Author: Don

• 07:24 This’ll wake me up. It’d better, ‘cos I feel like going right back to bed and hibernating. ♫ blip.fm/~tcls #
• 12:08 Walk to skool was less treacherous today. Still uphill, though. #
• 12:09 Is it wrong to bump a story collection down on my reading queue because there are 2 interlinked novellas in a row? Oh well… #
• 12:27 This just might save me from my next writer meltdown (which I’m sure is coming very soon). "On Writing and Sanity" tinyurl.com/67awyj #
• 15:27 "I’m on a ride and I wanna get off, but they won’t slow down the roundabout." (The ride’s called "Work.") ♫ blip.fm/~tk3l #
• 16:37 So. Burned. Out. #
• 17:26 "I demand to have some booze!" #
• 17:57 @CoyoteWild About as well as it worked for Withnail. I’m almost at this point: tinyurl.com/5buvqr #
• 19:52 Got the kettle on, my favorite mug, the teabag ready, and more importantly, the Tullamore Dew. #

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• 07:01 Wine buzz helped me clean up my draft. Didn’t help me with new words, though. #
• 07:02 If I can get some new words in today, then maybe I’ll do some problem sets for skool. Maybe. #
• 10:52 Loving the campus "walk up and down these icy stairs at your own risk" policy they’ve got going. Maybe it’s to thin out the herd? 🙂 #
• 11:08 Have the perfect writing/skool compromise: sneak in some problem sets at *work*–duh! #
• 11:56 Live Piracy Map 2008: tinyurl.com/5jfncp #
• 12:35 Plan to do skoolwork during work work hasn’t worked out so well so far :(. #
• 14:34 I had the problem sets out, the book open, pencil in hand…and I just zoned. It was a 1000-yard stare kinda lunch hour. #
• 18:24 Feeling the pull of an indie bookstore sale… #
• 20:35 Didn’t buy anything…on sale…at the bookstore. Guess my new-book-guilt must be assuaged a bit. #

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• 07:04 Okay, I finally admit it…it’s cold. #
• 07:06 Build your own antho with some decent SFF authors-Tobias S. Buckell, Cat Rambo, Jay Lake to name a few: tinyurl.com/5td7z3 #
• 09:05 I have to walk uphill in the snow to get to skool! Both ways (not really)! #
• 12:43 Class was too productive to get any writing done 🙁 #
• 12:47 Updated my rejec…I mean, submission log. Sad, sad sight. 🙁 #
• 13:29 OMG! A r.l. version of a John Kessel alt.history story I read just last night: tinyurl.com/69d7pf #
• 13:37 The aforementioned alt.history story "The Invisible Empire" by John Kessel: tinyurl.com/5tt5dq #
• 18:02 Blowing off skoolwork tonite for writing. Gonna straighten out my new intro, and then take today’s frustrations out on my protagonist :). #
• 20:24 Might’ve had a little too much wine to write much… #

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• 07:02 "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow"…christ… ♫ blip.fm/~rxms #
• 07:04 Duh! The aforementioned story "where two queer psychic cops infiltrate an occult BDSM nightclub" is online: tinyurl.com/5dxpww #
• 11:03 Funny what you can do when you sit your ass down & force yourself: like 1 pg of new words, a rewritten intro, and a tentative working title! #
• 11:12 Wondering if I’ve done enough writing to get a jump on skoolwork tonite. Nah. #
• 12:33 Paid The Man his parking ticket money–damn vultures 🙂 #
• 14:15 Lunch hour totally unproductive, thanks to faulty electronics. Music electronics, that is 🙁 #
• 15:19 Sun was shining at lunch; looks like nuclear winter out there now 🙁 #
• 16:41 …and the rejections start to stream back in, coming home to roost, as it were. #
• 16:42 New life dilemma: take a workout class 2x/week on skool nites? Worth the 14 hr. days? #
• 18:06 Looks like the class is only 1x/week. Still might not be the smartest thing to do right now, even tho I’m pretty flabby anymore. #
• 21:27 Once again, learned the lesson "don’t skimp on electronics." #

