Author: Don

• 08:19 Weather for this morning says "Fair -6F." Fair?? #
• 09:20 Gonna brave the cold (because it’s all old hat by now), get breakfast, & get s’more writing done. I can finish this story today, I know it!! #
• 11:35 Got my tankard of coffee and a table next to an outlet. Must resist temptation to take a "writer pr0n" picture of my setup. #
• 11:36 Of course, I totally would if it wasn’t such a pain to remove the MicroSD chip from my cell (I’m much too cheap to pay data usage). #
• 11:38 A sampling of this morning’s writing music. Will probably be followed by Toto later. ♫ blip.fm/~1n7yp #
• 12:39 Line edits are going slowly and painfully. Should’ve ordered a red-eye. #
• 13:06 Jeezus, did I say the last 5 pgs were as good as they were gonna get, too? Yeah, no. #
• 13:56 Slightly revised intro + complete ending = probably have enough for group tomorrow. Still have a lil’ ways to go to be 100% done. #
• 14:26 Resolve waning. I edit one paragraph for 5 minutes and spend the next 5 reading RSS feeds. #
• 14:28 Been to enough cons to know more people should read this Guide to Wearing a Corset at a Con. Just sayin’. tinyurl.com/7at2qu #
• 15:57 Back in the cold apartment, printing out pages for copying. #
• 16:00 Of course that means I’ll be stuck with what I have. And you know I’ll end up rewriting things. Gah! #
• 16:53 Feeling woozy as I go out for groceries and copy-making. Hoping it’s just due to the horribly skewed coffee-to-food ratio in my body. #
• 19:10 I will not look at the copies of the WIP. I will not look at the copies of the WIP. I will not look at the copies of the WIP. #
• 21:08 7 minutes in and I can tell THE IMMORTAL VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN DRAKE is gonna be so craptastic. #
• 21:09 Funny how Adrian Paul, like Chrisopher Lambert, keeps finding ways to keep doing HIGHLANDER without calling it HIGHLANDER. #

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• 08:07 Writing from the backup site this morning. Couldn’t resist allure of bagels and cream cheese. #
• 08:09 And, they’ve got something funky playing on the house system! ♫ blip.fm/~1mhy9 #
• 08:44 Feeling disturbing twinge in my back as I sit here editing… 🙁 #
• 08:49 Did I say the 1st 5 pgs were as good as they were gonna get? Yeah, no. #
• 10:38 Edited 8 pgs this AM. I’m at work with no long-ass meetings scheduled. I’m being treated to lunch. Life is good! #
• 10:39 Waiting for the "fit to hit the shan", now that I’ve said that. #
• 10:53 Given peer review forms for coworkers’ annual reviews. Thinking I’ll just write the same set of vague Barnum statements for all of ’em ;). #
• 11:17 Hahaha! Every "Extreme Horror" story ever written. So true! tinyurl.com/86989x #
• 12:38 Coworker has fallen victim to office Andromeda Strain :(. Gotta get some Vitamin C in me. That or Red Bull–either one. 🙂 #
• 13:50 Spent my lunch coming up with the first 100 words of my *next* story!! #
• 17:24 No early escape from Alcatraz tonite 🙁 #
• 17:38 Hm, that might’ve been a premature assessment, after all…. >:) #
• 18:39 Staring at the WIP. Possibly too fried to write. Hope a mocha and some 80s AOR will help. #
• 19:40 @noells If you like Bill Champlin, you’ll probably like his old band The Sons: tinyurl.com/9fokhj #
• 20:29 Cleaning up the WIP, one scene at a time. Might even be done by tomorrow! Maybe. #
• 21:28 Was never a huge, huge fan, but I’m almost interested in the new BATTLESTAR GALACTICA tonite. Kinda, sorta. #
• 22:01 Praying the final Cylon turns out to be Dirk Benedict. #
• 23:05 BSG: Two years for that? I know that if I’d liked the show to begin with, I’d be pissed. #

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• 08:31 Need some Menahan to get into the writing zone this morning. ♫ blip.fm/~1ltml #
• 09:38 I need to shoehorn a mere 500some words of character, setting, and background details into the WIP before I can finally declare it done. #
• 09:43 Now I know why the WIP depresses me. Working on it has been a clear example of Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox of Motion. tinyurl.com/2hyc3e #
• 10:37 Ack! Another 2.5 hour meeting after lunch! I’ll be fine as long as there’s WiFi. If not, I won’t be responsible for what happens ;). #
• 12:10 I should not be feeling as exhausted as I am right now. #
• 12:11 Dammit, I better not be coming down with something this close to the start of classes. If I am, I’m clearing my weekend calendar & sleeping. #
• 13:33 Staked out a prime seat for my long-ass afternoon meeting. Saving all lunchtime writing until then ;). #
• 13:38 WTF? No more development for Google Notebook anymore??? tinyurl.com/7nqpcb #
• 13:49 Opened the file, but can barely stand to look at my Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox of a WIP :(. Almost think I’d rather pay attention to the mtg. #
• 14:01 Motherf…being made to move up to the front…goddammit! #
• 17:08 Survived the meeting *and* still got internet time during the most boring bits. Otherwise, I would’ve strangled myself with my 12′ scarf. #
• 18:29 Escaped from Alcatraz. Shhhh. Let’s see if I can’t get closer to done, here. #
• 18:31 Let’s see if Eliane Elias playing Bill Evans tunes will put me in the zone. #
• 19:17 1st 5 pgs & last 5 pgs of WIP are as clean as they’re gonna get. Still need to cram 300 more words of background/setting. #
• 19:18 I hereby grant myself permission to screw around for the rest of the night. :P~ #

