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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Twitter Digest – 2009-03-31

chipping away at #gunstreetnovelthon. here’s to productivity. also to Not Failing at Endeavors. # 94 pages. #gunstreetnovelthon less despair about the worth of this story. it’s not better, i just care less. “Fail spectacularly,” they say. # #gunstreetnovelthon so this is me wearing glitter paint lightning bolts (on my face). complete with marching in place [...]

Twitter Digest – 2009-03-30

urk. feel sick (brain/head/soul). on the other hand, i just wrote the possible beginnings to a song. # ok, seriously? # @documentingme steve is the man. used that $4 ratchet set to replace my alternator & it all works now. thanks for your help, too. in reply to documentingme # super-gluing my glasses together. # [...]

Twitter Digest – 2009-03-29

80 pages. #gunstreetnovelthon will fix slow/ill self with nachos. introducing more caffeine gives me the shakes & nausea. stimulant failure. # It was the alternator. #

Twitter Digest – 2009-03-28

now i will listen to tom waits’s entire discography in chronological order & write a novel. i have these fine stimulants to aid me. # 9 pages. #gunstreetnovelthon # 20 pages. #gunstreetnovelthon (wishing i was ambidextrous. argh.) now listening to a 1974 radio interview full of live tom waits. all right. # 27 pages. #gunstreetnovelthon [...]

Twitter Digest – 2009-03-27

subsisting on the kindness of friends # writing. hopefully this weekend i’ll be doing a lot of that. # also: b. cobb & i changed a car battery last night. so much harder than it sounds w/ the tools we had (ratchet set made of butterfly wings). # In short, know there are impervious locks [...]

Twitter Digest – 2009-03-26

@AllisoNicole86 that topic sounds awesome. send me what you come up with, if you don’t mind. in reply to AllisoNicole86 # i’ve been training myself to go to bed early, and now even eleven seems late. hurk. sleep. (maybe i’ll actually write tomorrow? yes?) # the entire discography of tom waits fits on my mp3 [...]

Twitter Digest – 2009-03-25

Writing a huge long letter to a friend #insteadofwriting. Someday I will choose writing over people. I’ll be miserable, but more productive. # @rsdevin “guards! guards!” is brilliant. run, do not walk. (also “good omens” is worth a gander. gaiman/pratchett, not just pratchett) in reply to rsdevin # You know what I just realized? You [...]

Twitter Digest – 2009-03-24

“Such a peaceful / sunny day of / spring, but / alas, cherry blossoms / keep falling and falling.” — Tomonori Kino # @nalohopkinson unless it’s rucksack profiling, which i doubt. age profiling? does selection criteria matter? it’s still guilty until proven. in reply to nalohopkinson # Read @MaryRobinette’s short story, “Evil Robot Monkey,” which [...]

Twitter Digest – 2009-03-23

“I’m ugly and you know it, but you think that I’m a poet / So I’ll keep the rhyme if I feel in time, it gets me where I’m going” — f.molly # @apopa right; the rules are there to create a sandbox & context. you have be good enough to think within the confines, [...]

Twitter Digest – 2009-03-22

@propylae i got that letter from cw as well. do you know if clarion sd sends rejections? or is no news bad news? in reply to propylae # “It’s no go my honey love, it’s no go my poppet; / Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.” — Louis [...]