Caffeine. A writer's life's blood.

It's been a while since I've made something on photoshop that didn't have some sort of fandom tie.

Today, in between taking care of my wounded husband, I was playing on StumbleUpon. Now let me tell you, this thing is your best friend and your worst enemy. It is the procrastinators BEST FRIEND. While flipping through sites, I 'Stumbled Upon' a site full of photoshop tutorials.

Normally when I run across these, I'll click on one and it involves ACTUAL drawing. Which is something I don't do. But this site had a lot more 'Use the tools of photoshop' type tutorials. After flipping through a couple of pages I found a tutorial that I wanted to use for a wallpaper.

This is how it turned out...

Though I'm not a coffee drinker. I figured a cup of coffee would look better than a can of Dr. Pepper or Pepsi. I also chose to use one of my favorite quotes by Caprice Crane (the full quote can be found in my sidebar).

I'm rather proud of it.

I blame May Sweeps....

It's been a while.

Not much has been up in my life. With the small exception that I'm pretty sure all my tv shows that are ending for the season are going to kill me.

I blame my lack of updates on May Sweeps.

For those who don't know, I watch a lot of TV. When I say a lot, I mean... A LOT! Blame the fact that my husband works nights, or that some TV shows are just too addictive, one way or another, this is the time that all of the shows pull out their big guns. Some shows are very upfront with how they're going to end their season, the show Chuck for example, entitled their season finale "Chuck vs. the Cliffhanger". Hmmm... I wonder how that's going to end. Whereas others are a little more vague in their titles like Bones' "The Change in the Game".

This got me thinking about how people come up with titles for things. Books, TV shows, Movies (that aren't already based on something), and so on. Most TV shows for instance have a theme with their episode titles. Shonda Rhimes' shows have the titles of songs, Friends episodes always start with "The One With/Where...", The Big Bang Theory episodes sound super scientific like "The Lizard-Spock Expansion", I could go on. I think that would be a really fun job. Just coming up with names for episodes of TV shows.

Authors and those who come up with Movie titles have it a little bit harder. The title has to be somewhat descriptive, but it also has to draw people into to read or see it. Take the (amazing!) book by Meg Cabot entitled "Every Boy's Got One". That's right, IMMEDIATELY your mind goes there. No matter how hard you try and fight it, it goes there. But turn it over and the first words are "Every Boy's Got One... A Heart". To me, that was enough for me to pick up the book and read it in just a few hours (the fact that I love Meg Cabot has nothing to do with that). As for movies, have you ever sat through a movie then thought "Why did they call it THAT?" It doesn't happen very often, but when it does I'm one of those people who have a hard time looking past the title to the movie.

I hate to say it, but I'm actually fairly judgmental of titles and covers for books. If the title doesn't grab me, or the cover art is rubbish, I have a hard time convincing myself to pick it up. I'm also one of those people who get frustrated really easily if I can't pronounce a name or something in a book. When I first tried reading Harry Potter in 6th grade, I remember getting so mad that I couldn't figure out how to pronounce Hermione's name that I didn't pick it up again until after the movie came out. At which point I've became obsessed, but that one name and frustration was enough to put me off the series originally.

Just one of the oddities that make up the dazzling person typing this while on break at work.