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silwritersguild is done for the moment. The bad news is that I have stories to read for Antithesis Common, betas to do, and my requisite page to write for the day. Oh, and a stack of "Returned Unserved" warrants to take care of. Returned Unserved warrants are very anticlimactic for me. They are bummers. There is something innately satisfying about closing a case; with those returned unserved, though, it is like admitting, "Hey, we screwed this one up." And I have a whole pile of them. And two phone bills to collate. ::sigh::
Okay, I am totally going to pimp myself for a moment, then I'll resume my normal rambling. I can't believe that I forgot to do this initially anyway. Shame on me. And most of my LJ friends doubtlessly know about this by now, but in case I missed someone....
I have started a writers' workshop/discussion group for Silmarillion writers. If you enjoy the Silmarillion, I would love to have you as a member. There is both an email group and a LiveJournal community (silwritersguild) for posting stories. Links to the email group are available via the community info page.
And...there may be an archive in our future. People have expressed a lot of interest in an archive for only Silmarillion writing, and so I am collaborating with some tech-inclined people to make this happen. But--and there is always a big BUT--we will only accept stories from members to start. The group is only twenty-some strong at the moment (because the owner hasn't gotten around to perusing Pit of Voles and issuing invites ::whistles innocently::) and it would simply be too much to manage free access to all to start.
So what does it mean to be a group member? Group members must be a member of the Yahoo! email group. Then you can post your stories in the archive, when it appears. So go join the Silmarillion Writers' Guild! Because if Feanor was not in Mandos, then he would be a member! (There's my celebrity plug.)
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Felak's Rules for Daily Writing
Okay, I have been griping enough about ending Another Man's Cage that everyone should, by now, know about it. Well, to save my sanity (and yours) I have decided to write on it every day, inspired or not. So here are my new rules:
1) I must write at least one page every day.
2) In the event that I have plans that prevent me from writing said page, I must make it up the following day by writing two pages.
3) If I write more than a page, that is excellent, but overages do not count towards the next day's requirement. So ten pages don't get me off the hook for that day and nine after.
4) I do not have to write during my vacation.
I was good over the weekend and got all of my writing done, in addition to my housecleaning, laundry, and enough social activities to keep me (somewhat) sane. Oh, and insta-drabbling! I will post my drabbles, but they are at home, and I am at work, at the moment.
I figure that if AMC has at least 50 pages more to go, then I can finish it in a month-and-a-half. And I have three to four months worth of postings already, although I am eventually going to have to tackle the Feanor chapter, since Feanor LIED to me and made me write untrue things (whilst snickering behind my back, apparently), and so I have to rewrite much of his chapter and some of the next.
Wow, how did I just write that much about my plan to write a page a day? I need help, people. "Loquacity" doesn't begin to cover it.
Favorite (and not favorite)words and phrases
There are a lot of odd words that I use on a fairly regular basis. I suppose they constitute my favorite words.
-hullabaloo: I actually thought that I made this word up. I used it, thinking it was a nonsense word of my own invention, and then saw it somewhere. I was amazed! Maybe I'll see "rambly" next....
-rigmarole: Right alongside hullabaloo, they goes nicely together as "hullabaloo and rigmarole," which often describes my life.
-defenestrate: Hehe, how can you not like so many syllables in one place to describe the action of giving something a hefty chuck out the window?
-vertiginous: I think I might be the only person to get into a casino elevator at four in the morning in Atlantic City and go, "Oh, I feel vertiginous...."
-scad: It sounds dirty but means a lot. <--look at Felak being punny! :D
And alongside those are those that I despise (more phrases than words, really):
-elbow grease: One word, actually more like one onomatopoeia: Eww.
-bright-eyed and bushy-tailed: Maybe because I don't like squirrels and think that they're stupid rats with fuzzy tails. One keeps getting into the trash can at work, nasty pesteses, those squirrelseses are.... Plus, it is often associated with perky morning people, and those people should be outlawed.
-euphemisms of any kind: Euphemisms make me grit my teeth and make a nnnggghhh! kind of sound. I understand that some people have trouble saying "die" when referring to a loved one and so say "passed away"; that doesn't bug me too much. What is worse is the way places always have to come up with new, allegedly snazzier-sounding words for the same boring crap, like:
-sport wagon: Okay, I joked around for years about my station wagon Louis being a "sport wagon," then I started to hear it being used seriously in adverts. Louis was a station wagon. Not a "sport" wagon. They are oxymorons. (Just like Louis was silver and not gray; it made him feel better about himself.)
-reimaging: I saw this on a KFC sign in Jessup: "Open while reimaging in progress." What ever happened to "renovation?" When I worked in the restaurant, it was "revitalization," or "revite" for short, which was bad enough. Why must each company have its own words for putting on different-colored vinyl seat covers and hanging up posters of food that never actually looks that way when it comes out?
