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I, too, am not dead.
Fri, 05/28/2010 - 07:38 — rbackwards
Okay. Baby, travel, floods, no sleep. But everyone is healthy, though the parents are exhausted. And because of the travel, there is - lo and behold! - time to write. Fourteen-and-a-half thousand words, probably fifteen by the time this chapter is done in a couple of days - then the two betas gnaw its bones, and then it's up. I hope everyone likes relentless character study and never knowing what happened when or why anything is the way it is. In other words, it's more of the same. Now with even more death, and Nutella.
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Everything is better with
Everything is better with Nutella.
Waiting (im)patiently
I have as you know been following this story for an awfully long time, but my eagerness for a new chapter is by no means diminished.
If I thought I could get away with it, I'd volunteer to help your beta-readers out just so's I could get my grubby mitts on new material that much faster…
NotACat wrote: I have as
I have as you know been following this story for an awfully long time, but my eagerness for a new chapter is by no means diminished.
If I thought I could get away with it, I'd volunteer to help your beta-readers out just so's I could get my grubby mitts on new material that much faster…
Mitts are always grubby.
agreed
Everything is better with Nutella.
It takes the edge off of the death.
NotACat, that wouldn't be
fair, now, would it? Besides, Sovran and moshpit are great at what they do. By the way, Sovran, hi. I'll be sending you something in a few days.
parakletos, have you ever heard
anyone say "check out those sparkling mitts?" or "it was as clean as a mitt"?
Clean as a.....
anyone say "check out those sparkling mitts?" or "it was as clean as a mitt"?
Whistles? yes! mitts? no!
You know I never thought of
You know I never thought of myself as the type of reader who enjoyed being befuddled, utterly and totally confused and discombobulated by a story and a writers choice of direction before. But your story is so quirky and your characterization so endearingly lovable I just can't help myself. I recommended this story to a friend and his reaction was WFT?! I couldn't even argue with him, I kinda took it as a compliment, it reinforced the uniqueness of your story and my visceral reaction to it, 'cause I'm special that way.
I'm tickled that the next chapter will be up soon, I'm looking forward to reading it. Thanks for the update.
"I, too, am not dead."
ZOMBIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I always take WTF as
a good sign. Better than "stop" or "do not enter". Or "Men in Trees".
Believe me, I feel like
one of the shambling, brain-hungry undead right now. But I'm almost done filling holes...
ZOMBIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Uh, I went a little long.
Sixteen thousand, four hundred words. Yack, yack, yack. Yack. Oh, and also, yack. But before that, inexplicably, yack yack.
Actually that's not a fair representation as it has too many commas.
rbackwards wrote: Actually
Actually that's not a fair representation as it has too many commas.
I would have said it if you hadn't. =)
In fact
I am so not dead that I actually put up some new music on my myspace site (http://www.myspace.com/phantomlimbscore) that I wrote for the story. (I know, myspace is very last century and I hate it.) It's called D's Bent Owl. Enjoy if you are so inclined. I was thinking of him seeing the bird, and it kind of waddles around on a shelf, evading him, and then starts flying madly about and then makes a break for it, careening up into the sky above Diagon Alley, before finally coming to rest on his shoulder. Lots of expensive camera moves. And CGI. My imagination spares no expense.
Re: Uh, I went a little long.
Sixteen thousand, four hundred words. Yack, yack, yack. Yack. Oh, and also, yack. But before that, inexplicably, yack yack.
Wasn't it you a little while back who was emitting low-level angst about posting a chapter that was shorter than your average?
Swings and roundabouts, my wonderfully surreal friend, swings and roundabouts…
Yeah, that was
me. I felt that these events didn't belong right next to those events. Still happy it happened that way.