Stronger

I know I did this last week, yet I discovered this song last night and it really spoke to me and felt the need to share. So Ally and I hope you enjoy it. It is a song we can both totally relate to.

 

 

Especially these words …..

I’m gonna love myself more than anyone else
Believe in me, even if someone can’t see
A stronger woman in me
I’m gonna be my own best friend
Stick with me till the end
I won’t lose myself again, never, no
‘Cause there’s a stronger woman,
A stronger woman

 

~MJ

off the deep end again

I’ve done it again.  I’ve signed up for yet another writing challenge. 

Anyone who has paid attention knows that I don’t have a great track record with writing challenges.  I usually hit a road block, flake, and never get back going again.  I did it with my own fast drafting challenge a few months ago.   I did it with a Divas RoDiWriMo in February.   I even did it with Sven, which is a slower, 70 day challenge, for God’s sake.  I did however manage to kick some butt with NaNo and I’m hoping—fingers crossed—that I can rediscover the mojo I was feeling then and make it work for me now. 

Divas Fast Draft starts in two days and I’m looking to redeem myself by haulin’ some major ass for two weeks.  Like 15-ish pages a day ass haulin’ is what I’m talking about.  I’m nuts, I know.  I’m lucky I can get 5 pages done, let alone 15.  But, again…it’s only for two weeks.  Two measly weeks out of my life.  I can totally do that. 

So, check back next week to see how I’m doing.  Will I flake again?  Or will I find my redemption?

(Feel free to make bets )

~Ally

ETA:  Since no one tried to guess at my lyrics contest last week, I went ahead about ordered myself Gena Showalter’s The Darkest Night.  So, in a way…thanks for not trying. LOL

Hey Baby what’s Your Sign?

Oh the joys of pick up lines. That’s what we are dishing today. Just for fun, let’s take a gander at some of these beauties I found…

 

1. Are your legs tired? ’cause you been running through my mind ALL day long.
2. Look at you with all those curves, and me with no brakes.
3. I’m new in town. Can you give me direction to your apartment?
4. I’m feeling a little off today. Would you like to turn me on?
5. You can forget about going to heaven because it’s a sin to look that good.
6. Baby you look so sweet you’re giving me a cavity.
7. Be unique and different, say yes.
8. I’m fighting the urge to make you the happiest woman on earth tonight.
9. Gee, that’s a nice set of legs, what time do they open?
10. Should I call you in the morning or nudge you?

I can just see the hero in a romance novel making away with the heroine for some hot and heavy entanglements after delivering one of these lines. What are some pick up lines you have heard, used, or written?

 

~MJ

So I’m Slacking

Or is that lacking? Maybe it’s both. This blog should have been written last night. That obviously didn’t happen. Truth be told, my brain is feeling a little fried as of late. Too much trying to crowd its way in I guess, not to mention the amount of info I am trying to squeeze out I guess.

Those of you who know me will even be shocked to hear that my daydreaming of hunky hot men has even suffered. (Pause for stunned silence) I know. I mean I really KNOW! No amount of beer, Schmirnoff, or decadent desserts has been able to pry me from the clutches of whatever unknown affliction that has managed to take hold of me.

I am desperate. I need help. Call in the men in white lab coats, (the better looking the more likely I am to co-operate). Even though the writing and editing seem to be going well, and my dedicated CP has been keeping me accountable, I am just not feeling it. So, instead of a wonderful blog that I had intended to write, I am sitting rambling. To try to save myself from completely embarrassing myself, I have decided to find something that always picks me up.

 

~MJ

 

Music Monday Contest

Before I say anything else, I have to admit…  I completely stole this idea from Fishdog’s blog.  He’s the Best.  Husband.  Ever.  to my fantabulous mentor, Mel-O-Diva.  And his blog’s funnier than hell, so go ahead…click on his link.  But then come back and play my…er, his..game.  :)  The prize will be a $15 Barnes and Noble online gift certificate delivered right to your email.

