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truepenny286 words on Kekropia in the last two days, plus a lot (that's a technical term) on ACtW. But last night I figured out what the immediate effect of this dratted argument is--as in, what it's in this book for--and that helps a good deal.
Met a deadline today. Feel good about it.
Today's quote, from an interview with Laura Anne Gilman to which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
arcaedia posted a link: "And remember that the moment you make your first submission, you ARE a professional, and will be judged by other professionals as such." This goes in the category of Things Every Aspiring Writer Needs To Know, and made little bells go off in my head like when somebody gets an answer right on a quiz show.
Yesterday's quote, from the Department of ROFL,coffee_and_ink describing the experience of reading manga: "I'll be reading along, lalala quests lalala homoerotic buddy-movie roadtrips lalala angels lalala swords lalala tragic destinies lalala incest lalala ... wait a minute, what do you mean, lalala incest?!"
Andsosostris2012 posted a link to what has become my favorite random-thingy generator EVER: They Fight Crime!
He's an impetuous dishevelled grifter in drag. She's a chain-smoking Bolivian widow with the soul of a mighty warrior. They fight crime!
He's a lonely Jewish astronaut who hangs with the wrong crowd. She's a man-hating kleptomaniac soap star from beyond the grave They fight crime!
He's a sword-wielding arachnophobic romance novelist from the 'hood. She's a disco-crazy mutant angel with an MBA from Harvard. They fight crime!
Words cannot even express how much I love this thing.
ETA: He's a one-legged ninja cyborg who dotes on his loving old ma. She's a blind foul-mouthed angel who can talk to animals. They fight crime!
He's a leather-clad white trash waffle chef on the edge. She's a strong-willed green-skinned journalist with only herself to blame. They fight crime!
He's a leather-clad gay filmmaker with acid for blood. She's a radical French-Canadian lawyer from beyond the grave They fight crime! I love this one because it's so close to sounding plausible.
He's a maverick misogynist cat burglar on a mission from God. She's a chain-smoking antique-collecting queen of the dead looking for love in all the wrong places. They fight crime!
One I got a while back had a great start: He's a gunslinging zombie Senator ... I didn't care for whatever She was, so I'm still looking for a second half.
My favorite may still be the first one I got: He's an oversexed albino rock star plagued by the memory of his family's brutal murder. She's a radical winged schoolgirl with a flame-thrower. They fight crime!
Met a deadline today. Feel good about it.
Today's quote, from an interview with Laura Anne Gilman to which
arcaedia posted a link: "And remember that the moment you make your first submission, you ARE a professional, and will be judged by other professionals as such." This goes in the category of Things Every Aspiring Writer Needs To Know, and made little bells go off in my head like when somebody gets an answer right on a quiz show.Yesterday's quote, from the Department of ROFL,
coffee_and_ink describing the experience of reading manga: "I'll be reading along, lalala quests lalala homoerotic buddy-movie roadtrips lalala angels lalala swords lalala tragic destinies lalala incest lalala ... wait a minute, what do you mean, lalala incest?!"And
sosostris2012 posted a link to what has become my favorite random-thingy generator EVER: They Fight Crime!He's an impetuous dishevelled grifter in drag. She's a chain-smoking Bolivian widow with the soul of a mighty warrior. They fight crime!
He's a lonely Jewish astronaut who hangs with the wrong crowd. She's a man-hating kleptomaniac soap star from beyond the grave They fight crime!
He's a sword-wielding arachnophobic romance novelist from the 'hood. She's a disco-crazy mutant angel with an MBA from Harvard. They fight crime!
Words cannot even express how much I love this thing.
ETA: He's a one-legged ninja cyborg who dotes on his loving old ma. She's a blind foul-mouthed angel who can talk to animals. They fight crime!
He's a leather-clad white trash waffle chef on the edge. She's a strong-willed green-skinned journalist with only herself to blame. They fight crime!
He's a leather-clad gay filmmaker with acid for blood. She's a radical French-Canadian lawyer from beyond the grave They fight crime! I love this one because it's so close to sounding plausible.
He's a maverick misogynist cat burglar on a mission from God. She's a chain-smoking antique-collecting queen of the dead looking for love in all the wrong places. They fight crime!
One I got a while back had a great start: He's a gunslinging zombie Senator ... I didn't care for whatever She was, so I'm still looking for a second half.
My favorite may still be the first one I got: He's an oversexed albino rock star plagued by the memory of his family's brutal murder. She's a radical winged schoolgirl with a flame-thrower. They fight crime!
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Date: 2005-02-03 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-03 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-03 05:55 pm (UTC)The seared runes crossing your divided consciousness do speak of contemptuous cardinals setting a spanish villa ablaze.
The goats you buy shed a perfume that makes Marxism so terribly clear to me.
You are truly a wristwatch in a world of lumps.
How, I ask you, how can anyone resist blandishments like that?
---L, collecting randomizers here.
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Date: 2005-02-03 07:03 pm (UTC)The former is someone I know, and the latter is an RPG character I've played. (Not punk exactly, but we figured tattoos and scarification would be typical mer-folk status indicators, so...) Damn generator is reading my mind!
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Date: 2005-02-03 07:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-03 07:41 pm (UTC)My second thought was, gosh, I wonder what "crime" means to a these strange, strange people.
My third thought, which is a thought I had yesterday walking home from the library but which came back to me now is: are mystery novels inherently easy to actually write the middles of, because hello, you have a mystery.