Blog of Author Christine d’Abo
Hello everyone! Well, my week started off with a bang, and I’ve been running ever since. Today is my oldest daughter’s birthday (I’m so not old enough to have a nine year old), and we’ll be celebrating tonight. 
I’ve posted over at Six Degrees of Sexy today, talking about the trend of bad characters becoming good in books and TV shows. I’d love to hear what you think about it. 
Okay, I’m the first to admit I’m pretty forgiving when it comes to the TV shows I watch. I’ll let them get away with just about anything as long as:
1. The characters are interesting and have a solid reason for acting a particular way, or doing a particular thing
or
2. The plots are well written and keep me guessing, despite flawed characters.
I think being a writer has ruined certain shows for me, or at the very least, has made me impatient when it comes to the absence of the above two points. Hence why I’ve officially given up on Heroes.
I mean…COME ON!! I loved this show first season. Adored it! Now, I’m so annoyed with it, the thought of spending an hour in front of the TV isn’t justifiable. They’ve changed the characters, INCONSISTENTLY! They have so many plot threads, and so many loose ones from last season, that nothing makes sense. I can’t care about a character that I won’t get to see for more than a few minutes each episode, and have them change radically.
/rant over
As a writer, this is something that I try really hard not to do. I love a good complex plot. I try to write them. I may not be the most brilliant author out there, but I try to at the very least be consistent.
So I’m taking a lesson from Heroes as I’m working on book two of my urban paranormal series. I’m keeping track of all the plot points I started in book one. I’ll make sure they are all resolved by the end of book six. This is my promise to you!
Now I just have to sell them…
*runs a victory lap*
First round of edits for All Bottled Up and done and sent off. I’m so pleased with the changes, and how they help clean up my character’s motivation. I’m glad I was able to finish this up, because I was hit with a pretty nasty migraine this weekend. Really has knocked the stuffing out of me the past few days.
On the TV front, tonight Heroes is on. I’m going to give this show about a month and then we’ll have to see if I’ll keep watching. House and NCIS on the other hand were excellent. I haven’t watched CSI yet, but I have it recorded, so I’ll get to it this week.
I need to get going again with my writing. I haven’t worked on a new project seriously in a while. NaNoWriMo is coming up, and I’ve always had really good luck doing that. I’m going to spend October getting back into the groove, then hit the pavement hard in November.
How is everyone else doing this week so far?
There was something in the air last night people. Three separate individuals I know ended up having something FANTASTIC happen to them last night. One I can’t tell you about yet….a friend got engaged, and my husband got to attend the preview of the Stargate: Continuum movie at Comic Con. I’m so jealous of him right now it’s not freaking funny! *sigh*
Speaking of my husband, he is having a fantastic time at Comic Con. He got to attend the Doctor Who and Torchwood sessions (and apparently John Barrowman is even funnier in person than he appears in the interviews), he saw the Stargate movie, and that was only for day one! I can’t wait to see the pictures.
Me, I’ve been trying to get ready for Nationals and realized I’m not. I need to go shopping this weekend, so my poor girls are going to get dragged around. I need to my a little black dress. 
I also need to work on a pitch for my book(s), and get all my OCD-I-have-to-check-everything-ten-thousand-times list out. Fun weekend ahead!
Oh! And I want to take a second to pimp a fantastic book I’m reading. It’s called Personal Demons by the fabulous Stacia Kane. Here’s the Amazon description:
Megan promises listeners to her new radio call-in show that she’ll “slay their personal demons,” and they believe her. So do the personal demons… although she doesn’t know it, Megan is the only human without a demon on her shoulder! Megan and her allies – a demon lover who both protects and seduces her with devilish intensity, a witch with poor social skills, and three cockney guard demons – have to deal not only with the personal demons, but a soul-sucker, ghosts of Megan’s past, and a reporter who threatens to destroy Megan’s career!
I’m just over halfway through the story and LOVE it! The only reason I put it down is because I’m so tired after my days. I plan to finish it tonight though.
What are your plans for the weekend??
Yes, ladies and gentlemen…today is my husband’s birthday.
He’s older than me…but the boy isn’t old. He’s still as sexy, funny and charming as he was when I met him many years ago.
