Jesus...

I saw a prompt over at fan_flashworks and it inspired me to write a thing (like it's SUPPOSED TO), but, I got in my own way again. What I ended up writing was long, like 20k kinda long. And it had a ton of dialog and smut in it, and it got all ponderous and burdensome... *sigh*. I ended up rewriting much of it over and over and I'm still not entirely ( Read more... )

Dammit. I wrote all weekend and still didn't manage to finish the WIP that seemed so achingly, deceptively close to being done. I mean, I wrote 9,000 words in 3 days and it's STILL NOT DONE??? Really, Brain? 32k isn't enough to get your point across? And it's just full of pining and misunderstandings and denial of stuff and it doesn't serve a ( Read more... )

Written on the fly for this week's Inspiration post over on ushobwri. I'm just archiving it here so that I can point to it when others doubt me and say "No, wait...see???"

My gnawing trepidation brought me to the very edge of the sea that boiled and frothed with the angry vengeance of what lay beneath ( Read more... )

Last night I tapped a rich vein of weird while dreaming. The following is what I can remember ( Read more... )

I'm a bad Twitterer...erm, Twitster?... Twitlette? Whatever - I'm BAD AT IT. I quite enjoy Twitter when I have the time to spare but I'm not consistent enough to be personally interesting to others. So I just lurk a lot which makes me feel like I'm committing felonies on the general public but peering into their lives in stealth modeAnyway, so I ( Read more... )

And on top of how this list is basically ABOUT MY LIFE, I've spent part of this morning investigating competing psychological personality theories and feel all sorts of awkward about myself now. *spooky fingers*

30 Things Only Introverted People UnderstandYes, I hate using the phone, neighbors in my hallway, and I'm pretty bad at parties. I'm also ( Read more... )

Okay, so in the wake of that strangers kissing video that the internet ADORED until it discovered that the filmmaker had been paid to create it by some evil corporate overlord, a guy has made a new video about strangers slapping one another.

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I watched it and sorta wondered what he was trying to accomplish with it because JUST watching the video ( Read more... )

Exhibit A:

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Okay, I'm just gonna state it for the record: I'm having a difficult time understanding humans today.

There.

Before I get too far, I should preface this entry with the following:

• I am having problems finishing (writing) projects
• I constantly undervalue the art that I create

Because things are so slow at work right now (and I can't spend every waking moment dealing with that), I have launched myself into a lot of fannish activities, challenges and the like. ( Read more... )

Someone just called OC from Prague to ask her advice about where to eat and get authentic Czech beer. These are a few of the overheard gems:

"Wrap your purse over your shoulder and hold it in front of you. They strike when the clock chimes ( Read more... )