http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html

One of the most incisive and brilliant posts I've ever seen on the current state of blockbusters-only movie making and why most of them suck:

Still, you could make a good movie within those parameters. It wouldn't *hurt* your appeal to the all-important demo to make it have funny joke rather than unfunny jokes, to close gaping plot holes, etc. ( Read more... )

Well. This hasn't happened in a long time. I just did a read-through and minor revisions of a novella I did for HQ (out in Feb) and OMG, I loved it ( Read more... )

When I was in my 20's I used to imagine the soundtrack that accompanied my life was Raiders of the Lost Ark. Every time I went to a job interview or basically anything stressful, I would put that sucker on and it was awesome ( Read more... )

I am so STUPID! Stupid to the tenth power. I have work. I have lots of work. Due. Soon. And yet...

I think I've fallen into another fandom. And I can't get up. Shit.

It's Holmes/Watson movie-verse.

Bloody hell.

Had one really great night at his place. Poker, beer, laughter, music, good friends.

Time passes, but the memories of moments remain vivid.

This is the last step for an author in the production of a book. After I turn in the ms, I often get revisions, although not always. Sometimes the revisions are so minor, I do them in the next stage, which is called copy edits, but are combined with line edits by my publisher. Then I get galley proofs, which is the typeset ms on plain paper, ( Read more... )

GREAT writing article.

http://wordplay-kmweiland.blogspot.com/2010/04/10-ways-to-write-skinny-sentences.html

OMG HOT prOn from the CM kink meme:

http://ansera.livejournal.com/40383.html?thread=1215423#t1215423

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