• author life,  book trailer,  Cooking,  fire,  Friday 55,  Hard Alley,  Hard Rust,  Nara Malone,  second life,  Snatch Me

    Authors Beware: Recipe for Disaster

    This is why it happened.I was on autopilot–my head writing a story,the rest of me in the kitchen. Always a recipe for disaster.Virtual world FLAMES crawledinto the Real world.The smoke detector SCREAMED Two pots got welded together. Forget dinner.Stick to the story:Writers cook best outside a kitchen. ~~Can you tell I’ve been working on a book trailer for Snatch Me all week? The story has nothing to do with cooking, but some of the pictures are from my work on the story trailer. A story that’s apparently hot enough to scorch my kitchen. Hope you enjoyed my Friday 55. Drop by G-Mans site to see what others wrote or to…

  • Bookworm Hunt.,  Hunt,  second life,  Sunday Scribblings,  virtual hunt,  virtual world

    How Not to Get Outwitted by a Virtual Hunt

    It’s easy to feel witless when you first tackle a virtual world, and Second Life has a reputation for a brain-twisting learning curve. I’d like to say that wasn’t my experience, but I have done my share of smacking into doors that close before I can get through them, getting stuck on low hanging objects when I fly, and getting dumped bald and naked into the center of a crowd of people because my viewer crashed while I was changing and delivered me to someplace not my home when I logged back in. Second Life has been working harder at making itself more accessible, and while some of these things…