If you’re looking for me or are wondering where Angela has gone, I’m on sabbatical. I’ve finally reached my limit and have to take time off from blogging, writing, and socializing while I collect myself mentally after the writing of Broken. I’ll be back by next week on a low priority schedule, and do plan […]
Skyrim – Lindsey Stirling & Peter Hollens
Nerds! Check this out! Now I just want to kill dragons! Just you-tubing today 🙂 Here’s another!
Recipe: Sugar Cookies
Okay! Here is my specialty! I am not just a cookie fanatic. I am a cookie connoisseur. Three years ago, I declared war and decided to make the perfect cookie! Well, after 14 batches and two days I give you this! Sugar Cookie from Angela’s “I’m Sick Of Burning My Cookies” Series Yes… that is […]
Runaway Train
You know when you just see something and you’re so moved by it you just enter a trance until you feel the hairs on your arm stand up? Yeah…First time watching this video…or hearing this song…or hearing this band… And I went, “Yep! That is what BPD feels like!”
Nerd News!!
Oh my god! Anime freaks! Gamers! You gotta see this! I was uploading my Dolor and Shadow book trailer on YouTube, when I saw this! First, if you are not an anime freak, I have to say this about this composition…This melody is played throughout Naruto at the most heart wrenching, “ball my eyes out” […]
Swann’s Song
Swann’s Song “Sing and skip o’er Faerie mounds, O’er the hill and through the dalr, Where sleep’s joy spins my dreams. There the moonlight finds its beam.” “Sing and skip o’er Faerie mounds, O’er the hill and through the dalr, Where the rolling brook doth play, O’er the hill and far away.” “Sing and […]
My Music
Before I was a writer, I was a composer. This is me playing my compositions. I stopped playing seriously about ten years ago when the three hours of hard practice a day ruined my hands and now I have to choose, piano or writing. So this is me not pushing myself on the piano. […]
Invasive Species
Yes, this is a fantasy writer’s blog and I’m talking about gardening. It’s my blog. I can write what want 🙂 I just spent my Sunday 100% computer free yesterday and instead, I spent it in the garden. Many of you probably noticed my last name. Chrysler. Yes. I am distantly related to the Chrysler […]
Linguistics over breakfast
I am working on edits this morning and found a bit of a research issue I have to go back on. I figured I would walk you through my process. The line is: Gudrun eased her grip on the Seidr staff. My editor wants me to change this to Gudrun eased her grip on the […]
Speculation on “Elf”
Alfr is Old Norse for “River” and “Elfr” is the Anglicized name for “Alfr” meaning “River folk.” The Old Swedish term for River is “Alv.” Alv…Alf…Elf…River. “Alfheim” means “home of the river folk.” In Old Norse, most river names end in “-elfr” literally “river.” Klarelfr = Clear River in Varmland, Sweden Raumelfr = Thunder River […]