throw yourself with abandon into a writing project…what would you do?
(BTW…anyone have a blog they want to nominate as an excellent learning and/or inspirational device for the newbies? Feel free!)
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That is one of the best scenes in that movie. For me, it would be a toss up between that one and the wedding.
I watched Johnny on a BBC talk show last weekend and he explained his career in a similar way. He creates the character they way he sees it and they are welcome to let him play it or fire him. (Though he made sure to note they'd still have to pay him. *g*)
When asked what kind of drunk he is, his response was "constant." The man IS Jack. LOL!
I barely ruffle the surface nevermind rock the boat. But these days, it's tougher than ever to get a funny contemp pubbed unless you have an established name to back it up. So I guess in my effort to get my funny contemp pubbed, I'll be trying to rock the boat a bit.
WOW, that first picture looks unbelievably phallic. I nearly choked on my PB sandwich before I realized what I was really looking at.
Back with a real comment in it a bit.
I thought the same thing!
Oh Chance-you-wicked-creature! That first picture had me choking on m coffee!
Risk? Sure, but if life isn’t an adventure, what the hell!?
Chance I think that this describes your story telling style perfectly. Use this as your mantra … your motto … your sales pitch. Because the type of people who can relate to that statement, will be the kind of people who will Love your stories! IHMO
Rocking the boat. I'm not sure I consciously think about rocking the boat. All I do is try to write what I think is interesting, different. I get bored easy, so I try to find stuff to write about that won't be dull to me.
Different characters, interesting circumstances. Whatever.
I think there are some dirty minds on this boat though. *I* didn't see a phallus in that first picture. At least not right away.... LOL!
Here are some additional really awesome blogs the pirates have done:
http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/06/25/chicken-salad-because-marnee-needed-a-reminder-this-week/
http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2008/10/05/hut-hut-write/
http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/03/04/attention-to-detail/
http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/07/06/writing-like-a-ninja/
THIS LIST IS NOT ALL INCLUSIVE. We're pretty much brilliant every day... *LOL*
That was not my favorite scene in the movie, but I did enjoy the wedding scene a lot (though I think that was more to do with the choreography of the scene and the music than anything else.) My favorite scene, I think, is when Will Turner is stabbed. Because it was such a horrible, horrible thing to do and the writers didn't shirk from it.
And of course, Marn didn't see anything phallic. *LOL* Please.
I'm not into rocking the boat on your level, 2nd. *LOL* I certainly wouldn't get a thrill out of describing a little old man's butt. In what is supposed to be a sexy scene. Sure, we all have cellulite and flaws, but focusing on them within a scene (for me) is just as distracting as focusing on my flaws while I'm having sex. The last thing I need to be thinking about at the time is "I hope he doesn't mind my cellulite and droopy boobs."
It's probably why it's best in a sex scene to focus on emotion and feeling rather than what everything looks like. Because everything looks ridiculous, no matter how old you are.
Still, I probably rock the boat in other ways. After all, I do have Lucifer as a lovable secondary character. I have God as a secondary character. And once I wrote a book with a married man as the hero and the heroine wasn't his wife...so clearly I don't play in normal parameters.
I'm not going to lie. I opened up to the blog this morning and thought someone's hand was wrapped around a wooden dildo. I had to blink several times to realize it's your hand wrapped around a ship's wheel.
Nice fingernail polish color, BTW. I love bright nails.
And I'm sorry but after thinking about the wooden issue, I've completely forgotten the question. I will be a good little ninja pirate and go back.
Whoa -- lots of boat rockin' going on today! Which is what I love about this place. :)
I think when I rock the boat it is usually unintentional, and I feel like I have to go back and apologize to everyone who got splashed by the waves. LOL ("Here's some paper towels -- sorry about the mess.")
I've GOT to get more coffee. I've tried to write a sentence for about 5 minutes and the only boat rockin' is from me smashing down on the delete key! LOL
I'm gonna start with Hels...I don't focus on his butt or her boobs, but they are part of the characters. She is very concerned about her boobs being droopy, he is just concerned with her boobs, period.
Toward the end of the story, as she's thinking that she's just hallucinating, she realizes he has an old man's skinny butt and thinks to herself, "I made up a lover with a an old man's skinny butt?" Sort of makes her rethink the fantasy thing.
I mean, not many women would create a dream lover with a skinny butt. ;-)
And, oh yeah...I think having Luciver as a lovable second character is rocking the boat!