All you have to do is identify as many of the songs listed below and EMAIL ME your guesses at allykendall@live.com  Leave a comment here, too, giving the number you think you know.  But PLEASE…don’t list the answers here.  I know…I’m anal.  But it’s easy enough to cheat on this kind of contest, so let’s not make it any easier, ‘kay?  And now that I’ve brought up cheating, don’t Google the lyrics either.  Play fair.  It’s more fun that way.  BTW, even if you *think* you know the song, but can’t pinpoint it exactly…take a guess.  If you know it’s an 80s hair band song (not saying for sure there are any ), but you can’t think of which one…tell me it’s a hair band song and, if there should be a tie, I’ll give you partial credit to win. 

There’s no rhyme or reason for this list.  I just went down my Rhapsody library list and picked some songs.  I think some are more obvious than others, some harder. 

The contest will run until Wednesday at noon CST, after which I’ll post the winner and hook ‘em up with their B&N gift certificate.

Happy Monday and Good Luck!!

 

1. Right now, she’s probably saying “I’m drunk”
   and he’s a thinking that he’s gonna lucky,
   Right now, he’s probably dabbing 3 dollars worth of that bathroom Polo…
   And he don’t know…
2. On my knees, I’ll ask
   Last chance for one last dance
   ‘Cause with you, I’d withstand
   All of hell to hold your hand
3. Ya - nothin’ could change what you mean to me
   Oh there’s lots that I could say
   But just hold me now
   Cause our love will light the way
4. You want me
   Come find me
   Made up your mind?
5. You don’t know how long I have wanted
   to touch your lips and hold you tight, oh
   You don’t know how long I have waited
   and I was going to tell you tonight
6. You’re always hiding behind your so called goddess
   So what you don’t think that we can’t see your face
   Resurrected and back before the final fallen
   I’ll never rest until I can make my own way
   I’m not afraid of fading
7. Oh, I hear the weather’s nice in California
   There’s sunny skies as far I can see
   If you ever come back home to Carolina
   I wonder what you’d say to me
8. Come break me down
   Bury me, bury me
   I am finished with you
9. Without a doubt
   The break-up is worth the make-up sex you’re givin’ me
   Lets hash it out
   Cause your bitchin’ and your yellin’ don’t mean anything
10. I’m falling apart, I’m barely breathing
    With a broken heart that’s still beating
    In the pain is there is healing
    In your name I find meaning
11. If you needed love, well then ask for love
    Could’ve given love, now I’m taking love
    And it’s not my fault, cause you both deserve
    What’s coming now, so don’t say a word
12. Just barely got out of school, came from the edge of town.
    Fought like a switchblade so no one could take him down.
    He had no money, oooh no good at home.
    He walked the streets a soldier and he fought the world alone
13. So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad.
    And though I’m nobody’s poet, I thought it wasn’t half-bad.
14. Now there’s not even breathin’ room
    Between pleasure and pain
    Yeah you cry when we’re makin’ love
    Must be one and the same
15. I see your face before me
    as I lay on my bed
    I kinda get to thinking
    of all the things you said
16. Take a chance on love and try how it feels
    With my heart wide open now you know I will
    Find what it means to be the girl
    Change her mind and change her world
17. I see your face every time I dream
    On every page, every magazine
    So wild so free so far from me
    You’re all I want, my fantasy
18. The whole damned world is just as obsessed
    With who‘s the best dressed and who’s having sex
    Who‘s got the money. Who gets the honeys
    Who‘s kinda cute and who‘s just a mess

Coming Soon To A Bar Near You…

“What’s a girl gotta do to get a Long Hot Night and a Screaming Orgasm around here?”

“Might I suggest a little Foreplay and a Nymphomaniac with a Hard Dick?”

Oh, the interesting dialogue that could potentially be exchanged between a customer and a bartender. J

When trying to come up with a snappy line for a bar scene I was writing a few weeks ago, I googled ‘sexy drink names’ and came across a site with an absolutely hilarious list of ‘sexy drinks.’

Ever heard of a ‘Cum Drop’?  How about ‘Southern Bondage’?  A ‘Tight Snatch’ perhaps?

I have a hard time ordering a Sloe Screw without being harassed (could be that I live in the boonies and all the bartenders around here are pervy old men)—I can’t even imagine ordering something more risqué.  Though I have to admit, it’d be really fun with a smokin’ hot bartender. J

Anyhow, MJ and I spent far too much time laughing our asses off at this list (click here to see it) and we thought, you know, with summer coming and the inevitable return of drunken, backyard barbeques with your friends, you might find something interesting to bring to the party.

Cheers…

They Did It Where?!?!

