Monthly Archives: January 2012

Random Stuff and Stuff I Love

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1. Can you verbally describe the story you're writing? I am horrible at this. Though I've been told I have a pretty good logline for my current story, if someone asks for elaboration, I'm in trouble. This week I realized I'm equally horrible at describing the books I read, the TV shows I love, and the movies I see. Definitely something to work on.

2. While I'm sticking faithfully to my New Year's resolution to write daily, my health goals haven't been so easy. Is anyone doing Weight Watchers? I'm doing it on my own with the Points so I'll probably update progess here. Maybe it will work better that way.

3. If you are gluten-free, I just tried Udi's Gluten Free Pizza Crust for the first time, and all I can say is FINALLY! Someone finally got store-bought, GF pizza crust right. Thank you, Udi's! (Hey I know it's pizza but I'm within my Points, so there.)

4. Another thing I love is Maggie Stiefvater's Scorpio Races. Read it. I won't describe it because I'll fail. The Scorpio Races

Buying Books

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Do you buy books? I'm a little addicted to buying them from this place since the nearest bookstore to my house is over 25 miles away. My house is bigger than our local library, and I'm way too impatient to wait for the 100 people in front of me on the wait list.

While on eBay, bidding on a hand bag (Christmas present), I thought, hey, Shannon, why not see if ebay sells books? Duh. I can't believe all these years I've bought stuff on eBay and never thought of this! As a result, I'm bidding on three YA books (currently the high bidder, BTW), and have two on the way thanks to Buy It Now.

So now I'm feeling a little guilty, not because I'm spending money, because books are truly my only frequent indulgence, next to chocolate; I feel guilty about it because of karma. Buying the books cheap or second-hand means I'm taking away money the author could make, right? I feel it my duty as a writer to buy books if I ever hope to sell some. But then again, one of those Buy It Now books came from a bookstore, which means they'll buy new books and keep the authors in business, right?

What do you think?