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Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Keep your head down Corin!
Good morning everyone!
It would if the story wasn't way overstuffed already. ;-) Oh well...I knew the downsides to continuing a started story and I went ahead with it anyway. Main frustration now is that it really needs to end and fast and I keep finding more story it would be fun to write, albeit unnecessary.
Isn't the whole point word count? It the story is overstuffed, you can edit it out later in December, can't you?
Yeah, I can edit it out.
I'm just not sure what exactly I'm going to edit out of this story. There are whole characters who I'm now rather attached to but who had no part in the original scheme of things.
And I'm also dying to get to the end and have it be a finished product, so it's hard not to start writing in a totally rushed way. That would be worse than an overinflated word count.
I totally understand your sentiment. That is the hardest discipline of all. When I am finishing up a paper, story, or song lyric, it is hard just not to become rushed and be satisfied with the substandard because I want to be done.
I could freep you every day and say "Rosie, stay disciplined. Do not write in a totally rushed way. That would be worse than an overinflated word count." I could make that my tagline. :)
Morning!
No words in yesterday. Lots of playing pirate games, movie-clich-card games - the Fantasy cliche and swashbuckling pirates cliche version of "Kung Fu Samurai on Giant Robot Island". The anime con staff meeting. So my geek quotient is back up there.
Tomorrow's agenda: clean floors, fillings, and 30k.
Good morning. I noticed your tarp over the lawnmower is down from the wind last week... have you been out to look at it and see if it can be repaired?
Ugh...no. I did notice it was down and meant to check while it was dry, but I forgot.
Guess I need to go do that. From a quick look, it just looked like the middle bar had come down.
Do you have a few days off before starting the new job?
OK - Let me know if you want help with it. Maybe just weight it down over the lawnmower for now, we might get a little wind today, and then when it's dry we'll fix it.
Okay got the new cpu/heatsink installed and it's definately quieter. Now it's the front case fan that seems to be making the most noise.
Arctic Silver is some kewl stuff! Probably comes in handy against vampires and werewolves too.
Yup, all this week what with Thanksgiving being in the way. Talon's taking off Tuesday and Wednesday. It should be nice for both of us.
crickey...
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a
great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield...to dedicate a portion of that
field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live...
But...we cannot dedicate...this ground. The brave men, living and
dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it...
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced...That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to
that cause for which they gave the last full measure...
That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in
vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth."
One of my ancestors was on the staff of the Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg. He was asked to deliver the benediction after Pres Lincoln spoke...
O Thou King of kings and Lord of lords, God of the nations of the earth,
who by Thy kind providence has permitted us to engage in these solemn services, grant us Thy blessing.
Bless this consecrated ground, and these holy graves.
Bless the President of these United States, and his Cabinet.
Bless the Governors and the representatives of the States here assembled with all needed grace to conduct the affairs committed into their hands, to the glory of Thy name, and the greatest good of the people.
May this great nation be delivered from treason and rebellion at home, and from the power of enemies abroad.
And now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God our Heavenly Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with you all.
Amen.
Try a foam gasket for that fan. You might even be able to make your own if you have some sort of thin foam material around the house, like that pink stuff used to wrap electronics with.
I'm just taking Friday...but still, long weekend - woohoo!
Back from church. Got a few hours to goof off and maybe write...then there's a "write-in", though if it's like last week's they don't do much in the way of regular old writing. I may go, I may not. Especially since my nemesis with the Neo will probably be there. Heh.
Okay...will try. I can try that foam-type material that comes packed in the glass pipet boxes from werk.
We went on a futile quest for an open used bookstore - they all take Sundays off - and are doing a little cleaning. I think I'll make some sort of breakfasty type bread to have tomorrow.
Just got finished watching We Were Soldiers. Such a powerful film; very sad, but also uplifting seeing the bravery and determination of men in battle, fighting for each other as much as their country.
Guess I'm heading to the write-in. I'll be late...maybe I'll miss some of the silliness.
Unless it's all silliness, like last time. And not even fun silliness, durn it.
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