writing and travel and links, o my
Mar. 6th, 2012 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishComplaints of xpost failure have been coming through; let's see if this one makes it.
Wrote the Last Lousy Fifty Words of the bookwyrms story last night. (Give or take a couple hundred, what with actually writing transitions and making the ragged edges of scenes meet properly instead of [[[DOWNSTAIRS]]] or [[[CAN'T DO THAT]]] or just leaving a bunch of whitespace.) It got a first-read response of "adorable," which is good enough. I'll let it sit for awhile and revise it early next week, and then I guess I submit the thing to its designated anthology.
I'd still like to be writing longer pieces (this one clocks in at 1500 words) but hell, two stories drafted is twice what I had for all of last year.
This evening I hop a train to Seattle, on which I shall Relax and also do the reading for the Commie Pinko Writing Contest. And tomorrow I'm off to the Rainforest Writers' Retreat in the company of Nicole and Klagor and what I presume are a variety of other cool people. I have no idea what I'm going to work on while I'm there. Maybe I ought to brainstorm/outline one of these ideas I've got lying around. Maybe that'll get me writing something more substantial.
Unrelated to writing, it'll be good to get away for awhile. The main advantage of a long-distance relationship wasn't so much that it provided opportunities for random travel; rather, it provided opportunities for random travel without my partner. I loveuilos dearly but we're both at home All The Time. After nine months with only a week and a half break for VP I'm starting to get twitchy for some sustained Me Time.
I could also do with some time when I'm not expected to be staring at work, I expect. Brain is slowly leaking out my ears.
Linkspam, loosely media-related edition.
Liam Neeson versus, well, everything, from "Wolves" to "Outdated Ideas About Sexuality," with a stopover at "The Bastard English" ("aren't there actually two of those?").
Very tangentially related, A History of Ireland in 100 Excuses. Via Crooked Timber, where Maria notes, "It’s almost impossible to cherry-pick because half of the fun is the cumulative effect, and the other half is they’re so damn funny." (For linguistics geeks, an explanation of #10, and further amusement.)
TV Is Broken: "Did it break?" "No. It's just a commercial." "What's a commercial?"
Against Big Bird, the Gods Themselves Contend in Vain, in which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scott_lynch re-encounters the best Sesame Street special ever, Don't Eat the Pictures. "[I]t's plain that we've had Big Bird figured all wrong. He's no kindergartener. He's a previously unknown aspect of the Eternal fucking Champion."
The Star Wars Saga: Suggested Viewing Order. Brilliant. (My preferred viewing order is "IV," but I'm in the minority that doesn't care much for Empire on account of how it's not a complete story.)
rbandrews notes that "someone at w00t harbors dreams of being a slipstream writer."
Wrote the Last Lousy Fifty Words of the bookwyrms story last night. (Give or take a couple hundred, what with actually writing transitions and making the ragged edges of scenes meet properly instead of [[[DOWNSTAIRS]]] or [[[CAN'T DO THAT]]] or just leaving a bunch of whitespace.) It got a first-read response of "adorable," which is good enough. I'll let it sit for awhile and revise it early next week, and then I guess I submit the thing to its designated anthology.
I'd still like to be writing longer pieces (this one clocks in at 1500 words) but hell, two stories drafted is twice what I had for all of last year.
This evening I hop a train to Seattle, on which I shall Relax and also do the reading for the Commie Pinko Writing Contest. And tomorrow I'm off to the Rainforest Writers' Retreat in the company of Nicole and Klagor and what I presume are a variety of other cool people. I have no idea what I'm going to work on while I'm there. Maybe I ought to brainstorm/outline one of these ideas I've got lying around. Maybe that'll get me writing something more substantial.
Unrelated to writing, it'll be good to get away for awhile. The main advantage of a long-distance relationship wasn't so much that it provided opportunities for random travel; rather, it provided opportunities for random travel without my partner. I love
uilos dearly but we're both at home All The Time. After nine months with only a week and a half break for VP I'm starting to get twitchy for some sustained Me Time.I could also do with some time when I'm not expected to be staring at work, I expect. Brain is slowly leaking out my ears.
Linkspam, loosely media-related edition.
Liam Neeson versus, well, everything, from "Wolves" to "Outdated Ideas About Sexuality," with a stopover at "The Bastard English" ("aren't there actually two of those?").
Very tangentially related, A History of Ireland in 100 Excuses. Via Crooked Timber, where Maria notes, "It’s almost impossible to cherry-pick because half of the fun is the cumulative effect, and the other half is they’re so damn funny." (For linguistics geeks, an explanation of #10, and further amusement.)
TV Is Broken: "Did it break?" "No. It's just a commercial." "What's a commercial?"
Against Big Bird, the Gods Themselves Contend in Vain, in which
scott_lynch re-encounters the best Sesame Street special ever, Don't Eat the Pictures. "[I]t's plain that we've had Big Bird figured all wrong. He's no kindergartener. He's a previously unknown aspect of the Eternal fucking Champion."The Star Wars Saga: Suggested Viewing Order. Brilliant. (My preferred viewing order is "IV," but I'm in the minority that doesn't care much for Empire on account of how it's not a complete story.)
rbandrews notes that "someone at w00t harbors dreams of being a slipstream writer."
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Date: 2012-03-06 10:57 pm (UTC)Have an excellent time! *envy*
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Date: 2012-03-06 11:59 pm (UTC)Thanks! And, I'll see you at Wiscon in 2.5 months!
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Date: 2012-03-07 12:10 am (UTC)Not having things hanging over one's head definitely helps. (Good luck!)
Still Steph
Date: 2012-03-07 03:28 am (UTC)Re: Still Steph
Date: 2012-03-07 04:40 am (UTC)... you know, when I met him back in October (eBear was teaching at the week-long writing workshop I was at, and he tagged along and was generally awesome) I thought about saying "hey, so back at the dawn of time i used to date this red-haired malkavian you used to larp with?" but he'd say "hey, yeah? cool!" and I couldn't really come up with anywhere to go from there.
(Also, if commenting is going to be a regular thing [which I encourage] you can totally get yourself a DW account and just use it to leave comments. I'm just sayin.)
Re: Still Steph
Date: 2012-03-07 08:35 pm (UTC)And yeah, he was. I was only peripherally aware of what was going on - after he moved to the ExUrbs and I stopped hanging out with that social group, I lost track of him. He fell into the WOW hole for a while, and then his marriage fell apart and he was dealing with a lot of depression. Glad to hear he's on the mend.