On Blog Chains, Blog Awards, and Blog Blog Blog

Good Monday!


This post is practically meta in its blogginess. You shall see...
I didn't post at all over the weekend. It was spent seeing The Hunger Games movie, baking Orange and Almond Cake, and driving, for the first time, over the George Washington Bridge to visit Woodlawn Cemetery where, amongst many other vast and impressive graves, I visited Herman Melville, of Moby Dick fame. Great times, but not very bloggy. Now I shall fix that.

Wife and I totally made this. It is delicious.

This April I'm going to be taking part in a blog chain, via the Absolute Write forums (and any writers, published or not, who aren't on here - you're really missing out on incredible writerly community). 
The theme of each participant's post, in around 1000 words, is Dead Bunnies. I look forward to seeing what the others come up with before my turn comes about. 
What others, you cry? Why, these others!


http://nonexistentbooks.wordpress.com
http://www.crystalwindchimes.wordpress.com/
http://ralfast.wordpress.com/
http://storygenerator.net
http://www.paperheroes.net 
http://www.viewofsue.blogspot.com/ 
http://matrix-hole.blogspot.com/ 
http://bemaslanka.wordpress.com/ 
http://www.davidwclary.com/ 
http://emotionalnovel.blogspot.com 
http://www.fishandfrivolity.blogspot.com/ 
http://poet-slash-writer.blogspot.com/ 
http://af12.webs.com/ 
http://lurkingmusings.wordpress.com/ 
http://www.loneswing.com/ 
http://www.preciousmonsters.com/ 


And, perhaps, even more in time. You can follow the thread itself here.


In other bloggy news, I am finally passing on The Liebster Award. Wow!


"The Liebster Award has traditionally been awarded to honour those blogs which motivate and inspire us. It is also granted to those blog authors who have accumulated 200 followers or less. Its purpose is to summon new followers and increase awareness of other noteworthy blogs."


Great stuff! And I say it goes to:


Kelsey 
and
Juturna F. 



To Accept the Award:


Thank the person who nominated you on your blog and link back to them.
Nominate up to 5 others for the award.
Let them know by commenting on their blog.
Post the award on your blog
And that, I think, is all for now. 

First reports are back on redraftings of the novel, with some very helpful comments and some very insightful thoughts. Now I must resist these things and do the work I'm actually paid to do. GOODBYE!