Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads...

I know I don't normally post on Sundays, but I couldn't resist signing up for Ellie Garrat's Top Ten Horror/Sci Fi Movie Quotes BlogFest.  EGTTHSFMQBF for short.

So, I am not a big Horror fan- actually I don't remember the last time I saw a horror movie...so most of my quotes are from Sci Fi flicks.  Although, I do love me some classic Scream (is that even considered horror?)

EGTTHSFMQBF is especially difficult because I hardly remember the names of movies, let alone actual quotes.  I'm always like, "Hey, remember that one movie, with that one guy who said that really funny line?  What was it...umm...." And then I sit there trying to remember while my mind is COMPLETELY blank and everyone stares at me waiting for the punch line.  And then like, 5 hours later I'll be sleeping and all of a sudden I'll sit up and bed and yell "Groundhog Day!" (which btw, Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow so Spring will be early- thank goodness we have groundhogs to tell us what our weather will be like.  Can't trust those weather guys)

And I slipped in my favorite TV show ever, just so ya know.  Because it totally deserves a spot on this list.
Okay so here's my top ten in no particular order:

Marty: "Wait a minute Doc...ah...are you telling me, you made a time machine...out of a DeLorean?" 
Doc: "The way I see it...if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with style?"
          ~Back To The Future

[on the ship's intercom] This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then - explode.
          ~Malcom, Serenity

"I'm the thing that monsters have nightmares about. And right now, you and me are gonna show 'em why."
          ~Buffy Season 7

 "Dammit, man! I'm a doctor, not a physicist!"
           ~Bones, Star Trek (2009)

Do you like scary movies?
          ~Scream

"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit."
          ~Doc, Back To The Future

 "E.T. phone home"  "Beeee goood" 
           ~E.T.

Jay: Did you ever flashy-thing me?
Kay: No.
Jay: I ain't playing with you, K. Did you ever flashy-thing me?
Kay: No.
          ~Men in Black

"For someone who was never meant for this world...I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving. Maybe I'm going home."

          ~Vincent Freeman, Gattica

"You know, somehow "I told you so" just doesn't quite say it.
           ~Spooner, IRobot

Kicking my Crit Partner's Butt

One of my crit partners, Andy Thompson said I came to him in a dream the other night and literally beat him over the head with his future published book telling him to WRITE WRITE WRITE! (click on his name- he blogged about it!)  I told him it was my future self coming back from the future to tell him to write more.  I think Michael J Fox was with me too...in the DeLorean. 

Oh wait, wrong dream- okay here we go:

(I so hope he didn't picture me as one of the Sanderson sisters- doesn't his book look awesome though?)

I'm so glad I can have such an impact on my crit partners!  They love me so much that they dream about me beating them to a pulp with their future novels.  I feel so special.  No seriously, I do.  I can't really abuse them in real life, so coming to them in a dream is the next best thing (or from the future). 

I am so grateful I have my crit partners.  Andy and Colene are so encouraging and help me get through this crazy world of writing.  They each bring their own perspective and it's cool to see what they have to say about my work.  We can lament together about our anxieties about the publishing world, and we can relate and feel connected.  I can talk to Hubsies until he's blue in the face about my work and fears about being published, but it's different when you talk to someone going through the same thing.

And I know that they'd extend the same love and courtesy and beat me over the head with my future novel if I needed it.  And boy, do I need it sometimes.

And then, (because everything can be related to Back To The Future), I'll write a book about it, and it'll become a bestseller.