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January 7, 2015 · 3:37 PM

Grotesquely Optimistic

Oh my!  I’ve been curiously absent over the past few weeks, haven’t I?  You may be wondering what I’ve been up to.

Well…

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No, no.  Besides that.

Moving

That’s right, I’ve been moving.  The fiance and I packed up all our stuff and headed out of New York around mid December.  We’ve been traveling quite a ways, all by car.  It’s been a pleasant trip so far.  The dog doesn’t think so, but we keep telling him that we’re a dictatorship, not a democracy.

The only problem with our road trip is that I haven’t had a lot of time to blog.

What I have been managing to do is write.  I have very recently finished a new draft of Grotesque.  Yes, that’s right.  After all those posts about procrastination, I finally got on it.  My last goal is a bit of world building.  My knowledge of history has always been a bit…lacking…

My best friend Liz still remembers the very real struggle of trying to help me with the subject in high school.

Did they wear hats

So I cracked into Medieval History for Dummies.  Really interesting stuff, surprisingly.  Even more shocking is that I seem to be grasping the gist of it.  It’s helping me form a much more coherent idea of this world I created, and it’s going to make Grotesque that much more believable, I think.  I’m hoping to share some excerpts in the near future, so you can look forward to that.  In the meantime I might be updating a little less often because I really want to get this thing done.  I’m so close!

Keep me in your thoughts, folks.  May 2015 be a profitable year for all!

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November 24, 2014 · 7:54 PM

Procrastinaming

You know what’s been blowing up Facebook feeds lately?  Those weird “Find out your ______ name” games.  The ones that say like…take the first letter of your last name and your dog’s favorite color in order to find out your postal worker name.  And then you do it and you find out that your postal worker name is Letters McParcel.

If you’re confused just look up Moon Moon.  That should help confuse you more.

As we all know, I am the master procrastinator.  So I decided to follow along with this bullshit trend and make my own chart. Here today you will be able to find out your own Nom de Plume.  All you have to do is take the last letter of your first name, and the first letter of your last name.  Using those letters, you will find the first and last names for your pen name.

For example, my name.  Rebecca Leviton.  A and L.  My Pen Name is Cliche Apocalypse.  Which I love.  Or if I go with Bex, I can be Santa Apocalypse, which is good, but not quite as good.  Before you go accusing me of cheating, I used a random number generator to assign the names I came up with to the letters of the alphabet.  With one exception.  I chose what name the double Q match-up would have, because honestly?  Double Q ain’t gonna happen, in my opinion.  Feel free to prove me wrong.

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I tried to vary the types of genres these pen names could work for.  Mystery, Horror, Romance, etc.  Lucky you if your name ends up being two mixed genres.  Keeps things interesting right?  Your name might also work as a stripper name, wrestler name, or band name.  You’re welcome.  So have fun, folks.  I’m gonna go not write some more.

Cheers!

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September 25, 2014 · 12:41 PM

How I’m Procrastinating

A little while back, I came to the inevitable conclusion that I can’t put off editing Grotesque any longer.  It’s been years since I took a real look at it.  Aside from Hellbound, Grotesque is the only decent book I’ve ever written.  And judging by how difficult it’s been to get editors to pay attention to Hellbound, it is becoming increasingly apparent that I am going to need a Plan B.  This isn’t surprising.  It just means that I’m in for a lot of hard work.

The problem is that when I am faced with hard work, I like to retreat into my little Bubble of Happiness where there are Disney movies and warm blankets and Skittles.  The Bubble protects me from all my adult responsibilities.

Happy Bubble

I am really good at procrastinating.

For instance…I’m writing this blog post right now.  That does not count as editing.  Also I drew that picture of the Bubble of Happiness.

And have you heard of Netflix??  It should be called Procrastination…flix.

So I’m having a rough time of it.  But…I have done a little.  It’s not enough, but it’s a start.

The reason I’m saying any of this is…well…some other projects are going to have to be put on hold.  No more of my chapter updates for that other book I was writing.  Although I have some good ideas for it.  I’m still going on with the Support Hellbound Initiative, of course.  The more support I can gather, the better.  It’s never too late to join in!

But for now I must buckle down.  I must.

I must….

I wonder what’s on Netflix?

Hey look I drew a comic!

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