Daily affirmations of a word mercenary
This morning my favorite online radio station (Flaresound.com’s Jazzy Beats) played a song I hadn’t heard or thought of in years: Electric Skychurch’s “Deus.”
It inspired me to pull out the album, Together. What a classic! This CD has definitely stood up to the test of time, taking its place in my audio history as a […]
Dear God. Feed was incredibly good. So ominous. So well-written. I love that the author managed to drop in reference to the ignorant characters unwittingly speaking in a sestina. I had to go look the word up, and then go back and check the chapter. Clever, clever writer. Highly recommended to young and not-young adults […]
The $6,000 I spent on CPC tuition last year seems to still be (albeit slowly) paying itself off. Yesterday I received two free books from Erica Zappy, one of my former classmates who is working for Candlewick Press. Both books were written for young adults, which means they’re right at my level. Heh.
I’ve already sunk […]
Sunday I reached the end of my meager clothing supply and decided, as many people who’ve been wearing the same pants three days in a row do, to finally do my laundry. I wandered over to the little grocery mart across the street from Columbia and assessed my options. A small container seemed like a […]
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, is in bookstores now.
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