What's Sexy to You?

I'm going to do a workshop on writing sex and intimacy in January. Sexy is very subjective, of course. I saw James Bond this weekend--uhh, he's hot but his character didn't have enough layers to be really sexy to me (that's just me). So I have a couple questions:

1) What's sexy to you? (Everyone's going to say a sense of humor, but humor is subjective too. What KIND of humor? Private joke humor--which is more intimacy than sexy; or make me laugh after a bad day humor?)

2) What's intimacy to you?

3) What do you want to know about writing sexy?

Thanks! Any and all help is very, very appreciated!

A Thanksgiving Memory

The holidays are here. It’s a magical time when beautifully dressed families and friends gather around a gourmet feast to count their blessings in a stunningly decorated house.

Any one else out there laugh at those stupid commercials? Excuse me? How is it possible to shop (ugh, I’m a disgrace to my gender and hate shopping), wrap gifts, plan parties, clean, cook, decorate…all while looking soap opera glamorous?

I hosted Thanksgiving a few years ago. Everything was going perfect—right up until I pulled the turkey out of the refrigerator and realized I’d bought a 12 pound turkey. To feed over 20 people, most of who were my in laws.

Okay, fine, I admit it, I need glasses. But I think it should be a law that the weight of the bird is written in Large Black Marker. But I digress.

Back to dinner. I’ve made a lot of Thanksgiving dinners and I know two things: 1) 12 lbs of Turkey will not feed 20 plus people and 2) My lovely in laws will NEVER let me forget it.

My husband and three sons eventually stopped laughing at me and rushed out like men on a hunt to save the day. One of them snagged a turkey somewhere around the 17th grocery store he went to. We all rejoiced,

It was not a commercial perfect holiday. My in laws were a couple hours late and my sister forcibly removed the electric knife from my hand—but the truth is Thanksgiving that year was fun and memorable. The blessings from that day came from the blunders. My husband and sons immediately pitched in so that we all worked together as a family to pull off the day. Well okay, they laughed first, then helped. But the memories have built into a family story that will linger for years and years.

Would we have gotten that from a commercial perfect holiday? No. Perfection is boring. But mom screwing up the turkey and panicking? That’s some funny stuff of family legends.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I hope you all create some womemoriesmemoires this holiday season!

The Public Spoke Out

Thank you to Dru and Kate Carlisle for alerting me to this.

O.J. Simpson's book deal and TV Special have been cancelled.

NEW YORK (Nov. 20) - After a firestorm of criticism, News. Corp. said Monday that it has canceled the O.J. Simpson book and TV special "If I Did It."

Here's the link I used to find this:
http://news.aol.com/entertainment/articles/_a/oj-simpson-book-tv-special-canceled/20061120155409990002

Nauseous Outrage

O.J. Simpson is back. Why won't the man have a shred of decency and go away?

From MSNBC:

The former football great, who was acquitted in criminal court 11 years ago of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, reportedly has been paid a whopping $3.5 million to write about the double murder that shocked and riveted the nation in 1994, according to a detailed report in the new National Enquirer.

You can see the entire (it's short) article here

What do you all think?

On a much, much lighter note, I must concede to Ktzmom on DANCING WITH THE STARS. Much as I love Mario, Emmitt's free dance last night was a thing of beauty.

Randomness

Time for Randomness...

1) This blog is out to get me. I set it up the wrong way and Blogger makes me pay for that mistake daily. I'm looking into a professionally done website and blog, so we'll see what happens.

2) VOTE FOR KATE! Kate
Carlisle, is a finalist in the Romantic Times American Title III contest
with her manuscript, The Kama Sutra Chronicles. This is the contest
where the final winner receives a contract from Dorchester Publishing.
She has made it to the second round of the contest. Voting begins
Monday, November 13. Send an email to webmaster@romantictimes.com with Kama Sutra Chronicles in the subject, and put "I'm voting for Kate!" in the body of the email. PLEASE VOTE!!!

3) Anyone out there DANCING WITH THE STARS fan? MARIO ROCKS, that's all I'm gonna say.

4) Over on J Carson Black's blog, she is asking what song you'd want to hear before you die. Hop on over and play along!

Okay, now it's your turn. What is Random with you today?

MIA

Missing in Action. Sure I could be referring to me since I haven't been blogging lately. Mostly because I am having trouble with Blogger. It's driving me crazy.

Or we could take the "in" out of Missing In Action and we're talking about my current book.

Remember that old, old, OLD commercial, "WHERE'S THE BEEF?"

Picture me, screaming at my characters, "WHERE'S THE ACTION? For crying out loud, will you people DO SOMETHING?"

Any one have suggestions of some action scenes for my characters, Luke and Ivy?

Guilty Secrets

The morning news was full of guilty secrets. It's that time of year--election season--where all secrets are outted.

Sometimes I think it's hilarious because hypocrite are reveals. Many times I find it revolted because people's privacy is invaded.

This morning I was amused, but I won't dwell on that. Why gossip about others when we can gossip about ourselves? I have a guilty secret. I just realized it as I was talking to an author friend about mean reviews on Amazon. We all know better than to go read our reviews there.

But I'm guilty. Yep, I am a Closet Amazon Checker. I'll check my numbers and look for reviews way too often. All the while telling other authors not to do it.

Sheesh, I'm a hypocrit :-)

What about you all? Any guilty secrets?