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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
It should be an interesting November.
On the other hand, if I needed a scam to get in a house, I'd show up with an official cable TV truck, and say I got the upgraded converter for the premium cable channels they ordered. (Good way to include a bug that uses the TV cable for communications.)
If they didn't have cable TV, I'd blame the cable company for not stringing the cable they so obviously ordered, and offer to hook them up immediately.
Woo-hoo, that sounds like a plot!
I’ve been rewriting large portions of mine. The underlying story is exactly the same, it’s just how things happen that I’m changing. The heroine’s backstory now involves being part of a Jane Austen Historical Recreation League. And it’s relevant to the escapades.
So here’s my back-cover blurb
“Elinor Harper has left her past behind in Mill Creek. But when her stepfather dies and she goes home to take care of her half-sister, and when the dreams of a man frozen in an Elizabethean ballroom get too vivid, events start spiraling out of control. Now she’s defying the Queen of the Faeries, winning her True Love free, and putting her English degree to more use than she ever thought possible. But when the Queen takes everything that matters to her, can Elinor’s Shakespearean prowess and waltzing skills really save the world?”
I’ve decided I hate my plot, almost all my characters, and most of my settings.
Granted, this happens every year, but usually it doesn’t set in until about halfway through November. So I’m a little worried.
I honed my deceitfulness by watching "The Rockford Files" and "Magnum PI". I made a note to not get beat up, like James Garner did in every ep, even though he always came out on top.
Waltzing! Wahoo! I love it!
Don’t worry! You’re probably too close to your plot to appreciate it right now. Next month you’ll love it again. Or maybe January. But eventually you’ll love it again.
~finally~
Especially in certain parts of the South.
You can always have ninja llamas kill them all.
The ninja llamas went over really well at the regional NaNo kickoff party yesterday. The munipical liason girl had this tote bag that said “any word you write on this I will use in my novel” so we all had some fun with that. Talon put something on in kanji, she’ll have some trouble with that one, and someone put on “psudeopsuedohypoparathryroidism” which is apparently a word.
Good morning Hobbit Hole. :~)
We bought a bale of straw yesterday to do our pipe. Should have plenty left over to bring over for Cisco’s dog house.
Luke is going as a ninja on Halloween.
But ninjas have to be unseen and unheard. He won’t get much candy that way.
Not a ninja llama though?
Yeah, we told him the unheard part at the party the other night. Didn’t work. He stood at the entrance and made ~everyone~ bow to enter.
Then again, if a ninja tells me to bow, I’m bowing!
I think I’m just realizing how overplayed my plot is. Every time I think I have a semi-original idea, within a week or so, I find out that it’s an idea that’s been used about a hundred times in just the last decade. Oh well. I’m committed, I guess. And I do have some unique twists, which is I guess all one can ask for.
Cool. Sounds good. ;-)
Everything is ripped off of something else. I’m stealing whole chunks of “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream” for my story.
I’m also starting to worry this story is a 100k story not a 50k...
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