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Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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well, hot sauce he likes, and we tried this other stuff that you paint on the nails. We borrowed this plastic thumb guard from my sister, and he was able to get out of it. I think motivation is the key...Yoda motivation. :-) I'm putting a band-aid on his thumb and if he can keep them on for five days, I'll let him open the box and try it on. I hope it works, but I'm not stressed out about it. It's a challenge more than anything.
Mrsnad
My hero and some other characters make it out of the city and then have to find a way to kick the bad guys off the planet. Which they do but it ends up with them making a deal with ancient mystical evil spirit things. And then the guy who's married to the woman the hero is in love with stages a coup and tries to take over the government.
And this story is just backstory for the story I really want to write.
I have no problem bribing kids to get them to change their behavior. ;o)
You know, some days you just get up on the wrong side of the Internet...
Well I did it until I was 11 with now ill effects, heh.
It took until I was motivated. The paint-on stuff was for kicking the 'not even thinking about it' part of the habit. I would not be thinking about it and suddenly there was this really bad taste. After some months (took a while) of that the habit was gone.
I'm pretty sure Andre Norton's used the "ancientEvilSpiritThingsofDOOOOOM" plot device...
Heh...and I figure if she could get away with not explaining any new technology, so can I. If you baffle people with description, they aren't as likely to ask how something works. ;-)
My current story kinda mixes elf-like folks with some telepathic abilities and a somewhat Firefly like universe. My brother accused me of stealing large portions of my main guy's speech and general attitude from Firefly, but since I started writing this well before I knew Firefly existed, that isn't true.
No magic in my story per se, but it might as well be.
You keep wandering into the deep places...what do you expect? ;-)
Sigh. I am just suffering from internet deprivation. Work would not be nearly as dull if I could post to FR every three hours or so. As it is I get to write really stupid Visual Basic code and wonder who convinced the hr folks that this was a highly skilled job.
On the other hand if they could see me posting something like that I might be out of a job sooner than December.
Is your phone working? I tried to call.
I was buying the Yoda mask anyway, and thought after I ordered it that it would be the perfect thing to bribe him with. We've tried his favorite candy, and it worked for a couple of days and then sucking his thumb became more important again. With Yoda, he'll get the mask, but it'll go back in the box if he starts up again. I'm a mean mom. :-)
Mrsnad
I think of this story as "Harry Potter in space". Only that's a completely lousy description since there are no kids, no Voldemort, and no Hogwarts. But it is sort of like what would happen in the HP universe in five hundred years, if the wizards got their acts together.
And the roots of this story started out in my fanfiction days anyway so that's where the feeling comes from. Stylistically and plot wise I think it's closer to a Heinlein juvenile, or Lois McMaster Bujold's "Miles Vorkosigan" novels.
Oh, and as to bothers - even if you are stealing from Firefly, Firefly steals from other places. It's not plagiarism, it's an homage.
I was in the bedroom folding clothes.
Folding clothes...is that what your calling it now?
*I've been hanging around my man way to long*
Mrsnad
Nah, not mean, just trying to break a pattern.
Um, well, since *my* man is working overtime I really was folding clothes ;-)
Yeah - that's the ticket!
:)
Yeah, I s'pose. But I didn't steal, honest!
Maybe it's why I liked their universe so much, though. I identify. No icky reavers, though. *shudder* I don't think I could write things like that.
*sigh* I'm reminiscing about last NaNo season. I'm really gonna miss the FoCo group.
Are you still up? Any chance you could bring our cat to the your gate? The keys are in Seattle with Hair.
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