Let’s see, there’s not that much to talk about tonight. (Haven’t I babbled enough the last couple of nights?) But I do have a couple interesting links for you:

A roller coaster you need to pedal? Apparently they’ve had these in England, but this is fairly new, over in Japan. Do make a point of clicking on “additional pictures” so you can see the, um, fantastic translation into English…. (grin)

And, this link from Miss Snark’s literary agent blog . . . she gives advice to writers as to how to approach agents and such, and she’s entertaining and informative in her snarky way, but this one “query” letter she blogged about? Oh my, those people have gall. (Maybe you need to know what the querying rules are to appreciate it, but still! Trust me, it’s priceless.)

And, you know, really? That’s about it. Except for the BTT:

Booking Through Thursday

1. Speaking of writing in books, what about writing the entire thing? Do you write? Aspire to write? Dream about writing? Well, yes, actually, kind of all the above. I haven’t actually written lately (other than blogging and emails), but I do have one completed mss that I’d like to get published–though I haven’t sent it out in a couple of years–and I have two others that are about 275 pages each, but not nearly finished. But, yeah, I do at least kind of write (grin).

   I even posted a picture of it in my “Firsts” post back in 2005 . . . come to think of it, that was a ton of fun–feel free to pick that up as a meme, huh?

2. If you do write, do you do it for yourself, or because you hope to be published? (Or because you ARE published?) A little of both. I wrote my first book solely because I wanted to have that story on paper and out of my head. I wrote it because it was a story I wanted to READ, only nobody else was writing it for me, so I bit the bullet and wrote it myself. I really rather love that story. The other two? I did kind of have publication in mind when I wrote them, which I sort of think jinxed them a little. And, well, the idea for that other book did come from an incredibly vivid dream, which was pretty nifty. Otherwise? The occasional poem, but not that often. I usually only write them when I’ve got some strong emotion that needs letting out, and generally I’m a pretty mellow person, so that doesn’t come up that often!

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