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Shrodinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.
The bartender says "We don't serve tachyons here." A tachyon walks into a bar.
I'll be here all week. Tip your waitresses. Try the buffet!
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Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
So I am two days away from launch!
I hit the Publish button on the book today, because they said it takes up to 72 hours to publish. The book is already up, like 5 minutes after I hit publish, but without the last rewrite, which is "waiting for review." That pisses me off, but what are you gonna do? As the mods here are well aware of, I will rewrite every story at least one more time (even though they've been through like 10 rewrites already). I hope the old version doesn't publish every time. Grrr.
My to do list on Friday:
Add the link to the newsletter announcing the launch and send it out.
Add the link/announcement to the website/blog and publish.
Add the link/announcement to the Serious Moonlight Fakesbook page.
Announce it to my writer's group.
Add the link/announcement to my sig line here.
Obsessively check sales every five minutes all day long.
The embarrassing thing is, I still have 5 more stories to write! I only have 47. But I have til like Christmas to write them.
I took on some added expense to hire a line-editor (and I am glad I did). So if I get 30 people to read the whole thing (or about 1550 total sales) I break even. But I have a year to get there.
All for now. I'll report back when I get some sales.
I hit the Publish button on the book today, because they said it takes up to 72 hours to publish. The book is already up, like 5 minutes after I hit publish, but without the last rewrite, which is "waiting for review." That pisses me off, but what are you gonna do? As the mods here are well aware of, I will rewrite every story at least one more time (even though they've been through like 10 rewrites already). I hope the old version doesn't publish every time. Grrr.
My to do list on Friday:
Add the link to the newsletter announcing the launch and send it out.
Add the link/announcement to the website/blog and publish.
Add the link/announcement to the Serious Moonlight Fakesbook page.
Announce it to my writer's group.
Add the link/announcement to my sig line here.
Obsessively check sales every five minutes all day long.
The embarrassing thing is, I still have 5 more stories to write! I only have 47. But I have til like Christmas to write them.
I took on some added expense to hire a line-editor (and I am glad I did). So if I get 30 people to read the whole thing (or about 1550 total sales) I break even. But I have a year to get there.
All for now. I'll report back when I get some sales.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Diggin the people walking into a bar jokes. The only thing better is animals walking into a bar jokes.
Hope everyone is well. Writing again.
Yay! Working on two stories simultaneously. One is horror. One is a Secret Project (for now).
I love to hear you describe your adventured with littley, Tonya. Reminds me of when my girls were little. ANYTHING could be turned into an adventure. Do you want to visit the mailbox!? YES!!! THERE MIGHT BE MAIL!!!!!!
So the first Serious Moonlight drops Friday, but they say it takes up to 72 hours to publish, so I hit the Publish button this morning. Scary but exciting!
Looks to be a long work day. I'd appreciate some köffee.
Hope everyone is well. Writing again.
Yay! Working on two stories simultaneously. One is horror. One is a Secret Project (for now).I love to hear you describe your adventured with littley, Tonya. Reminds me of when my girls were little. ANYTHING could be turned into an adventure. Do you want to visit the mailbox!? YES!!! THERE MIGHT BE MAIL!!!!!!
So the first Serious Moonlight drops Friday, but they say it takes up to 72 hours to publish, so I hit the Publish button this morning. Scary but exciting!
Looks to be a long work day. I'd appreciate some köffee.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Quote by GraceW
Tom Dooley - Don't remember by whom, but I used to play it on the banjo with Peter, Paula, and Sherry. We were terrible, but we had fun.
The Kingston Trio! I love that song. My Dad still sings it sometimes (he lived with us and likes to sing, as do I, behavior I hope we are passing to my kids).
I am listeng to the kitchen timer beeping, telling me supper is done.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
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Put yourself in the zone and enjoy. Be natural, tell your partner what you like and listen to them. Before you know it you'll be ripping each others clothes off and having the most amazing sex. Nothing I like more than the tease and build up via sexting.