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• 09:01 This is the second cool writing quote I’ve gotten from a Carol Emshwiller story: tinyurl.com/596zfm #
• 09:13 My protagonist’s theme song. Still trying to figure out how to make it play out, though. ♫ blip.fm/~rmac #
• 09:14 Actually I’ve had a couple of protagonists with that theme song. Wonder if it means anything? Naaaah… #
• 09:25 Props to Randy Coutre, but wtf was he thinking? tinyurl.com/5vlghh #
• 18:29 I NEED the antho w/a story "where two queer psychic cops infiltrate an occult BDSM nightclub." tinyurl.com/6qmmla #
• 20:44 Major procrastination mode. Van Damme’s BLOODSPORT on TV. STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS on in 15 min. #

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• 08:13 If my current piece had a soundtrack, this song would be on it: ♫ blip.fm/~r9p0 #
• 08:14 Been 2 or 3 stories since I thought up a soundtrack for a piece…hm. #
• 08:18 Flickr pool devoted to my favorite fast food place. More to binge on over Thanksgiving: www.flickr.com/groups/chipotle/pool/ #
• 08:48 Enuff screwing around. Let the editing begin (with BookTV in the background)!! #
• 09:44 *sigh* Yes, I’ve got a stronger narrative. But still, no "hook" and no title…unless I worm it back in somehow…? #
• 09:47 DOCTOR WHO X-mas special 2008 trailer: tinyurl.com/64uap8 #
• 09:51 Agenda for the rest of the morning: Breakfast, more coffee, haircut, & more editing. #
• 09:59 Yeah yeah, and more draft, too. #
• 10:52 Weighing my weekend agenda against this decision tree: tinyurl.com/6z6w67 #
• 15:05 You know the guilt about your reading backlog is bad when you can’t even bring yourself to check books out of the library. #
• 15:07 All my favorite writing spots about town were either crowded or uncomfortable. Only have 1 pg of line-edits to show for my trouble thus far. #
• 15:19 Podcast interview with Benjamin Rosenbaum (aka the next author in my reading queue): tinyurl.com/6es4rk #
• 18:48 I think I actually got more writing done last week while I had the Andromeda Strain. *sigh* #

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• 07:20 "Don’t you know by now no one gives you anything? Don’t you wonder how you keep on moving one more day, your way?" ♫ blip.fm/~qtac #
• 07:23 What else was I gonna post on my 666th tweet? ♫ blip.fm/~qtbe #
• 07:31 Why can’t I delete my last tweet???? #
• 10:19 Because I can’t delete my last tweet, my awesome joke about my 666th post is now ruined! 🙁 Oh well. #
• 10:20 Wrote a whole page this morning. Funny what can happen when you decide to just *make* something–anything–happen. #
• 10:24 Still probably won’t have it ready by group time this weekend…:( #
• 12:17 "…I can’t even imagine a writing process that didn’t include the constant criticism of my peers." tinyurl.com/6bgzr5 #
• 12:22 Not to mention self-flagellation that would make Martin Luther blush. #
• 12:30 Like so: tinyurl.com/49ulbq #
• 14:21 Walked in the sunshine at lunch, thought about my story, and came to a horrible realization… #
• 14:24 Realized the probs in my story might be solved by *removing* the hook that got me started writing it in the first place! Of all the…%#$*! #
• 20:39 Typed out most of my handwritten draft, painfully excising all references to my original hook. So far, it looks like I was right. #
• 22:01 "Burning up on midnight oil / And it’s come right back on you." ♫ blip.fm/~r6f7 #
• 22:29 X-ferred the story from the AlphaSmart to an .rtf file. Only now realized that since I don’t have the original hook, I don’t have a title! #
• 22:57 Watching GHOST ADVENTURES on the Travel Channel. I…I just don’t have the words. #