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• 07:19 Looks like it’s a day–a *week*–to bundle myself up in the Doctor Who scarf. Yes, all 12′ of it. #
• 07:21 For my back’s sake, I’m temporarily going back to Mead 5-star 9-1/2 x 6 notebooks for my journal instead of my 600pg leather-bound beast. #
• 09:17 Sometimes the best writing music is really craptastic music. Case in point this morning, CHICAGO 13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_13 #
• 09:44 Very productive writing morning, and I didn’t even need a red-eye! Now to work, where I’ll probably regret not having one :). #
• 11:31 Note to self: pick this up at the comic shop next month jerseygods.blogspot.com/ #
• 11:31 Note to self: for that matter, pick up the stuff you’ve neglected over the holidays, too 🙁 #
• 13:11 I don’t mind the frigid temps. I mind having to suit up like I’m going on a spacewalk just to go to lunch! #
• 13:26 According to a study, I’m likelier to see dead people! SWEET! tinyurl.com/a2625f #
• 14:22 Lots of needed brainstorming at lunch. Why is it the hardest part of finishing a goddamn story is that last tiny little bit? #
• 17:27 No escaping from Alcatraz early today :(. S’pose I might as well get used to it now. #
• 17:28 Let’s see if the crappy music mojo keeps working for after-work writing. Tonite’s selection: Chicago’s HOT STREETS tinyurl.com/8asrhe #
• 17:41 Damn. Both The Prisoner and Khan/Mr. Roarke have passed on :(. #
• 19:24 Okay, HOT STREETS isn’t cutting it. Time to fall back on a tried and true standby, CHICAGO 16. #
• 20:23 I edited one paragraph, but you know what? I wrote/edited before work and at lunch. I deserve a bit of a break today, right? #

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• 08:13 I’m so bad. First tweet this morning from the job’s all-staff meeting :D. #
• 08:29 Meeting hasn’t started yet, and I’m already through today’s RSS feeds. Bad sign. #
• 08:33 No YEAR’S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR this year??? lcrw.net/wordpress/?p=768 #
• 08:34 A couple of surrounding coworkers just noticed my jaw drop. #
• 09:16 Most of the meeting’s been on financial stuff. Forecast is mostly a lot of gloom, but not necessarily doom. #
• 11:53 Survived the meeting relatively unscathed, thanks to wireless internet access :D. #
• 12:53 Just saw the price of a USED copy of next semester’s textbook. I think I’m having a coronary. #
• 13:27 Went with amazon.com. It was either that or a heart attack. #
• 13:38 Not in the writing mood this lunch time. Will be leaving work early again; I’ll get something done then, I’m sure. #
• 17:18 Escaping from Alcatraz early. I kinda actually do feel like writing tonite. #
• 17:24 @strikethru The Flip is very, very nice. Combined with a netbook, transferring and posting video is almost too easy 🙂 #
• 18:15 Funny how motivation can just evaporate for no real reason… 🙁 #
• 21:06 Jamming to old Huey Lewis & the News tunes. Like, pre-"I Wanna New Drug" old. #
• 22:42 Trying not to let my enjoyment of tonite’s LEVERAGE be colored by the fact that Jonathan Frakes (ST:TNG) directed ;). #

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• 08:19 Forgot my schedule changed. Almost got to work 90 minutes early. Luckily, coffee drew me into the coffee shop near my place. #
• 08:21 Bad news: not fully awake yet, so I succumbed and had my first red-eye of 2009! First sip felt like The Quickening from HIGHLANDER. #
• 09:13 I’ve got a 0.999 Draft!! Just one section to potentially cut, a paragraph to rewrite, and just a tiny bit of backstory to cram in somewhere. #
• 10:30 Body’s at work. Mind’s on the WIP. #
• 11:48 Must’ve hit just the right amount of caffeination this morning. Getting a LOT done today. I expect the inevitable crash right after lunch. #
• 13:29 Domme Lois Lane/subbie Superman, illustrated by Joe Shuster himself (NSFW): tinyurl.com/7t778e #
• 13:33 Okay, too turned on now. Maybe writing will take my mind off it ;). #
• 13:44 Amy Winehouse getting divorced? I’m shocked. Shocked! ♫ blip.fm/~1jy3e #
• 16:41 Might get to escape early today…fingers crossed! #
• 16:47 Planning to bring my netbook to the big staff meeting tomorrow. If I see yarn or knitting needles, nobody better say a word to me, either! #
• 17:06 Got work approval for next semester’s class!!! #
• 18:20 Can’t get a lead on next semester’s texbook yet. Wanna get a jump on a used one. Damn, I thought those things were pricey back in the day! #
• 18:24 Now that the crit group roll call’s gone out, I can see exactly how much work I have to do on the WIP, yet :*(. #
• 19:57 Old laptop is taking longer and longer to start up. And having to run scandisk more often… 🙁 #