Now, phallic!? Really! I just like the otherworldly nails on the wheel. This were part of the sailing out of Cabo San Lucas. Sigh. Good day!
Bo'sun - Ya may not feel like yer rocking the boat with what yer writing, but the possible battle to get it published...that may be were the challenge sits. Not because of the book, which will be fabulous, but because the contemporary market is a bit stagnent. So...you'll throw yourself from one side of the ship to the other until you convince the editor/agent that they have to believe in you and what you're doing.
That's our inspiration of the day, courtesy of Jack!
Julie - Ah, shucks! And after all that poking yesterday...
life is an adventure. My character eventually realizes that. Wondering about this mixed up Caribbean with a lover, skinny butt or not, beats being alone in the 'real' world.
Marnee - Thanks! I wasn't trying to do dirty! And I think whenever you toy with biblical references and prophecies you are rocking someone's boat...trust me!
Sin! Get yer mind outta the gutter! Geez! Pirates! What can I say?
Chance, the gutter's pretty jam packed, because I had the same "Wow! Where's she gonna go with THIS?" thought as soon as I saw the pic! LOL
Nope, still looks like a ship's wheel to me!
I like the image of rocking the pub world back and forth until the whole thing flips over and all the editors declare "CONTEMPORARIES! THAT'S WHAT WE NEED!"
Donna - Get yer coffee and come back!
I got to go study that picture again... ;)
I never thought I'd say this...me mind ain't dirty enough fer this ship. I'll go stuff some mud in me ear to catch up with the rest...
I don't really think about rocking any boat. I like to just write from one thing to the next and rocking the boat in my writing is different from someone else rocking the boat in their own. Like writing a torture scene really doesn't feel like rocking the boat to me, but maybe to Hells that's storm out in the open ocean rocking the boat.
To each their own.
Challenging my genre. Hm. Well, I write in two separate genres. I'm too busy trying to get the right consistency and blend in my Adventure/Suspense/Mystery genre to worry about rocking the boat at the moment. I want to be somewhere between Tara Janzen and Janet Evanovich with a darker edge and not so much focused on the romance aspect of the books. And with my Urban Fantasy, well, I'm not sure how I'd rock the boat more than everyone else out there writing in that genre right now.
I didn't realize I was rocking the boat until Hellie and I signed up for that workshop on secrets, and the instructor emailed me privately to say, "I don't think you can really write a novel about a terrorist. You're going to piss a lot of people off. You're going to have to be really careful querying this so you don't upset agents and editors."
So I guess I'm rocking the boat. *shrug* I don't really consider Jo a terrorist, and she certainly doesn't consider herself to be one, so I forget that other people do and get all horrified.
I agrees, ya got to do something drastic with urban fantasy fer it to be seen a rocking the boat.
Now, I never read Diana Gabaldon's Outlander books. (shoot me, just never happened) but I did read the two featuring the side character of Lord John Grey. Who happens to be gay and in the closet. Considering the era he lives in, I thought that was rocking the boat!
I have the mystery series I loved featuring the dwarf detective...that's rocking the boat!
When the silverons debut, I will have, officially, rocked the boat. (Hoping to do it some with the other stuff I write, but not sure the rest of it would qualify as rocking the boat. But sex in the 60s...that ought to do it! Rocking sex!)
I never thought I’d say this…me mind ain’t dirty enough fer this ship. LOL! I was just thinking the same thing. I saw a ships wheel and went right on. Now, of course, I see a huge wooden dildo :)
Ter - I think that will happen. It seems that trends come and go and come back around so fast that just when funny contemps com back, you'll be making a name for yourself. You can be the one to bring them back!
Ooooh! That is true, Hal! You wrote a terrorist! I imagine another no-no would be writing about a plane exploding or hitting a building.
What else might be rocking the boat?
An honest bank executive? A fiscally modest insurance industry executive? A politician who REALLY wants to work with the other party to get something done?
Nah, too science fiction.
Hal - Has this instructor not being paying attention to recent trends? Look at TV for instance. Wouldn't Burn Notice walk the line? I mean, isn't Fiona an arms dealer of sorts?
And the success of White Collar. Grant it, Neil isn't a terrorist, but he and his friends are clear criminals who like being criminals.
This teacher isn't thinking out of the box, that's all. And I don't know how much she read, but she could give you credit for knowing how to pull the character onto the side of the line where readers will be able to relate and root for her.
Leverage is the same way. Hackers and Thieves and Con Artists. All criminals. I mean, they try to do good deeds, but still. Criminal acts.
