Jennifer Crusie | Argh Ink | Blog

I am curious about the reading preferences of Argh People, so there’s a new poll up so I can get a feel for what’s working here and what isn’t. You can select as many answers as you want or none at all (I should probably have put in an “I hate all your posts” but then why is that person reading? so no). I’m just curious as to which kinds of posts you think we get too many of and which kinds you’d like to see more of. So . . . a poll!

Meanwhile, I’m writing Lavender. She’s still alive, so you know I haven’t gotten to the halfway point yet.

And in other news, I just sprained my ankle, so there’s either going to be a lot of I’m-stuck-on-the-chaise-so-I-think-I’ll-ramble posts or a long silence while Lani waits on me hand and foot. That Lucy March, she’s a keeper.

Here are Lani’s collage scrapbook pages for Fairy Tale Lies.

Lani’s story is about Zel and Con:

Here’s Zel’s character page:
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Lucy March (that’s Lani) has a post up on her blog about a conversation we had late one night. Oddly enough, I did not think of the GHH until after Lani had done back upstairs, but in my defense, I was still musing on Elmer’s glue. Go here for a good time.

Note: Lani’s discussion and revision classes are both open for summer, but places are going fast. Go to StoryWonk.com to learn more.

I’ve been in meltdown which is pretty standard after a book is in freefall, and one of the ways to stop the story from rattling around my head is to put another story in there. So for three days, I watched the two seasons of Life on Hulu. There are a lot of reasons to love this show–good writing, great cast, incredibly good music–but it’s really the sum of all of those things working together that makes the series unforgettable. If life is about connecting, then Life is the perfect metaphor, not only because of the mantra the damaged lead character returns to again and again–”Everything is connected”–but because every story is about connections: failed connections, wrong connections, recovered connections, and the powerful, slow-building personal connections among the damaged leads. read more >>

I tripped across this blog link on the LOLcats blog, and then laughed until I cried. It’s Facebook fails, and some of them come close to poetry. And some of them are this: read more >>