-Think Different. This was Apple's slogan a few years ago, and no, I am not over it. It is "Think Differentlyly." "Think" is a verb and "different" is modifying it, so it must be an adverb and not an adjective: "Think Differently." "Think Stupid" might have been better.
Got any annoying words or phrases? :D
My desk is home to a fully puttied dragon with rider!
For longer than I've been griping about AMC, I have been griping about my model dragon that required scads of glue, putty, and pinning to come together into one coherent whole. Actually, it is two coherent wholes because I haven't glued the rider onto the dragon, since it is easier to paint them separately.
Anyway: It is finished!!! Well, the building, anyway. Now, I need to prime it, base it, and paint it. Yes, that will take about one hundred hours, all told (and no, I am not kidding, it will take that long to finish), but no more squinting at minuscule scales made out of putty that stick to everything but the dragon! No more holding it to apply putty in a new spot and accidentally squishing that which was just applied! No more smelling like pewter from filing off gazillions of stupid, shiny mold lines! Whee!
I am going to be doing some digital photography tonight and might upload some pictures of my finished painting projects so that you all can see exactly what it is that I *do.* And I'll upload the dragon too, because it is hard to appreciate until you see how things start. (And actually, they start in a cardboard box with a zillion tiny pieces with mold lines and flash to remove, but that does not make for exciting photography.)
Not eating makes me dumb; I need to eat more
I am prone to bad drops in blood sugar. You would think that this would make me eat regularly. You'd be wrong.
Why? Because there are much better ways to waste my time than eating.
But I get really dumb when I haven't eaten. Example: This morning, my boss, Johnny, brought me a list of warrants that he wanted to return unserved. Lo, I checked the drawer, and two of the three originals were missing. No big deal--I tend to forget to take them out of the database when we close them. So I jogged down to the file room and found one, but the other eluded me. I checked all the file cabinets under both first and last names (he was one of those people with a first name for both his first and last names, and sometimes, they get filed wrongly)...nothing. So I searched every file in my drawer of current warrants. Nothing. So I checked old logs and, lo, he was returned unserved last month.
I went back downstairs to find out why I couldn't find him in the file. We keep everything around here. Returned unserved cases go into the file in their original folders, in the officers' handwriting (versus my sickeningly neat printed writing). So when I searched the file again, I found the folder: The handwriting was in cursive, and apparently, my hungry, sugar-starved eyes didn't want to read cursive, so I spent ten minutes in a half-panic, searching everywhere else instead.
So I need to start eating breakfast and lunch. I left the restaurant because my boss, knowing my tendency toward hypoglycemia, refused to allow me a break to eat, and now I am doing the same thing to myself? It makes no sense. Granted, this isn't the kind of job where I am likely to faint from low blood sugar, but the dumbness irritates me.
Okay, now I must go and do real work. And eat lunch first :)
silwritersguild is done for the moment. The bad news is that I have stories to read for Antithesis Common, betas to do, and my requisite page to write for the day. Oh, and a stack of "Returned Unserved" warrants to take care of. Returned Unserved warrants are very anticlimactic for me. They are bummers. There is something innately satisfying about closing a case; with those returned unserved, though, it is like admitting, "Hey, we screwed this one up." And I have a whole pile of them. And two phone bills to collate. ::sigh::Okay, I am totally going to pimp myself for a moment, then I'll resume my normal rambling. I can't believe that I forgot to do this initially anyway. Shame on me. And most of my LJ friends doubtlessly know about this by now, but in case I missed someone....
I have started a writers' workshop/discussion group for Silmarillion writers. If you enjoy the Silmarillion, I would love to have you as a member. There is both an email group and a LiveJournal community (
silwritersguild) for posting stories. Links to the email group are available via the community info page.And...there may be an archive in our future. People have expressed a lot of interest in an archive for only Silmarillion writing, and so I am collaborating with some tech-inclined people to make this happen. But--and there is always a big BUT--we will only accept stories from members to start. The group is only twenty-some strong at the moment (because the owner hasn't gotten around to perusing Pit of Voles and issuing invites ::whistles innocently::) and it would simply be too much to manage free access to all to start.
So what does it mean to be a group member? Group members must be a member of the Yahoo! email group. Then you can post your stories in the archive, when it appears. So go join the Silmarillion Writers' Guild! Because if Feanor was not in Mandos, then he would be a member! (There's my celebrity plug.)
/pimp
Felak's Rules for Daily Writing
Okay, I have been griping enough about ending Another Man's Cage that everyone should, by now, know about it. Well, to save my sanity (and yours) I have decided to write on it every day, inspired or not. So here are my new rules:
1) I must write at least one page every day.
