I’m writing this post from the Dayton airport on my new iPod touch. Hell no – I didn’t buy it myself.. I can’t even afford to buy beer. Our exec team handed one of these out to all of us at our holiday lunch yesterday. I’ve never gotten a holiday bomis or gift before. It […]
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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.”
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
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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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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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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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