Calloo! Callay! Oh Frabjous Day! I’ve got the synopsis for OPERATION: FIREBIRD basically done. It needs some work and there’s still some bits where, as Wen would say, “Then a miracle happens,” but I’ve got the thing generally done and I’ll fiddle with it a bit more over the next week or so. Now to write the first few chapters! I’m trying to do too many things at once right now. Been trying to write this post for hours. I got email from my editor today, who is really enjoying…
small brain
God, I’ve got a rather small brain today. One of those “sit and stare vacantly at the computer screen and wonder what I’m doing” things. I’ll eat something in a few minutes, which will probably help. I hope. :) I was obliged to take Ted out to dinner last night to make him help me figure out a plot for OPERATION: FIREBIRD. It took a while to get started, partly ’cause he was very tired and partly because he hasn’t read O:C yet, but eventually he said something that caused…
fortune cookie
Yesterday I got a fortune cookie that said, “It is impossible to please everybody. Please yourself first.” Ted said, “Well, if *that’s* not preaching to the choir…”
Blow, Gabriel, blow!
Wow, I’m in a fantastic mood. I just watched De-Lovely, which was absolutely *magnificent*. There was only one scene I’d have done differently, and the music is just wonderful and the actors were extremely fine and the makeup was astonishingly good. I watched all the extras, which were cool and some of which brought very interesting insights to the film, and I’m just all pumped up and full of energy now. Yay! miles to Rauros Falls: 34
bio? press release? eee!
I’m supposed to write a page-long bio for my press release. I have absolutely no idea what to say. I’m tempted to start with the story of my sister having to write such a bio, where she went to Dad and said, “Hey, Dad, what should I put in my bio?” and Dad said, “Well, there was the time you ran into the burning building to save the baby.” She laughed and said, “Oh, right,” and went and said to Mom, “Hey, Mom, what should I put in my bio?”…