Bloggers Block *scratches head*???

Is that what I have, well I think so. I've had writers block and that's a nightmare. Can blogging block be any better? No, I don't think so. For the last three weeks and even today, I've had the hardest time coming up with an issue to blog about, soooo, I didn't.

But...I'm here to say I think I have bloggers block, how much of a pain in the as$ is that!! I didn't want to go another week passing a posting by, so I thought I'd share.

Hopefully I'll be re-energized in a few weeks. I'll be heading out for a family vacation and one of our stops is Salem, Mass. It's kind of ironic if you ask me, why, well because...I was born and grew up in Mass, lived there my whole life until my early 30's then moved. Never once visited Salem, and now that I live in Florida...where do I go, LOL. Salem. A little backwards but hey, oh well. LOL. That's OK, I haven't been to St. Augustine since I moved to Florida. :-) BUT, we are planning a trip there for...Halloween. To be in the oldest city in the US on Halloween is something I really don't want to miss for another year and honestly, you really have to love the beaches on the Atlantic side of Florida. The Gulf is OK, but growing up a Mass kid, I'm kinda biased to the Atlantic.

Well, I guess I had more to write about than I thought, LOL.

Hope everyone has a great Sunday!!

C~

Two Weekend Movies

Ok, so, we had two new movies delivered to us this week from Netflix. Ninja Assassin and Legion.
Both I thought were really good action movies.

Legion was basically about the big guy sick of humanities bullsh*t and sends an army of angels to possess us and wipe us out. Of course well known arc-angel Michael takes a dislike to this and comes to Earth to save humanity from themselves.
As we sat and watched this flick, all I could think about was, “Well when are they going to tell us what’s going on, why did Michael come to Earth.” The plot was a little lacking. If they had extended the movie to two hours, I think it would have given them time to get it together a bit more and not leave me confused as to what was going on. All in all it was a good movie, the action was there, the gun fire, the killing and some grossness, LOL. Yes I said grossness. What I really liked was that it didn’t leave all the good guys alive. People die in war, good or bad and this movie didn’t take sides.


I thought Ninja Assassin was pretty damn cool. I like martial arts movies…it’s all Bruce Lee’s fault! The action is definitely there! The plot was together which held for the ending of the movie. There was a lot of blood, hey that’s to be expected with Ninja’s right, swords, stars and all the good stuff. But I do have to say several parts were a bit way bloody and violent. I actually turned my head during one bathroom scene where the hero had to kill a guy in the bathroom to gain his allegiance to the family. What I really liked was the slightly romantic undertone to the flick between the hero and a woman of his clan. I’m not saying anymore if you haven’t seen it, LOL.
Now my boyfriend thought the plot was lacking, but the action made up for it.

All in all two good movies.

Hope everyone has a great last day of the weekend!!

C~

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Happy Father's Day

So, this blog is going to be short and sweet :-) Happy Dad's Day to all those wonderfully Awesome Dad's out there!!!!

My Dad is the best Dad in the whole wide world and always will be!! He' s always been supportive of my writing and is there to say you can do it, how's your books doing, don't worry I'll take care of the hotel for your convention, just go and have a good time.

He gets mad when I send him a Sears gift card for Father's Day and tells me "I'm gonna smack you upside the back of the head."
I say...You know your dad loves you when...he wants to smack you upside the back of the head, LOL.

Again, Happy Fathers Day to all those dad's out there who deserve it!

Writing Exercises

Does anyone do writing exercises to keep the mind focused on writing so you don't get writers block?

Or have you had writers block and tried them? Did they work?

I look at the ones in my Writers Digest magazine and think yeah OK, and just flip the page. Both when I was having the "block" and not. I know they help a lot of writers, but it doesn't work that way for me. I have to be in the right emotional state of mind, the right "time" shall we say. I just can't sit down after working all day and expect something to come to me, the day job needs to disappear and the mind needs to be in a 'relaxed' state, and of course I need the plot ticking away within my skull.

As long as the ideas of a story come to me, I'm usually all set. I mentioned in a previous blog, that one hit while I was driving and that was in no way a good thing. LOL.
But I have noticed that if I am in a writers block, and the "exercises" bore me, I just have to sit back, relax and let the mind go blank. Eventually something within eye sight or hearing range will spark the writing idea, whether it's 10 minutes, 10 days or ten weeks. Which by then can become frustrating, yet if i try to "push" it, *eyes rolling up* yeah, that doesn't work to well.

I am however thinking about going to visit my local RWA Chapter. Being a solitary writer can be lonely sometimes and it's good to mix it up with others who share your passion for your craft, that can advise, critique and smile at you.

So on that note...I hope everyone has a great day and a better week ahead!!

C~

Vacation -- What's that??

LOL, Yeah, OK. Well this girl forgot how much of a pain in the butt it is to plan for a vacation, seeing as how I haven't been on one in five years.
The when and time we're going to leave, the Atlas and Map Quest and GPS, plus the directions from the family to "Avoid" those problem places.

Yeah, I go with my Dad and brother's travel routes, seeing as how they travel those areas for 90% of their jobs and even though it's 'orange barrel season' (ya know - construction)they'll be able to get me around the worst of the worst and through Hartford Conn. before rush hour YAY *Snoopy Dance* However, my mom has a secret route that bypasses Hartford, hmmmmmm -- "MOM, get your pen out"

Because folks, this girl and the family is trucking out from Florida to Massachusetts and then back again, stopping over in several more states to visit more family WOOT!! All of this in a WEEK! Can you believe it!!

Yet somehow, I see myself needing a vacation when I get back. LOL.

And the boy doesn't know it yet...but several stops will be made along the way and while he'll think it's just part of the road trip--which it will be *cough* it will be a home school extravaganza!! YAY...Oopps SHHHHHHH -- don't tell the teenager, he'll just rebel, LOL.

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Hope everyone has a great day!! *waving hand* BYE