Within this breast beats the heart of a true romantic. I am a skeptic about many things, but provided there’s good character development and good writing (I cannot cope with truly bad writing—as in bad grammar, poor word choice, etc.), I am willing to suspend my disbelief and constitute some poetic faith at stories that others would find patently unbelievable. But that’s what fiction is all about! If you want reality, look somewhere else. Fiction is all about taking you away from the everyday, be it through fantastic places or putting yourself in the shoes and skin of someone totally different from yourself.

 

I’ll read almost anything, but I tend toward romance, romantic suspense, mystery—especially mystery. I love a good Whodunit. I write both of the former myself.

Since I first began this blog, I have finished my first romantic suspense House of Cards, which went through beta readers and is now in the queue for revisions/rewriting.  I’ll be making some pretty radical changes to the plotline when I get back to it.  In the meantime, I have a few other projects. One, Totem, I began back in April and got halfway through before focusing exclusively on House of Cards. It’s the first of a trilogy of YA paranormals based in Native American mythology. And I began a second romantic suspense, tentatively titled Flash Point. It’s about a serial arsonist.  Due to the amount of necessary background research on that one, it’s gotten pushed to the backburner in lieu of another romantic suspense, tentatively titled Til Death.

I’ve recently gotten into networking and forums. If you’d like to hook up on Crimespace look for me here.

 

P.S. Thank you Amy Lee for the lyrics which inspired my blog name and tagline! (Imaginary, by Evanescence)

P.P.S. For those of you who may wonder, seanachi is Gaelic for “storyteller”. I thought it an appropriate moniker.

P.P.P.S. Evidently “seanchaí” is the correct spelling. Pronounced shan - a - key, which may explain my reversed letters. As it is far too late to change my log in information, we’ll just say I’m using an adaptation. Thank you Peter for correcting my error. Note to self: when in doubt, listen to the Irishman.

P.P.P.P.S. For anybody wondering, the nifty little word counter came from here.

P.P.P.P.P.S. Okay so this spelling thing is really bugging me now. I feel like I’m walking around with a big “L” on my forehead thinking that a word is spelled correctly when it isn’t, even though most of my readers don’t speak Gaelic. I swear, the older I get the more dyslexic tendencies I seem to display. SO the solution, I will keep my login name and change what I can elsewhere in presentation.


13 Responses to “Seanchaí: “The Storyteller””


  1. 1 ahobbylog June 18, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    Hello! I just stumbled across your blog, a piece of fate for which I am very grateful!
    I am struck by your vocabulary. I, too, loathe bad grammar and poor word choice. Particularly in public papers/circulars… though the worst occurs in the actual printed BOOK.

    Nonetheless, I have entertained myself quite happily by perusing your blog tonight. We share the love of a good mystery, that’s for sure!

    Your “quotage” is priceless as well.

    …just a reader stopping by, marveling, and promising herself she’ll return…

    Lindsey

  2. 2 ahobbylog June 18, 2007 at 6:30 pm

    Speaking of bad grammar, I dare say I need to read my posts before I publish them.

    “I, too, loathe bad grammar and poor word choice COMMA particularly in public papers [etc]”

    Well, wow, I’ve already gone and done “it” - falling prey to one of my very own pet peeves. Highly annoying, that!

  3. 3 seanachi June 18, 2007 at 6:33 pm

    Thanks for stopping by! Glad you enjoyed yourself. :)

  4. 4 peter donegan MI Hort September 20, 2007 at 10:02 am

    A Chara,

    Your title spelling should be ’seanchaí’ directly translated from the ‘as gaeilge’ [irish/ gaelic] directly translated meaning story teller or historian. Apologies for the Irish lesson!

    Have a great day

    Slán agus beannacht
    peter

  5. 5 peter donegan MI Hort September 20, 2007 at 10:03 am

    ps. great blog and keep it coming!!!

  6. 6 seanachi September 20, 2007 at 10:07 am

    :) Evidently there are some variations. The Gaelic/English dictionary I have spelled it this way. Too late to change my login name now!

  7. 7 peter donegan MI Hort September 20, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    A Chara,
    This may sound quite pedantic, petty and lots of other things [and I sound really polite saying this] but - With respect to my [irish] language, I know http://www.focail.ie [The National Terminology] spells it that way [ie. sean-chaí with a fada on the 'i'; attached below. I know of no publication [or seanchaí] that spells it differently from this. I know you cannot change your login name but you might just note that you have taken an adaptation of [as gaeilge]an focail seo agus arís beider anois nach bhfuil sí leagan anglacánach nuá?! comhréiteach beider, ach tá sé do cheart, nach bhfuil? I mo thuraim tá sé do cheart.

    Slán, beannacht agus go raibh maith.
    peadar

    Database Gaeilge/Irish (1)

    Torthaí beachta • Exact matches (1)

    seanchaí fir4
    gu: seanchaí, ai: seanchaithe, gi: seanchaithe

    Litríocht, Critic liteartha > Stairiúil/Literature, Literary Criticism > Historical Usage
    historian s
    custodian s of tradition
    Foclóir Litríochta agus Critice/Dictionary of Literature and Criticism

    Litríocht, Critic liteartha/Literature, Literary Criticism
    reciter of ancient lore s
    traditional story-teller s
    Foclóir Litríochta agus Critice/Dictionary of Literature and Criticism
    Téarmaí gaolmhara • Related terms (0)

    http://www.focail.ie
    Níor aimsíodh téarma ar bith • No terms found

  8. 8 peter donegan MI Hort September 20, 2007 at 5:14 pm

    eh. sorry! 3rd line correction [national terminology database]
    cheers
    peter

  9. 9 seanachi September 20, 2007 at 5:16 pm

    I stand corrected.

  10. 10 peter donegan MI Hort September 21, 2007 at 8:21 am

    A Chara Caitlín

    lets just hope we beat the french in the rugby tonight!! after Limerick got knocked out of the hurling and Dublin from the gaelic football; our soccer teams not so good - I might have to accept a post recycling guinness !!

    Slán go foill
    peter

  11. 11 peter donegan MI Hort September 29, 2007 at 1:20 pm

    A Chara
    thanks for the email - haven’t heard from you in a while.You dot happen to know Uri Geller - Ireland need a miracle tomorrow. The fench thing didnt work out too well last week?!!

    Slán go foill
    ps. ‘forais na gaeilge’ have a web site which has cd’s etc for those who want to learn irish

    peter

  12. 12 killerbrush February 23, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    Hi,
    I’m happy to have stumbled across this blog just now. I love the quote by Asimov over there—>

    And Evanescence helps me out, too.
    Good luck with your writing!

  1. 1 rocket french Trackback on Mar 28th, 2008 at 5:01 am

Leave a Reply




Feeds


Bookmark and Share

Progress Meters


Til Death



Weekly Goal

Internet Love




My BlogCatalog BlogRank



TopOfBlogs

Rate Me on BlogHop.com!
the best pretty good okay pretty bad the worst help?



Random Quotage


"I've worked with a lot of artists, Em, and they all have a need that cannot be met by another human being." - Madeleine L'Engle, Certain Women

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. ~Norbet Platt

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. ~Isaac Asimov

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, ... as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent. ~ Honore de Balzac

Blog Stats

  • 13,221 visits

 

July 2008
M T W T F S S
« Jun    
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  

Archives