Random Thoughts
Bolton/’Stache 2012… or should that be ‘Stache/Bolton 2012?
I don’t listen to excuses. It’s not that I don’t like excuses; I just hate listening.
The next door neighbor has chickens and they’re always clucking at me. It’s like living next door to Gob Bluth.
I really like Modern Family, yet I still don’t get all the over the top love for it.
2nd draft of novel finished. 87,000 words – a little shorter than I was hoping. Plan to bulk it up a bit in the final draft. I like writing dialog, but I hate writing descriptions. Descriptions are… something.
I remember this long bit of text – I think by Dickens – that was just describing one tree. Very admirable. And boring.
Not quite sure what the next step is after I finish my novel, but I’m pretty sure phase 3 is “Profit.”
All the weirdos on True Blood are starting to make me miss the sparkly vampires.
I’m going to try a few things at home, and if it turns out poorly I’ll warn people not to try those things at home.
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August 31st, 2010 at 9:13 am
If he makes this man this man his running mate, I personally guarantee the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for Imperator Bolton!
I love chickens! They have so many nice clucks. If one feeds them or pets them, they use their “content cluck”.
It’s a widespread fact that the sitcom genre uses the same jokes and plots constantly.
August 31st, 2010 at 9:33 am
My next door neighbor had chickens and roosters right next to me in Austin, Texas. Woke me up at all hours. I gave him two options. Either get rid of them or I would call immigration. He got rid of them.
August 31st, 2010 at 10:01 am
If people were accountable for their mistakes, there wouldn’t be that many excuses.
August 31st, 2010 at 10:52 am
I really like Modern Family, yet I still don’t get all the over the top love for it.
ghey couple + baby = automatic effusive praise from Hollywood
BTW: if you don’t love it way more than it deserves then you are homophobic – and probably ghey too.
August 31st, 2010 at 12:15 pm
John Bolton should do a gig as Secretary of State before running for POTUS.
August 31st, 2010 at 12:20 pm
1. Write story.
2. Descriptions
3. Profit !!
Bolton/Christie 2012
It ain’t a vampire without Lugosi. Just sayin’.
August 31st, 2010 at 12:27 pm
1.) Finish book.
2.) Build giant cyborg version of a certain Supreme Court justice.
3.) Profit!!
*Unless you need the profits from the book to fund the cyborg, then switch steps 2 and 3.
August 31st, 2010 at 12:55 pm
“2nd draft of novel finished. 87,000 words – a little shorter than I was hoping. Plan to bulk it up a bit in the final draft. I like writing dialog, but I hate writing descriptions. Descriptions are… something.”
Simple fix to bulk up the final draft. Add a lovable alien character named Jar-Jar that’s always doing wacky, silly stuff to the plot line…everyone loves a Jar-Jar.
August 31st, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Me too. Perhaps it’s because you’re an engineer. Your natural impulse is to write descriptions as simple and complete as possible. But that’s just boring to read.
Tried to write me a short story once. Turned out crap. Dialog was just dandy, but the descriptions were awkward, to say the least.
Rather just write in script form with simple emoticons. That’s my strength, heh.
August 31st, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Skip the descriptions, use illustrations instead.
1 picture = 1000 words.
87 pictures = 87,000 words.
Problem solved.
September 1st, 2010 at 4:42 am
Descriptions aren’t so bad. They’re merely another form of dialogue if you think about it. They’re either you speaking to the audience, or a character talking to himself/herself (either out loud or internally, depending on their degree of sanity). If you just think of writing descriptions as a character speaking to you – preferably a really long winded one who likes to explain everything for no apparent reason – maybe that’ll make it a little easier.