I think we all had at least one of those books as a kid ... you know, the one that we checked out of the library again and again, kept rereading until it wore out, could have recited the plot point-by-point and recited our favorite parts from memory.

One of mine was The Rains of Eridan by H.M. Hoover. I loved it so much when I was in elementary ( Read more... )

Went to bed early last night, thanks to a double dose of anxiety meds. I'm still feeling a bit shaky and fragile. I hate Costco, and following that up with a large social gathering just kind of tripped my circuit breaker ( Read more... )

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A couple of days ago,
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Lying awake, I finally figured out what's been hanging me up on Nazombies. Esther's going to come out of a Heroic BSOD. (Warning: link goes to TV Tropes!) She's going to have to deal with rage, grief, despair ( Read more... )

Still no words, but maybe a clue in something
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... you're really mean to the people who live inside your head.

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I'm starting to see the value of taking days off from my writing. I'm thinking that as an experiment, I'll write just 5 days a week for the rest of Nazombies. At the end, I'll see if I managed to keep writing consistently ( Read more... )

... where the girl (and it's always a girl) is frantically trying every door to look for a place to hide from whatever's following her, but they're all locked?

( Cut for potential triggers: sexual harassment and anxiety. )

So, finally catching my breath. Getting back to the usual 500 words/day I'd been trying before, because 2K words (two KiloWords?) really isn't a long-term sustainable pace for me. And if I can't manage it now, with no real job, then doing it while working full-time is unrealistic ( Read more... )