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stakebaitImitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? No, this isn’t my belated commentary on a kerfuffle, it’s me fessing up to instigating the imitation of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kradical, suricattus, and the rest of the "Two Beer and a Story" folks from Worldcon on New Years Eve.
Our version was considerably less full of banter. Possibly because only I andmannoftalent drank actual beer, possibly because we only had one non-writing onlooker (the patient akawil), and possibly because nobody was writing about the adventures of aquatic life forms with names like Ooooghloooghouuuu. But I still liked it. As cadhla pointed out, in the first hours of the new year I got to kiss my girlfriend and finish a story. There is no bad here, and I’m hoping we’ll do it again. (The writing, people. I don’t get Kisser’s Block.)
In exciting-only-to-me news, I got The Best Address Book In the World today, the one that has separate little slips for each address so you never have to recopy the whole book because too many people moved or got cell phones. Yay Levenger’s, tools for readers and lazy people.
According tomatociquala, May is "Write your bleeping faerie book month."
That moves the deadline on the BGS first draft from November to April, since BGS is my bleeping fairy TALE book. Quick Bright Things is my bleeping fairie book. (And now, at some point, one of the fairies will have to say “bleep.”)
This may not be doable, given that mom’s reconstructive surgery is in late Feb., with a two month recovery period, so I’m going back down the rabbit hole. With all due respect to speedy pros and/or Nano Rhymers, I don’t think I could write a book of any quality between now and Feb. 21rst. But we shall see. Maybe I’ll end up putting BGS aside to clear midway through and banging out some QBT for a while.
Also frommatociquala: Happy Birthday, JRR Tolkien!
Good quotes from the FL today:
My husband went out for milk and came home with a 53 inch TV –-boniblithe
Maybe that's why I keep waking up with a sore neck. My ironic bedding is making me sleep funny. --tamnonlinear
kradical, suricattus, and the rest of the "Two Beer and a Story" folks from Worldcon on New Years Eve.Our version was considerably less full of banter. Possibly because only I and
mannoftalent drank actual beer, possibly because we only had one non-writing onlooker (the patient akawil), and possibly because nobody was writing about the adventures of aquatic life forms with names like Ooooghloooghouuuu. But I still liked it. As cadhla pointed out, in the first hours of the new year I got to kiss my girlfriend and finish a story. There is no bad here, and I’m hoping we’ll do it again. (The writing, people. I don’t get Kisser’s Block.)In exciting-only-to-me news, I got The Best Address Book In the World today, the one that has separate little slips for each address so you never have to recopy the whole book because too many people moved or got cell phones. Yay Levenger’s, tools for readers and lazy people.
According to
matociquala, May is "Write your bleeping faerie book month."That moves the deadline on the BGS first draft from November to April, since BGS is my bleeping fairy TALE book. Quick Bright Things is my bleeping fairie book. (And now, at some point, one of the fairies will have to say “bleep.”)
This may not be doable, given that mom’s reconstructive surgery is in late Feb., with a two month recovery period, so I’m going back down the rabbit hole. With all due respect to speedy pros and/or Nano Rhymers, I don’t think I could write a book of any quality between now and Feb. 21rst. But we shall see. Maybe I’ll end up putting BGS aside to clear midway through and banging out some QBT for a while.
Also from
matociquala: Happy Birthday, JRR Tolkien!Good quotes from the FL today:
My husband went out for milk and came home with a 53 inch TV –-
boniblitheMaybe that's why I keep waking up with a sore neck. My ironic bedding is making me sleep funny. --
tamnonlinear
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Date: 2005-01-03 09:18 pm (UTC)Nope. Imitation is just a careful application of the First Rule of Mathematics.
"Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men."
-M
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Date: 2005-01-03 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-03 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-03 10:28 pm (UTC)before you go back down the rabbit hole...
Date: 2005-01-04 04:05 am (UTC)Re: before you go back down the rabbit hole...
Date: 2005-01-04 02:36 pm (UTC)Re: before you go back down the rabbit hole...
Date: 2005-01-05 02:38 am (UTC)Re: before you go back down the rabbit hole...
Date: 2005-01-05 02:59 am (UTC)Re: before you go back down the rabbit hole...
Date: 2005-01-05 03:25 am (UTC)Re: before you go back down the rabbit hole...
Date: 2005-01-05 03:32 am (UTC)Re: before you go back down the rabbit hole...
Date: 2005-01-09 11:19 pm (UTC)So, shall I mail the hat to your address (which I think I still have from the wedding invitations)? It should fit into a small-ish padded mailer, though it may need some un-squishing on arrival.
Re: before you go back down the rabbit hole...
Date: 2005-01-13 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-05 06:38 pm (UTC)As a side note to this, after 6 years I had forgotten about incredibly annoying it is to go out and buy a calendar. It's only Jan 5, people--and yet the Staples Dayrunner refills looked like a herd of yaks had come through stripping the shelves bare.
(I was going to do a post on all the various combinations and styles of Dayrunners that are just annoying and don't work and have too many tabs and thank you I don't need a lovely purple section for keeping track of my floral arrangements and caterers...but I won't. Suffice it to say I bought the address book and against the manufacturer's recommendations am going to put calendar pages into it. So there ;)
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Date: 2005-01-06 03:57 am (UTC)Someday I'd love to have a little electronic Thingie that can come with me to work and home, but the current options (learn heiroglyphics or destroy my thumbs with RSI) are not friendly enough to make it worth the bother. When handwriting recognition comes along to the point where I can jot normally with a pen and have a tablet computer beneath the pad convert it to text and not a picture, I am so there.
Not the Dayrunner Yaks! They're evil!
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:40 pm (UTC)When I got a Palm, it was what I needed at the time and it served me well but daily routines and priorities change.