Tweets for Today

  • 08:37 "Shootin’ at the walls of heartache" that my writing’s giving me :). ♫ blip.fm/~1184t #
  • 08:43 Think I’m going to take my writing show out on the road today. First though, coffee! #
  • 08:45 Story o’ my writing life: "This could lead to excellence, Or serious injury, Only one way to know, Go, go, go." ♫ blip.fm/~11882 #
  • 09:08 Sidetracked by 30 ROCK on Hulu. tinyurl.com/62ucod #
  • 10:03 Sidetracked by BUCK ROGERS on Hulu. tinyurl.com/5o9h9n #
  • 10:04 With this ep’s all-star lineup of Jack Palance, Roddy McDowell, and Buster Crabbe, how could I resist? #
  • 11:22 2 hours of schlocky, pulpy sci-fi goodness! I gotta get outside, now. #
  • 12:05 Victim of an inconveniently-placed outlet. As long as I can type, tho. 🙂 #
  • 13:42 Making WIP progress! Unreadable progress, but progress nonetheless! #
  • 13:59 Horrible realization that a secondary character in my WIP is *too* fleshed out. That’s it, I quit. #
  • 13:59 Well, not really, but still… #
  • 14:01 The cure, obviously, is more coffee. Maybe a new book…? #
  • 14:35 Back to pulling my hair out about the WIP. Need a break. Or whiskey. Probably both :). #
  • 14:48 Part of the problem: Inner Critic, usually my friend, won’t STFU today. #
  • 17:42 Just remembered a dream about a coworker teaching me a silat lankha. Of course, this person knows nothing about S.E.Asian martial arts irl. #

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Tweets for Today

  • 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. #
  • 17:05 Abandoned at work! Gah! #
  • 17:16 Friday attitude-adjustment theme: ♫ blip.fm/~10ytt #
  • 20:03 Finally catching an episode of THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD on Cartoon Network. #
  • 22:37 These GHOST ADVENTURES guys are such…I just don’t have the words! #

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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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