July 13, 2009 | A Royale Pain,Book One,Book Stuff,Draven Atreides, Teenage Informant Series,Life in General,Movie Queue,Revision Heaven,The 4-1-1 on Me,Weekend Wrap-Up,Writing Movements
Seriously. A whole lotta nothin’. Mr. Maul and I went to see PUBLIC ENEMIES on Saturday. Really liked it. Here I was all excited to see Channing Tatum and SPOILER AHEAD he bites it within the first 20 mins of the friggin’ movie! Gah! I was highly disappointed. OT: Congratz on your recent nuptials, Channing. Hope you and Jenna are happy. Billy Crudup (THE WATCHMEN) played J. Edgar Hoover and I don’t know if it was the make-up or how he was carrying himself, but his face looked really weird. Like he had no neck or something. Mr. Maul and I liked the movie, though. The previews were unimpressive, though. Which is surprising. I like to get there early for the previews and the ones they showed were ones I’ve already seen.
Sunday, we ate Ron’s Place (aka The Original Pancake House) as kind of a last minute thing. They serve breakfast until 2pm on Saturdays and Sundays, and we got there a little after 1, I think. And the place was nearly packed. But if you’ve ever eaten there, then you know that the food is ALWAYS worth the wait. Then we checked out Luci’s Healthy Marketplace on the way home. We went just to check it out and ended up buying stuff because we were given a $10 off $50 or more coupon. We plan to go back to try out the omelette bar…and possibly to get cat food. Sweet Pea seemed to like the sample of dry kibble and the canned food we got her. We even met one of the owner’s (Luci is his wife) and talked to him for a few minutes. I think it’s so cool to be able to interact with the owner of a business and know that they’re actually there, running the business, and not leaving it to someone else. He was very nice and thanked us–several times, LOl–for coming in.
Writing Movement – Last week was a good revision week. I started incorporating the sections I wrote into Book One. It’s a good thing I’m reading through the whole thing again because I’m finding typos and having to write additional content. Which is good. The word count was close to 40,000. I’m thinking this might be a little bit over by the time I’m done integrating everything.
THERE’S STILL TIME TO VOTE! Enter for a chance to win a $25 gift card or a $50 gift card to either Barnes and Noble or Amazon.com by voting on whether or not I should change Draven’s last name. Deadline is July 31st, MST. Only teens, ages 13-18, can vote, so hop on over to my FUN STUFF page and give your two cents.
I’ve been kicking around the idea of continuing the series after Draven, by way of using the name of the program she was recruited into; Only because I had planned for 6 books in this series and think that it would be hard to try to write standalones after doing a series for so long. Maybe once the 6 books are done, and I see what the reception has been like for Draven, I’ll pull the idea to the surface again. I also have another idea for a series, but I’m not going to speak on that yet. I dunno.
So, how was your weekend?
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