Costumes I've Had the Nerve to Wear
© 2011 by Joyce Mason
Busy as I am on my book, I needed some comic relief today.
My friend, Cindy Sample (you met her on my last Book
Signings and other Inspirations post) sent me to another mystery writer’s
blog, Buried
Under Books. Author Liz Jasper is asking readers to describe costumes they have
made for Halloween. I couldn’t resist describing my two favorites, a Christmas
tree (talk about holiday mixed metaphors) and The Purple People Eater. (See
Comment #25 on Liz’s Buried blog.) You can see my two favorite get-ups on this
post. (Please overlook those purple thunder thighs. Was I ever slim?
Maybe when I was 10.)
I thought this would be a great time to share previous Halloween
posts on The Radical Virgo, which are as timeless as Trick-or-Treat:
Scorpio for A
Day. What is Halloween if not a Scorp fest? In this frolic, I describe
my ideas for how the signs would “do Scorpio.”
Happy
Haunting from the Radical Virgo: Background on Halloween and other nearby
holidays, including Day of the Dead and All Saint’s Day, the latter which also
happens to be the anniversary of Chiron’s Discovery. Includes a look at Chiron’s
Discovery chart. As a liberal Catholic church in my neck of the woods calls it,
November 1 is a Holy Day of Opportunity.
Lastly, since we’re having a comment contest on The Radical
Virgo this month with a mystery anthology prize in honor of my retreat to fiction (does retreat mean I get
candy twice?), I pose this question to you, dear readers, for comment.
What patterns in an astrology chart indicate a penchant or passion for costumes?
Writing fiction has lots of tricks and treats. One of the
tricks is personal pacing to the finish line. I’m finding it as energetically
exhausting to do a book-length manuscript as hard labor. Never underestimate
the impact of mental gymnastics!
One of the treats is learning how many scenes in my life are
finding their way into the book, fictionalized, like pearls awaiting rediscovery—especially the
funny ones. I can’t believe how snips of conversations and experiences are
there in my mental kaleidoscope. Twist a little, and they fall a different way—right
into The Crystal Ball. Since my novel takes place at a futuristic costume party, share any far-out ones you've worn and let me know if you're willing to see a character show up to the Crystal Ball in it.
As they used to say on NYPD Blue, I’ll say for Halloween, “Be
careful out there!”
Most of all, have fun.
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