I have taken that job as a recycling promoter. It turned out it would be a one-year renewable contract. It will be over in two months ( Read more... )

I had a job interview yesterday. I think it went fine, although it's always difficult to tell. I'm only coming down from my frantic state today. Yesterday was... difficult. Not so much for me, as for my Significant Other. Poor man.

Aside from the normal stress from an interview, I had to cope with an additional factor. I applied for that job ( Read more... )

Word count as of today: 17529 ( Read more... )

The men from the second floor, that is. They drink, smoke and do drugs in the staircase. They're destroying the building, bit by bit. Threatening our peace, our sense of safety ( Read more... )

Oh hey, you know that moment when the main character of a book / movie enters the spooky house, with a spooky music running in the background, and doesn't turn the light on but comes in while tripping over bloody cadavers ( Read more... )

I've just finished marathoning the 7th Season of Buffy.

This stuff should come with a warning. Seriously. I was spoiled six ways to Sunday (hello, we're in 2009), and yet I am as emotionally distressed as if I hadn't known what would happen.

( Random thoughts below the cut. )

I've watched the first two episodes of the seventh season of Buffy for the first time tonight ( Read more... )

www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/05/cory-doctorow-in-praise-of-fanfic.html
Where a science fiction writer explains his views on fanfic.

I found this passage very interesting:

Writers sometimes speak of their characters running away from them, taking on a life of their own. They say that these characters - drawn from real people in our lives and mixed ( Read more... )

Novel ( Read more... )

Meeep. So far, I've only been able to write 500 words a day. Which means, if I want to write a novel (around 100 000 words), it will take me roughly four months to finish the first draft.
Gaaaah. I need a faster brain.