What I did for Thanksgiving
What I did for Thanksgiving: Tofurkey with brother-in-common-law et al. Alice’s Restaurant. Addams Family Values, with cheering during Wednesday’s speech. Too. Much. Food! Roll me to the car, I’m...Happy Thingy!
Happy “The Indians bailed the settlers’ asses out, and all they got was this lousy smallpox!” day. I don’t really hate Thanksgiving, even though I sometimes feel like I should. I mean, it’s basically a holiday to celebrate gluttony. Just...Holy hand grenades, Batman!
I generally think of myself as bad at plot. Maybe I think this because I sometimes end up writing a first draft in which I follow a character around a setting and nothing happens to him or her. (This is generally what’s wrong with the hurricane story, by the...Gadget lust!
Check it out! It’s a teeny tiny laptop that runs linux. I could even carry it in my purse if I bought a bigger purse. I fondled one at the store today. People kept asking me if I needed help. No! Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script! I...Lots of work for not a lot of prose, and nonfiction reading.
My outline for the novel codenamed Lizardfic is currently 5008 words. That’s longer than most of my short stories. This is more outlining than I’ve ever done for any project, ever. On the other hand, stalled novel, yo. Horrible feeling. Must unstall novel....Outlining is HARD.
Outlining is hard. Let’s do hard-core coding instead! Seriously. I’d ask y’all to tell me that it was only this bad because I’m a complete pantser and usually pull shorter stories out of my ass out of my subconscious like Athena leaping from...Things you can learn from a grrl’s purse.
You can learn things about a grrl from what’s in her purse. Here’s some of what’s in mine: Two Epi-Pens. Two inhalers. Puppy linux CD Knoppix S-T-D CD Cellphone. PDA. Screwdriver. Thumb drive. Pens. Titanium spork from Think Geek. What do you carry...Edit, edit, edit.
I’ve been collapsing characters in the hurricane story. It’s done some cool things to the minor characters that have been combined. I still haven’t tackled the plot stuff. I think I’m a little intimidated by it. I have a pretty good idea of how...Your attention, please.
My writer’s group is made of win. That is all.Subscribe
