showing up an hour and a half late for a meeting is okay right?

[cornerofmadness]

Because of my students did that to me tonight and seemed peeved that I was trying to leave. By the I dealt with him, I had no time for dinner and had to get a hot dog from Sonic's in order to make it to my OWN meeting with my writers group on time.

I do love meeting my group even if we don't always get much done. I think they thought I was going to die today. It was so hot because the a/c broke or was just too old to cool the diner. They thought I was laughing so hard I was crying. I'm like no, that's SWEAT and when I get up you'll see the giant puddle under my fat ass. I didn't pee myself just fyi.

I came in and sat down and someone immediately brought up romance or something or I did (it's too hot, I don't remember) and I asked 'is it possible to have a romance where the love interest isn't a giant alpha male douchebag?' We hear this male snicker and we all start laughing. There was this young guy in a powder blue dress shirt and a white bow tie two tables away and he just kept chiming in to our conversation with a male pov. It was hysterical. We were sad when he laughed and it's easy to hear me because well as rain_oubliette, evil_little_dog and silvrethorn can attest to, my inside voice can be heard three houses away. You might bleed from the ears if I use my outside voice. I had half the diner laughing by the end. I didn't get crap written but who can write when you're forming Lake Erie in sweat under your ass?

And for all my friends who have a tumblr click here Remember the fit you all had when LJ cracked down on erotic content and FFN? Guess what so is Tumblr (and blogger and another blog company) I can't say I blame them on one hand. People love to sue. Their precious baby who's underage and trolling the net sees some naked stuff and the parents see $$$ for traumatizing said baby. On the other hand, it sort of rots. I have no tumblr. I hate its interface. My authors' list is pretty upset since this was a marketing tool for them but that's going to be out now. That said I DID see an amazing amount of outright porn on tumblr. I was actually pretty shocked by that.

Declutter day 84 Item tossed -Supernatural manga Why kept -Wanted to read why topped -Oops duplication

I SUMMONED my first egg!!

Comments

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

I wish I had heard that conversation. Sounds hilarious. I prefer my romantic interests not to be douchebag macho dudes, btw. :-)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

haha ditto. It's probably going to be my writerly ways, this topic.

One of my Elfquest friends is a romance writer but has had issues getting published because her love interests are too nice.

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

With an outfit like that, are you sure he wasn't The Doctor? ;-P

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hahaha honestly he DID kind of look like Matt Smith without the long face. Now I'm just going to think of him as the Doctor

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

SWEET! congrats on your first summoned! That's my first time to see one and look forward to watching your little guy grow up

and an HOUR AND A HALF LATE?? without calling (or buckin and shuffling when he got there)? who are these people that can roll like that? :/

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I know I'm not sure what it grows into either.

They're ALL in college and they'll soon all be in the work force. I've been reading reports on how piss poor work skills are in the last 5 years because of these entitled princes and princesses

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

scary but so true... like the movie says, we need to "buckle up - it's gonna be a bumpy" ride

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yep

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I hate that you summoned your egg. I've been trying to do that forever.

*sniffle*

Yes, your inside voice is very, uh.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

so have I! I was stunned and then it didn't show the egg and I was very annoyed but it came up on the dragon pages.

the word is 'loud'

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Grrrrrr.

Yeah, that's the word, definitely.

[kiramaru7.livejournal.com]

Congrats on Summoning your first GoN!! They need a lot of views & are rather delicate, kinda like tinsels. ^^;

I can't believe Numbnuts was late & had no excuse & was POed when you had a meeting to get to?! o.0

I like to write romance where the guy isn't a douche-bag... Being a bit of a rogue is a lot sexier & more appealing than being a total macho jerk. Is cuz guys are running the publishing houses? And they think they know what women want? Or are they afraid of being a nice guy? o.0

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. that's good to know.

that's par for the course with students any more

exactly. Han Solo, Indiana Jones, they were sexy, the alpha male douche, no.

You know maybe in the beginning it was men but it's mostly under female control and that's still the norm. If you go look at City of Bones and Clockwork Angel (the two series that got me thinking on this) SO MANY women are gushing over these momunmental douches

[kiramaru7.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. It took me forever to get my first & almost a year to get them second, but things are supposed to be easier now. (*laughs* that may or may not be true)


I was thinking Han Solo when I wrote that! XD And I don't understand why women gush over them. A guy like that wouldn't last one date, never mind being romanced by the stupid Neanderthal. What are these women stupid?! I bet if you were able to publish the stuff where the guy's a lot nicer, they'd catch on & be big sellers. Yes, I get the fantasy aspect of it, but a rogue is more appealing as a character no matter the genre than a total douche.

[priarani560.livejournal.com]

I remember reading where Agatha Christie got plot ideas from conversations she overheard :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that is probably true for many

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it was a fun conversation! I wish I had a local group like that.

After all of "Ring of Fire," I can't believe one of our online group actually thinks the sequel is a romance.... I tried writing romance, but while my work has romantic elements, it just can't fit into that formula. I enjoy reading it sometimes, but I can't write it.

I can barely even catch interesting new eggs as they drop, much less SUMMON one! How do you do THAT?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I got lucky for the first time in a LONG time. It's been so many years of no one but my fanfic friends (which is still so helpful) an devil_little_dog looking at things.

I missed that. Was it the one who didn't remember what Sean Patrick is like after 2 whole novels of him?

if you need something, I can probably breed it. As for summoning, you need to have a Magma, a thunder and an Ice dragon. Those three will have 'summon' under their actions. Don't try it with a near to full egg count. it took me 2 years to get this damn egg.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I tried a Meetup Group, but it wasn't too helpful -- not a lot of sharing work (and no genre!).

It was Remus; I don't remember if he was the one who made that comment last month, I'd have to check back. (I actually have a scene in "Moonlight & Mesquite," later, where Danny makes a comment about "how Sean Patrick is"; it's funny in my head...)

I think I have at least one of all three of those -- I'll have to try again when this last blood moon grows up. I'd LOVE at least ONE Gold or Silver...

RE your late student

[makd.livejournal.com]

My darling friend:

I had a similar experience about 30 years ago. Since then, I tell my students the first day of class: if you make an appointment with me beyond my office hours, I will wait 10 minutes. If you are three minutes late for an appointment subsequently, I will leave at the three minute mark.

Re: RE your late student

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

snort. I will remember that

Re: RE your late student

[makd.livejournal.com]

Whatever I can do to help. ::hugs::

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

It's funny that the first two romantic comedies I wrote had B type personalities for the male need, but the one that actually sold did indeed feature a giant alpha male douchebag ... or at least that's what some of my readers called him, even though I didn't think he was that bad at the time! Maybe because I knew what was going on in his head more.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

That almost makes me a little sad even thought I KNOW judging by comments that for some reason I will never understand a good sub segment of women like that alpha male

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't understand it either.

Of course, I'm more of a class C type.