13 Things I read off my RSS Feed this morning

Thirteen things I read off my RSS feed this morningIt drove me crazy all morning*, but I figured out how Angie was sharing her Google Reader Feed. But it only shows the last 10 items max – and for space reasons, I set it to 5. Here they are – the last 13 things I read off Google Reader(*If I hadn’t spent so much time looking for a widget, and had just sourced her site, I would have spent minutes instead of an hour… >insert headslap moment<)

1 - Hammock Sofa: Bring Out the Swinger in You
from Gizmodo
This sofa-hammock from a Franco-German design team [...]

2 – Thirteen First Lines
from Emma’s Ramblings by Emma
Thirteen of my first lines.

I’m stealing this from Kate Willougyby who last week did 13 first lines. She did 13 beginning chapter lines. I’m going to do 13 first lines from 13 books (How in the hell do I have 13 books to my name?) [...]

3 – Subway Restaurants adding pizza to their menu
from Slashfood by Joanne Lutynec

Just weeks after introducing their new Fresh Fit Menu, Subway Restaurants are now planning to add a personal-sized deep dish pizza [...]

4 – The Erotic Romance RITA
from Romancing the Blog by Sylvia Day

I seriously spent hours trying to come up with a post for today. *shakes head* In the end, after scrapping several fully-written columns, I decided to repost something I’d posted on my personal blog over a year ago. My thoughts are the same and since I’d discussed this topic with a friend just a week [...]

5 – Silence and other interesting bits and pieces
from Eden Bradley Erotica by Eden Bradley

I just sold a short story, SILENCE, to Magic Carpet Books for an erotic anthology to be edited by one of my hero authors, Maria Isabel Pita! The BEYOND DESIRE anthology will be released in September- [...]

6 – Thirteen Things I Love About My First EC Cover
from One Writer’s Block Party by Robin L. Rotham

Thirteen Things I Love About My First EC Cover
1. It’s MINE.
2. It’s posted on EC’s Coming Soon page.
3. There’s a hot naked man on it.
[...]

7 – Geek to Live: Black belt scheduling with Google Calendar
from Lifehacker
by Gina Trapani
Web-based calendars have been around for ages, but one year ago Google Calendar came onto the scene and changed the game. Once upon a time Yahoo! Calendar had my heart, but today Y! [...]

8 – Publishing Deals for Upcoming Books
from Dear Author.Com by Jane

I’m thinking maybe. . .
Adena Halpern’s THE TEN BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE, the heartwarming and humorous story of a young LA personal shopper who dies before her time — run over by a Mini-Cooper — who narrates her assignment [...]

9 – DIY 360 degree photo animations
from Lifehacker
Web site The Warehouse describes how to make your own 360 degree photography on the super cheap. All you’ve got to do is put together your own rotating surface, mark off equal rotation points, and[...]

10 – Prom Nights from Hell by Meg Cabot et al
from Dionne Galace by bam
Prom Nights from Hell Grade: A-

Here’s an anthology that totally made me squee like I was a teenage girl [...]

11 – Wednesday: Long Tall Funny
from Jane in Progress

Generally, it’s a good rule of thumb that shorter jokes are better. But every now and then it’s the length and complexity of the joke that makes it work.

When I worked on Ellen we did a bit once [...]

12 – Goodbye, Mr. Vonnegut
from Meryddian’s Journals

“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut

R.I.P., Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)

13 – SHE WROTE BACK: Dialogue
from He Wrote, She Wrote: How to Write by Jenny

This is my least favorite lesson because I don’t know how I write dialogue. I hear the voices, I write them down. This is no help to anybody. I can tell you how I revise dialogue though.

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First, I go through and get rid of as many speech tags as I can [...]
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