First, we'll start with some acknowledgments:

Massachusetts, thank you for having a state holiday so that people can run the Boston Marathon. Today looks like it's going to be lovely over here, 100 miles west of Boston.

Brian Schechter, I'm so pleased to hear you're managing bands again. I would totally write that story, except I am.....already ( Read more... )

I woke up thinking of Sarah Corvis from Bionic Woman, and longing for an otherwise terrible show because I wanted to know how her story would turn out ( Read more... )

Feeling kind of CRAZY today. One of the risks of getting up in the morning to write is that whatever story I'm working on often colors the rest of the day. When I'm writing Frank at the bakery or Ray in the deli, it's easy to feel excited and hopeful, thinking about the way things fit together in that world. Right now, though, I'm writing a coming ( Read more... )

I made chili for dinner and I'm wondering if there's ever going to be a time that making chili will not make me think of The West Wing episode The Crackpots and These Women and Josh listening to Ave Maria and CJ drinking a glass of wine while she walks around the office. I think the answer might be no, considering I profess to hate this show like ( Read more... )

I signed up for bandombigbang this morning. Two months ago, I would have been hard-pressed to believe that I could write 20,000 words in any fandom, even in four months' time. But the combination of a fandom which has ignited my imagination and a new commitment to getting up early and writing every day, in a month, I wrote an 18,000 word story, and in three ( Read more... )

I listened to Golden three times in a row this morning trying to get it out of my head, and then twice more in the car turned up really loudly over the rain, and now I think it's even more stuck.

I watched possibly the worst episode of NCIS ever last night, called Family. I felt like I was drunk while I was watching it, and also that it was ( Read more... )

I dreamed last night that I was auditioning for an all-girls punk band. There was some serious paperwork I had to complete, including a checklist where I was supposed to mark my musical skills. I checked that I knew how to play the triangle (not true, but, I mean, I guess I could figure it out) and that I could be a back-up singer. We also had to ( Read more... )

I joined last.fm today, so if you're there, please let me know, and if you're not, come and play! Do be warned, though, that I am listening to Fall Out Boy on a daily basis, so if you're hiding from the wonderfulness of bandom, my insistence on listening to large chunks of From Under the Cork Tree over and over might not be your favorite thing. But ( Read more... )

I almost forgot to do the New Years Fic Round-Up. I didn't write very much this year (or, well, the truth is, I've written a TON in the last month, but it's one huge bandom story I'll most likely post in January and two more in the works, so it's fine that 2008 gets to be a bandom year.)

( Here's 2007: )

1. The other night, kjabernathy accused me of being obsessed with Duhkat (entirely true) and also of writing the story I'm writing about Lennier's accidental redemption in such a way that Delenn is the Father and Lennier is the Prodigal Son. And while the latter is also - if unintentionally - true, kjabernathy insisted it was extremely problematic because in this ( Read more... )