Archive for the ‘vintage’ Category
all things half
February 8, 2010Lots of great things come in halves:
Pizza, because I tend to eat too much if I have a whole one to start with
Limes, just because
Glasses of water for your dentures (does this really need an explanation?)
Avacodos, because you can’t see that bally thing otherwise:
And lastly, this ticker:
Why the ticker? Because it’s my goal counter for the first draft of VINTAGE. Woot-woot! I’m on the downward slope and there is light at the end of the tunnel finally! Yay!
i feel so special
January 12, 2010Sandy Shin and Kate both gave me the Honest Scrap award. Yay! My first blog award. Woot!
So here is the deal:
Share seven honest things about yourself and pass this lovely gift on to seven other Honest, Upstanding and “Scraptastic” bloggers.
1. I have a freckle in my eye.
2. I can fold my tongue in half and I learned how at the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum.
3. My last name is essentially made up, as the spelling was changed when my husband’s relatives came over from Croatia and the pronunciation changed when his grandfather was in the Army.
4. I’ve lived in Arkansas, Florida, Ohio, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Germany.
5. I’ve had a crush on my (now) husband since I was 13 years old and remember seeing him for the first time in the Jr. High cafeteria. So romantic.
6. I kick and hallucinate in my sleep. Seriously. It’s weird!
7. I was at seat filler at the CMA awards for three years and the lead singer for Rascal Flatts told me where I was supposed to sit, once. I was on TV my first year, too (sitting behind Tim McGraw – cool).
Ok, now for the seven:
1) Julie Loden
2) Mandy
3) Becca
4) Vero
5) Laurie
6) Jenn
7) Regan (even though she already has this one)
ALSO, I’ve added my summary for Vintage in the ‘what I am writing?’ section. It’s a draft and will be tweaked (along with the sample), I’m sure.
meet ian
December 28, 2009I’m so excited!! Sandy Shin took requests for sketches and I asked her to do one of Ian, from Vintage.
Here it is:
I’m in awe of her talent!! Thank you sooooooo much!
ya contest
November 17, 2009I decided to enter this contest because…well…why not, right? I’m trying to push myself to try new things and while I know winning is a long shot, it’s fun to try! You were supposed to enter up to the first 250 words of a YA work. If I went to 250, it stopped in a weird place, so I just entered the first 200 (there was no minimum).
This is what I entered:
I had a hairy upper lip. My freaking lip was a giant fur ball. Well, that’s sexy. I moved in a little closer to the mirror to fully assess the fuzz.
No wonder I didn’t have a boyfriend. Heat flooded my cheeks as I imagined what guys heard when they met me. “Hi, my name is Molly and my caterpillar lip greets you.” Oh, God.
Maybe I was exaggerating a little. It was only a couple of hairs and not the hairy pelt I’d originally seen in my reflection. But still! So not attractive.
Rolling my eyes, I turned away from the mirror and out of the employee bathroom. It looked like today’s tips were going to go towards depilatory cream. That was just awesome.
It was only fitting that I would have the cruel genetic misfortune of inheriting my dad’s coloring and hair issues. It was such crap! When mom was seventeen, she’d been blonde-haired, blue eyed, with an eyebrow arch that would make Anastasia – esthetician to the stars – weep. But me? Let’s just say she found the money for my bi-weekly eyebrow appointments. Guess I needed to add the lip to my waxing regime now. Damn.
vintage – first chapter
November 10, 2009So, I decided it would be good to put my first chapter out there for people to see, but I wanted it password protected so that random Joe’s couldn’t read it because…well…I just did. Plus, I found the nifty password feature on my blog and wanted to use it. Got a problem with it? Huh? Huh? Do ya?
Anywho, if you are interested in reading it, just comment with your e-mail address or e-mail me (amanda[at]amandaplavich[dot]com) and I’ll send you the password.
vintage in pictures
November 6, 2009I saw a thread on AW where people were ‘casting’ their novels, so I thought, um, yes, I need to so do this. These are strickly based on physical looks and I still have a few important characters that will need casting, but I haven’t developed them enough, really.
Without further ado:
Molly
Emma Roberts
***image gone cause I was tired of rando Google image hits, but you can google her if you don’t know what she looks like :-P***
Sarah
Victoria Justice
Ian
Matt Dallas
Audrey (Molly’s Mom)
Naomi Watts
Brian (Molly’s Dad)
Gerard Butler
