October 2010
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uhh have u seen the photos of her on emo-porn.com...
You know, a lesser person would take this beautiful straight line and run with it. Me? I’m just going to let this opportunity pass me by, and let everyone ELSE make the obvious joke.
You can always ask.
August 2010
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Anonymous asked: No more updates? I've read through your whole archive and I must say that I am looking forward to more...
May 2010
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Silence is golden.
Or something like that.
So I’m shutting up.
I will see you later, but don’t hold your breath or anything.
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A jumping-off point.
Writerly advice from Warren Ellis:
Identify a character in your idea.
1) What does that character WANT?
2) What does that character need to do to GET what they want?
3) What are they prepared to DO to get what they want?
Basic? Yes. Worth remembering, because it’s where every story starts? Hell yes. Also has a couple of examples, at the post, as well as what...
Kids just came out to see the helicopter, so all’s well. Can’t go to base on a field trip, so this is a cool option.
Career day at nearby elementary school? Military ‘copter in playground; no apparent evac orders. (Yet.)
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550 Flash - 548 Words
This is the five hundred fiftieth post here, and I managed very nearly 550 words for it. (I suppose I could wedge the remaining two in, somewhere, but I don’t really want to, right this second.)
This was a try at writing an erotic story in 500 words or fewer, mostly to see if I could do it — Pill Hill Press is looking for erotic flash stories for their 365 Days Of Erotica project,...
Sadness! My first puncture in 4+ years of riding my bike! Needed to tune it anyhow, but still.
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How I Choose A Name
When I need a name, I first try to see if the characters already have names — sometimes they do. In the case of my new project, the first guy was relatively easy because he basically said, “Um, hi, I’m Eric [Lastnameeventually].” I said, “Awesome!”
The other two were a lot less forthcoming, so I popped over to Seventh Sanctum’s Quick Namer and started...
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Random Line(s) Of The Day:
The Setup: A raven needs to find his human friend, who works at a grocery store. Being a clever bird, he’s managed to get into the store, and is perched above a checkstand, looking for his friend.
“Birdy!” A little boy, sitting in a cart, pointed at the big black bird.
His mother, busy with the latest issue of People, snapped her gum and said, “Uh-huh.”
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“Where’s Blessed Quietness? I always liked Blessed Quietness, especially...”
– Mom, to herself, paging through one of her many hymnals.
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“Argh. It doesn’t help that all I can hear is Spike Jones.”
– - Mom, while trying to play Liszt’s Liebstraum Nr. 3.
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Fun With Words, Sort Of.
I always have a tough time when it comes to characters who wouldn’t normally refer to their bits and pieces by either the official medical term nor common slang — I never know quite what I should use. Asking the character often results in a blank look and a shrug, ‘cause duh, they don’t know.
I’m not a huge fan of anything that sounds like it came out of a...
April 2010
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Oh, Tumblr.
I can always count on you in a pinch. If I need a picture of a ladybug? Tumblr. If I need one of a red-headed woman in boots? Tumblr’s got her. Or if I need one of an uncircumcised man in varying states of arousal—Tumblr has more pictures than I could ever hope to look at.
Don’t ever change, honey. *Smooch*
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This Is Why Editing Is Important:
From the chorus/bridge of David Guetta’s Sexy Chick:
Yes, I can see her ‘Cause every girl in here wanna be her Oh, she’s a diva I feel the same and I wanna meet her
So. Does he feel she’s a diva? Or does he also want to be her? There’s no way to know for sure!
(Frankly, I think the song is somewhat improved by the vocalist also wishing to be a sexy chick, but...
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Another Review!
Carol Tierney wrote up a quick little review of Gay Love over at Rude Words. It’s very short, and she only summarizes Adunaid, but that’s okay.
…I’ve been trying to decide if I should write a review of my own. I wouldn’t review Adunaid, obviously (though I’d probably pick it apart rather than giving it a ridiculously glowy writeup); I’m just sort of...
I saw a robin! It flew off before I could take a picture, though.
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All bottles have tops.
To keep things in, yes; but they’re removable so you can get things out, too.
I’ve been feeling a little trapped, lately; dissatisfied with everything and I don’t want to post about it because unending negativity isn’t becoming to anyone. (And no one wants to hear it anyhow.)
It’s nothing specific, really, other than it’s spring and as a result most of the...
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Random Line(s) Of The Day:
Setup: Max and Trev send each other pictures on a regular basis; Max daily and Trevor nearly that. This particular day, Max hasn’t yet sent his picture (he’s been busy with college stuff) and Trev has teased him about it. Max, being Max, comes up with a way to twit Trev while also sending him the requested picture.
“Tam!”
“Yeah?” Tam lifted his book in...
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Quick And Dirty Fiction: Max And Trevor
Some Random Weekend/Holiday Afternoon:
“Turn over.”
“What? Why? I’m kind of busy, here,” Max said, pointing at the screen of his laptop.
“You’re ‘busy’ getting your leathercraft skill out of the two hundreds,” Trevor said, rolling his eyes. “C’mon, it’ll only take a moment and it won’t hurt.”
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Dear Amazon:
Hi. Why do you consider my Word docs to be trivial to the point that I wouldn’t mind Windows Media Player popping up over top of them, yet my browser windows are sacrosanct? Because that is *seriously* not the case. I am *trying* to *work*, hence the whole downloading-music-in-the-background thing. (Unless this is a MSFT problem, in which case forgive me and never mind.)
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A review!
