I had a very realistic dream this morning that I had pounded out two really quick Dark Knight fanfics. I think I was writing them at my laptop at the beach ( Read more... )

Just watched the first day of the three-day Jeopardy tournament featuring 'Watson,' the super-computer designed to take on the two great champs. It's funny how quickly we manage to assign human characteristics to the Avatar representing the computer (love how he 'blushes' when he gets an answer wrong ( Read more... )

Watched much of LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring today, believe it or not. If you know me very well, you know I ended up with a bad taste in my mouth about LOTR because of the negative experiences I had in the fandom ( Read more... )

So, instead of working on the Twilight challenge story that's due Wednesday, I've been obsessed over finishing 'Stubborn,' my 3:10 to Yuma fic. This one's going on two years old now, and Part 3 has probably been hanging around for at least a year. I swear, I've rewritten the first paragraph alone about ten times (and I'm working on it again right ( Read more... )

We're only 36 hours from the start of the 2010 U.S. Open! Hurry for us. To get in practice, I watched much of last year's men's final, and I found myself not believing Del Potro was going to win . . . and I was just as outraged when he had and Dick Enberg would hardly allow him to speak in Spanish to his friends and family back in Argentina ( Read more... )

No, I'm not talking about the right and responsibility Americans have of voting for our leaders and laws . . . I'm talking about voting for fanfic. It's time to choose the 'Best Written' and 'Worst Written' of the Twilight challenge ( Read more... )

I was invited to join a 'Last Author Standing' community, so I chose a Twilight-themed one. My first ficlet was centered around . . . oops, I can't say yet. It's supposed to be anonymous, so more to come later. (I'm smiling as I type that ( Read more... )

So, for the past three days I've been a little sick. Not a lot sick, not devastating or even all that debilitating, but bad enough to want to lie around and sleep a lot. When I think back, this is the first work I've missed since November, so for me that ain't bad. But, still . . . just when summer seems like it's finally here, it sucks (at least a ( Read more... )

So, in a few hours I'll be back to work. Was I ever all that gone? I checked in every day, answered emails and even went in once. So it's not like I'll have stuff piled up ( Read more... )

So, what fanfic to write . . .

3:10 to Yuma?

Public Enemies?

Lancer?

Something totally new and different?

Maybe I'll just sip on my green tea latte and read my vacation issue of Cosmo . . .


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