- He drove to The Juicy Plum's hidden side entrance , not for the first time --though it was the first time he wasn't being paid for it. #nwm
- NgithOwl encouraging employees to buy company-branded Lands End clothes & wear when not at work. It is to ROFL.
- Dead Bells Anthology accepted "Missing You In Pieces!" Woot!
- Coworker re friend, "He got off on--what's it called--Contemporary Insanity."
- Mrs. Crinoline herself greeted Carl at the side. He half-carried the girl into a dimly lit room. She fled to huddle in a corner. #nwm
It was difficult finding just the right home for a half-horror/half-humorous modern fantasy story about a gay man's trouble finding a person to pay half the rent, so I'm quite pleased.
Excerpt:
Eric chewed on his pencil as he re-wrote his ad. GPM seeks N/S housemate(s) for spacious two-bedroom . . . but he didn't want a pair of newlyweds. If he wanted cooing doves, he could have gotten them from his second-to-last boyfriend, the pet store owner.
Uniquely decorated . . . because his third-to-last boyfriend had wanted to be an interior decorator and had thought that psychedelic flower wallpaper best expressed Eric's artistic personality. Add in Eric's practice of displaying his paintings in progress, and sometimes the apartment hosted kaleidoscopic clashes of color and style.
Fully furnished apt. with washer/dryer . . . though the dryer had a tendency to shrink laundry, especially expensive shirts, which was the final straw for his last boyfriend, and the reason Eric couldn't pay rent.
None of the respondents to his last ad had seemed quite right . . . in the head.
"Hi! This is Eric. Please leave a message after the beep."
Read more.
New words: 674
Total words: 1,839
Overused word: mother
Gratuitous food: samosas, muttar paneer, and lamb curry
Type of scene: a date, and after the apocalypse
Challenge(s): keeping the build-up interesting
Which line is it anyways?A single fly buzzed around in the car, then landed on the old man's mouth and crawled inside. (What? It's a horror story!)
Added to spellchecker: muttar paneer, waitressing
Notes: More than usual, while writing this story I keep getting compelling ideas about scenes further ahead. So I go and write that out and then go back to where I was and--I've got about three (very short) scenes being written at once. I'm usually much more linear.
Other writingy stuff:
* Heard the sad news that Jim Baen's Universe is closing. http://baens-universe.com/articles/Univ
* Posted writing log.
* Great (not-quite-official-yet) news! Jim Baen's Universe *will* be publishing "Salvaging Scottwell"! It's bittersweet, since they are closing their doors soon. We'll be losing a great SF/F publication. But this will be my first pro-level sale, so I'm very excited!
- 13:33 +++(There's not enough pluses.) "The Radiator Burped" has been accepted by Strange, Weird, & Wonderful Magazine! Fall pub. date.
- 15:49 + No more extra work project stealing my downtime for the next month! (Though also no downtime today.)
- 18:58 MN photo folk: The Strib is having a contest for a great fishing photo: ping.fm/d953Y
Still haven't unpacked entirely from Christmas vacation. I'm trying to squeeze in a bit of cleaning around the edges, but....
"Periwinkle Eyes," my short story about a blind artist, had been accepted at Art Times. It will be my first paid publication in a print literary journal, so that's pretty exciting! On the other hand, they are currently accepting short stories for an expected print date three years in the future. Eeep.
Tomorrow is the last day that you can read my short story, "Blood for Oil," at Allegory Ezine.
We have practically no food in the fridge, but the Mad Scientist says he likes the challenge to his creativity and says he'll delay food purchasing until next Tuesday. This would be more acceptable to me if we had things like milk and bread.
The Catholic wedding of Donny and Anne, good friends currently living in California but planning on maybe moving back at some point, was beautiful. The reception and after-party were fantastic. And I think/hope I got some very good photographs.
I'll be at
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gunn's New Years Eve party, of course. Between starvation, overscheduling, working too much, and not getting enough sleep, I may not make much sense in conversation, but I'll be there."Blood for Oil" is a short story about an oil company executive charged with finding new energy resources who finds one that has less to do with science and more to do with black magic. Continuing the pattern of which of my stories get published, it's straight-up horror with an environmental twist and a conspiracy-theory kicker.
And when it's published, you must all go there and read it and send letters to the editor along the lines of, "You should buy everything this writer ever offers you, because she is brilliant. Also, you should give her lots of money so she never has to do honest work again."
It's worth a try.
I wonder if it's professional to respond in a squeeing, slobbering with joy, "You love me! I love you because you love me!" fashion to the editor? Hmm. Probably not. Particularly the slobbering. Best to keep elation under wraps until returning contracts and bio and whatnot, and even then to express it in a more professional manner.
And now...to the updating of my various and sundry profiles and biographies and cover letters, oh my!
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