Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology - John Tudor

I contributed to the economy by purchasing a new laptop as my current one went on the fritz. Lucky for me I just backed up my current work in process the night before on a zip drive. The only thing I lost are the edits I did based on suggestions from my Tuesday night critique group.
As for Love By Design the process is slow, but what I've have written I'm really pleased with.

How often do you have computer problems? Can you solve them? Or am I the only techno-challenged gal out there?

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

My college philosophy teacher would be amused by me quoting Nietzsche. For I had huge problem with Nietzsche, which my teacher said came from my mis-understanding of where Nietzsche was coming from. I never did embrace his philosophy, but apparently we have one thing in common.

A bad memory. It happened sometime in my thirites. "Hey, Liz, do you remember so and so?"

Ummm.....no.

"Hey, Liz remember when we ___?"

Ummmm...no.

Pictures help - help alot. In fact, if I didn't have pictures from moments in my life I would feel like I had no past life. Sometimes though even that doesn't help. My friend recently posted this picture on Facebook.

I totally don't remember this. NADA. It's from my college days - Linda tells me we were going to Dean's Halloween party and I'm like "Who is Dean?"

And so I'll leave you with another quote from Nietzsche.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Shout Out....

I met Kimberly Frost at a writer’s conference back in 2007. We were both unpublished but now here she is with her first release. We've stayed in touch and I couldn't be more proud of her. Congrats, Kimberly!

Here is the cover...

"The only place I get hurt is out there. The world don't give a shit about me." The Ram

Mickey Rourke plays Randy 'The Ram' Robinson in the film The Wrestler. He lives up to the hype you've been hearing. The story is touching and heartwretching. Again a film I wouldn't normally see (I like happy, action packed films), but I made a promise to myself that I would try to see as many Oscar nominated performances as I could.

At first it was so I could enjoy the Oscars and know what was what, but I've realized today that these performance are inspiring me to write - to dig down emotionally the way these fine actors and actresses are doing - except on paper.

There is one difference....my stories will always have a happy ever after.

"You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail." Rhett Butler to Scarlett

Can't help but think that the executives from AIG, Citibank, Leheman Brothers, ect, have a streak of Scarlett O'Hara in them. A streak a mile wide.

I have nothing against people making a load of cash - no problem at all - but when your company is failing while you were at the helm, when people are getting laid off, and taxpayers are footing the bill through bailouts, unemployment, and the market downturn then a $50,000,000 jet seems well excessive. Hell, flying 1st class is excessive.

While these executives are not technically 'criminals' and are not going to jail, they are morally bankrupt. Capitalism does work and the gov't should get out of the way and let these companies fail if that's what they drove it to and are continuing to do even after they get MY money. Then maybe, just maybe, it won't happen again.

Scarlett is one of the most memorable characters in fiction, but has no place in the real world.

"The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key." Edward Abbey

I beg to differ with the quote above. At least when it comes to my writing that is. Some of my best ideas come when I'm driving alone. I keep a mini-recorder with me with for these golden nuggets of insight (lol). Of course, despite my Blackberry, blog, and facebook page I'm quite a techno dumbo so I inadvertently lose some of these recordings. I mean do I really need 2 different file folders then more files under each of them. I think not. I'm going to try out my Blackberry's recorder and hopefully I'll have better luck.

As I was driving home from my Saturday ritual trip to Walmart I came up with the next 2 lines to what I posted the other day. Here it is...

Of course, he would never claim to understand their minds. A Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to the man whoever did.

Love By Design

I've been slowly working on Chapter 1 and I thought I'd share a sentence or two. Russ Rowland is the hero. He's from Australia and a bit of a alpha-male...okay he's a big hunk of alpha male.

And she did want him. The way that sea blue gaze swept his body, the blush that tinged her luminous cheeks, and the curve of her mouth were all tell tale signs. Russ considered himself an expert on female body language. His favorite subject since puberty.