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• 07:09 The music in my head this morning: ♫ blip.fm/~qeas #
• 07:10 Wondering if I have time to slip in the new Bond film this weekend…? #
• 07:12 Still not sure how to hit my protagonist where it hurts. But, I’ve figured out where it hurts! #
• 08:59 Wondering how much writing I can get done in class today. #
• 12:16 Very very very happy with my midterm performance, despite having coughed out 1/2 a brain during the exam. ♫ blip.fm/~qibo #
• 12:33 Didn’t get to write during class. Still working out my immediate next plot point. #
• 13:36 BeTwittered is down. Almost forgot what Twitter looked like :). #
• 13:36 Cassandra Wilson interview in the local rag (*swoon*) tinyurl.com/5gx75z #
• 17:46 So tired and so far out of a writing groove. Gonna get it back, one paragraph at a time, if need be! #
• 17:46 Hell, when was the last time I even *read* anything? #
• 18:09 Screw it. Gonna read tonight, then spit out some draft tomorrow before work. With a nice, large red-eye. #
• 20:35 Have you, or someone you know, been permanently injured by a Jedi? tinyurl.com/6juyrx #

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• 07:19 Woke up and still had this song in my head: ♫ blip.fm/~pwck #
• 07:21 Thinking about my latest story is stressing me out. Am >this close< to just scrapping the whole thing. #
• 10:38 Didn’t write during Section this morning. Just jotted down a few character and plot ideas that came to mind. About a page worth ;). #
• 10:44 Brought the AlphaSmart on a skool day–screw it. Gonna xscribe what I have so far to see exactly what I have. #
• 10:45 @sixsentences Amen to that! I hate the process. My joy’s in the finished product ;). #
• 12:38 New photo/art blog; something that gets the juices stirring: bldgblog.blogspot.com/ #
• 14:24 Ah, the fall. The leaves. The colours. The throng of crises and walk-ins… #
• 14:57 Writing progress this afternoon: -250 words! 1 pg just needed to be cut because it was going nowhere. #
• 18:01 Today was a bad day for one of the CPUs I use at work to get swapped out. A bad day. #
• 18:02 Will sublimate my anger into writing. I remember when I made progress on my last story by taking out my frustrations on the protagonist! #
• 18:14 Advice I should follow: "…don’t indulge in rejectomancy." tinyurl.com/5etz3e #
• 20:36 Redrafted the pg I eliminated today. Much improved. Still planning exactly how I’m going to crucify my protagonist. #
• 20:41 …while I watch GHOST HUNTERS. #

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• 07:07 "I do believe I’m feeling stronger everyday." ♫ blip.fm/~plmh #
• 07:12 This brings back (recent) memories. Gets me all tingly… tinyurl.com/5g929a #
• 07:15 Doing skoolwork on a writing nite demands payback! Heck, if today’s lecture is boring enough, I might even write in class :). #
• 11:56 Scribbled out 120+ words during class and still took decent notes–Hah! #
• 12:00 Now the choice is: forge ahead with the draft, or type and edit what I have for group this week…? #
• 12:08 Jesus H. Christ, when exactly did my Google Reader & Bookmark backlog reach such ridiculous proportions?? #
• 12:27 Obviously distracted by the global internets. Will keep chipping away at the story longhand today. #
• 13:41 Feeling very disorganized right now. Keep finding things that slipped thru the cracks while I was sick with the black death. #
• 17:56 Wouldn’t really say all "Hell" broke loose at work. All "Purgatory,"maybe? #
• 20:39 Wrote my character into an emotional corner that I’ve been in myself. Thus, I haven’t the foggiest clue how to get him out of it :(. #
• 20:40 Spent more time trying to journal my way out of it than drafting. Smart move in the long run; doesn’t do crap for this weekend. #
• 20:48 Cannot get this song out of my head, not that I’m complaining. ♫ blip.fm/~pwck #

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