Round 11 Hour 42

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

We have writing, we have people who have eaten, we have people who are thinking about eating, and we have Google telling us that antarctic penguins are invading every continent.

I confess I'm slightly distracted by that last one.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

I used to live where these little guys (http://www.tchange.com.au/visits/penguins.html) would come ashore, but I never saw one, much to my sadness.

If they'd been carrying glow-sticks, all would have been better.

I am busting through some revisions... unsure why I ever thought I could write, ready to burn the whole thing, that kind of authorial position ;)

[thisbluespirit]

Don't worry - it'll only be another of those media panics. I expect they're just looking for the South Pole, having taken a wrong turn on the way home. The ones round my town (and, please, please, can we have them back unharmed?) have been trying that for a while.

I had a rest. NOw it is time for me to be having dinner, but I went back online to waste people's time.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

I have eaten, gotten a blanket, and am settling in for some "research" which may actually help transform a story from image + atmosphere in my head to a batch of words.

Or not. Every time I get a five-minute stretch of "ooh this story wants to be written! come here story!", somebody wants me to do something else. I thought I moved out to get away from this. :-(

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Fairy penguins with glowsticks would be better than anything.

Good luck with the revisions. Try not to burn the whole thing, as that would leave you very little to revise. ; )

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Yes, I saw you posted some West Wing videos, and I am about to waste my time viewing them.

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Also as it is on my computer, it would leave me without a computer, which might be bad. A little bit.

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Bah! Cannot lob penguins and alien fish at them until they go away?

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Darn people. Don't they know we have fic to write?

[thisbluespirit]

*is happy*

[thisbluespirit]

I have a terrible feeling that's what you call 'life' - and, no, I don't know what you do about it. ;-)

[lolmac]

Can I buy mutant sentient glowstick-wielding fairy penguins on eBay?

I adore the phrase 'plot tribbles'.

I have espresso.

[lolmac]

*checks your writing*

You can write. You kick writing arse. Carry on!

No burning necessary, although a little singeing of the inner critic is always fun. *proffers marshmallow-toasting fork*

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Inner-critic-onna-stick would make good fair food I bet.

Thank you for the reassurance. Stupid being an artists and ego problems... mutter mutter...

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Espresso good. Espresso necessary.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Can I buy mutant sentient glowstick-wielding fairy penguins on eBay?

LOL, I wonder how much they would go for under "buy it now"?

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

That was bloody annoying! I was waiting for a d/l to finish so I could reboot the laptop. It spent 40 minutes telling me there were only 5 more minutes until it finished - then crashed with 1 min left!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sucks!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

It really, really does!

And while I was eating dinner I was reading the fic I've been working on this afternoon - and realised I'd written 1000 words of drivel.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

It might not be drivel. Give it some more time and come back to it later. Sometimes we get too close to see how good something really is.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

No, it really is utter drivel! Just two pointless conversations that tell you nothing about either of the characters...

I'm scrapping that idea and will start again - though possibly not tonight!