Lemons.

So, if you even read this anymore (I have three followers, and I doubt that any of them actually read what I write, which is okay, but typing can occasionally take on the feeling of shouting into an empty room) you will have noticed the fact that this blog has changed in it's looks DRAMATICALLY. I, for one, think that this is a good thing. It looks fresh, clean, crisp, and happy.

However, with all the things that this blog is about, one thing it is NOT about is lemons. And if you didn't know that this blog is not a chef's blog, that may just be what you'd think, and that is why I am telling you that this blog is not about lemons.

Not that I dislike lemons. Oh no, I love the slightly astringent scent of lemons, the puckery taste of lemons, the way they are shaped...Lemons are quite the attractive fruit.

Lemons have inspired one of my favorite YouTubers to make a video that cracks me up EVERY time I see it.

I had a lemon balm plant named Melissa. She lived in the house, and in the winter when the sun shone on her, she smelt of cat pee. She died one year. I was saddened. (Strange child I was...)

I even bought lemon essential oil to use in liu of perfume when I was younger. (I told you I was a strange child.)

I love lemon poppyseed cake, the color lemon yellow (in small doses) and lemonade.

I had a virtual pet (Any old NeoPets lags hanging around?) named Lemony_Balm.

I put lemons on my vegetables, and on my chicken.

I ate miracle fruit and then had a lemon. Nothing else is quite THAT good.

You may have noticed that for a blog that is not about lemons, I seem to talk about them quite a lot.

No more, dear reader. No more.

Tootle pip!
~Madam Whimsy

On writing.

When do you go from being a person who likes to write, to a writer?

From there, when do you go to being an author? Do you have to be published? Is that the rule, authors are published, writers are not?

Do you have to have written a full book? Does an anthology of poetry count as a book? What if you've written just a few lines of verse, yet those have been published in a magazine? Does that count as being an author?

Does your plan have anything to do with what you can call yourself? If you plan to get published, but you haven't written word one as of yet, are you an author?

If you have finished an entire novel, yet you have no desire to do anything with that manuscript barring having it sit on your shelf, are you an author?

Just something I was musing about.

I have written a full length novel, BUT have no plans to get it published...right now. Does that make me an author, a writer or someone who likes to write?

I'm interested in hearing what you have to say.

~Whimsy

P.S. It's either feast or famine with me. You get no posts for nearly five months, and all of a sudden two a few hours apart.

I have neglected thee, oh blog.

Hello! I haven't posted here since March, but I decided that with the opening of my new business in the fall, and the fact that it's just 98 days until NaNoWriMo...well, I should get my writing muscles working again.

I have made a new page on here, it's a bit of telling you who I am. I am also re-vamping the way that this blog looks, so give that some time.

I hope that I nevermore shall go that long without updating here!

Cheers,
Whimsy

P.S.
If, after reading that new page you have questions, ask 'em here, in the comments. I love comments. They taste delicious on toast.