Comments on: Superstition http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/09/21/superstition/ Ten Authors. Five Genres. One Blog. Because the only thing scarier than a loaded gun pointed at your head....is writing about it. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:38:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: S. J. Day http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/09/21/superstition/#comment-235188 S. J. Day Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:56:30 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=3062#comment-235188 I wonder why the left shoulder...? I wonder why the left shoulder…?

]]> By: S. J. Day http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/09/21/superstition/#comment-235186 S. J. Day Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:55:41 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=3062#comment-235186 Fate-tempting... I like that word. :) And I <em>love</em> the quirk of your hero! I bet that makes for some fun dialogue. Fate-tempting… I like that word. :)

And I love the quirk of your hero! I bet that makes for some fun dialogue.

]]> By: S. J. Day http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/09/21/superstition/#comment-235184 S. J. Day Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:54:23 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=3062#comment-235184 That's the thing about luck, it's different for everyone. What's lucky for one person, isn't for another. "Find your own luck" couldn't be truer! That’s the thing about luck, it’s different for everyone. What’s lucky for one person, isn’t for another. “Find your own luck” couldn’t be truer!

]]> By: S. J. Day http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/09/21/superstition/#comment-235183 S. J. Day Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:12 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=3062#comment-235183 Is she going to do readings? Are you going to get one done? Is she going to do readings? Are you going to get one done?

]]> By: S. J. Day http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/09/21/superstition/#comment-235182 S. J. Day Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:52:26 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=3062#comment-235182 The cell phone fritzing would drive me nuts. Is alcohol the best thing to leave for the little people? :) The cell phone fritzing would drive me nuts.

Is alcohol the best thing to leave for the little people? :)

]]> By: Lynn R. http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/09/21/superstition/#comment-235166 Lynn R. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:31:48 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=3062#comment-235166 Well, I've got Friday the 13th covered! So, for me, black cats are good luck (I've been owned by some beautiful ones!), I pick up pennies ALL the time (and then turn around and spend them at Border's!). I do the salt throwing also, just in case, but over the left shoulder, as my grandmother taught me. There are some superstitions that have never seemed to apply to me, and some that just give me double-whammys every time, no matter what I might do to try to mitigate them. My favourite character quirks? Hard to choose. Probably one where the hero has to be constantly in a place where he just can't stand the type of music played there, or something to do with his clothes. I really don't know. I've never given too much thought into a character's quirks, or why they are the way they are. You authors are so good at explaining that for us throughout the course of the book!! Later, Lynn Well, I’ve got Friday the 13th covered! So, for me, black cats are good luck (I’ve been owned by some beautiful ones!), I pick up pennies ALL the time (and then turn around and spend them at Border’s!). I do the salt throwing also, just in case, but over the left shoulder, as my grandmother taught me. There are some superstitions that have never seemed to apply to me, and some that just give me double-whammys every time, no matter what I might do to try to mitigate them.

My favourite character quirks? Hard to choose. Probably one where the hero has to be constantly in a place where he just can’t stand the type of music played there, or something to do with his clothes. I really don’t know. I’ve never given too much thought into a character’s quirks, or why they are the way they are. You authors are so good at explaining that for us throughout the course of the book!!

Later,

Lynn

]]> By: J. JCarson Black http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/09/21/superstition/#comment-235165 J. JCarson Black Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:52:19 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=3062#comment-235165 I'm Irish, too, but the only thing I can't resist doing is throwing salt over my right shoulder if it spills. (I figure, why not? But I'm an indifferent housekeeper anyway.) I'm superstitious about my favorite racehorses. I hate it when the odd TV racing pundit says, "He's a lock to win this." That's a jinx. Me Irish mother has a word for that kind of fate-tempting. She calls it "Titanic talk." The killing machine in my new book--guy is in black ops--has one quirk: he corrects peoples' grammar. I’m Irish, too, but the only thing I can’t resist doing is throwing salt over my right shoulder if it spills. (I figure, why not? But I’m an indifferent housekeeper anyway.)

I’m superstitious about my favorite racehorses. I hate it when the odd TV racing pundit says, “He’s a lock to win this.” That’s a jinx. Me Irish mother has a word for that kind of fate-tempting. She calls it “Titanic talk.”