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• 09:26 Might have to stay in today. My home Inbox barely got touched. #
• 09:27 Breakfast first. Then I’ll decide. #
• 11:00 Depressed by MEET THE PRESS. Not because of the issues of the day, but because Cosby noted THE COSBY SHOW was 25 years ago!!! #
• 11:55 Loading more writing music onto the netbook. Easy to do when it’s got 3x the HD space of my old laptop. #
• 15:03 Wow, I’ve really blown off the day in a serious way. At least when(!) my dying laptop bites the dust, 95% of my tunes are already backed up. #
• 17:01 Head’s killing me for some reason. Advil, food, and coffee have been no help so far. #
• 17:14 Alan Moore parody of Frank Miller tinyurl.com/83vq8s #
• 18:20 Speaking of Moore: the sci-fi underpinnings of V FOR VENDETTA tinyurl.com/73c5a3 #
• 19:42 Home inbox and tickler files processed. To do lists in order. Office still a mess, but somehow, I feel better. Maybe I’ll edit the MS a bit. #
• 19:44 I think the tea w/a shot of Jameson’s helped :). #
• 21:28 Got precious little writing done. Got a lot of non-writing things off my plate, though! #

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• 07:47 This would make some of my romance writer pals chuckle (I think): tinyurl.com/9jscxc #
• 07:52 Where I rave a bit about "Other Cities" by Benjamin Rosenbaum. tinyurl.com/83kol4 #
• 08:04 Today’s agenda: Rewrite! #
• 09:23 Gonna brave the cold and go out for breakfast. *Then* to the rewriting!! #
• 11:23 Whaddya get when you put the indoor Farmer’s Market across from the indie bookstore? Impulse buys of books by Lydia Davis & Etgar Keret. #
• 11:28 Sequestering myself at the library. Will make myself write as penance. #
• 11:40 Sure, let’s just add a Joy Williams collection to my vast mountain of a reading pile. Why not? At least this one’s a library book. #
• 12:24 One thing’s clear after one read-through. I haven’t had nearly enough coffee yet. Heading back uptown, I think. #
• 13:12 Fresh caffeine. All is now clear w/the WIP. And I’ve already succumbed to the new-book temptation, so I’m safe where I am. #
• 14:16 2 pgs of rewrites! WIP setting more well-established. Fantasy element a little more front-and-center. #
• 14:18 Gonna get more coffee and peruse the Davis, Keret, and Williams collections I added to my already long reading queue. *headdesk* #
• 15:01 Time to blow this burg, I think. Got a neglected inbox full of non-writing stuff on my desk. #
• 17:26 Totally missed lunch watching TV while cutting lines from the MS. Only reminded when I flipped the channel to IRON CHEF AMERICA. #
• 18:00 Does the challenger ever win on IRON CHEF AMERICA? I’ve never seen it. #

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• 07:45 Reviewing scenes cut from the WIP; at least one of them needs to be put back in. I’m so close to a "shitty first draft," I can taste it. #
• 08:10 Two more scene beats, and I’ll have my "0.9 Draft." #
• 09:57 Brainstorming at my desk. Just some backfill for the WIP intro that should solve 2 problems with one stroke. #
• 11:47 Cleaning up my TiddlyWiki and MonkeyGTD wikis. I did end up finding uses for both after all. #
• 13:13 Draft 0.9 is done!! I think I’m actually going to put the story away for the rest of today. Well, the rest of the afternoon. We’ll see. #
• 14:17 Okay, maybe I don’t need to write much after work. I do need to work out all the details I need to add to make my WIP changes make sense. #
• 16:18 I have a bad feeling about Monday. #
• 17:47 Trying to put depressing work discussion about the economy aside and focus on after-work writing. #
• 18:04 RT @NewsHour Nanoscale ‘Levitation’ Discovery Could Lead to Better Nanomachines twurl.nl/8zomsp #
• 18:15 You know what? It’s just not working right now. Guess this morning’s progress will have to be enough for now. At least until after dinner. #
• 18:23 I want! I want!! tinyurl.com/8qbnpj #
• 18:50 Forced myself to write a paragraph, so my ennui can just suck it! #

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