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As I said last week, I painted the phoenix into my wings painting. It's not quite done yet as I switched moods this week from art to writing. I've been working again on the Snowflake process (which I highly reccomend) for my novel Body & Blood. This week I typed out a synopsis of the whole story in a page and a half (which left a lot of stuff out but that's the idea: to simplify) and I've started on the synopses from each character's point of view (that's steps 4 and 5 out of ten for the whole Snowflake).
The Snowflake process was something cooked up by writer and teacher Randall Ingermanson (http://www.rsingermanson.com/ has his info and the Snowflake stuff and other good writing tips). The idea is that you take your story idea and, rather than writing scene-by-scene from the seat of your pants, not knowing where the plot is going to wander, you instead map and shape the story in several steps. You start with one sentence, 15 words or less to sum up the story, then a 5 sentence paragraph to tell the whole story, then a short character outline for each character, then take your 5 sentences and expand them to 5 paragraphs in one to one-and-a-half pages, then expand the characters...and so on until you've figured out all the scenes that there need to be and you write them and *bing!* all the sudden you have a completed novel on your hands! I know sounds too easy, and it's not when you've already written most of the book (like somebody you know and love), but it helps you realize a lot of things you haven't thought of, things that take a little explaining but that you haven't thought of because you're the writer and you already understand what's going on. I also recently discovered, on Ingermanson's site, the "how to write a perfect scene" tips he borrowed from someone else, and that sounds like a good process to run my story through too.
Other than that the calendar has come 'round again for Mom to disappear to California for two weeks (going to grad school) leaving me to my own devices. It's nice to have the house all to myself for a few days, but to anyone who is reading, company is appreciated as long as you give me a heads-up first! 
Actually, you'll probably be more likely to find me slurping a white mocha at Barnes & Noble with my nose in a comic book I don't feel I have the funds or motivation to purchase.
And by the way, we finished watching the finale of season 4 of Smallville today, so another obsession bites the dust
. Believe it or not, I was actually starting to get tired of it, even in my desperate need to discover the ever-elusive "what happens next." That and I was getting ticked off at Lex. I liked him a hell of a lot better in the earlier seasons when he actually had good intentions most of the time.
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