Distracted... as usual
Mar. 16th, 2017 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asphaltcowgrrlMy work computer was refusing to connect to the network so I had to restart it – twice – before it’d play nicely. While said computer was pouting, I scrolled through Pinterest. The first thing I found was this:
This is one of those things that not a lot of people probably understand. I’m willing to bet that a couple of writers I know (none of ya’ll though, promise) wouldn’t quite understand either. I remember a friend of mine being extremely concerned once when I said something about ‘hearing’ one of my characters talk to me. She thought I needed a doctor. I told her all I needed was a pen and a stack of paper and she’d shut up.
For me, this even goes past my own writing to the books and fic I read as well. I finished a book not too long ago and my biggest complaint is that there wasn’t more. But like, what happens in the future? When mom gets out of jail (seriously, grandma went to jail for her daughter, it was a great book)? WHAT NEXT? Yeah, I’m needy and I need answers. But this is how my mind works.
(Weird side note – Word tells me it should be ya’ll even though my phone just autocorrected it to y’all in a text. WTF? Zayne, care to weigh in on this? Can’t say I ever saw it in print the year and a half I lived in Houston.)
Then, I found this and had to laugh:
Three guesses as to who first popped into my mind here.
Lastly, I don’t generally read a lot of romance, mysteries and fantasies are more my speed. But, as of late, a billion and one cowboy romances have been catching my attention. Mostly because of covers like this:
Yes ma’am, you are welcome. But yanno, I wouldn’t exactly turn this kind of thing down, either:
Why can’t James Patterson and Tess Gerritsen have covers like this?
Yeah, I know, I need help. Or, at least, a job without continual internet access because I am getting NOTHING done this morning.
Până mai târziu... (until later)
This is one of those things that not a lot of people probably understand. I’m willing to bet that a couple of writers I know (none of ya’ll though, promise) wouldn’t quite understand either. I remember a friend of mine being extremely concerned once when I said something about ‘hearing’ one of my characters talk to me. She thought I needed a doctor. I told her all I needed was a pen and a stack of paper and she’d shut up.
For me, this even goes past my own writing to the books and fic I read as well. I finished a book not too long ago and my biggest complaint is that there wasn’t more. But like, what happens in the future? When mom gets out of jail (seriously, grandma went to jail for her daughter, it was a great book)? WHAT NEXT? Yeah, I’m needy and I need answers. But this is how my mind works.
(Weird side note – Word tells me it should be ya’ll even though my phone just autocorrected it to y’all in a text. WTF? Zayne, care to weigh in on this? Can’t say I ever saw it in print the year and a half I lived in Houston.)
Then, I found this and had to laugh:
Three guesses as to who first popped into my mind here.
Lastly, I don’t generally read a lot of romance, mysteries and fantasies are more my speed. But, as of late, a billion and one cowboy romances have been catching my attention. Mostly because of covers like this:
Yes ma’am, you are welcome. But yanno, I wouldn’t exactly turn this kind of thing down, either:
Why can’t James Patterson and Tess Gerritsen have covers like this?
Yeah, I know, I need help. Or, at least, a job without continual internet access because I am getting NOTHING done this morning.
Până mai târziu... (until later)
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Date: 2017-03-16 04:44 pm (UTC)and you are so very awesome!
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Date: 2017-03-16 05:48 pm (UTC)Right back atcha, babe!
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Date: 2017-03-22 06:46 am (UTC)Mmm, I can see why you'd want to look at those books. I'd only be sad if it was M/F romance, though... Yeah, I know, I too need help!
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Date: 2017-03-22 04:39 pm (UTC)Eh, M/F romance doesn't bother me - I'm more interested in the story being told than the players, if that makes any sense. Besides, I've been really let down by the M/M romance I've read lately. It all feels so... flat. But that's probably just the mood I'm in, which is why I've turned to mostly mysteries.
Um, but of course you need help... I mean, you're HERE reading my posts, right? :D
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Date: 2017-10-29 03:57 pm (UTC)And we won't even get into the time someone turned my sister and I into security because we were talking about doing away with one of my characters in public...
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Date: 2017-10-30 07:30 pm (UTC)ROFL - that's booth scary and good (good that they'd take something seriously but yanno).
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Date: 2017-10-31 01:46 am (UTC)It was! Especially since we were 18 and 16 at the time. I mean, really?! The security guard wasn't sure if he should call the police or just pass it off as crazy kids (he ended up asking us not to continue with the discussion).
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Date: 2017-11-01 06:31 pm (UTC)Hahaha... I find it hysterical that they took you seriously, to be honest.
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