Tweets for Today

  • 18:20 Going to attempt writing tonight. I’m sure it’ll be in vain. #
  • 20:40 Managed to get a whole scene done! (Only took 5 fucking rewrites and 10+ pages to have soemthing to distill into 2 pgs of something useful.) #
  • 21:28 Hey, looks like, typed out, I got three pages out of it! Now, WTF’s the next scene…? #
  • 07:22 Friday! (Thank Christ…) ♫ blip.fm/~10noc #
  • 10:58 Wrote for 90 minutes this morning, and still don’t have a clear idea of scene #2 of the WIP. #
  • 10:58 And so far, the only good thing about The Diamond Mines today is the Bryan Adams on the CD player. #

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Bat Out of Hell: Urban Fantasy Soundtrack?

Something to pass the time, since LoudTwitter is apparently FUBARed.

It occurred to me that the romance subplots of the urban fantasy/paranormal romance fiction I’ve ever heard discussed seem to have already been summarized back in 1977, at the beginning of Meat Loaf’s classic “You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night).”

BOY: On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?

GIRL: Will he offer me his mouth?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Will he offer me his teeth?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Will he offer me his jaws?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Will he offer me his hunger?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Again, will he offer me his hunger?

BOY: Yes!

GIRL: And will he starve without me?

BOY: Yes!

GIRL: And does he love me?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Yes

BOY: On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?

GIRL: Yes

BOY: I bet you to say that to all the boys.

I’ve always said Meat Loaf was a sage, ever since I first heard the truism, “There ain’t no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.”

November Scorecard

The subs period for a few of the mags I like to try closed last month. Now, I need to figure out a whole new set of shells to play the submission shell-game for the stories I’m (not) writing. Luckily, I got a couple of rejections in time to sneak them in on the last day of the month.

Rejections:
Submissions:
Acceptances:
Publications:
Circulating:
3
1
0
0
3

I gotta get these numbers up.

Tweets for Today

  • 07:38 Today’s one of the few times this year I’ll allow myself not to stress about what I’m not getting done. #
  • 07:38 I await the bird… #
  • 07:47 Guess which one of the "10 Kinkiest SciFi Books" I’ve read tinyurl.com/5mx3fe #
  • 15:00 I’ve tried, but now I’m starting to feel guilty for being this much of a lump :). #
  • 16:43 The brrrd is almost ready! #
  • 17:51 And now, the food coma… #

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Tweets for Today

  • 07:42 No trace of whatever ailed me yesterday. That doesn’t mean I feel good this morning :). #
  • 07:51 Yesterday was Doctor Who’s birthday! www.bbc.co.uk/archive/doctorwho/ #
  • 07:57 Another rejection. "Well-written" and "moving," but not enough story arc. Well…out to the next, soon as I figure out where. #
  • 11:31 Equilibrium’s getting fuzzy again. Not a good sign. #
  • 17:43 Not the only one suffering from dizzy spells, it seems. So have some coworkers. Hmm… #
  • 20:22 "Don’t get excited, just get your head right and we’ll stick together if it takes all night…" ♫ blip.fm/~vg4l #
  • 20:25 My body refuses to cooperate with my mind, despite the caffeine. Bastard! #

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Tweets for Today

  • 07:11 You know what? I’m going back to bed. #
  • 10:13 Feeling dizzy and nauseuous for no good reason I can think of… #
  • 15:35 Have been on the couch in and out of consciousness all day. Think the world’s finally stopped spinning, now. #
  • 17:54 Can’t seem to remain upright for more than 10 minutes at a time. Might–MIGHT–just have to accept that nothing’ll get done today… 🙁 #
  • 20:22 Thoroughly disgusted with having been on my back all day. Won’t go to bed until I accomplish one thing, if it kills me. #

