Current location:	The Living Room
Current mood:	awake
Current music:	"Dinosauring" by the Dirty Socks Funtime Band

Stuff and Nonesense
This is just a babbling check-in post for a Monday morning. My brain is not really up to coherent thought at the moment (I still have to get the kid down to afternoon day camp, among other things). I did have some success revising a couple of key scenes in my romance novel over the weekend. I also seem to have decided to re-write one entire portion from the hero's POV. Since the initial draft was completely from the heroine's perspective, I look forward to the insights that might be yielded by the switch. The last time I tried this, the results were very interesting. I gained lots of insights into the fictional world I'm writing.

I also finished the Lisa Kleypas novel, Prince of Dreams, that I was reading. I loved it. It's now official; I'm addicted to this writer's work. This woman's books have become my idea of the perfect literary comfort food. They contain most of the perks of fanfic (without having to deal with the the social complications of an actual fandom), and the author's prose style is beautiful. I've had my interest in a promising romance plot destroyed too many times by clunky or sloppy writing. What a joy to discover a romance writer who knows how to construct a pleasing sentence.

I'm considering writing an essay on the kids' shows that I've come to enjoy watching with (or even without) my six-year-old son. The top three would probably be Blue's Clues, Arthur, and Wow, Wow Wubbzy. (I just like saying "Wow, Wow, Wubbzy." Don't you?)