Rachel Sparkes reviews Gay Love over at Rude Words. Alas, her thought on Aduniad is more concrit than review, but I can’t say she’s wrong. Or not entirely wrong; personally I feel that the ‘setup’ part of things is the first three or four paragraphs and the rest is foreplay. I’m not at all angry about it, just so we’re all clear on that! I’ll just keep...
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Oh, that was *good*.
Brilliant, even. *pulls hair* I remembered EVERYTHING — the attachment, the word count, a translation of the title and a link to the Lampeter Uni’s site… I made sure the MS was set up properly…
BUT! I didn’t change my gmail acc’t name before I sent the email. Gah, mail!fail. Could be worse, I suppose. At least I remembered to put in my credits!
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I have things bubbling up within.
And I’m not sure if I will write them all down here, unexpurgated and uncensored, the bitter and the sweet alike.
I’m not sure I won’t weave them into something else, something fictional, instead.
I’m getting ready to send out another story. I have ‘status updates, please’ letters I need to write. I am aching for something and I want to go home and I am full...
Ringleader and ringmaster are not synonyms. They’re similar, but not exact matches.
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A Conundrum.
I’ve been thinking about this off and on for years, now. So, here it is:
One is told, from the time they are old enough to comprehend such concepts, that it is best to be one’s self (within the prescribed confines of society; my inner smartass demands that addendum); that to change who one is due to [peer pressure/family demands/whatever] usually leads to a fundamentally...
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Random Line(s) Of The Day:
Setup: Chris and Jesse are out at Jesse’s favorite spot for sittin’ and thinkin’ (or necking), a few minutes after their first kiss. Chris is pretty much clueless about that sort of thing, and says so:
He put a little distance between them, but not enough that Jesse had to let go. “I want you to kiss me again. But… I don’t know about mouths and kissing. I...
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Oh, hello, on second thought they *do* look...
Hi! Um… So, is it just me, or does three or four days away from Tumblr feel like a couple of weeks to anyone else?
I’ve just been writing. Writing, working, and spending time with family, but mostly writing, writing writing.
I started with the idea of taking an old character (old as in prehistoric-peoples old) and doing something new with him, but it didn’t quite go the way I...
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my phone is in my pants.
And if I move to go get it, Mr. Cute will move and then retrieving my phone is rendered pointless. (He’s got his left front foot over his eyes, and then his right front foot over his left. He is indeed living up to his pseudonym, and me without a camera!)
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Unless you're using a decimal...
Shouldn’t this just be, you know, ten of ten?
More than 9 out of 10 persons admitted form homicide were male. (from Volusia County’s Incarceration Stats.)
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This is merely a test.
Oh, here’s an important thing to know, though: I’m not dead! I’ve just been very busy with writing about Chris and Jesse.
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Random Line(s) Of The Day:
From an as-yet-untitled thing, featuring one new character and one very old character, for which I downloaded No Strings Attached. I have this Thing for characters with communication difficulties and for Fish Out Of Water stories; the former sometimes begets the latter, sometimes it’s the other way ‘round.
At any rate, here’s the opening section — enjoy, or something....
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Have you never wondered...
atagrem:
…why keyboards don’t have the lower case letters printed on them? They show you F G H, but when you type you get f g h by default (unless you add that extra step of using the Shift or Caps Lock keys).
(Just thinking “out loud” again. Sorry for having bothered you.)
Huh. That’s something I’d never thought about until just this second. Something to do with movable type,...
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I forgot how much FUN this album was.
Bring in the noise! Just got paid (Eh. I’m broke.)! And, little proto-fetishist that I was, I always thought I’ll Be Good For You was less a declaration of how he’d be part of a healthy relationship and more one that he’d be an obedient boy. (Hi! If you’re just tuning in, I’m Birdy and I’m odd.)
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Well, *that* was weird.
So I needed to download a copy of Nsync’s No Strings Attached (mostly for a story, but I have no problems admitting that yes I actually do enjoy their music). I bought the album, set it to download from Amazon, and… The first thing I see is that I’m downloading stuff by Train.
I mean, I liked the EP that I picked up by them, but… I was pretty sure that I only paid for, I...
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Dear Tumblr,
Why did you eat my reblog? I know I didn’t click on ‘cancel’, because I don’t remember getting the dialogue box wanting to know if I was sure I wanted to cancel.
I would appreciate it if you would please cough it up, ta!
With puzzled love,
I remain,
out in left field
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Well, there goes *my* good karma for at least the month, if not year… Shouted rudely-worded reminder of leash law @ little old lady.
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Quick And Dirty Fiction: Button Likes Fruit
As I’ve mentioned, Button is most kindly described (by strangers) as ‘simple’. It’s not that he’s stupid, it’s that he’s incredibly dyslexic and probably has an actual learning disability — and the country/culture/time-period in which he exists knows nothing of these things.
(He has a real name, by the way — it’s Burton. He either...
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Happy is good.: I've been replaying FF XII... →
gregology:
And I have to say that I think Vaan, dumb as he is, is only the second Final Fantasy protagonist that I haven’t actively wanted to slap within the first ten minutes that he was on-screen. (Tidus was the first.)
I don’t adore him to itsy-bitsy pieces—I save my adoration for the leading man,…
i find Vaan strangely attractive, but i think it’s just cuz he thinks an itty bitty...
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Diner dinner derailed due to door difficulties. Darn.
How NOT to impress me: ring doorbell/knock insistantly like you’re family… When all you want is to shovel the drive. At 8 AM.