Yeah, what Candy said (another pro tip: always do what Candy says). All day teasing foreplay via text and maybe the occasional pic always drives me crazy. Keep it short and hot. Less is more when it comes to sexting, let their mind fill in the blanks.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
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Birthday drinks!
Umm, Rump, I noticed some really dusty bottles on the top shelf of the bar. They look like champagne bottles, but I couldn't be too sure.
Anyone willing to take their life in their hands and join me in a blind taste test?
I'll join you, Jen. Is it your birthday, or are you figuring it's merely someone's birthday, somewhere? Curiosity is a good thing, regardless of what that damn cat says. Could be Molitovian cocktails, could be Uranium like in the old Hitchcock movie Nototrious, coud be the bottles froom that old joke that ends "I was saving myself for marraige but didn't know what to do with all the bottles."
Laura, I am on your story like Godzilla on Tokyo.
Thanks for the set-up Tonya, and goood to see you back. Could you re-sludge Big B, just a tad, for my cup?
It loooks to be a fine day.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Morning all.
Thanks for cleaning out BBB Curves.
I am sitting out the comp, but I hope to be writing again soon. First story of Serious Moonlight drops on Friday - I am psyched! Don't know if I will have more free time or less free time after that. Life is busy these days, but good.
Saw a GREAT movie with LaylaJ and the girls this weekend - A Star is Born. Hopelessly manupulative, but I bought into it totally. Gaga is SO GOOD in it. So is Sam Eliot, and pretty much everyone ellse too. Andrew Dice Clay! Who knew?
Also saw The Silver Linings Playbook for the THIRD time. That one may be in my top ten list.
Köffee please.
Thanks for cleaning out BBB Curves.
I am sitting out the comp, but I hope to be writing again soon. First story of Serious Moonlight drops on Friday - I am psyched! Don't know if I will have more free time or less free time after that. Life is busy these days, but good.
Saw a GREAT movie with LaylaJ and the girls this weekend - A Star is Born. Hopelessly manupulative, but I bought into it totally. Gaga is SO GOOD in it. So is Sam Eliot, and pretty much everyone ellse too. Andrew Dice Clay! Who knew?
Also saw The Silver Linings Playbook for the THIRD time. That one may be in my top ten list.
Köffee please.
This is my pity party. Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
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Thanks for the thoughts...
I don't know if I ever had mojo, but the time off thing is under consideration. Larry said something that resonates. Maybe this is the site for him but is no longer the site for me. I don't know. No need to make any drastic decisions at this time. Just pondering in the freezer that we call a Saturday in Western Canada. Also, watched Trumbo the other day, and have been considering this... maybe turning one of my stories into a screenplay. That could definitely be an exercise in futility, but a friend, way, way smarter than me, said she thinks I'd do well as a screenwriter. I do like the challenge. I'm competitive, remember?Oblivious to the challenges of reality too, but that's beside the point
As aside... the pot shop that I've chosen to patronize still does not have their product. Bongs and vaping devises galore, but no THC product. My 'dealer' tells me that it takes about 12 weeks for a harvest, so their supplier should be dropping some crafty bud on their doorstep in the next month or so. That's my back-up, get-my-mojo-back, plan. Port or spicy rum and coke no longer do it enough for me. However, I do have a bottle of old Port calling my name. Maybe I could write in the tub like Dalton Trumbo. But he used a typewriter, not an electronic device. My story could have a shockingly, unhappy ending.
Anyway... you also mention obligation. Yup. I'm receiving several queries about my next chapter - Chapter 12 - in How Far Do We Go? It's mostly written, but just can't yet finish it. I hate to write something just because I feel obligated to do so, but damn, I started the series, so it's my responsibility to continue with it. Maybe I'll focus on that. Maybe that's what's causing me to question, and is causing my writer's block of insecurity. Maybe. Maybe I'll focus on that today and tomorrow.