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Tweets for Today

  • 07:44 Something to get the blood flowing this morning. God knows I need it. ♫ blip.fm/~ube1 #
  • 07:47 Suddenly in the mood for more UK R&B. ♫ blip.fm/~ubeq #
  • 07:59 Surprisingly not that hungover. Almost feels like I’ve done something wrong :). #
  • 08:00 I think I’m going to spend the morning trimming down my reading queue. Then I’ll write. Later. Promise. Depending on how things go. #
  • 08:42 I defy you not to find a character you can relate to in this story: tinyurl.com/6po2lg #
  • 09:07 The First Amendment is just way too much freedom for some people. tinyurl.com/5pruc8 #
  • 13:06 BeTwittered’s failed once too often for me today. #
  • 13:06 So much for getting things done this afternoon: OSU vs. Michigan’s on!! #
  • 14:25 81 yd. punt return!! Bwah-hahaha! #
  • 14:25 And now, the TD!! #
  • 14:28 What can I say? You can take the boy out of Ohio, but alas (tho at times I wish you could)… #
  • 15:15 "Our honor defend we will fight to the end for OHIO!" ♫ blip.fm/~ugch #
  • 16:26 Have to root for Michigan State, now. If they beat Penn St., then OSU goes to the Bowl! #
  • 18:01 95% done with last (easy peasy) homework assignment for skool–almost a MONTH ahead of schedule! A total first for me!! #
  • 18:09 OSU’s prospects don’t look too good right now :(. #
  • 18:42 Well, at least OSU beat Michigan… #

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Saturday Brain Dump

Basically because I’m procrastinating, plus I couldn’t believe I came here today to find nothing on my site but reposted tweets, I needed some constructive filler.

I’m a big believer in Brian K. Vaughn’s view on writer’s block (“Writer’s block” is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.), but as a corollary, I believe that sometimes writer’s block is a way of telling you that there’s too much on your mind and that you need a core dump.

1
I’m not making excuses, but this has been a busy fall, between getting my academic feet wet again for the first time in a decade, family issues, and the physical/emotional perils of the writing life. I’m getting by, but at this point I feel like all I’m good for is waiting for the clock to run out on the rest of the year. It’s not necessarily a bad feeling, either.

2
I’ve been spending time deleting things, starting with crap I’m accumulating online, and finally perusing the crap taking up space on my hard drive. I freed up a few GB of space just this morning by deleting whole albums I don’t listen to anymore. There was just no reason for Neko Case’s entire catalog to be sitting on my hard drive for a year.

3
Still waiting to hear re: a bunch of October story submissions. Got one rejection back the other day and just haven’t had the time to figure out where to re-submit it.

4
Most of my reposted tweets lately have to do with this bastard of a story I’m writing. The story before it came out so easily, and with this one, I’m pulling teeth. Lesson learned: sometimes (some folks will say most times), you just have to construct a story.

5
I’m a long ways off from my goal of drafting a story a week. But my writing/editing output has never been more regular. I’d like to see more finished product for 2009.

That’s all for now, I think. Time to find something else to procrastinate over write.

Tweets for Today

  • 07:32 Trying to go the distance, but I just wanna crawl back into bed and blow off the morning. Can’t. ♫ blip.fm/~ttyh #
  • 10:33 Rewrote the intro to the latest story for the 3rd fucking time. Almost junked the whole thing. #
  • 10:34 Did make some minor breakthroughs. Finally accepted that this story’s going to take some actual construction. #
  • 10:49 Wondering how accurate this "Slang of the 30s" is: tinyurl.com/33z7rc #
  • 11:07 Can’t believe I’m going to take the time tonite to watch these idiots: tinyurl.com/5oexrl #
  • 11:07 Have we figured out that I’m in no mood to do any work whatsoever? #
  • 12:42 Need a core dump. What if I just junked all my Google Bookmarks, del.icio.us links, etc. and just started over…? #
  • 14:23 Gave the piece another (better?) title and did a scene breakdown. Better sense now of what I have and where I need to go. #
  • 14:25 Y’know, I write decent scenes. The story blows because there’s no coherent thread…yet. #
  • 16:44 Autopilot has set in… #
  • 17:57 Planning to get comfortably numb tonite…before GHOST ADVENTURES. #
  • 19:46 Can I muster the energy for pizza and beer that isn’t delivered straight to my mouth? #
  • 22:17 Back from an evening with a fellow Ohio transplant. Full of microbrew. Will top it off with a little wine, now. #
  • 22:23 These fools are so much more entertaining when you’ve had a few: tinyurl.com/5oexrl #

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