Caden O'Brien's Website

Have you ever seen a category assigned to a book and wondered exactly what it meant? Or have you ever been in a bookstore looking for books by a particular author, and found them scattered in different category sections throughout the store – even books that were all part of the same series? You know how frustrating that is!

I found a cool website called Writing to Publish which is run by a group of writers on AOL. They’ve put together a handy - and large! – reference site that lists just about every kind of Category or Sub-Category for almost any kind of writing. Not only do they provide definitions, but also examples of books that fall into that category. To me, that’s the most useful part of the site!

My writing focuses on the Fantasy and Mystery genres, but a look into the sub-categories gives you an idea of just how broad the range is within these genres. A very useful site with a good links page to other resources – you’ll be reading for hours!

I was engaging in some heavy-duty research online when I found this little gem that allowed me to find out when and how I was going to die. This is something that I occasionally wonder about, but don’t spend a whole lot of time on. But when something like this shoves itself under my sound-asleep nose like a cat’s butt at 4am, you gotta check it out.

The site www.quizrocket.com has a ton of fun quizzes to take. But I rarely do them because they are usually info-grabber traps that make you reveal more and more personal info in order to get the quiz results. This is bullshit and I refuse to play. So I clicked on the little X to get me out of that site, and lo and behold, the date and means of my death popped up. Here’s my deal:

Your Result

 February 23, 2017: Exhaustion due to non-stop gaming. You really got into playing a MMORPG and have been consumed by it. You hardly sleep and your diet consists of nothing more than energy drinks and chips. Your friends are all worried about you and try to get you to stop. You finally see that this has gotten way out of hand and promise to stop… just as soon as you finish this last game. You die of exhaustion and heart failure 30 minutes later.

Wow, guess I’d better hurry up and get that blockbuster novel finished!! If you want to try these quizzes, don’t let them  get all your info. Quit before giving them anything too revealing, and get a chuckle out of the quiz results. Have fun!

No, not the world of blogging, although that can be pretty strange at times. This is the inaugural post of the Caden O’Brien website and blog. I’m mostly a writer and dreamer. I love scary stuff. Next to Christmas, Halloween is my favorite holiday, although some years it’s the other way around. Inconsistency is my middle name. Just because I believe something today doesn’t mean it will mean squat a week for now. Live for the moment and screw the rest. Unless there’s something really important that you want to plan for…

I’ve been told I’ve been shamefully irreverent and disrespectful. Yeah, so? Only when deserved. I love weird humor, whether in books, film, TV, websites, and life in general. Who wouldn’t?

I love little white fluffy dogs, and have 3 Papillons to prove it. I’ll post pics one of these days. I also have a species-confused Siamese cat who thinks he’s a dog – a Papillon, to be precise. I think I’ve got some pics of him that I could post. It’s a good thing I don’t have any two-legged children, otherwise I’d be accused of being a bad mommy. God forbid!

I’m disbelieving and cynical. If I can’t feel it or touch it, it probably doesn’t exist and I don’t have time to waste on it. But like the eternally muddled Agent Mulder, I want to believe! So I’m open to being convinced. Ever since I was a baby girl, wanted one thing most in this world … oops, started channeling Heart for a minute there! What I meant to say was, when I was little I was absolutely convinced that there was magic in the world, along with a universe of magical people and creatures that are hiding just out of our sight. As I got older and more cynical, doubt crept in…but I haven’t given up completely yet.  That’s why many of my stories have some other-worldly things in them, because I can almost feel them sometimes, or just barely see them out of the corner of my eye.

I love to share the fun stuff I find with other like-minded people. So I’ll be adding categories for humor sites, favorite music, books I’m into, shows and films that hit my hot button.  There will also be lots of stuff about my own writings as I get that organized. As I said, this is a work in progress, and I’m glad you stopped by. Please feel free to add a comment and say hello!

Note: I’ve been told that my language at times is colorful, crude, blunt, gross, dirty, inappropriate, and spank-me-naughty. Too true. This site will contain some of that language and those themes so wanted to give you panty-waists out there a heads up. If you are easily offended, then bugger off.