Thursday, June 3, 2010

YA WIP MEME

YA WIP MEME
(Young Adult "Work in Progress" Meme)
(Borrowed from AudryT's LJ)

Instruction: Use code names for all of the characters to help convey a little bit of their personality.

Number of shirtless scenes:
Male um, lots
Female 3 and counting
Number of no pants scenes:
5 and counting
Strangest quote out of context:
"Did you know radiator fluid looks and tastes a lot like Gatorade?"
Most embarrassing thing a character says:
"Fim?"
List of taboos broken and/or sins committed:
Murder, incest, grave robbing, theft, inappropriate student-teacher relationship, necromancy, necrophilia, BDSM, racism
Sneakiest homage:
“Fieldtrip!" The Magic School Bus
Weirdest creature, location or character:
Spider seamstress, Ancient tunnel systems under Johns Hopkins, Exorcist who's half demonic
States you think your book will be banned in:
All of them. In parts of Maryland, copies will feed smore's bonfires.
Amount of profanity, on a scale of 1 to Yikes!:
Yikes -- in Latin, Welsh, and Italian
Character most likely to throw themselves tragically off a cliff (or for attention):
SexyDemon. Just for lolz and to convince Psycho it's a good idea for her to jump too.
Character most likely to be Prom Queen at your old/current high school:
Slutty Sister
Character least likely to become President:
Psycho's friend 
Character you sekritly have the hots for:
Pet Demon, Psycho, Witch
Character most likely to take over the world:
Sexy Demon or Moon Goddess
Character most likely to get arrested:
Psycho
Character most likely to buy a dead parrot:
Psycho
Number of tragically dead or conveniently missing parental figures:
1
Number of Evil Cheerleaders, Evil Blondes, and/or Evil Queen Bees:
0
Pairing you most want to see fanfic written about (even if you swear you don't read fanfic):
Psycho/Exorcist, Exorcist/Pet-demon, Psycho/Exorcist/Slutty Sister, Psycho/Sexy Demon/Slutty Sister
Describe your dream cover (in one paragraph):
A raven on an elaborate tombstone that says 'Nevermore,' with a wolf-tooth pendant hanging from the raven's beak.
Outfit or character you most want to see cosplayed (worn as a costume by a fan):
Anything Psycho wears. Lots of corsets and awesome hats. Or Psycho in dream dress #1. So. Many. Sequins.
Outfit or character you LEAST want to see cosplayed (and why):
Stalker Werewolf's naked dead body. That...can't end well.
Car model your main character would drive, if they could drive:
A hearse.
List all the races, nationalities, and species of your book's core characters:
Italian
Latina/Caucasian mix
Demons
Fey
Welsh
Cajun
African American
ghosts
If your antagonist or primary villain invited you over for dinner, what would they serve?
Lasagna made with human meat
Character you think will have the most obsessive fan girls or fan boys (and why):
Sexy Demon. Because he's an attractive asshole. Or Exorcist. She's too weird and cheerful not to love.
Quote one sentence only from a cliffhanger in your manuscript (a chapter ending, for example):
In the echoes and growing darkness, as exhaustion finally took me, it sounded like a woman screaming.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

I'VE BEEN TAGGED

AudryT from Twitter tagged me. She got it from Jamie Reed, who in turn got it from Rebecca Knight. (Golly, it's like tracing the origin of an STD, isn't it?)
The rules are simple: finish each sentence, then tag three people to do the same on their blogs.

Favorite color: Sapphire blue
Favorite action scene in a movie: Kill Bill, Volumes 1 & 2. Two whole movies can't be action scenes? Obviously you have not watched these movies.
Favorite breakfast cereal: Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms
Favorite toy as a kid: Polly Pocket
Favorite 80’s group: I have to pick one?
Favorite 90’s group: I could be a bitch and say the Spice Girls, but 1) no one would believe me, and 2) I'm planning to auction off my soul on ebay and if the quality is ruined from killing myself a little by saying that, I can't ask as much.
Craziest dream you can remember: All of them. What's weird is when I have a dream that makes sense.
Biggest fear/phobia: Snakes and getting stuck working a 9-5 type job. I guess I should add cubicles to this list.
Left-handed or right-handed: Right but trying to train myself to be ambidextrous.
What’s odd about you: Everything. I'm a walking contradiction. In the same breath, I believe everything absolutely and question it absolutely.
What’s cool about you: Everything.
Red pill or blue pill: Which one makes me see Yoda?
Cats or dogs: Cats.
What do you envy about boys: They can go shirtless in the summer and no one cares. Also, freedom with humor. They can talk about farts and porno, but if I even say the word vibrator, the room hushes. Gasp, a girl making fun of sex, but not at the expense of a guy.
The world must be ending.
What do you envy about girls: Very little. We tend to view each other as rivals instead of competitors or sportsmen, which often makes even the simplest of interactions fraught with duplicity and cattiness. Girls annoy me frequently. But we DO have so many more outfit options than men.
What your favorite sound: Everything, nothing, it all depends on the place and my mood.
Least favorite sound: West Virginia accents. "Your mother's a musician/your brother's an artist, so you must know how to ___" or "You want to be a writer? You simply have to go tot his college." or "You want to be a writer? *stunned silence*"
Dream car: Something sleek and shiny and blue with a kick ass sound system, 60 miles to a gallon, and a mounted bazooka that fires pies. I'll also accept a tank, provided I could give it Cheshire cat stripes.
Dream vacation: I think H.P. Lovecraft wrote about it in The Rats in the Walls
What are you reading now: Going Bovine by Libba Bray and Elephants on Acid by Alex Boese
Favorite mythical creature/ monster: Dragons
What turns you on: A brain.
What turns you off: Everything that lacks the a fore mentioned
Favorite curse word: Mother-fucking fuck-monkeys! I also yell "starving children in Africa" at odd intervals. If anyone can explain this to me, I'd appreciate it. It comes from the part of brain that rambles inexplicably about dancing space potatoes.
Favorite word: Maybe. It can mean so many things, almost all of them painful.
Least favorite word: Dazzle.
Best invention in history: Fire.
Dream occupation: I like writing what I want to write. If I can get paid for that, that would make my life groovy indeed. But if I could be an omnipotent dictator for life, I wouldn't complain too hard about that either.
If you could go back in time and tell the 10 year-old you one thing, what would it be?: It's not your fault, so stop crying, get off your fat ass, and take over the world already! Dad's crazy and sick because he's secretly a drug addict and just because you were wishing Nonnie would kick the bucket right before she did does not mean you killed her with your mind. If you could do that, many, many people would be dead and middle school would've been a whole lot easier.


The Rules dictate I have to tag 3 people. They are:

Anna, Gabby, and Jo. Now I have to hunt them down on Facebook.