This weekend we plan on having a birthday BBQ, friends and family over…maybe a few glasses *cough*bottles*cough* of wine and a lot of fun. Not sure if I’ll get any writing done, but he’s worth it.
That said, the season finale of Doctor Who is on tomorrow night. I’m SOOOOO watching that before I go to sleep. And then I’ll probably re-watch it the next day after the wine induced haze has gone LOL!
What is everyone else up to this weekend?
…going to talk about last night’s episode of Doctor Who. I’m NOT going to do that because Amy and my husband will kill me. Neither of them have seen it yet…
I’m not…going…to talk about…how….awesome….
*clamps both hands over her mouth and goes running to bury her head under a pillow to scream*
So we were watching Doctor Who this weekend…and I got all excited about the last five minutes of the show. I practically jumped from my bed when two little words were spoken…I even said them out loud because I knew it was coming. My husband (of course) laughed at me because I was so silly.
I’m not going to go into specifics in case people haven’t seen it yet. But man…I was so excited…and then I saw the preview for next week and I’m just dying. I’m not going to last until Saturday. *sob*
It really is sad how addicted to Doctor Who / Torchwood I’ve become. So I’m mixing it up a bit. Hubby bought season one of Supernatural for us to start soon. We’ll mix this in with our re-watching of Buffy and pray it gets me through the summer TV lull.
I’ve also been reading a lot…not writing quite as much. It’s been good for me actually. I’m plucking away at The Bond That Saves Us, and liking what I have so far. No, I won’t be writing this one in six weeks, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing either.
This weekend we had my youngest daughter’s seventh birthday party and my anniversary. My poor husband has put up with me for 12 years now (god love him). Thankfully, I think he’s agreed to renew my contract for another year.
We bought Rock Star for the Wii and played that a bit yesterday. Oh man, it is FUN!!
How was your weekend?
Good Monday morning everyone! The sun is shinning, the birds are singing…and I’ve started a new writing project! Thank you to everyone who offered their suggestions last week. It really did help me to focus myself and get organized.
Officially on the weekend I started writing The Bond That Saves Us, book four in my Eternal Bond series. Oh it felt good to get back there. And of course I’m starting this one off with a bang. Lots of action, shouting, yelling, sexy men…
*sigh*
I’m really excited about this one.
I’ve also been continuing to work on another project that I am just dying to tell you all about. But again, no contract in hand yet, so I have to wait. It’s killing me!!!
I hope everyone had a great Father’s Day yesterday. We had a BBQ and my husband enjoyed a pile of homemake Long Island Iced Tea. I got to sit back, watch and giggle.
And of course we had the mid season finale of Battlestar Galactica. Okay, what’s up with this?? Mid season finale…and we don’t get the last ten episodes until January 2009?!?! That’s not a mid season people. That’s a NEW season. *grumbles*
How was your weekend? Do anything exciting?
Taking some time off just to goof around is really good. I’m bouncing and ready to tackle a new project…one that I’ve just gotten the green light to go ahead and start on.
One that I can’t tell you all the details about because I don’t physically have the contract in my hand yet…but I can say this:
It’s a new story that I’ll be writing.
I’ll be using a new pen name.
It’s going to be REALLY cool.
I’m hoping to have the contract in hand in the next two to three weeks, and then I can fill you in on the details. But I’m going to start working on the story this weekend.
So I’m all bouncy again, ready to rock and roll…and it’s Sci-Fi Saturday again this week. Both Doctor Who and Battle Star are on and I plan to have a nice evening watching them.
What are your plans?
I’m so happy summer is on its way. I love the heat…miss the heat…but not too hot. I’m so Canadian.
It’s been a pretty lazy week for me so far. I haven’t done much in the way of writing, more like playing around. I have been reading some wonderful stories though (Fox’s Bride by the wonderful Amy Ruttan neener neener) and generally taking it easy. I needed the break from all my projects to get myself charged up again. Because the next thing I want to take on is book four in the Eternal Bond series.
And that one is going to be a fun one to write.
I’m all caught up on my TV shows with the exception of the CSI finale. I’m not looking forward to watching it because I know what happens and it will make me cry. I’ve had enough crying because of TV LOL!
So reading and writing are filling my time these days. How is everyone doing? What are you reading/writing?
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