Keeping My Muse Happy

Keeping my muse happy w/fireworks.

You may have heard writers talking about not being able to write when their muse is unhappy. Or that their muse has run off and abandoned them. Sometimes I feel like my muse ran off with the devil and they're both sitting somewhere mocking me as I fumble for just the right word, typing and deleting numerous time over the time frame of an hour. I've even done it here on the blog before giving up and deciding to try it again tomorrow.

A writer must keep her muse happy. How do I do that, you ask? Well, my muse is particularly enthralled with loud, raunchy music that has a deep booming beat. Anything with a lot of bass and preferably curse words. Oh, and a Diet Mountain Dew to go with it. She also likes hot tea and chocolate, but usually only one cup of tea a day. Sometimes my muse demands I take a break from writing entirely and recharge with a comedy or a good book. But usually, it's the raunchy music that works on a day to day basis.

Today, for example, we started out together with a mug of hot peach tea and listening to Ludacris, and ended our writing time with a Diet Mountain Dew, piece of Lindt Lindor chocolate, listening to 50 Cent. In the middle there was Meghan Trainer, 21 Pilots, Nicki Minaj, Stabbing Westward, and Pink. Plus many more. I work for no less than 3 hour stretches so I have to have a large music library.

Sometimes I think it would be fun to match my music choices with the character I'm writing, but then I realize that's just too much work. LOL! Sooooo, I just listen to all of it all the time.

If you have a question about what inspires my muse feel free to ask below or email me at authorchristiesilvers@gmail.com and I'll do my best to answer it. :)

My Favorite Things: Movies

Since I'm trying to get back into the flow of blogging regularly, I'm starting a new blog series titled My Favorite Things. These will be monthly and will range from today's topic of movies to books, nail polish, authors, electronics, and many more. There's no telling what I'll decide is a favorite thing to share with all of you.  ;)

Let's jump into today's post. Here is a list of my favorite movies (thus far), in no particular order or genre.

• Underworld series
• Queen of the Damned
• Skinwalkers (Not for the acting, but for the actor Jason Behr)
• Resident Evil series
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
• Wanderlust
• Fright Night
• The Adjustment Bureau
• Dogma
• Skyline
• Inception
• Lost Boys
• An American Werewolf in Paris
• Anything with Brenden Fraser ;)

Are we seeing a pattern here? Eek! :D  I do enjoy vampires, werewolves, ghosts, aliens, and any other monster. I'm also big on murder horrors: The Cabin in the Woods, Midnight Meat Train, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Ferryman, and many more.

What movies on are your favorites list?

Time to give away a free book!

Welcome to Saturday! Today's the big day for everyone to enter for a chance to win your very own autographed copy of A Midnight Infatuation. All you have to do is stop by Robin Renee Ray's website and leave a comment/question/Hello to my newest interview.

http://robinreneeray.webs.com/apps/blog/show/1444125-christie-silvers-interview-giveaway-contest-#comments

It's super easy! There have already been several comments, and I'm going to be keeping up with it all day to answer questions and respond to comments. Stop by and check it out.

Don't forget that my mini-poster give-away ends next week. If you haven't entered for your chance to win, stop by and do it today. You never know when your name will be the one chosen.

http://www.christiesilvers.com/contestsgiveaways.htm

Now that those are out of the way, I'm guessing that some of you are curious about how the lab situation went yesterday. LOL.

Mom had the girls for last night, so at least we didn't have to explain to them what was in the plastic cup and why we had to rush it to the hospital. LOL!! It was 5:20pm when we left the house and headed to the lab. We got there and had to fill out paperwork at the front desk. Then they sent us back to the lab where I had to fill out a very interesting form with the following questions:

1. How was sample collected? ____________ (Masterbation, i.e.)
2. What type of container? _____________ (Plastic, Glass)
3. What time was sample collected? _________
4. What time was sample submitted to lab? ____________

And a few other questions with name and age, and such.

I couldn't help but giggle when I saw the first question on that paper. LOL. I looked at Tim and he kind of just shrugged and roamed around behind me. I simply wrote "SEX" in the blank and moved on. Hahahaha! Later that night we were laughing about it and joking that I should have put, "A little bit of this & a little bit of that." Hahahaha!!!

After all that was finished I texted my friend Shannon with a Woohoo! It's done! Now we just wait until Monday for the doctor to let us know the results.

Some people think it's funny that I'm so excited about this, but seriously, it took me YEARS to convince this man to do this. And it took and "Oh shit!" moment back in February before he'd consider it. Oh, that and the fact that one of his friends had it done and he didn't DIE. *eyeroll*

I'm ready to be out of the baby birthing part of our lives and get into the enjoying our lives mode. Woohoo! So yes, I am excited, and I can't wait to hear that he's all clear Monday. :-)

After sample submission, we went to the movie theater and saw the new Transformers 2 movie. It was awesome. We used one of my Buy 1, Get 1 Free movie ticket coupons, so we only spent $8.50 there. Yay!

Okay, I better get going for today. I have laundry to do and Mom will be bringing the girls home soon. It's quiet in the house right now, and quite nice. Tim is going out to change the oil in the van in preparation for our trip next week. And we're planning to go swimming later. Should be a nice day. :-)

Stop by the contests today. Don't forget! ;-)

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Wanna Know Wednesday #22

Good morning! Wecome to yet another Hump Day. I was hoping that I'd wake up to sunshine this morning, but it didn't happen. Looks like it'll be yet another dreary, drizzly day around here. I'm missing my good friend The Sun.