The killing machine in my new book–guy is in black ops–has one quirk: he corrects peoples’ grammar.

]]> By: Jill James http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/09/21/superstition/#comment-235163 Jill James Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:36:04 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=3062#comment-235163 I'm very superstitious, goes with being Irish. In our house we have a saying, 'if we didn't have bad luck we'd have no luck at all.' So that I got my new dishwasher during the whole Mercury thing is probably a good thing. LOL I’m very superstitious, goes with being Irish.

In our house we have a saying, ‘if we didn’t have bad luck we’d have no luck at all.’ So that I got my new dishwasher during the whole Mercury thing is probably a good thing. LOL

]]> By: Karin Tabke http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/09/21/superstition/#comment-235157 Karin Tabke Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:54:07 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=3062#comment-235157 I'll pick up any coin on the street so long as it's heads up. Aside from that? I'm not superstitious at all. I'll walk under a ladder, spill salt all over myself, allow ten black cats to walk in front of me and break a dozen mirrors while they're doing it. Hell, I wouldn't have known Mercury was in Retrograded if Rocki hadn't been tweeting about it. My mil has never allowed a goldfish in her house, refuses to own an opal, as it isn't her birthstone, along with a host of other things. Hubby has his own little superstitions. He LOVES reading horoscopes. I do too, but as much as I'd like to believe all that good stuff, I really don't. But it's fun to get excited over them when they apply to something in your life you happen to be going through at the time. I went to a psychic once and laughed my ass off. rip. off. years ago my housekeeper asked me to lend her $2,000. she said a psychic (a supposed very reputable one, one that had been all over the local television programs, wrote a book, read for high profile peeps, blah blah) told her for 2K she could tell my friend where her long lost brother was buried. I asked her what her brother's name was, and his date of birth, put her on hold, called hubby who ran it through the system at work and in two minutes had an address. That weekend my friend and her entire family met with her very much alive brother, and all was good. So, I have great skepticism. we have one coming to our local rwa chapter meeting next month. i'm going *only* to support my chapter. I’ll pick up any coin on the street so long as it’s heads up. Aside from that? I’m not superstitious at all. I’ll walk under a ladder, spill salt all over myself, allow ten black cats to walk in front of me and break a dozen mirrors while they’re doing it. Hell, I wouldn’t have known Mercury was in Retrograded if Rocki hadn’t been tweeting about it.

My mil has never allowed a goldfish in her house, refuses to own an opal, as it isn’t her birthstone, along with a host of other things. Hubby has his own little superstitions. He LOVES reading horoscopes. I do too, but as much as I’d like to believe all that good stuff, I really don’t. But it’s fun to get excited over them when they apply to something in your life you happen to be going through at the time.

I went to a psychic once and laughed my ass off. rip. off. years ago my housekeeper asked me to lend her $2,000. she said a psychic (a supposed very reputable one, one that had been all over the local television programs, wrote a book, read for high profile peeps, blah blah) told her for 2K she could tell my friend where her long lost brother was buried. I asked her what her brother’s name was, and his date of birth, put her on hold, called hubby who ran it through the system at work and in two minutes had an address. That weekend my friend and her entire family met with her very much alive brother, and all was good. So, I have great skepticism.

we have one coming to our local rwa chapter meeting next month. i’m going *only* to support my chapter.

]]> By: Vicki http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/09/21/superstition/#comment-235156 Vicki Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:41:52 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=3062#comment-235156 I hate when it's MR. This time it's my cell that won't work correctly. And no, I don't need a new one, it works fine and then stops (in the middle of call, not dropping the call, just stops) and then in 5-10 minutes it's fine again. I love the little people too. My best friends grandmother used to tell us about them. She was always leaving something for them. :) I hate when it’s MR. This time it’s my cell that won’t work correctly. And no, I don’t need a new one, it works fine and then stops (in the middle of call, not dropping the call, just stops) and then in 5-10 minutes it’s fine again.

I love the little people too. My best friends grandmother used to tell us about them. She was always leaving something for them. :)

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