How to Survive #1 – Go Off The Grid (Lessons from Horror Movies)

Give Up Electricity

There are waves pulsating all around us that can not be interpreted by our five senses. Electronic devices that can interpret these waves–translate them so that our senses can process them–have the potential of becoming gateways for the supernatural. Or rather, supernatural creatures can manipulate them to come into our world and frighten us to death. A cursed video tape (The Ring) is nothing without a vcr/television to view it.

If technology makes you nervous, there are lots of movies out there to feed your fears:

One Missed Call – cell phones with messages of doom

976 – Evil – automated horror-scopes come true!

Pulse – everything hooked up to electricity, even the laser printer

Or, this gem from 1989:

You’re better off just living off the land. Well, unless you have cannibals for neighbors.

Hello October…

A little ditty to welcome in the month:

A tisket, a tasket / I lost my oblong casket
Got to find it before dawn or my soul will be gone…

Van Helsing is ratchet / he desecrated my casket
I’ll curse his family for all time / eviscerate their minds

Okay, I’m still working on it. In the meantime, here’s a holiday favorite:

Warning: if you are squeamish, you should probably cover your eyes

Aargh!

Editing a novel is like trying to solve a Rubik’s cube–you straighten out one plot issue and three new ones appear. This is now much easier to understand.

If anything, it’s heartening to read blogs/tweets from other writers and see that editing can be a challenge–no matter if you are on your 1st or you 5th novel.

I might have to sit out NaNoWriMo this year. I can’t see myself dedicating a month to writing something new when Closet Case is still such a tangled mass.