cornerofmadness: (plotbunny)
What I did instead was try to get some characters out of my head before I forgot it (and not fast enough. What I have as an opening paragraph isn't what was in my head. sigh. By the time I could there I had forgotten some of it.

See what you think of the two characters and the bit. I'm curious. I thought about making this the 1800s and then the 1920s and settled on a near earth setting, diselpunk (I'm picturing the town like Newport RI)

Meet Chiara )

meet Wilder )


a wee bit of nonsense for them )
cornerofmadness: husk and angel eat popcorn (Default)
Finals are over. I haven't graded them yet as the secretary (only they have the grading software) was gone again (this is part of the work agita I haven't been talking about. She's having health issues and is gone a lot)

What I did have was a lot of students going I didn't get a chance to do the extra credit so can you give me another chance. NO. You had weeks for each o ne so no. Also most of you didn't do the actual work so why in the world should I give you extra extra credit?


I almost finished the other ghost story of mine. I really want it to work. I think it does. It might be too long. Haven't looked. If it is I'll just keep it because I think it's fun.

Also I had a story idea...no more like a character idea. YouTube has been making me giggle. For one I've been listening to a lot of serial killer channels and so what does YouTube recommend for me? 100 top Christian songs. I think it's staging an intervention. What do I do? I listen to another serial killer and after his arrest (in Russia) a young woman decides to write him, marry him and have his kid. Now imagine how that has to work on your head. You mom knowingly, purposely has a serial killer's kid. That might be interesting to mess with.

ETA - the last two posts have lost all formatting, turns out it's DW's auto formatting. I had to disable it just in case someone else is having that issue
cornerofmadness: (Do not want)
I try not to be. It's deeply ingrained. Case in point, today under my pen name someone friended me and then went into a review FB post for my novella to tell me that they aren't active on FB or messenger and they had questions about my novella they thought was better not asked in public.

Am I being a pessimist in thinking this isn't good? On one hand I'm like they wouldn't have gone to the trouble of friending me if it was bad. On the other, if it was good would they care it's public? So I did email them as they asked.

And now I'm waiting...and waiting. Sigh.

I did set it aside so I don't worry all night. I have enough of that with all my friends and family in the path of Hurricane Sally.

And wondering about friends who are leaving FB in droves (Understandably so) but they've left lj/dw too and some I'm totally out of contact with and now going to lose more. This isn't that uncommon but it's happening en masse lately and it makes me sad.

I had a plot idea that I'm putting here. I should make a story idea tag, it would be easier than searching my hard drive. Anyhow, sparked by Prodigal Son, Silence of the Lambs, an episode of DS9, I was thinking what if in a SF/F world, a group of people do have reincarnation but a tiny handful of them remember all their past lives and one of those lives is a killer, whispering in the current body's ear how to solve a current case

eta - I HAD made that tag earlier on. cool.
cornerofmadness: husk and angel eat popcorn (somanymen by Domlandbubbles)
An open and close or an in and out is a surgery to remove a cancerous tumor and after you open the person up you realize it's way worse, nothing will help and you just close back up.

In my version I'm in my micro lab and try to do more work (only to have the laptop decide it won't copy anything so I can't get the MSDS forms for the chemist). I open up the two cabinets I didn't even know had anything in them when I agreed to this.

In it were bottles upon bottles with labels I've never even seen before. I can tell by the iconography it's old. I'll give them this. Back in those days they cared enough to put the expiration date ON the bottle. Almost all of them EXPIRED when I was 11 years old. I'll be 49 in two weeks. Do the math. Yeah these chemicals have been in that damn cabinet for 38 fucking years!

I just shut the door and went home. I was alone in that building and I'm not doing this until I have my chemistry friend in there with me. Now if it's just dyes that won't be so bad but some of these are acids and nitrates. I swear to god if I blow my fingers off trying to dispose of this other professor's negligence I'm going to be so pissed. Seriously some of these COULD explode. Thrilling.

And I'm not even getting paid to do this.

My house isn't getting any cleaner. I've decided to do another 365 declutter challenge where you get rid of one thing a day. I think it helped me to keep on task when I reported here. I'll probably report on the books tossed each month separately.

And thanks to everyone who answered my plea for help with the fluffy bunny fall in love at an anime con story. You rock.
cornerofmadness: husk and angel eat popcorn (somanymen by Domlandbubbles)
But before that, happy birthday [livejournal.com profile] dzioo. Hope it's a great day.

I was talking to the other authors for what? Three days? Definitely sounds like I'll have to write contemporary to make any money but that's not the worrying thing. Either I do it or I don't.

No, the weird west thing isn't as sure of a bet as it sounded, just like I feared. For some reason there are EIGHTEEN authors. I'm not exactly sure why she asked so many of us, maybe figuring most of us wouldn't do it (a lot like airlines overbooking a flight). And a lot of us have LONG stories.

So now I'm afraid I won't get in. It's not the end of the world. I kept the longer version. I could sell it as a novella. But I would like to publish SOMETHING this year.

I got all my books from Fountain books, signed with Maggie Stiefvater's book plates. yay.

I also got my bootie via Thinkgeek and [livejournal.com profile] silvrethorn's christmas gift card (finally used 5 months later). I'll share what I got tomorrow because today I got up too early thanks to my muse kicking my ass, refusing sleep and then not doing anything.

I AM considering a contemporary, well two. I have that short story set in Wales. Wonders if I could kick it up another 40K? It wasn't that interesting (because it's contemp!) And the other is set at a con. The stupid Harlequin knock offs sell like hotcakes (not surprising) but can I do a 50-60K fluffy bunny? I was thinking setting it at Vegas's con (because I know the city) and finishing it in Columbus (where both men live) because I know city and con. But Boston could work. Or if anyone has a con/city they want to suggest (not the con I was just at mostly because Raleigh bores me).

I'm starting up my SF short story again. It'll need a beta.

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