I'm glad I'm not the only one here having these self-reflection questions. Thanks Rach.
DO NOT STOP WRITING!!!
My sense is the site is continually changing, and some stories and writers come into the spotlight, then fade out of it, due to market demand. I was sorta popular during the Shard thing (though I rarely got more than 20 votes, a number you can crack effortlessly), but that has waned - partly because I am not writing a lot, partly because when you pull 52 stories down your visibility decreases drastically, but mostly due to market demand. I did not become a poorer writer. Things just changed.
You are a unique, creative, and unclassifiable genre-shifting writer here, and I can spot your style within 2 sentences. Your unclassifiable style might be a reason you don't get more accolades, because you are hard to put into a category, but that's because your writing voice is so original. It not a bug, it's a feature! You really are a fresh voice.
So, take a break from erotica (I am) and write in another genre, or try something wildly new, but don't ever quit. Life is short, and art is long. Don't waste your talent- use it.
Sermon over. Köffêè please.
Oh, and good luck with the weed thing.
. Come to Colorado and I will buy you a humidor full of tasty bud. 
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
I'll join Bill in a giant slurp of kôffêê. Thanks Cyn!
I finally saw Incredibles 2. Great movie! The first Incredibles is maybe my second fave cartoon movie ever (WALL-E is my fave). The sequel does not disappoint.
In my return to good movies (saw a bunch of bad ones in a row, mostly bloated sci-fi CGI-fests), L and I also saw The Favorite last weekend. Period drama set in 18th century England. Dark, biting comedy. Really good.
Okay. Busy day. I will take that köffêè to go please. Enjoy your Thursday all!
I finally saw Incredibles 2. Great movie! The first Incredibles is maybe my second fave cartoon movie ever (WALL-E is my fave). The sequel does not disappoint.
In my return to good movies (saw a bunch of bad ones in a row, mostly bloated sci-fi CGI-fests), L and I also saw The Favorite last weekend. Period drama set in 18th century England. Dark, biting comedy. Really good.
Okay. Busy day. I will take that köffêè to go please. Enjoy your Thursday all!
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Thanks, Curves, for setting thing up. You deserve a raise.
FINALLY got some time to get over to the azure site and read some of the Rondstadt entires. Some other stories too. Good writing over there.
I watched the State of the Union speech, because I watch it every year, patly because I think it is a citizen's duty, partly as a model to my kids, hoping they'll do the same wehen they're older (they hate it now) (I used to bribe them by saying they didn't have to to do homework if they watched the speech instead, which worked while it lasted). Anyway, my point is, it was not easy. I truly despise that orange skinned monster. But I watched the damn speech.
Köffee please.
FINALLY got some time to get over to the azure site and read some of the Rondstadt entires. Some other stories too. Good writing over there.
I watched the State of the Union speech, because I watch it every year, patly because I think it is a citizen's duty, partly as a model to my kids, hoping they'll do the same wehen they're older (they hate it now) (I used to bribe them by saying they didn't have to to do homework if they watched the speech instead, which worked while it lasted). Anyway, my point is, it was not easy. I truly despise that orange skinned monster. But I watched the damn speech.
Köffee please.
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Nope. Though my active pretty much just means posting on a couple threads in the morning, answer a black box if I get one. I've never been crazy active here, other than reading and writing, when I'm writing. People read my stuff, I feel it's good karma to read theirs.
Are you are on Lush more than you are on Facebook?
Are you are on Lush more than you are on Facebook?
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
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Cheers Verbal,
I'll have a hot whiskey.. with cloves and a slice of lemon.. perfect for keeping ailments at bay...
So what are we celebrating??
Sorry, keeping this one close to the vest. It's not writing-related, if anyone was thinking in that direction. But it's cool.
I apppreciate all the curiosity and well wishes though.
More köffee!!!