Thank you for the kind responses yesterday, both on here and personally emailed to me, about all the negativity. It really does drive me batty. Tim and I have--what we consider--a wonderful life together. And it really bothers me when others try to begrudge that because of their own negative thoughts and actions. You will always get back what you put out into the world. Be positive, and be happy! :-)

I'm happy to say that my give-away entries have picked up. Good luck to all who've entered! For those who haven't, stop by and enter for your chance to win an autographed mini-poster of A Midnight Infatuation!

While you're there, check out the forums and photo gallery. It only takes a moment to become a site member to be able to post in the forums with me. I have several family pictures and pictures of things we're considering for our vow renewal ceremony in the photo gallery. Leave a comment with your thoughts. :-)

Ahhh, it's that day of the week again. I've been doing this for 5 1/2 months now. This week's Wanna Know Wednesday topic is:

The Last 10 Movies I've Watched

1. Better Than Sex
2. Leatherheads
3. Feast of Love
4. Blackout
5. The Secret
6. Yes Man
7. Confessions of a Shopaholic
8. Inkheart
9. When Nature Calls: Without a Paddle
10. Henry Poole Was Here

I love having Netflix. It makes it so easy to watch movies you'e never seen--even if they stink to high heaven--and not waste money on the bad ones. Trust me, I've watched enough bad ones lately to make me thankful of not having to spend $5 a pop at the local video store. Yay for Netflix! Plus I really like the Instant Play, and being able to play it on the Xbox 360.

So today is Tim's last day of work for the week. He only has twelve days of work left after this week. Twelve days! That's not even half a month. I give him a month before he's bored. LOL. He's already declared that he'll become my househusband when it happens so that I can finish the edits and rewrites for Time For Death a little sooner. I'll be amazed if he even comes close to being able to handle all I do in a day. Especially with the kids out of school. LOL.

I have a touch of a headache this morning, but at least I don't have to do any running around today. I did a lot of that yesterday. Today I just plan to do laundry and work on edits. I have one article pending an offer, and will share it when it's published. Oh, I'm getting closer to that 1 million pageview mark on there! If you'd like to help out, visit my page on AC and read an article (or two). :-)

Okay, I'm off for today. Have a great one!

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Wanna Know Wednesday #5...

Good morning everyone. This morning was about eight degrees cooler than the last two had been. Yet we're still in the 50's so it's still nice enough. Unfortunately, rain is suppose to be moving in late tonight/tomorrow and be hanging around for the next week. Ugh! At least I got to enjoy many days of warm and sunny days. :-)

Okay, today's Wanna Know Wednesday is about movies. Tim & I have a Netflix subscription and we're always watching something new. We have watched 43 movie since the first of the year. No, I'm not going to list all 43, LOL. But here are the last ten that I'v seen.

~Transporter 3 -- Watched last night.
~City of Ember
~Equilibrium
~Australia
~Dracula III: Legacy
~Dracula II: Ascension
~Bram Stoker's Dracula
~The Haunting of Molly Hartley
~Dracula 2000
~Penelope

Yes, as you can see, I have been on a kick with old vampire movies. LOL! I was in the mood to rewatch a few, and Netflix makes that super easy to do. I still have Role Models and Rachel Getting Married sitting on the tv waiting for me to get to them.

Well, I'm off to get some work done. I hope you have a great Hump Day!

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Spotlighted on Author Robin Renee Ray's blog.

Yesterday I spoke about a little article/interview I did for an author friend. I promised to link to it as soon as she had it posted. Here it is!

Click here to visit.

I had fun doing this and hope you'll stop by to check it out.

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Well, after days and days of rain, it finally stopped. Yay! I drive an older minivan and it makes me nervous to be running around in flooding streets. No matter how much the hubby works on it, the belt on that van will pop off if I hit a puddle of water. Leaving me stranded where ever I am. It did this back in 2004 and Tim fixed it. Now it's back to doing it again. Blah!

I told him yesterday that it's time to start thinking about getting something else. I alway buy used and always keep my vehicles until they make me feel unsafe driving me and the kids around in it. It's that time.

I was thinking about going back to having a car, but then I really do like the space that the minivan offers with all three kids. I'll probably just go with another van, but one of these days I'll be able to go back to a little car for just me. That'll be nice. LOL.

At this moment I'm watching "Ghost Town". It seems okay, but not overly funny. Maybe it'll pick up. Once it goes off I'll be getting to work on my writing. Then this afternoon I have to take all three girls for their 6 month dental checkup. Tomorrow I have my yearly eye exam (2 months over due). Then over the weekend I'll be hosting my youngest daughter's 4th birthday party. So much to do, so little time!

Have a great day everyone!

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Thursday Thirteen - Movies!

It's already Thursday? Where did the week go? I don't feel like I've gotten anything done this week, even though all the items on my To-Do list are marked off.

This week's Thursday Thirteen topic is............

Thirteen DVDs That I've Watched Recently:

1. The Other Boleyn Girl
2. Jumper
3. Season 1 of Dexter
4. Seasons 1-6 of Smallville
5. Season 1 of The Tudors
6. Revolver (this was a terrible movie)
7. The Water Horse (the girls loved it!)
8. The Reaping
9. National Treasure: Book of Secrets
10. The Golden Compass
11. The Mist
12. Dragon Wars
13. Saw IV

Ah well, sounds like the girls are fighting again. Looks like it's time for me to find them some more housework to do this morning. LOL! One of these days they'll learn, but in the meantime I'll have a clean house. LOL!