Did You Miss One?

I know! Not the clearest title in the world. But here's the deal: I receive many blog awards, and though I appreciate each one (no lie), I don't often participate anymore because it's usually just info about me, which I worry will bore you to death. And I can't have any deaths on my hands unless they are fictional characters. Ahem. But THIS TIME I thought it was a cool subject and might give a little focus to some posts that you may have missed and would be interested in revisiting. 


K.C. Wolf graciously passed me the 7X7 link award. Here's how it works:


Hightlight my older posts in the following categories:

• Most Beautiful
• Most Helpful
• Most Popular
• Most Controversial
• Most Surprisingly Successful
• Most Underrated
• Most Prideworthy

So here goes:

1. Most Beautiful: That's tough. But I'll go with DON'T LOSE THE MAGIC. I love the pic and the message.
2. Most Helpful: Oooh boy. Based on feedback and visits, I'd have to say FILTERING THROUGH CHARACTER was the most unique craft post I've ever done.
3. Most Popular: My most popular post of all time was my first guest post from Lisa Desrochers! My post on BLOGGING ETIQUETTE comes in at a close second.
4. Most Controversial: It's funny. When I think posts will be controversial, they end up NOT. Probably because we all think so much alike. But if I had to guess, I suppose it would be YA SAVES!
5. Most Surprisingly Successful: I guess it's not THAT surprising that craft posts tend to do well. But I'd still say WHEN YOUR CHARACTER DOESN'T ACT LIKE HERSELF.   
6. Most Underrated: THE ELUSIVE VOICE but probably because I've had quite a few followers since then...
7. Most Prideworthy: This one is actually easy. AVOID THE POISON APPLE. Why? Because I firmly believe in encouragement and the power of words.

Okay - now to pass this on to 7 other bloggers? That's ALWAYS hard to do because I love you all! So why don't I just cheat (he he he) and say, if you want to do this on your own blog - GO FOR IT!! I'm passing the award to YOU.

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Catching Up

I've been a bad blogging buddy *hangs head in shame* I've had several wonderful, amazing, all around incredible people send blogging awards my way over

the last couple of months, and in my usual whirlwind of a life, I haven't recorded and returned the favors. I beg these bloggers forgiveness. But I vow to start righting this wrong immediately. So the latest of these faux pas is about to be rectified.

Thank you Corinne for this lovely Stylish Blogger award! If you haven't visited Corinne yet SHAME ON YOU! Go do that now. I'll wait. Okay. Now I'm supposed to tell you seven things about myself. Hmm.

1. OBVIOUSLY I like to live in my own little world with sexy vampires, pretty unicorns, and scary ghosts. If I act like they're real, then they are. :P
2. I believe in treating others with the respect you want to be treated with, and love all my writing friends, whether just starting out or on the NY Times best seller list.
3. I don't do well with conflict. It gives me a tummy ache, but I'm also
4. A total HYPOCRITE because I love to torture my characters and throw lots and lots of conflict at them. Usually the weight of the entire universe is on their shoulders. Yeah, I'm kinda mean that way.
5. I won't turn down coffee. Or red wine. Or chocolate. Unless there's a REALLY good reason.
6. I cry at almost every movie I see. Even the bad ones.
7. I am absolutely terrible at housework. I should be fired. Please fire me!

Lori (I'm waiting for you to go visit again) passed me this Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award. And you have to love an award that isn't afraid of adverbs, right? Now I'm supposed to list 4 guilty pleasures...

1. Chocolate. Coffee. Wine. (I know I already mentioned these above, but come on)
2. Reading - I call it work, but let's be real here.
3. Vampire Diaries - you already know but it's definitely on the list.
4. Sleeping in - it doesn't happen often when you're a mom, but every once in a while...

It feels a bit odd just talking about myself so much, but you all know that if you have any questions for or about me you can ALWAYS ask. Ninety-nine percent of the time I'll answer. The other one percent? Use your imagination...

Okay, now I pass your choice of these on to the following bloggers (and Lori and Corinne can switch with each other):

1. Laura Pauling because she does such a fabulous job at writing about writing that I want to see more about HER. :D
2. Heather McCorkle because she is one PROLIFIC blogger who is just an absolute sweetheart.
3. Leslie Rose because she's covered in awesomesauce and happens to be the funniest woman I know. She's pretty smart and supportive too.

In fact there are so many amazing bloggers out there, I better quit here or I'll just give one of these to everyone on my blog roll!