An Ode to Nathan Fillion

When first our eyes did meet

Your attitude was huffy

You were oh so far from sweet

Working for The First to kill my Buffy

Then oh Captain, my Captain of Serenity

An honest thief with heart of gold

But viewers were fickle-y

Or so the story's told

Now a writer of mystery

Solving murders in a flash

I've never seen such chemistry

You and Beckett were meant to last

I recently finished season one of Castle on DVD. I should have started watching it when it began, but I'm so hesitant to get into new TV shows--the ones I fall for always seem to get cancelled about 8 episodes in and it breaks my heart. I am in LOVE with this show. Fillion is genius. BRILLY I SAY! The banter! The wit! The faces! 

There was a short film in the bonus features of the DVD. Most of it was just silly, but one point stuck with me. When writers are blocked, it could stem from the need for perfection. 

WHAT? Why didn't I think of that before?! That's SO my problem. I'm paranoid of the first draft. But it's not supposed to be perfect, it's a DRAFT for a reason. Get it WRITTEN. Share it with your critique buddies so they can inspire you and sing praises about what a great idea you have. They can point out flaws they see early on so you don't spend too much time writing down the wrong story path. The perfection can come later. 

To my critique gals, Kim and Kristi, and a special shout to newbie Heather, a BIG thank you for the encouragement, suggestions, "what were you thinking here?"s, and for pushing me through my struggles of self-doubt. I can only hope I'm as big of help to y'all as you are to me :)   

I'm Famous! One of My Photographs Landed on a Magazine!

One of my photos is featured on the cover on the latest issue of

The Basilica Review!

This has become one of my more popular shots, and I'm working on figuring out how to sell prints of it, as well as a few others deemed worthy!

Please check out this special magazine and show it some love!

There's even a mini bio about me in there! Squee!

Thanks so much to Heather, the editor, for this opportunity and for all your kind words! I am confident great things are in store for The Basilica Review!

Friday Mourning

2010 Goal Tracking:
Writing progress: searching searching searching for agents!
Weight progress: I'm giving my body a day off. I've been mean to it.
Bible in a year progress: Genesis 15-17, Psalm 7

Today I've been particularly missing Rome. I can't get this

*photos removed intentionally*

out of my head. I blew this picture up huge and framed it in my living room. It's next to this one.

Looks fake doesn't it? Everyone that comes over asks where I got it. Um...well I was inside the Colosseum, we were gazing around, my friend said, KRISTIN STOP! LOOK AT THAT TREE! Snap. And here's the result. The Italians cut their pine trees so that all the green is at the top. Really neat looking, Dr. Suessish allmost. Basically, since Italy in September, I've been spreading my photos all over the house! I can't stop myself. I took around 200 pictures of the Colosseum alone. That's just insanity. But I was very moved. Misty eyed, even.

Sigh. Too bad we spent all of our money there and can't go back for years and years.

In other news! For all you poetry writers out there, there is a sweet online magazine called The Basilica Review that I learned about yesterday. Their first fall edition is free on their website, and has some pretty inspiring pieces. They are actively seeking submissions for their Spring issue, so check it out and see if your work is along a similar vein. The website is HERE and I also have added a link on the right panel under OTHER GREAT STUFF!

Gotta catch up on my reading this weekend! I’m off to a land of wolves and mystery!

*All photographs are property of Kristin Rae and may not be used or duplicated without written permission.

Poetry

2010 Goal Tracking:

Writing progress: still working on that agent list
Weight progress: 50 minutes high-tech elliptical machine, 506 calories GONE - VERY SORE from yesterday's session.
Bible in a year progress: no readings assigned for today

I don’t have much to add to the blogging world today, but at my writers guild meeting last night, a man I know only as Dr. Jones read some of his poetry. Now, I don’t really get into poetry; I don’t like to think that hard when I’m reading something. But this one line stuck out to me, and I had to share. He wrote it over ten years ago before he was married, after he and his now wife had broken up. After giving her the poem, she married him. The line I fell in love with:

“Let the others without life amuse themselves.”

How sweet is that?! To give it some context, he was describing what it was like to be with her – nothing else compared. Everyone else in the world didn’t have what they had. Everyone else lacked life! Let them go about amusing themselves with whatever it is they do! I have YOU! and there is nothing more important. You are LIFE! Beautiful thought.

Have a beautiful Thursday, all!