Today is Not-Shutting-Up Day
No fictionalized violence or depictions of drug use; thinly-veiled rewrites of CSI or Law & Order episodes; stories comprised mainly of dialogue or internal monologues; fables; the torturing of small animals; strong odors; bodily fluids; surprise endings. [From the market entry of a literary mag called VerbSap, in the 2010 Writer’s Market]
Well, there goes all the content on the Intertubes.
I just whiled away an hour or so reading threads on a board helping English language learners with idioms and turns of phrase. Man, our language is *random*.
I’ve been using Scrivener as my main writing platform for a while now, and it auto-capitalizes the beginning of sentences and the word I. This means that when I’m writing in another app now my text looks like run-on sentences from e.e. cummings. But less poetically interesting.
I should be excited about the bigbang reveals, but I’m not. I’m overwhelmed by the sheer volume of it all (and bummed out at how much it seems to have slowed the posting of fic this spring to a mere trickle).
Also, I finished watching Eli Stone on DVD. Such a good show, so ruined by the writers’ strike. It got its stride back eventually, but I believe by that point it had already been canceled. How many more chances are we going to have to get Victor Garber singing and dancing, people? I thought it would happen on Glee, but it hasn’t, yet.
Well, there goes all the content on the Intertubes.
I just whiled away an hour or so reading threads on a board helping English language learners with idioms and turns of phrase. Man, our language is *random*.
I’ve been using Scrivener as my main writing platform for a while now, and it auto-capitalizes the beginning of sentences and the word I. This means that when I’m writing in another app now my text looks like run-on sentences from e.e. cummings. But less poetically interesting.
I should be excited about the bigbang reveals, but I’m not. I’m overwhelmed by the sheer volume of it all (and bummed out at how much it seems to have slowed the posting of fic this spring to a mere trickle).
Also, I finished watching Eli Stone on DVD. Such a good show, so ruined by the writers’ strike. It got its stride back eventually, but I believe by that point it had already been canceled. How many more chances are we going to have to get Victor Garber singing and dancing, people? I thought it would happen on Glee, but it hasn’t, yet.