Obsess much?

The thing you have to realize about me, is that I have a habit of obsessing over anything I'm interested in at the moment. When I was younger, it was Barbies. I made clothes out of stray socks, houses out of boxes and furniture out of pretty much anything. In my teens, it was the internet and Kisekae. (It was just like Barbies!!) Then I moved on to the television show Charmed (there might still be a lingering spark) during my senior year in high school. Then there was House M.D. both of which I would read an obscene amount of fanfic. Don't judge. If you're reading this, you've been there too. Stemming from that fanfic, I found Skoosiepants and her amazing "Dirty Trousers" HP fanfic, which grew to bandfic and how I found Panic! At the Disco and Fallout Boy and The Academy Is...

I could go on and on...my point is that, except for the Barbies, it has always come back to reading. After the fanfic stage, it got pretty expensive. Four weeks ago, I got a library card. It's my favorite thing right now; I'm obsessed. I've already checked out and read seven books in the past three weeks and I just got eleven more today. Now that I have some free time, I think it's going to get out of control. But at least it's a healthy obsession, right?

...Right??

Sunday Faves

As of right now, I will not buy another book on writing for at least a year. I already have twenty on my desk, not counting the one I'm reading (for the past two months) and probably have a couple more floating around here somewhere. This will work...I hope. Since I've read a fare bit of them, here are three(or four) of my favorites:

• Page after Page by Heather Sellers- These are very motivating and she provides a different way of viewing the writing life, like viewing writing as a Lover and treating it like you were enamored and showering it with affection.


• Sin and Syntax by Constance Hale- This woman has a hell of a way with words and is pretty funny. It focuses more on grammar and using words effectively to make compelling sentences.


• What Would Your Character Do? by Eric Maisel, PhD and Anna Maisel- This book is just plain fun! I use it mainly to figure out more in-depth things about my characters. Basically, it's a set of quizzes involving situations, events and even moral crises with each answer providing insight from a psychological point-of-view. There's also loads of other interesting things at the end of the quiz.