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October 31, 2010 | Sunday funnies

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Holiday movies aren’t just for Christmas. Here’s my Halloween movie list.
1) Beetlejuice
2) Ghost Busters
3) Halloween
5) The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Go ahead and add your Halloween must see movies–you know you want to
Too often lately, I find myself cheering for the losing team. Book or movie, I’m rooting for the scruffy underdog, and the underdog doesn’t win.
As I read the Twilight series, I speculated Stephenie Meyer must have a love-hate relationship with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, because she rewrote the classic.
I’m still bummed Jacob didn’t win Bella’s heart.
While I adore reading sagas, I have no interest in writing one. Yet.
BTW, the answer to the weekly blog hop question about what book I’d read to my daughter: Wind in the Willows.
The other day I received one of those invitations to submit a novella for a planned anthology. In a rare moment of sanity, I quietly moved it to the delete pile. The deadline was November 15th and I already have a novella due then.
One of the things reinforcing my sensible behavior is I don’t know how many rounds of edits and revisions lie ahead. I’m already working a more structured schedule and I don’t want to turn my dream job into drudgery. Frankly, I don’t think it would work well.
I need to be enthused about the story to have any chance of writing well enough to keep readers clicking pages late into the night.
What with the warp effect of working on three different projects in three different time periods, and pressure from the burgeoning cast in my head, I’m trying a more structured writing schedule for the the umpteenth time.
If I don’t get enough writing time in, it’s clearly my fault. I’m learning I need to budget more time for edits, revisions, and promo. My day still have the same number of hours, so the only answer I can think of is better discipline. Less surfing, chatting, and playing should equal more work.
This month I have a final copy due, a novella due next month, and first round edits on another project.
Now and then, I have to remind myself a few years ago I was dying for an editor give me a deadline.
Now, why did I think that would be so cool?
How’s your job going?
So I’m living with Fergus Wickham pretty much 24/7. Yeah, that’s really his name. I asked if I could call him Gus and he quit talking for awhile. I took that as a big no.
He’s not all that chatty to begin with, he’s grumpier than usual since one haunch was damn near shot off. An incident that earned him a medical discharge. It still hurts, but he anxious for a new identity so he can scoot up to Canada and re-enlist. This is why he’s walking though Central Park at three AM.
Catching a snout full of the rogues, he starts to undress, clothes aren’t all that easy to replace for a male his size. Then he catches a whiff of a female….

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Six Autumn delights
1) Rainy days–perfect for reading and writing
2) Flannel sheets
3) Brightly colored leaves
4) Homemade soup
5) Logs crackling in the fireplace
6) Rubber boots and mud puddles
What are some of your favorite fall things?
The other night, I turned on my Kindle and instantly saw the low battery message. The same message I’d ignored the night before. Thinking I’d read for a few minutes, half hour at the most, I clicked past the warning.
An hour or so latter, I sat down the e-reader to get a drink of water. When I returned the Kindle display a new battery critical message. No clicking past this one. So I dug out its cord and plugged in the device. Since there’s no convenient outlet where I prefer to read, I pulled out a paperback.
During the next half hour, wide awake now, I found my thumb pressing for the next page instead of turning.
An anxious feeling crept up my spine. Had I ruined my e-reader? Twice, I wandered down the hall to check on the charging Kindle and worry over the still glaring critical battery message. On the third trip, the Kindle tree was back. Thank the gods of small electronic devices.
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