WIP Wednesday: Casse NaRome

Today I’d like to welcome author Casse NaRome to WIP Wednesday. Casse, tell us something most people don’t know about you.

CN: I am terrified of owls. I serious break out in cold sweat if I even see a picture.

MJ: If you didn’t write, what would be your creative outlet?

CN: I’d most likely dance…horribly.

MJ: Other than writing, what would be your dream job?

CN: I love astronomy and archaeology.

MJ: Name one thing you won’t leave home without.

CN: Lip gloss

MJ: Is there a particular movie that you preferred over the book version of the story?

CN: Twilight series. I liked the first book but the rest was a slow decline. I loved the movies!

MJ: What do you normally eat for breakfast, or do you skip it and get straight to work?

CN: I normally skip breakfast but my day job is 11 pm – 7 am so breakfast time is my “night.”

MJ: Describe your ideal/dream writing space.

CN: Somewhere I could see and hear the rain from my desk.

MJ: Do you listen to music when you write? Explain.

CN: I can’t have music playing while writing because I get distracted but before I start I play music that fits either one of the characters or the scene.

MJ: Do you collage your story before writing? Explain.

CN: I’m a seat of my pants writer. I find it frustrating if I plot because both my character and I usually want to not follow the plot because we are rebels.

MJ: What do you love most about your WIP hero?

CN: I love that he is so moody and he has dry wit. Like so dry and brittle he should be banned during red flag fire days. lol

MJ: What genre is your current WIP?

CN: Adult Paranormal Romance.

MJ: What is your favorite genre to read?

CN: YA Paranormal Romance

MJ: How did you come up with your hero and heroine’s names?

CN: They always just come to me. My characters pop in my head and they talk to me. I feel insane just saying that.

MJ: Do you ever base characters on people you know?

CN: Sometimes. I take bits in people but it is very rarely that I do that.

MJ: How did you chose the setting for your current WIP?

CN: It is just where the story happens. I don’t really have choice.

MJ: Ready for the lightning round? Addams Family or Munsters?

CN: Addams Family

MJ: Wine–red or white?

CN: Red

MJ: I Dream of Jeannie or Bewitched?

CN: Bewitched

MJ: Beer–can or bottle?

CN: Bottle

MJ: Cinco de Mayo or St. Patrick’s Day?

CN: St. Patrick’s Day

MJ: Last movie you saw in a theater?

CN: No Good Deed

MJ: Favorite TV show?

CN: Sleepy Hollow, Scandal, Vampire Diaries, Workaholics, Undateable, wow so many more.

MJ: That’s a lot of television! Flintstones or Jetsons?

CN: Jetsons

MJ: Favorite band when you were in high school (Marching band doesn’t count)?

CN: Matchbox 20.

MJ: Coke or Pepsi?

CN: Pepsi

MJ: Introvert or extrovert?

CN: Introvert.

MJ: Favorite ethnic food?

CN: Mexican

MJ: And now for the main event: your  work in progress! Can you share the first few lines with us?

CN: This is from When Lily’s Fall:

Wings thrust out, Valience kneeled with his head low. He heard her crying for him. He truly believed something was wrong with this human woman. After all he had done to her of which he could make a lengthy list. In the end, she was crying from over the verdict he had just received.

Cast down.

He was losing his wings.

Valience felt numb, unable to believe what his brothers were about to inflict on him. He amended— what he had caused his brothers to inflict on him. His cold ice blue eyes stared at the floor not shedding the tears that he wanted to cry. He screamed silently. His mind a torrent storm.

MJ: Great hook! And do you have a book out now?

CN: Yes. Part Time Reaper 1 Tag Em and Bag Em  is available through Amazon.

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MJ: And how can fans stay in touch with you?

CN: My website and blog, Facebook page, or Twitter.

MJ: Thanks for stopping by, and good luck with your books!

Recurring Dreams

If you followed my old “Comptonplations” blog, you may remember a thread about my recurring dream, in which I move back into an apartment that had a turquoise refrigerator. I actually lived in this apartment for about ten years. I miss the ancient Norge stove desperately, but the turquoise fridge? Uh, no.

Well, last night I had the dream again. The circumstances in which I move back into this apartment are never the same. I don’t recall last night’s reason, but I do remember I was all set to move back in when I remembered I’m married and my husband has a lot of . . . stuff. So much . . . stuff, in fact, that I couldn’t move back into this apartment where I so desperately needed to go.

Someday I’m going to figure out what triggers this dream.

 

Mood Music

I’m in a bit of a bad mood today. When I’m in a foul state of mind, I like to listen to Bob Dylan. I have a mix I call Dylan Says It Best:

  • I Shall Be Released
  • All Along the Watchtower
  • Stuck Inside of Mobile (With the Memphis Blues Again)
  • Like a Rolling Stone
  • Positively Fourth Street
  • Rainy Day Women
  • Watching the River Flow
  • When I Paint My Masterpiece
  • Subterranean Homesick Blues
  • It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
  • Shelter from the Storm
  • Idiot Wind

And the crankier I am, the louder I crank it.

Hopefully, there will be wine a little later.

Do you have music you tend to go to when  your life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows?