Goodbye to 2011
I’ve done the end of the year entry pretty regularly, I think, so I don’t want to spoil it now.
This year, I’ve had some pretty awesome things happen to me. Being published, for one. Rendezvous at the Populaire and I Will Find the Answer are available from Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. The third one, dealing with Holmes discovering the identity of Jack the Ripper, will be out sometime in 2012, but I’m not sure when because I’m not done writing it. 
It’ll be interesting to see what people think of who I have the Ripper being.
This year showed me some disturbing things about myself. Hopefully the next year will show me some great things about myself.
ryn: I feel like it ruined the entire series. How the hell do you spend 3 novels building this tense, angsty love triangle, only to make everything kittens and roses in the end? It was like she handed Breaking Dawn over to a team of 13-year-old fanfic writers who tried to cram in every cliche’ possible. Case in point: “Renesmee”. GAG. ME.
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ryn: If there never was a love triangle, the series should have stopped at Eclipse. For a minute, she’d made her choice and was going to stand by it, and I was impressed. Then Breaking Dawn happened. She got to have her cake and eat it, too, and that turned me off. (Could have something to do with the fact that I can’t stand Bella OR Edward as characters. I’m all kinds of a wolfpack girl.)
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ryn: I’d honestly like to know what my healthy weight would be, because the only think I’ve ever heard from my doctors is “see a nutritionist (that your plan doesn’t cover)” and “join Weight Watchers”. 🙁 It’s not like I’m a body builder, but my frame isn’t exactly petite. Even at my current weight, you can easily feel some bones just under the skin.
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ryn: I think that’s what turned me off to Bella as a character and what begrudgingly made me admit that Edward was a better match for her- their antiquated rapport, not to mention some of their behavior that raised tons of red flags for me. Who the hell gets dumped in the wilderness, at risk of exposure, and *doesn’t* get pissed off about it?! The way he talked to her, I was just (continued)
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(con) waiting for her to be offended or off-put by *something* but she just took it. The whole Cullen clan treated her (indeed, Laurent) like a pet instead of a peer. It was enfuriating. There were a million other things she could have done with Jacob: a servant girl from Isle Esme, a spin-off series, a personal epiphany from his POV, just to name a few off the top of my head! It just(continued)
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(con) felt like the easy, immature way out. Even in a romance, not everyone gets a HEA. Sometimes, it’s a well-that-was-nice-while-it-lasted or I’ll-know-better-next-time. Did I really write “Enfuriating”? Ugh… I think it’s naptime. 😉
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RYN: I’ve posted tons and tons of Beatles photos through my entries. If you go into the tag index, their pictures are listed under “Music” and “Celebrities”. If you would like a separate Beatles post, let me know.
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