Gromitpunk is all about tea, dairyfat, and pies.

[truepenny]

1. I still have this cold.

2. However, yesterday I was feeling grungy but not unbearably subhuman, so all the books from the auction are in the mail. (Megan, the manuscript stories are going to have to wait until I get a new toner cartridge, because I owe you better print-quality than I can currently provide.)

3. I have plane tickets for CupcakeCon.

4. I am told that the Publishers Weekly review of Jonathan Strahan's Best SF/Fantasy of 2009 praises "Mongoose" for its "humor amid life-and-death peril."

5. And last night on Twitter, cristalia and I started hashing out a manifesto for Gromitpunk:

@leahbobet (a.k.a. cristalia): Oh hello there, THE WRONG BOOK.
@pennyvixen (a.k.a. truepenny): It's very like the Wrong Trousers, only generally with less penguin.
@leahbobet: And less Wensleydale. :(
@pennyvixen: And no Gromit. ... although, come to think of it, ALL my books have that problem.
@leahbobet: Time to write the Gromitpunk manifesto.
@pennyvixen: oh GOD yes.
@leahbobet: OTOH, a year and four months later, I just found why that first sentence is wrong... *g*
@pennyvixen: Gromitpunk is all about embracing the Zen of one's writing process, goddammit.
@leahbobet: Y'know, it kind of is. Wallace and Gromit ARE the writing process: make up crazy outsized shit, and then Gromit makes it work.
@pennyvixen: Yeah. Wallace takes all the credit and Gromit just sighs and makes another pot of tea.
@leahbobet: 'Zactly!
@pennyvixen: Gromitpunk is also all about tea.
@leahbobet: And dairyfat, and pies.

(If you're curious about The Wrong Book and its new first sentence, look over here.)

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Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

It's a wonderful concept, and there is plenty of space in there for the knitting, too. (At least, my writing seems to involve knitting sometimes). Though, as a British type, I have to protest the reduction in Wensleydale. AN excellent cheese, and goes particularly well with cake.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

No, no! A lack of Wensleydale is one of the problems in modern literature which Gromitpunk protests!

And you're right about the knitting. *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I am certainly down the the concept of protesting the insufficiency of Wensleydale!

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the crackers!

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

And digestive biscuits. Wensleydale is delicious with digestive biscuits.

[renatus.livejournal.com]

Gromitpunk is a movement I support wholeheartedly. :D

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

Holy mohawks. I've been trying to figure out how my subconscious does all this stuff for years and now I know: it's Wallace and Gromit.

I'm officially signing on for the movement. *signs name with a flourish*

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

It explains an awful lot, doesn't it?

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

YES. Particularly for a pantser like me. "How will it all come together?" Gromit. It's all Gromit.

I love that dog.

[grass-angel.livejournal.com]

It is also becoming infatuated with EXACTLY the wrong woman/thing that would make this metaphor work in the context of writing.

Oh and just sighing at Antics ^TM and returning to the thing one was just doing, which annoys me a bit less than the thing above.

[megan (from livejournal.com)]

The Bone Key arrived yesterday, safe and sound. And it is a mark of my profound affection for my significant other that I stuck with our dinner plans instead of curling up on the couch and rereading the collection from the beginning. :-)

"Gromitpunk is all about tea, dairyfat, and pies." Sounds like the manifesto is complete!