Inspiration of the Day

Cause I know you love them...
And I think I might have an addiction. :)

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C.M. Villani: Inside the Heart of a Storyteller

My blog chronicles the misadventures of the wild, high-living, munchkin wrangling, hubby pleasing, butt kicker that is me - CMV. :) Just kidding (well sort of). Honestly, I started this blog at the beginning of last year to post about the highs and lows that come with the desire to become a published author. And boy are there many.

On occastion, I'm also known to post up some snippets of advice, total all out rants, and a good song here and there. Hope you guys poke around a little bit to check out what I'm all about.

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~Something Old~

For my blogging advice, I wanted to repost the links I put up at the beginning of the week to the how-to tutorials for creating Blog Badges/Buttons and the scroll box for the embed codes below it. It really isn't all that hard and it makes a great way to promote your blog!

Check it out

~Something New~

For those of you who have been here for a while, you'll know that I recently came to the decision that I needed to rewrite the first few chapters of my current work in progress

- THE TOUCH OF DEATH -

So as something big for the SheWrites blog hop I wanted to share my recently finished first chapter. Enjoy!

** Chapter One **

~Something Borrowed~

As I said above I - on occasion (okay three times last week but who's counting) - post up great new songs that I find.

Here is a great new one

~Something Blue~

Well besides the majority of my blog... :)

I created a series of Blog Badges/Buttons for Snag My Badge!

If you want to/like to, you can grab one to post up on your site!

Check them out on the right hand side of the page.

Thanks in advance.

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Inspiration for the Day

Okay so Valentine's Day didn't count for this week's IFTD ( I feel like my daughter ..."That didn't count, Mom!") So this is my little muse moment for this week.

A song that I absolutely loved since the moment my bestie sent it to me. This is Dream by Pricilla Ahn. Enjoy!

SheWrites Blog Hop Idea (Part Two)

Okay so my bestie - also known as the wise and glorious webmistress Nicole - found me this site with some great tutorials on how to create your site badge and how to create the scroll box underneath it with the embed codes for people to copy.

And because I give credit where credit is due - Thanks Jess over on A Few of my Favorite Things for the tutorials!!! You rock!

P.S. You think this counts as my blogging advice for the blog hop? :D

Shewrites Blog Hop

So I'm going to participate in Meg Waite Clayton's Blog Hop over at Shewrites which starts Thursday morning and runs through Sunday (I believe). I know a lot of you also belong to Shewrites, and I thought it might be something fun to create site badges for people to collect as they go through the blogs. Similar to the one from Shewrites I have in the right hand column of this blog.



If people want they can even post up the badges on their own blog to help cross promote each other's work.

What do you think?

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Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

Make sure you give someone a hug today

because we all need a little love.

Surprisingly NOT an Inspiration for the Day :)

So I had a thought today about my main characters. How much of your own personality leaches into them?

For me, they typically have a great deal of my personality in them. No I’m not saying that I’m writing myself onto those pages just that they tend to pick up some of my more charming :) personality traits as they go.

Right now my MC is a snarky, butt-kicking, she-well, you know. I know…I know you are all saying that doesn’t sound anything like me! **cue the maniacal laughter** but honestly Jordan (my MC) seems to inhabit that tiny voice in the back of my head when people tick me off. Okay so maybe not so tiny. But her voice is everything I wish I could say to people. Talk about a therapeutic outlet huh?

In my previous story – THE PLAINS OF PURGATORY – my MC was compassionate and willing to do almost anything to help her friends. Despite how vein it sounds, also a big part of my personality.

So my question to you is how much of your own personality ends up in you main characters?