2) In the event that I have plans that prevent me from writing said page, I must make it up the following day by writing two pages.
3) If I write more than a page, that is excellent, but overages do not count towards the next day's requirement. So ten pages don't get me off the hook for that day and nine after.
4) I do not have to write during my vacation.
I was good over the weekend and got all of my writing done, in addition to my housecleaning, laundry, and enough social activities to keep me (somewhat) sane. Oh, and insta-drabbling! I will post my drabbles, but they are at home, and I am at work, at the moment.
I figure that if AMC has at least 50 pages more to go, then I can finish it in a month-and-a-half. And I have three to four months worth of postings already, although I am eventually going to have to tackle the Feanor chapter, since Feanor LIED to me and made me write untrue things (whilst snickering behind my back, apparently), and so I have to rewrite much of his chapter and some of the next.
Wow, how did I just write that much about my plan to write a page a day? I need help, people. "Loquacity" doesn't begin to cover it.
Favorite (and not favorite)words and phrases
There are a lot of odd words that I use on a fairly regular basis. I suppose they constitute my favorite words.
-hullabaloo: I actually thought that I made this word up. I used it, thinking it was a nonsense word of my own invention, and then saw it somewhere. I was amazed! Maybe I'll see "rambly" next....
-rigmarole: Right alongside hullabaloo, they goes nicely together as "hullabaloo and rigmarole," which often describes my life.
-defenestrate: Hehe, how can you not like so many syllables in one place to describe the action of giving something a hefty chuck out the window?
-vertiginous: I think I might be the only person to get into a casino elevator at four in the morning in Atlantic City and go, "Oh, I feel vertiginous...."
-scad: It sounds dirty but means a lot. <--look at Felak being punny! :D
And alongside those are those that I despise (more phrases than words, really):
-elbow grease: One word, actually more like one onomatopoeia: Eww.
-bright-eyed and bushy-tailed: Maybe because I don't like squirrels and think that they're stupid rats with fuzzy tails. One keeps getting into the trash can at work, nasty pesteses, those squirrelseses are.... Plus, it is often associated with perky morning people, and those people should be outlawed.
-euphemisms of any kind: Euphemisms make me grit my teeth and make a nnnggghhh! kind of sound. I understand that some people have trouble saying "die" when referring to a loved one and so say "passed away"; that doesn't bug me too much. What is worse is the way places always have to come up with new, allegedly snazzier-sounding words for the same boring crap, like:
-sport wagon: Okay, I joked around for years about my station wagon Louis being a "sport wagon," then I started to hear it being used seriously in adverts. Louis was a station wagon. Not a "sport" wagon. They are oxymorons. (Just like Louis was silver and not gray; it made him feel better about himself.)
-reimaging: I saw this on a KFC sign in Jessup: "Open while reimaging in progress." What ever happened to "renovation?" When I worked in the restaurant, it was "revitalization," or "revite" for short, which was bad enough. Why must each company have its own words for putting on different-colored vinyl seat covers and hanging up posters of food that never actually looks that way when it comes out?
-Think Different. This was Apple's slogan a few years ago, and no, I am not over it. It is "Think Differentlyly." "Think" is a verb and "different" is modifying it, so it must be an adverb and not an adjective: "Think Differently." "Think Stupid" might have been better.
Got any annoying words or phrases? :D
My desk is home to a fully puttied dragon with rider!
For longer than I've been griping about AMC, I have been griping about my model dragon that required scads of glue, putty, and pinning to come together into one coherent whole. Actually, it is two coherent wholes because I haven't glued the rider onto the dragon, since it is easier to paint them separately.
Anyway: It is finished!!! Well, the building, anyway. Now, I need to prime it, base it, and paint it. Yes, that will take about one hundred hours, all told (and no, I am not kidding, it will take that long to finish), but no more squinting at minuscule scales made out of putty that stick to everything but the dragon! No more holding it to apply putty in a new spot and accidentally squishing that which was just applied! No more smelling like pewter from filing off gazillions of stupid, shiny mold lines! Whee!
I am going to be doing some digital photography tonight and might upload some pictures of my finished painting projects so that you all can see exactly what it is that I *do.* And I'll upload the dragon too, because it is hard to appreciate until you see how things start. (And actually, they start in a cardboard box with a zillion tiny pieces with mold lines and flash to remove, but that does not make for exciting photography.)
Not eating makes me dumb; I need to eat more
I am prone to bad drops in blood sugar. You would think that this would make me eat regularly. You'd be wrong.
Why? Because there are much better ways to waste my time than eating.
