Quote of the Day
Someone once asked Jean Cocteau, “Suppose your house were on fire and you could remove only one thing. What would you take?” Cocteau considered, then said, “I would take the fire.”
Cutting Out Love
A lot of my fiction deals with characters who try to stifle or completely eliminate strong emotion. This is a theme I come back to quite a lot, as I tend to hate feeling – and especially exhibiting – strong emotion. Especially strong emotional attachment, like love. As you grow up, you realize that strong
Just In Case I’m Tempted to Mope Around This Holiday, Some Perspective
Number of queries my agent received this year: Approximately 8,000 Partial manuscripts she requested for review: 49 Full manuscripts requested: 18 Number of new clients signed: 5 One of those five was me. I think I’m going to take myself out to dinner tonight and just take some time to appreciate that.
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Um. Tax Season. Yeah
This morning, I was pushed into our mock store and given the task of assisting in the direction of the training scripts I wrote a couple weeks ago. I got to feed lines, read off-screen dialogue to get scenes moving, check off scenes and setup folks for the next shot, and track what we were
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If They Can Only Make the Real Thing Look Even Half This Cool
Then… squeeeeeeeeeee! This is why I love fans. And mashups. And fanfic. HBO had better fucking make the series look even half this cool. For serious.
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Merry Christmas
Insurance won’t cover my pump. $2,180 up front, and $281 per month after that. Oh well, it was a nice idea. I can’t even afford a new mattress for Christmas. Tra-la
Things I Wonder About
1) It’s not the cold I mind so much, it’s the dark. I always hit my lowest point during this time of year, and it has a lot to do with all that dark, overcompensating with too much eating (used to be pizza and nachos, now it’s cheese-covered broccoli and sausage), too much brooding, and
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