Confessions of an Internet Stalker

I wanna say that I'm not really an internet stalker - it's a bit of a joke between a friend of mine and I.

On another note - yes, there is more to the Mommy Chronicles tales - I feel the ick coming on right at the moment and don't feel like writing another post that's that long right at the moment. Instead, I'll explain myself a little bit, lest people think I'm a crazy lady.

Anyway, yeah, I'm an internet stalker. But only to the point that if someone links me a blog, I absolutely MUST read every word that person has written, and then I will visit said blog daily to see if new entries have been made. I can hear you all out there going, why? Well, see, it's like this.

Some may say that I have an interesting life myself, but I absolutely don't. I'm a stay-at-home mom who spends her time in my own fantasy world (meaning the world of the characters whom which I am writing about) or in someone else's fantasy world (meaning the world Blizzard created for us that's called World of Warcraft) or....reading about someone else's life.

As a writer, I'm a trained observationalist (hence the name of this blog). I watch, I glean, I use. I take what I read from other people's lives (not the exact occurrences, but their reactions, their experiences) and use them in the books I write. I strive for the realistic in what I write - I want my characters to be genuine in their reactions, and reading other people's blogs, the blogs of strangers that I will never meet (and quite honestly, I don't want to meet) I get plenty of fodder for making my characters seem real and three-dimensional rather than "just another cookie-cutter fantasy dude".

So really, no, I'm not an internet stalker, for all you out there whose blogs I read. I'm a student of humanity, at it's highest definition, and merely insatiably curious at it's lowest. I'll probably rarely add a comment to your blogs (because most often what I'd have to say would be so wildly off-topic that it wouldn't make any sense) but you will see a habitual, almost obsessive click from me every day.

You can go sleep easy now that you know.