Hmm

[maderr]

I feel like babbling, yet I really have nothing much to say.

Got Windserpent Saga today. May say to hell with writing and just read tonight while I drink and freeze to death. My motivation was here, and then just as rapidly vanished. I fail, I know.

Had another encounter with creepy car. Except, not the same car, and not in quite the same place, but otherwise exact same fucking behavior >_o It's days like this I wish I could just say fuck it and pack up and go the hell somewhere else.

Um. Was really hoping to work more on my knight story tonight, but that lack of motivation thing - and it sort of frustrates and depresses that this story is not as good as Always There because I have to bend/ignore so many rules to do what I want. I like knights, so I feel sort of shitty doing such a poor job with them. But, I sort of neglected a lot of important stuff the first time 'round, so I guess I shoud just get over myself. No doubt will at some point....perhaps it's more a matter of execution. I know mostly what goes down, but there are gaps and the'yve not seen fit to fill themselves in yet.

Hope chick to whom we sent flowers got them. We got no word that such was the case today, though with the funeral being tomorrow that is most understandable.

I have a sort of interesting article from the Tokyo Pop thingie I get, about cosplay and 'crossplay', and I was gonna scan it in (if the website didn't have it, I haven't looked yet) for you guys to read but since my roommate kinda sorta fixed our internet problem (as in, we have a new router, yet it still disconnects/reconnects as badly as the previous and I'm so FUCKING SICK of being the one to pay the goddamn bill when it's more than fair that after what, two years, we switch? Whatever, not going to piss myself off tonight) which now has fucked up my printer so I have to fuck with that >_o and don't fucking feel like it. I'll do it tomorrow while I'm cleaning the house and putting away the christmas stuff (cause if I don't, it'll still be out in July).

Of late none of my music pleases me. Generally this means there is something particular I want to hear, but I've not yet figured out what that something is. Ah, well. Eventually I will hear it.

Peeps have been talking about writing exercises a whole lot, and I remembered a really fun, simple one my prof had us do in the one writing class I took. Take the story you are working on/struggling with and all the primary characters. For each one, write down everything he has in his pockets (like, would regularly have in his pockets) or pocket-equivalent.

Like I said, it's fun. I still do it sometimes when I'm fighting with a character. If you know the kind of crap they carry around in the day to day -- you know them better than you think, and knowing the little things oft helps with the big stuff.

MSN's Boss to English Translator amuzed me, cause there are so many people we put up with in my job that talk exactly like that -- and the translations are so dead on it's as depressing as it is amusing. Personal sad but true favorites:

"I'm not sure if what you are suggesting is in alignment with our core competencies."
Translation: "What exactly do we do again?"

"This office is a family and my door is always open if you ever need to powwow with Papa Bear."
Translation: "I am a tool."

"I'll be out of the office for a couple hours with senior management, but you can reach me on my mobile."
Translation: "I'm playing golf."

"I'll be off-site and unreachable for the rest of the afternoon."
Translation: "I'm playing golf and I expect to be very, very drunk."


And that's all I got.

Comments

[stardance.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a fun writing exercise :D A friend of mine and I have decided to write 24k words this month (6,000 a week) so I am going to do that with my characters and pass it along to her.

*snug* I think you deserve to have a night off every now and then. I hope your inspiration comes back.

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

And that's all I got.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Somehow I doubt it.

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

You know me too well.

[nikerymis.livejournal.com]

::shifty eyes::

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

He's precious.

I see your dog, and raise you a cat.

[nikerymis.livejournal.com]

Aww, crazy Scottish Fold kitty. ^___^

Uh, have a millitant squirrel?

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, somebody better give him some nuts!

[nikerymis.livejournal.com]

Haha, and for some reason that makes me think of this one --



Though I am curious as to why the seal (walrus? sea lion?) climbed the cop car.

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, looks like somebody was bored. But awesome. Bored but awesome.

I do not know - I merely find these things. I seldom attempt to analyze them.

[nikerymis.livejournal.com]

Aww, poor kitty. Cheer up kitty! You'll be rescued from the evil outdoors soon enough!

And look, it's a scaredy-cat relative!

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

That kitten looks like he's worried someone is going to start masturbating.

[nikerymis.livejournal.com]

::snerk::

Return fire!

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, our modern military is so advanced.

[nikerymis.livejournal.com]

hehehe, don't look behind you, it's a kitten in a pop tart box!

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, I would buy a million of those.

[nikerymis.livejournal.com]

Heh, I don't think this kitten likes his modelz either. ^__~

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

Aw, he is probably just thinking of how he can get them to bathe in orange sauce before dinner.

[nikerymis.livejournal.com]

I could see that. Also, arg, fail at the HTML for that one.

Man, that cat needs an eyepatch.

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

Haha, for some reason that reminds me of http://lolninjas.com.

[nikerymis.livejournal.com]

Aaaah, baby carnivore!

I kind of feel like this belongs in the the other post, but we'll keep it here. Farm animals and all. ^__~

[maderr.livejournal.com]

*GROAN* THAT IS AWFUL. BAD NIKERY!

[nikerymis.livejournal.com]

Anything I can hook you up with music-wise? ^____^ Though I'm kind of stuck in a type (I think? It all sounds sort of similar in that there're guys, guitars, and drums).

[sixpence1323.livejournal.com]

You got books? So did I! Prisoner and Fairytales Vol. 1! I'm ordering Magic and Mischief soon.

Writing exercises, huh? I thinking of my characters that weren't stationed in this time and what modern job would suit them best. (For some reason, stripper kept popping up)

The last two job translations - I've heard those. So true!

It's always nice to be lazy.

[broken-moons.livejournal.com]

Got Windserpent Saga today.

I am officially jealous. Mine hasn't even shipped yet. :( Neither have Magic & Mischief, and the e-book version of Fairytales Slashed also still isn't paid. I think I'm calling shenanigans.

... Wait. In the order receipt, shouldn't it say something under Payment Method? O.o

Anyway. Knight story! I think it'll be fabulous, even if you wing some of it. It's why I write fantasy; if I don't feel like research or don't like what my research came up with, I'll just invent something. ^_^;

And I had to laugh at the Boss to English translator. Luckily my bosses don't really talk like that (mainly because we don't talk English a lot on the job except to our foreign colleagues). I say luckily because I really don't want to hear them say something like Papa Bear (even if my direct boss sorta fits the description XD).