meme's and new dragons

today was utterly unproductive. I'm really thinking i will not finish that erotica i wanted to write and that depresses me

My fine is: $505.6


Just read the "offenses" and if you've done it, you owe that fine. Keep going until you've read each "offense" and added up your total fine.

When you are done post this as "My fine is $........"

You don't have to confess your answers, just the amount of your fine.

Offenses:
Smoked pot -- $10
Did acid -- $5
Ever had sex at church -- $25
Woke up in the morning and did not know the person who was next to you -- $40
Had sex with someone on MySpace -- $25
Had sex for money -- $100
Ever had sex with a Puerto Rican -- $20
Vandalized something -- $20
Had sex on your parents' bed -- $10
Beat up someone -- $20
Been jumped -- $10
Cross dressed -- $10
Given money to stripper -- $25
Been in love with a stripper -- $20
Kissed someone who's name you didn't know -- $0.10
Hit on some one of the same sex while at work -- $15
Ever drank and drove -- $20
Ever got drunk at work, or went to work while still drunk -- $50
Used toys while having sex -- $30
Got drunk, passed out and don't remember the night before -- $20
Went skinny dipping -- $5
Had sex in a pool -- $20
Kissed someone of the same sex -- $10
Had sex with someone of the same sex -- $20
Cheated on your significant other -- $10
Masturbated -- $10
Cheated on your significant other with their relative or close friend -- $20
Done oral -- $5
Got oral -- $5
Done / got oral in a car while it was moving -- $25
Stole something -- $10
Had sex with someone in jail -- $25
Made a nasty home video -- $15
Had a threesome -- $50
Had sex in the wild -- $20
Been in the same room while someone was having sex --$25
Stole something worth over more than a hundred dollars-- $20
Had sex with someone 10 years older -- $20
Had sex with someone under 21 and you are over 27 --$25
Been in love with two people or more at the same time-- $50
Said you love someone but didn't mean it -- $25
Went streaking -- $5
Went streaking in broad daylight -- $15
Been arrested -- $5
Spent time in jail -- $15
Peed in the pool -- $0.50
Played spin the bottle -- $5
Done something you regret -- $20
Had sex with your best friend -- $20
Had sex with someone you work with at work -- $25
Had anal sex -- $80
Lied to your mate -- $5
Lied to your mate about the sex being good -- $25


Tally it up and Title it..."My Fine Is..." copy and paste, then repost it in your journal too


finally caught a damn icicle

ugh

i got less than 4 hours sleep. I have a massive sinus headache but it was the sheer heat in the room that kept me awake. I ended up sitting outside on the porch with the snow trying to cool off.

then the anxiety crap started (thank you diabetes) so i couldn't sleep.

at least the snow looks like a field of diamonds and that's pretty

winter picspam

holidays at COM's apt

the cardinal tree (sorry i'm shooting thru glass here)

close up

my parent's cat I call him lord lardbottom

my parents' back yard with deer tracks

my car in its first snow


that cat is currently sitting on me and i can't feel my legs

writerly ways

First off, let me say thanks to everyone who gave me their thoughts on description. Even if you didn't think it helped, it really did.

I guess I was thinking a bit today about handling criticism. It's a fact of life, if you write, you're going to be criticized, sometimes with cause, other times not so much so. I've been thinking on how do you handle it. For the most part, I often ignore it and whine to my friends. this is probably the safest bet in the online world. Even if you think the reviewer is a total whackjob or being mean for meanness' sake, never say so on an open forum.

We saw Anne Rice's meltdown on Amazon a few years back and midnightsjane showed us this one this past week. author's big mistake

That said it is hard to NOT say something. Yes author's have to have a thick skin. That is SO much easier said than done and if you don't write you really don't know how it feels. Even if you know someone has a complete misconception (or once in my case confused me wiht another author) saying so publically can be your death. Just look at the review I did of Gwen Cooper's cat book. Trying to explain further my feelings in my own review was like adding fuel to the fire.

So yeah, I guess really it's best to leave reviews alone. So outside of replying to the reviewer what's your favorite way of handling bad reviews.


I did get a scene done in the Pompeii thing but i'm just not sure it'll be enough.