Credit Everyone who has a brain is serious about writing knows that you don't just vomit out a story and BOOM! you get published. Writing is the easy part. The hard part comes after. What in the blue hell are you talking about? Editing. Revising. SELLING YOUR SOUL*. Though there are many ways to go about it, editing and revision are necessary evils if you want your novel to work. Somewhere in the first draft process, you probably have some android doing the macarena in a comma happy sentence. No matter how clever you think this was. It's not. Fortunately for you, NaNoEdMo is here to help. Just like NaNoWriMo dedicates a month to the art of first draftdom, EdMo gives you a full month of editing joy**. What do you mean by "editing"? Technically, this is all grammar and spelling stuff. For some reason, I can never do editing by itself and revision comes into play. And revision is... When you take your story and change pieces of it. There's more tec...

And it wasn't me. Like any good pet owner, I signed up for those reward things at both Petco and PetSmart. Because of this, I get mail and coupons. This works out AWESOME since the Stripey and White Ones are pretty pricey. In case you're new*, you might not know that I'm talking about cats. They're pretty cute, and most days they actually like each other. However, they are indeed feline. They play with shakymice and meow - or more apt, yodel (The White One) and trill (The Stripey One). So you can imagine my confusion over this most recent marketing attempt from the folks at Petco. This flyer brings up the following questions: If I'm a cat lover, why are you showing me a semi-cute dog instead of a ball of stripey fluff? On the whole, cats do not like dogs, so why are you showing me something that angers my cats**? How does a dog fit in with a cat nutritional consult? People, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. What's the strangest piece o...

Zombie Thur sdays is a weekly feature with guest blogger, Miranda. You can read more about her here . Moving... oh my. There are very few things that are more stressful. And to add to my stress, as I got home last night, I discovered that my internet was out. Three days earlier than it is supposed to be. As annoying as this is, I can't be too upset or worried about it because I have way too much to do! So, today is short and sweet as I'm borrowing internet from someone while also hauling boxes to and from my car. I know I promised to introduce you to the second member of my zombie army, however... I am sharing this! A friend recently posted this awesome trailer on Facebook. It's actually a trailer for a video game called Dead Island . Probably one of the most cinematic trailers I've seen for a game and so well done! I don't know much about the game other than it's a first person melee zombie killing game (able to be played with four other players). Awesome, huh?...