Today's 400th Beautiful Thing

Today's Beautiful Thing, my other Blog, is celebrating it's 400th post today! I hope you'll stop by and visit me over there on those days you need a little pick-me-up. :)

This just in

Writing is hard.

That's all.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ~ Thomas Mann

(I stole this quote from Charity's new Blog. Check it out.)

Strange

Anyone else having a problem posting? My new posts are showing over here, but not on my other Blogger Blog, Today's Beautiful Thing. Weird.

Coolness!

My friend Viki was in the paper!

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Victoria Campbell just re-read the sixth “Harry Potter” book in anxious anticipation of Saturday’s launch of the seventh — and last — J.K. Rowling novel about the boy wizard.

Campbell is no kid. She’s the head of youth services for the Beaverton City Library.

Just like thousands of other Harry Potter readers, Campbell is counting down the hours until the hefty 784-page “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” will be popped onto bookstore and library shelves.

“People are excited about this,” Campbell said. “In a way I’m kind of sad that this is the last one. All the previous (Harry Potter) books just fly off the shelves. You see kids and teens really excited about reading.”
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Go here to read the entire (short) article. Congrats to Ms. Campbell on her 15 minutes of fame!

Viki was also nice enough to mention my other blog, Today's Beautiful Thing, on her wonderful Blog. Thank you!

RWA National 2007~ Dallas

It's that time again! This week is the RWA's Annual Conference. If you've ever attended one of these things, you know what a great time it is. What could be more fun than a 2,500 fiction writers, round-the-clock workshops, free books, great meals, rooming with your buddies, meeting your favorite authors, making new friends, and a moonlight madness bazaar? I can't think of much. Top it all off with the Saturday night Rita and Golden Heart Award Ceremony (think the Oscars for writers) and it's a seriously great week!

The hardest part is being one of the people left behind. I love reading my friends' blogs and looking at the photos they're posting and I thank them for doing it. I'd be climbing the walls if it wasn't for them.

I'm also giving a big shout out to Jude who is once again running Blogging National. If you are going through National withdrawals like me, check it out. It's got a nice list of links to many National attendees who are blogging.

Does anyone know...

how to post pictures in Blogger within the text? Whenever I try to write a little and then post a pic, then write some more, and then post a pic, Blogger just puts them all at the top of my post--in backwards order to boot.

Also, does anyone know how to turn my pictures sideways in Blogger? Whenever I have a photo that I took horizontally and I try to post it, it's sideways. Even if I've already flipped it in my photo program.

Thanks to anyone who can help!

Current mood: confused

Hmmm...

I just upgraded to the new Blogger in Beta. I'm still not sure what that means, but I did it. Blogger made it sound like there would be all these cool new templates to change the look of my Blog, but I didn't see any more than they had before. It would be good if they could at least add more color choices to the ones they already have. Oh well. I have no idea if the new Beta Blogger dropped features that I like. I guess time will tell.

So, Writerly Ramblings looks pretty much the same, no?

Current mood: sleepy. Time for bed.