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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.

11 Comments

  1. Bolton/’Stache 2012… or should that be ‘Stache/Bolton 2012?

    If he makes this man this man his running mate, I personally guarantee the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for Imperator Bolton!

    The next door neighbor has chickens and they’re always clucking at me. It’s like living next door to Gob Bluth.

    I love chickens! They have so many nice clucks. If one feeds them or pets them, they use their “content cluck”.

    I really like Modern Family, yet I still don’t get all the over the top love for it.

    It’s a widespread fact that the sitcom genre uses the same jokes and plots constantly.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. “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.

  5. I like writing dialog, but I hate writing descriptions.

    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.

  6. 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.

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