Burn Notice, White Collar, Leverage -- they're all cable instead of network shoes, but yeah, these kinds of things are becoming more and more popular by the day. I'm not worried about it at all. Jo's fighting for freedom and equality and democracy - if people want to label her a terrorist fine, but it doesn't change who she is deep down, or how far she's willing to go to protect the people she loves.
Now an honest banker -- yeah, that I can't see at all. LOL!!
“I don’t think you can really write a novel about a terrorist. You’re going to piss a lot of people off. You’re going to have to be really careful querying this so you don’t upset agents and editors.”
OH NO SHE DIDN'T!!!!!! WTF!
yeah she did. She was nice about it, really nice, but the point was that I couldn't pull it off.
Don't ya love what is rocking in the boat for one area of the populace and doesn't make the other blink?
Contemps will be back!
One person's terrorist is another person's revolutionary war hero.
What I love is the image of those who refuse to believe...floating away as the world rights itself to the boat's pov!
Mainstream media is often surprised by what is going on along the fringes. Until they decide to bring it into the mainsteam where it ain't so fringy anymore. All those wonderful programs...challenging the paradigm!
I'm sorry, but fck her. Of course you can pull it off Hal. You're already doing it.
Of course...it's all fringe until there is money to be made from it... Then it goes from weird, quirky, strange, challenging...to Unique! Fresh! Interesting! Illuminating!
Uh huh.
See, that would only propel me to pull it off so I could send her a copy. *LOL*
But considering the type of thing she wrote, it was as Sin said before, what is normal to you and Sin would clearly be a hurricane to people who write inspirationals or lower-action books.
But then I think part of it is that she's a terrorist with IRA--or was--which in my mind is a different sort of terrorist. It's more political than religious. Religious terrorists frighten me more than political ones. Then again, I can't name a lot of IRA terrorist acts on this soil...so it seems more far away...but if your terrorist heroine was like a Jihad Jane, I probably wouldn't embrace the thought of her redemption.
I also get the feeling--not that's she not guilty and all or responsible for her acts--that when she was in the organization she was young, passionate, brainwashed, and looking for a father hero--and she keeps getting betrayed. I almost think of her as much of a victim as those she helped kill.
Then again, that might not be your heroine. That's just how I picture her.
Anyone been watching NCIS as Ziva works toward becoming an American citizen? She addresses these issues with Tony now and again...how what is justified using 'right' as the motivation...
And watching her question these things is really fascinating. As she learns and understands more about the consititution and the country she is adopting as her own, the more she questions what justifies crossing the line...
That's the tricky place all fundamentalist face, be it religion, politics or the right to a cup of coffee before the twit in front orders 25 for the office...
One person’s terrorist is another person’s revolutionary war hero.
EXACTLY.
I mean, Hal...she can be the most righteous, murderous bitch on the planet...but if she is at peace within her heart... Who are we to judge?
As a character, of course.
I hate when that happens when I'm in the drive thru. I just want to get out of the car and punch someone in the face. If you have a multiple order, march your ass out of the car and go inside. I don't have time to wait for your 100 cup order. Dick.
Sorry, I'm bitter this morning about my lack of Starbucks.
I have to take a break from NCIS. It became an addiction and they show it way too much for my own good. The other night I had a dream kiddo and I were with Gibbs and we all blew up. Literally BLEW UP. I woke up hearing kiddo's screams in my ear.
Yeah, I'm taking an NCIS break.
Hey! I'm the person inside behind these twits! I saw fax the order in and let them call you when it's ready...between all the rest of the orders for people who came in for themselves!
Someday, going postal will be replaced by going Starbucks.
I can see I'm going to get flagged today.
One person’s terrorist is another person’s revolutionary war hero.
EXACTLY.
Agreed. You could argue that this country was built on terrorist actions against the Crown.
Hellie - you're right on the mark. Jo was born into the IRA, was 17 when they realized that she's a chemical genius and put her to work, 23 when she went to jail, and 25 at the start of this MS. So very, very young. Total daddy-issues, as her dad was the leader of their cell of the IRA.
What I tried to explain to Keena was that that sect of the IRA hasn't used violence since '99, and dumped their weapons in 2005. Jo's helped build bombs, helped with various other things, but she's never been a part of, nor does she believe in, indiscriminate violence against innocent civilians. In my mind, that's why she can still be a redemable heroine. She's willing to use violence when it's self-defense, but she's not blowing up innocent people. It's almost more like she was born into a military than anything else.
