GRIZZLY GIRL GAB

Hope November 2nd is everything you want it to be!!! What're you doing to celebrate?

Happy, Happy,
Your West Coast Twin ;^)

Hope things are going well in your neck of the woods....

Have a great birthday!!!! Spoil yourself ;v).

Looking forward to (hopefully) seeing you at the summer conference!

xx,
the grizzly girl

Hope you have a great day and manage to do something fun (like writing, watching comedy, or screaming your head off on a roller coaster).

Looking forward to seeing you in August!

Happy, happy,
Lindsey

Happy birthday, my dear!!! I'll be thinking about you ;v)!

I'm wondering what the highest number of rejections anyone got on a single project is... BEFORE it sold???

Star Wars was my absolute fave; my mother took me to see it t-w-e-l-v-e times while it was in the theatre!!!!

Princess Leia was my role model for a princess, and the flying has to be at least half responsible for my becoming a pilot!!!! Ha!

I admit, I still love the original three (A.N.H. '77, E.S.B. '80, R.O.T.J. '83) and watch 'em every time they're on TV, but the ones from the last decade leave me cold.

H-A-P-P-Y B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Loved the pix of the kids!!!! Hope you're well ~

Miss you! Wonder how things are going with Sea???

Wishing you all the best for your birthday and every day :v)!

xoxoxoxox :v) xoxoxoxox

I'm wondering what anyone can tell me about who the best self-publishers are?????

And any helpful hints would be welcome :v)..!

Wheeeew! I've been gone for SOME time................... BUT it's a new year, and I'm devoting it one hundred percent to my writing pursuits!!! YAAAAAAAAY!!!! :0). I'm home!

To begin with, a lightening round of catch up:

I'm enrolled in two writing classes at UCLA. One: Screenwriting, the other: Creating a Children's Television Series. I'm exploring new outlets for my unpublished series. The TV series class starts tomorrow and I'm very excited!

I've already written a first draft of a picture story book! I'm a MG writer, so it's been a fun change of pace.

Last fall I FINALLY (imagine that 1,000x bigger) got my pilot's license....and then I headed north to Alaska to get my seaplane rating! While there, I got my tailwheel endorsement, too. Did you know that in Alaska it is legal to land a plane on the highway???? Under power lines! In front of cars!!!! I got to do just that - in a tailwheel - to go shopping (!!!) at a curiosity shop, where I parked the plane next to a caribou pen, of course. Then, as if that wasn't odd enough, the guy who owns the curiosity shop made my instructor and I play dress-up in Eskimo hats etc., and took our picture by the plane! Did I mention that he had a human hand in a jar???

While I was in Alaska I met a fabulous guy (a fireman and mountain guide) who is planning to move down here with me......... In August, we're headed to Africa to climb Kilimanjaro, raft the Zambezi, hike with the Masai, bushwhack up to the mountain gorillas, fly the Okavango (if I dare, upon eyeing the planes) or else trek it on elephant back! Aaaaaaaah, adventure! I've wanted to go to Africa for as long as I can remember ~

This Friday I'm having my tonsils removed. It's funny in that it was supposed to happen when I was a kid, but I threw such a magnificent tantrum when I learned that I would have to throw up the blood in my tummy, that my mother reneged. Can't say that I'm any more fond of the notion, but maybe I'll pen a book about it! My sweet new guy is flying down to take care of me for a week :0).

I'll be at the SCBWI winery retreat this March. Looking forward to all of the fun that entails. Any of you planning to be there???? I miss you all. I've had a plethora of computer issues and I try to send birthday wishes when I get the announcements, but I cannot get the messages to "go." At any rate, I think of you guys often and hope everyone is well!!!! Believe it or not, I scheduled my Africa trip for AFTER the summer conference! I cannot wait!!!!!!!!! Already!!!! I am home.

1. Choose a paint store WITHIN one hour of your home, so that when you don't have enough primer and then later change your mind about paint color, you haven't spent six hours and hundreds of dollars on gas retracing your steps.

2. Buy a steel brush (to remove rust and loose paint) that's BIGGER than a toothbrush.

3. Select a NEUTRAL color of primer so that when you change your paint choice from dark to light, you haven't shot yourself in the foot.

4. Actually USE the steel brush, because no matter how much primer you use, you can still see where the paint is peeling.

5. Remove the spider webs and carcasses BEFORE you prime.

6. Move all nearby plants out of the way, unless you like the color of primer on your ferns and banana trees.

7. Secure your hair. Although, now I know how I'll look when I go gray (primer).

8. Remove spider webs and carcasses that got primed BEFORE painting.

9. NO MATTER how badly you want your furniture to be indigo, glossy paint looks g-h-e-t-t-o.

10. Neutrogena body oil removes spray paint from your skin like nobody's business.

11. Don't touch the computer after using Neutrogena body oil on your hands.....