But I get really dumb when I haven't eaten. Example: This morning, my boss, Johnny, brought me a list of warrants that he wanted to return unserved. Lo, I checked the drawer, and two of the three originals were missing. No big deal--I tend to forget to take them out of the database when we close them. So I jogged down to the file room and found one, but the other eluded me. I checked all the file cabinets under both first and last names (he was one of those people with a first name for both his first and last names, and sometimes, they get filed wrongly)...nothing. So I searched every file in my drawer of current warrants. Nothing. So I checked old logs and, lo, he was returned unserved last month.
I went back downstairs to find out why I couldn't find him in the file. We keep everything around here. Returned unserved cases go into the file in their original folders, in the officers' handwriting (versus my sickeningly neat printed writing). So when I searched the file again, I found the folder: The handwriting was in cursive, and apparently, my hungry, sugar-starved eyes didn't want to read cursive, so I spent ten minutes in a half-panic, searching everywhere else instead.
So I need to start eating breakfast and lunch. I left the restaurant because my boss, knowing my tendency toward hypoglycemia, refused to allow me a break to eat, and now I am doing the same thing to myself? It makes no sense. Granted, this isn't the kind of job where I am likely to faint from low blood sugar, but the dumbness irritates me.
Okay, now I must go and do real work. And eat lunch first :)
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FELAK'S RULES, ETC.
Date: 2005-08-17 02:24 pm (UTC)FAVOURITE WORDS
Actually, defenestrate sounds dirty to me.
NOT FAVOURITE
Ooo! "Think different" is like nails on a blackboard! Eeek! that's a cliche!! Actually, I think my least favourite expression right now is "obviously". That's because my son seems to have picked it up as a new slang expression, and uses it all the time to me.
"Jamie, don't you have to leave for football practice now?"
"Obviously!"
"Jamie, are you going to put the garbage out tonight?"
"Obviously!"
"Jamie, is that a new shirt?"
"Obviously!"
"Jamie, did you just get a haircut?"
"Obviously!"
"Jamie, are you going to eat dinner with us tonight?"
"Obviously!"
"Jamie, did Sean poop his diaper? I can't smell it because of my allergies."
"Obviously!"
"Jamie, are you off the computer now?"
"Obviously!"
See how annoying that can be???
NOT EATING
OMG, I have the same problem! Once, I had to go pick up my daughter from a late class (a few years back when she didn't drive) and it was raining. I had worked all day and for whatever reason, didn't eat, or drink anything all day (usually, I'll have at least some water).
On the road, I couldn't see a thing in the rain, only glare in my eyes. Then, I made a left turn on a one way street, going the wrong way! I thought WTF!!!??? when I saw a myriad of car headlights coming toward me, on that 3 lane road! Thank Eru I saw a driveway on my right, and I swerved into it just in time before I got hit! I was able to turn around and come back out heading in the right direction, but Holy Manwe! I was so scared, my knees shook all the way home, and I vowed never to starve myself again! However, I do think it was dehydration more than LBS that got me that night!
Re: FELAK'S RULES, ETC.
Date: 2005-08-17 02:42 pm (UTC)ROFLMAO! Oh my goodness! That's quite the laundry list! You know, I think you even topped Arandil on that one :)
I'll take care of Feanor for you. *leads Feanor away toward bedroom* He won't lie to you again!!
Hehe, are you *sure* of that? You may have just gotten him started in a destructive downward spiral of persistent, pathological lying in an effort to obtain kinky sex.
Hey, how do you feel about Maitimo? He's not lying, just not talking...think we can get something out of him? >;-D
NAUGHTY THOUGHTS ABOUT MAEDHROS
Date: 2005-08-17 02:50 pm (UTC)Re: NAUGHTY THOUGHTS ABOUT MAEDHROS
Date: 2005-08-17 02:54 pm (UTC)And I'm at work! And now *I'm* having naughty thoughts about Maitimo...the well-formed one...EEK!!! I need to stop!
So who do you like better? Mae or Feanor? Because a little Elf told me that someone has a birthday coming up.... ;D
Re: FEANOR VS. MAE
Date: 2005-08-17 04:42 pm (UTC)Cons: None.
Maitimo: Pros: Very tall, beautiful red hair, beautiful face, eyes, body, nice guy.
Cons: Does suffer fools, is iffy about sex.
WINNER: FEANOR!!!!
But they're both hard...erm...I mean, it was HARD to choose between them both. *blushes*
Re: FEANOR VS. MAE
Date: 2005-08-17 04:52 pm (UTC)But I agree that it seems more canonical that Feanor with his seven sons likes sex more.
But *my* Maitimo likes sex just fine....
C'mere, Mae, it's time to do some writing! >;-D