I went to the movies tonight , a kind of spur of the moment thing, and saw Changeling. You know, that movie starring Angelina Jolie's Marvelous Red Trout Lips In A Cloche Hat. That's what I was expecting the movie to be about, anyway, and I was pleasantly surprised. I didn't know until I got there that Clint Eastwood directs the film. If I'd known ( Read more... )

Okay, so it goes a little something like this:

New scene I'm working on + reviewing friend's novel + movie I was watching last night + friend's confession of writing historical Real Person Slash + imaginary conversation with film professor + pondering character significance, dramatic structure, authorial voice, and societal expectations of romance ( Read more... )

I think I'm starting to understand why.

The scene that's beginning to form in my head will require a time commitment and an intensity that I haven't had in the last couple of weeks (being buried in schoolwork, being sick, and all that). It's gonna be challenging, it's gonna hurt, there's gonna be psychic blood all over this keyboard.

However, if I  ( Read more... )

Not what I want them to do, what they need to do. A small yet huge difference. Trivial yet significant. Micro, yet macro. Man, I could snark on myself all night.

Characters are just as infuriating as... y'know...real actual people. D'oh. Who knew?

I know that my job is to listen to them and relax and make room for the truth, and that as soon as I  ( Read more... )

"Night Dreams," by Susanna Indigo. You may read it here: suspect thoughts, a journal of subversive writing: issue 5. It's a PDF file and you'll find the story on page 21.

But, a quote:

"Another night, in the car, in the dark: Do I hurt you enough? he asks in a moment of truth, and I tell him no. Never. He strikes me across the thigh with his black ( Read more... )

If you saw me in the back of a police car, what would you think I was there for?

Dear World:

The United States of America, your quality supplier of ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for its 2001-2008 service outage.

The technical fault that led to this eight-year service interruption has been located, and the parts responsible for it were replaced Tuesday night, November 4. Early tests of the newly- ( Read more... )

Being sick sucks. But you all know that. And now I just hang out in my bathrobe and wait for the drugs to kick in ( Read more... )

Pink Siamese is sick, she has been sick all weekend, and so like the brainiac she is she decided to do stuff all weekend instead of stay in bed or at least take it easy. So she's going to go to the doctor tomorrow.

Bleh. Bleh. Bleh.

Hopefully she'll stop referring to herself in the third person.

A friend of mine found the Interactive Porn Generator (Click on "Interactive...Porn?"):

( Click for the Mad Lib style LOLZ. )