This song makes me feel great.

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In other news, I've given up on FLESH AND GLASS for the thousandth time. Chances are I'll be itching for it again by next week.

But in the meantime, I've been toying with a Beauty and the Beast retelling that somehow wound up sporting a heavy theme of insanity. I've also been reading some of FRAGILE THINGS by Neil ( Read more... )

 Okay Landon.

You have put up with enough of this trash. You must be bigger than this novel. (This novel is pretty damn big.)

You know you've just got to get it out of your system. Once you have a foundation, there's no stopping you.

That foundation starts tonight. It didn't start four months ago, when you first tried to outline this idea. It didn't ( Read more... )

 Well, I'm another year older as of Valentine's Day, if it counts for anything. I don't feel older or think older, but the change seems nasty in an abstract way.

The day was fun, although I had to fight through classwork and the fact that it's still quite dreary outside. Had a few people over, read a bit of INCARCERON (which is fantastic so far, by ( Read more... )

Holy crow--a new year already? It came so quickly, but maybe that's just because I was out of town for New Years' and this break is turning out to be nothing like a break. Exasperation prevails...

Anyways, 2010 feels like an awesome number--just...absolutely awesome, and I can tell it's going to be a great year. Because I can. And I have goals.

Ah, ( Read more... )

Because Let the Words Flow just had an "Ask the Audience" section on the readers' favorite writing quotes and I have SO MANY (not to mention I've seen a lot of Top Five lists around lately, and thought I'd join in), I've decided to share a few of them.

(5.) "Hell, you're ready! You're fuckin Shakespeare!" - Stephen King
I love this quote because, ( Read more... )

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I am going to win this.

I am going to win this.

So I'm posting because I'm procrastinating--not that big of a deal, right? And I'm only allowing myself to procrastinate because I have reached the day's goal--which happens to be 20,000 words!

It didn't hit me until after I typed the 20,003rd word and ditzed about Twitter and went to get supper with my brother that I started this novel on ( Read more... )

So, over the years I've assembled a kind of "get-fired-up" playlist--an assortment of the most random (and possibly corniest) songs you will ever come across. The point: I'm sure it'll be on repeat throughout the month of November as I tackle those 50,000 words. I suggest you get your laughs out now while the ridiculous has not yet fully hit.

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