And thanks all - I wasn't upset about her email, since I know she was genuinely trying to be helpful, but my instinct was the same, to say "I'll mail you a copy when I get it published." LOL!
Chance - I adore Ziva, and I love watching her go through this transition. And I really adore the almost father-daughter relationship between her and Gibbs.
Ter - yikes! That's the kind of dreams I have. See, I would have woken up, said "hey cool," and frantically started trying to write it all down *g* But hearing my own kid scream - that would freak me out big time!
Wow...no, Terrio...the NCIS dream involves being rescued by Jethro, not blown up with him! Now, you step back into that dream, have him find the bomb and heroically save both you and the munchkin...and hopefully you end up with him sheltering you both. An arm over her, his body pressed up tightly against yours.
YES!
See, I loved that class and all and I think it helped a lot with my story...and probably with your story, but the pieces we were sharing were so out of context, it was easy to make snap judgments without knowing what was going on.
She had a person in there who writes HORROR, and she was judging your book?
She also kept trying to change things in my story. She wanted me to insert stuff about Cain and Abel, et al. She had a completely different book in mind than what I'm writing.
I'd rather be saved by Tony. (I can't help it.)
I'm jumping ship for a bit -- have to run some errands.
I just wanted to say you can watch White Collar online, and I think Leverage too (although I watched it the other night via streaming Netflix).
Okay, I'm gone.
*hums "Rock The Boat" by Hughes Corporation*
ARGH! KILL HER!
Now I can't get that song out of my head!
*pounding head on table, usin' cutlass ta dig that earworm out ' me head
Hellie - yeah, when you're just getting little out-of-context snippets like that, it's really hard to understand where the author is headed with it.
But I really got a lot out of the class too - I'm glad we did it!
I was gonna say or Tony... Nah, give me Gibbs, lots a yummy Gibbs. Even Ducky is delicious. And I actually like Timothy... Tony? Eh. Annoying.
mmmm Gibbs. There's something about those blue eyes....ahhhh.....
Tony cracks me up, but I'd strangle him in under and hour if I actually had to work with him *g*
I love when Ziva gets the cliche stuff wrong and he's always correcting her.
I hate the out of context stuff. I know writers are the most generous people and always willing to help with story, but so often they do as Hellie says. Offer bits that are clearly from some great story, just NOT my story.
If this instructor sent the email as more of a warning just to prepare you for what she thought you might face ahead, I could give her a pass. But if her intent was to say you can't pull this off so you should really go write about some girl scouts, then no.
Girl scouts, on a pirate ship... with cookies! I could go for that.
I'm pretty sure she meant it more as a warning that I've picked an uphill battle
Okay, so we give her the benefit of the doubt. Pull in the cannons. For now.
Chance - I bought 7 boxes of GS cookies last weekend. And we've only eaten on so far. We're making them last.
I bought one. Gone. I know better than to buy 7 at a time! Are you insane?
Let's see, one for breakfast, one for lunch...one for after dinner...
They'd last three days, max.
Okay, so we give her the benefit of the doubt. Pull in the cannons. For now.
LOL!
You're doing better than me with the GS cookies Ter. I realized yesterday I'd single-handedly polished off two boxes already *g*
Love the blog. Also your outlook on life. Jack has a way to inspire those who wouldn't normally rock the boat, but we should. So let's rock away. Make waves, and go for our dreams. I'm a newbie, and hoping to find my way through the rough seas ahead, and sail off into calm waters. Cheers Mates.
I’m pretty sure she meant it more as a warning that I’ve picked an uphill battle
Isn't all writing an uphill battle? Why not make it interesting by doing something no one else is daring to do?
I think it helped that I bought them Sat then got sick on Sun. I haven't felt right since Sunday. I'm actually not eating much in the evenings this week. Sunshine, warmer temps, open windows, and getting back to writing is helping.
Huzzah! Welcome Bonnie! She be one a' the newbies from RT I been mentoring about. Terrio, I sent her Bet Me and she had some up and down moments after reading how fab-o Ms. Crusie is...
We all have up and down moments after reading anything written by Jennifer Crusie. I'd probably read her grocery list and start wailing, "Land of Lakes Butter! Why didn't I think of that!"
I must be the odd ball because I've only read one of her books. Couldn't get into the rest of them.
*snicker
I told her that when I sent her the book! I think she's better now, after visiting Crusie's blog and website.
Bonnie is writing about a hot fireman and a lukewarm wedding planner...
Sin - Don't make me throw coffee AT you.