Ok, don’t ask me why this idea popped into my head, but I just began to wonder what some of the odd places that writers may have their charactrers get down and dirty. Sure there are the old stand-by’s like the car, kitchen floor, but those aren’t really odd now are they?

My sex scenes have been written in very typical places like the bedroom and the shower. Now I know that is not a bad thing, but when your characters want to change it up a bit, isn’t it our duty to oblige? If you were to type in “odd places to have sex”, your search would undoubtedly return some pretty interesting things. One site suggested on top an exercise ball, a hammock, on top of a running washing machine, and in a dressing room.  

Interesting choices as those are, I think there are probably far more intersting palces that you have either read or written yourselves. So when you tire of writing the same old bedroom sex scenes, where does you mind venture to? I know many of you are very creative and can probably give me some places that no man had boldly gone before. Come on, give it up….  

MJ

 

plot preference?

Just a quickie post today, because, once again, I’ve got a gazillion things going all at once.  Story of my life.

Anyhow, I was thinking on the way to the vet this morning (KC, my feline fur ball, is getting spayed as I type) about the different stories I’ve started, and I came to realize that all of them , more or less, have the same type of plot—a forbidden love affair.   

Of course, our heroes are supposed to be the most unlikely man for our heroines, but I tend to fall into the rut of creating plots in which the inevitable love affair requires sneaking around.  You know, the hero is the heroine’s brother’s best friend or the heroine is the hero’s best friend’s ex-girlfriend or wife.  The relationship—or the ear-ringing, toe-curling sex, as it usually is my stories—is kept on the lowdown as not to make waves and piss anyone off.

I have no idea why I like this type of plot so much.  None of the boyfriends I had during my impressionable years ever had a friend that I lusted after.  Or a brother I hoped to catch coming from the shower in nothing but a towel slung dangerously low around his hips.  Why I prefer to write—and read, for that matter—forbidden love is a mystery to me.

So, I’m wondering…do you find yourself writing with a tendency toward one or even a couple types of master plots?  If so, is it just a matter of preference or is there a reason behind why you write what you do?  And, of course, last but not least, what are your favorite master plots?  Rescue?  Revenge? Temptation?

Thanks in advance for sharing!

~Ally

And This is Why Ally Wants to Come to Vegas….

But the one up front, yeah in the black vest… quit looking. He already has MJ’s name on him… he stole my hat, possibly my chaps, maybe even my whip. I have to get them back. Sorry ladies, but there are more where he came from.

Hope you enjoy your weekend!

Xoxo,
MJ & Ally

What Happens In Vegas….

A slogan that has done little to tarnish the “Sin City” image that Vegas has been trying to shirk, makes its appearance in a more true form in Moira Mc Tark’s “Nothing Stays in Vegas”

Let me give you a little teaser-

Will one night in Sin City equal a lifetime of regret?

On his way to be best man at his friend’s wedding, Caleb Daniels has high hopes that his run of bad relationships has come to an end. He can’t wait to lay eyes—and hands—on the funny and intelligent maid of honor. They’ve never met, but she’s been charming him for weeks over the internet.

At first Lara Sinclair’s cyberspace chats with Cal centered around the preparations for her sister’s extravagant wedding, but it quickly blossomed into an intense online affair. Now she’s more than ready to meet him face to face, and have his fingers stroke more than just the keyboard.

But before she can even say hello to the sexy groomsman, her trouble-come-hither, look-alike sister bursts her bubble with a bona-fide, happily-every-after emergency. And Lara finds herself faced with a heartbreaking choice.

Let her sister solve her own problems, or risk her budding relationship with Cal to help save the wedding—by pretending to be someone she’s not.

 

Now that’s out of the way, let me say a simple whew! From the first page, this book grabs hold and says don’t put me down or you just might miss something HAWT! That’s right, I said it. The relationship between Cal and Lara had you rooting for them from the onset. Then her sister walks onto the page and you absolutely loathe her, but can feel the pull of sisterly bond Lara feels bound by.  Moira takes you along on this emotional rollercoaster, pulling you in with characters that make you love them, hate them for their stupidity, and then love them all over again. The sex and tension in this book is definitely worth getting hot and bothered over, it’s a sure bet in my opinion!

 

Happy Reading!

Xoxo, MJ