Award! and *gasp* Questions! Sorry I forgot...

So I forgot to post this this morning. SORRY!!! 


Here's the answers to the questions you posed earlier this week, of which I've chosen 7 as per the rules to the Versatile Blogger Award: 


Question 1 (posed by Mia@My literary Jam and Toast): 


Ever tried to do something to see if it's possible for your MC in a project to?


Well, I'm currently taking riding lessons, discovering muscles I never knew existed...all because in some of my novels there's riding going on and I really want to know what I'm talking about... (but oh, the pain, the pain!). 


Question 2 (posed by Monica @ Attack of the Muses)


What's on your ipod/cd player when you write?


I have seperate playlists for my different WIPs, although Muse usually features in one form or another 


; ) 


(I'm also a CCR fan and love things with good beats like PCD)


Question 3 (posed by Janet Sumner Johnson)


What color nail polish? Toe polish? :)


Dark red/cherry red, mostly. I have a nailpolish shade that's called "Vampire" ; )


Question 4 (posed by February Grace @ Pitch Slapped):


If you had to be stuck in an elevator for an hour with anyone who has ever lived, whom would you choose and why?

This one's hard... I guess I'd like to have met Julius Caesar or Napoleon, because both of them managed to build/start empires and were (reputedly) brilliant tacticians. I have an unholy fascination with that kind of thing, as most of my male MCs have to go through battle at some point or another. I want to now what I'm doing when I send them into combat and have them direct their men. 

Question 5 (posed by Amalia @ Good to begin well, better to end well)


Favorite mythological figure!? (of course)


Another difficult one, because there are SO MANY mythological figures I like... 


I think Ares and King Arthur are probably my favourites. 


Ares because, well, there's this huge bronze of Ares/Mars in the Louvre, just sitting there in the middle of a corridor full of beautiful famous paintings, around the corner  from the Mona Lisa. It doesn't even say who made it, just that it's him, and it's one of the most beautiful statues I've ever seen. *sigh* (move over, David!)


King Arthur...is just plain fascinating. Was he real? A myth? A mythical amalgamation of several actual people? Don't even get me started on his knights....




Question 6 (posed by Hart @ Confessions of a Watery Tart)


The TART wants to know: what is your favorite naked activity.


I listen to music on my bathroom radio and dance around naked while the tub is filling up with my bubble bath. This is a regular occurrence. 


Question 7 (posed by Mia @ My Literary Jam and Toast)


Favourite Quote? 

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

                           Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband


(ok kidding. sort of.)

To be is to do. 

               Kant

To do is to be.

               Sartre

Do be do be do!

               Sinatra


Yep, that's the one (ok three). 

So there, that was another 7 Things About Tessa. 

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I also received ANOTHER AWARD!! This one from the wonderful Monica Marier @ Attack of the Muses: 

And the rules are: 

1. Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.
2. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered.
3. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

So...THANK YOU MONICA!!!

I'm passing this one on to the following lovelies: 

1. Creepy Query Girl
2. Angie @ Notes from the Writing Chair
3. Suzie @ -Writer Junkie-
4. The Peevish Penman
5. Tessa @ Ink Stained
6. Misty @ Writers' Block...
7. Amy @ Amy and the Pen
8. February Grace @ Pitch Slapped
9. Theresa @ Substitute Teacher's Saga
10. Clara @ Pinches of Madness
11. Stephanie @ Chronicles of a Novice Writer
12. Christi @ A Torch in a Tempest
13. Scott @ A Writer's Blog
14. L.Diane Wolfe @ Spunk on a Stick
15. Stina @ Seeing Creative

Ok I'm off to notify them, blog you Sunday for the next installment of my World Building Series