Welcome, Bonnie! Hellie is right, we all have that reaction to Crusie's work. But when you keep reading, and you start recognizing what she's doing, and you check out her writing tips and essays on her blog, it's like a free Masters class.
I recommend you keep reading! And writing. Though I'm not sure there are ever calm seas in this writing journey. LOL!
I didn't say that I didn't LIKE the one I read. I read BET ME after a patient INSISTED that I read it and I read it in an afternoon. Very good read.
Terri said, "I hate the out of context stuff. I know writers are the most generous people and always willing to help with story, but so often they do as Hellie says. Offer bits that are clearly from some great story, just NOT my story."
I think this is true even with published books. So many times I read a harsh review, and it seems to me that the critic is faulting the writer for failing to write the book the critic wanted. I think there's a huge difference in saying a writer failed to develop a character adequately and saying the writer should have developed the character in a different direction. I see a lot of the latter in reviews these days.
I'm not a boat rocker, but I follow my characters and sometimes they do rock boats. The heroine of my third book confessed a secret to the hero that caught me totally off guard. The secret unlocked the character for me, but it scared me too. It involves one of the taboos of romance writing. I worried about it, but the Vanettes said go for it. I went, but I still wonder if an agent or editor will buy it.
OK, no wasting coffee with tossing it at each other. I haven't made it out for my morning fix yet. Though that may be on the horizon as the DH has crawled out of his cave. We may head out for coffee, then I'll head north for my steampunk convention...
If I play my cards right...I may be able to infuse the Kraken's Mirror with just enough steamy details to appeal to the steampunk crowd...
Janga - It's such a strange dynamic. They say they want the next new thing, but don't break the rules.
Uh...what?
I heard an author speak once about how you don't want your book to fall too in the middle. Play it safe and you'll just fall into the cracks. Some 'rule-breaking' is necessary to stand out.
Sounds like a secret that needed to be told and those are the types that break stories wide open.
You can't sail on calm seas. That would be called being stuck in the doldrums. Which would mean you're either depressed and not writing OR worse, you're basically phoning in your manuscripts without writing anything new, different, or exciting. Like Nicholas Sparks.
Write what you want to read first. I think that's the rule they never like to say out loud. But I think a lot of successful authors write that very way.
How many of us stood in the bookstores, staring at all those books and thought, "If only they'd write something different... Like pirates and an old woman and maybe Lucifer trying speed dating...or..."
And genius is born.
I like to read what I write. And mysteries, for some strange reason. I like to read mysteries... Something I never see myself writing!
Arrrr! Swabbies, me husband is back from seeing our Bonnie dog out fer a run. We be heading out fer Starbucks, then I hits the road fer the steampunk venue.
I be checking in as often as I can. If'n Bonnie comes back aboard, serve her a nice tall bit a' rum punch and get one a' the hotties ta rub her shoulders...
Avast!
Don't you love when she takes off and leaves us with instructions?
So that means I can sing now?
"Rock the Boat, Rock the Boat, Don't tip the boat over"
*does a nifty little disco spin -- and stays upright*
I get to shoot Donna, OK? I just got that bloody song outta me head and there she be! Tossing it back in!
Well, 'course I like ta give instruction, me day ta sorta be in charge...
Made the perilous drive to the outer edges of the bay. Can look out me window and see the grey waters of the esturary near this branch of said bay all gloomy looking. And my window doesn't close tightly, so I am serenaded with whistling winds. Oh, yes. A storm today. When I had to drive to the bay area. Wondrous.
But the Hilton let me check in early. Downstairs I viewed the insanity of putting this thing together. Get to actually pick up registration packets in about 45 minutes...an hour later the Trader's Concourse opens and time to SHOP!!!
Ooooo! There gonna be all sorts a costumey stuff and jewelry stuff and strange stuff with cogs and wheels and, hopefully, sea serpents stuff...
A costume ball tonight, which I have nothing impressive to wear for...but I may lurk...even though I brought me current masterpiece with me to work the pencil edits... Hmmmm!
Chance -- sorry! Not! LOL
At least you'll have plenty of things to keep you distracted from the earworm. The conference sounds like a lot of fun, especially the SHOPPING part. Are you taking pics of the costume ball?
She better be taking pics. LOL! She sent me a bunch of links to Steampunk clothes and jewelry and the stuff is so cool. I'm not big on costumes, but they had some really nice jewelry. Lots of cameos. I love me some cameos.
I love how well Donna fits in on the ship. *LOL*
I love costumes. I admire the art that goes into that. And I do like cameos too. ;)
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