This just in! After 31 years worth of searching, Jimmy Hoffa is STILL MISSING!!! 
I feel sorry for the people who owned that farm in Michigan the FBI’s been digging up for the last two weeks. They even knocked down a barn and dug up the ground under it! I sure hope the owners are reimbursed for all the damage. As for Jimmy, he’s probably living it up in Brazil surrounded by lots of scantily clad women. 
I watched Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire last night. I’d recorded it on Pay-Per-View and they had some additional stuff about the movie afterwards that was fun. 
For instance, did you know Daniel Radcliffe did some of his own stunts? Such as the scene where Harry’s slidiing off the roof of the school during the Dragon Task.
Getting back to all my story ideas… some of them have been banging around for years. Mandy probably even recognized some of them. However, the large majority have little to nothing actually written on them. They’re just notes I’ve made. And, no, most of them have no plot. I suck at plotting.
One of today’s horoscopes:
“Your talents are unique—and your ways of expressing them are even more so. If you’re still not sure exactly what your gifts are and how to share them with the world, take heart—you’re about to get a big hint.” (Well, I know what it ISN’T. Plotting. :rofl:)
After 31 years worth of searching, Jimmy Hoffa is STILL MISSING!!!
Hee. I once saw a sitcom in which a character was worried that her son was late for dinner.
Friend: “He’s only 15 minutes late.”
Mother: “At one point, so was Jimmy Hoffa!”
One day I am going to steal that line, although I’ll probably subsitute Bill Barilko for Jimmy Hoffa.
Comment by Coneycat — May 31, 2006 @ 2:26 pm
Something that’s really helped me with ploting is outlines. If I know what goes here and here I can do all the cool stuff like foreshadowing. Even if the plot morphs in the writing it still helps. I’d love to see you publish.
Comment by Mandy — May 31, 2006 @ 3:18 pm
Plotting?
Not my strong point. Okay. Not even in the same universe. So I know exactly what you’re saying.
Now tell me more about those unique talents.
Grins*
Comment by Crystal* — May 31, 2006 @ 3:53 pm
Shelley - LOL! That line could work for a lot of people.
Mandy - I’m slowly learning how to do this, but my mind tends to wander off and leave me wondering what happens next. Or, worse, I start getting bored. Ack!
Crystal - We really are twins! LOL! As for those talents, I’m still waiting for the Big Hint.
Comment by Tori — May 31, 2006 @ 4:30 pm
Plot?
No habla plot. I’m pure pantster. I’ve tried outlining and it didn’t work.
Why are they wasting money looking for Hoffa? Should they still be looking for Elvis?
Comment by Rene — May 31, 2006 @ 5:56 pm
Rene - From what I understand some guy in prison who is on his deathbed told authorities recently that he helped bury Hoffa on this farm in Michigan. So much for the deathbed confession. *g*
Comment by Tori — May 31, 2006 @ 6:03 pm
Plotting isn’t my strong point. Neither is characterization, theme, motivation…
I could go on. But by gosh, my hunky guys are!!!
Comment by SandyJ — May 31, 2006 @ 6:14 pm
“Your talents are unique—and your ways of expressing them are even more so. If you’re still not sure exactly what your gifts are and how to share them with the world, take heart—you’re about to get a big hint.â€
Yeah, they tossed that at me, too. I sure hope it isn’t designing web sites — all my clients have gone nuts and want major revisions, and guess who’s going out of town for the weekend?
Hope this means about to commit serious novel plotting…
Comment by Alfreda89 — June 1, 2006 @ 12:03 am
Plotting? Only in gardening. I’m a total panster.
Hoffa? Don’t you know? He ran off with Amelia Earhart.
Comment by Eve — June 1, 2006 @ 10:18 am