some have speculated that Jim butchers dry spell on writing the Dresden files has more to do with divorce settlements on the profits from the series. if that's the case we might be seeing a lot of his material start coming out fairly soon.

I wonder how it will bowed for Bonnie's personality.  will ownership of her wooden skull and expectation of harriy dictate the personality. will the fact that his daughter interacts with the wooden skull help set up the personality.

 I like the idea of  a 12 year old knight of the cross....remember most of the knights are temporary and only pick up the sword for  a short time for a specific purpose.

 if I remember correctly harry hid the swords in plane site when he was the one keeping the swords. at one point in the books the sword was kept right by the front door along with his umbrella.

I don't know who currently is watching the one sword that does not have knight.  it would be fun if one of Maggie's  friends was visiting  and borrowed temporarily one of the swords for a task not quiet understanding what it was for.

Perhaps one of Maggie's  friends accidently touched a denerien coin and is facing the temptation of the fallen. while not having the coin it self because it is currently with a denarian the child still has the imprint of a fallen in there head helping the child to make bad decisions. and the sword is used to give back free will to the child .

its been a few years since I first advertised for fairy housekeepers . I am still looking.  I just figured out some of those fairy's  don't like pizza so for the health conscience fairy I can provide celery sticks, green tea and other boring non pizza and candy food stuffs ...the big thing is I hate house work and I need a staff that works for food.

I have a really good group I meet with once a week. our group has six members and we our all working on a book. last week the subject of political correctness came up and how it effects writing. I was surprised when one in my group started to talk about how it ruins writing when it creeps into a book. this surprised me coming from her because she could not see how it was all over her criticism of other people writings and had crept into her own writing.. She is constantly telling us that character is sexist or an idea should not be presented because you will lose audience if you voice the idea. I was wondering how many here our feafull that some books our not being written because authors are afraid of a negative reaction from the publisher or if it is published by society.

the thing to remember that value is based on rarity and perceived value. the4 reason that diamonds are valuable are thar rhey are precieed as rar band hard to get the same is true with gold.

got a question to put out in the either,   today I went to a writer meetup where we read and commented on others works. My grammar is not the best and needs work and I value the criticism I get, I feel that I am strong in the area of story telling knowing how much description to put in and how to mix action with thought with description. one of the writers  was putting one word  in italics at the end of the sentence. I had figured out that the words were thoughts but I felt that for the average reader it was confusing and that the author needed a stronger  indicator to the reader that that the one word was mental thought .or to even remove it all together. All three writers at the table told me that it was oK.   because the word was italicized and according to rules on grammar everything was all right. I feel that a true story teller uses proper grammar but try's to go beyond having proper grammar to tell the story. am I right to feel that just because  it is technically correct does not mean that it should be used.