tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65463222011-04-21T21:23:50.588-05:00Now in my fourth decade, I look at who I am and where I go with...well, everything from here. Mistakes will be made but sometimes Truths are revealed.Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.comBlogger1351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-88710163992048528322009-01-16T03:49:00.002-06:002009-01-18T18:53:02.199-06:00

With non-paying due deference to Billy Joel (whose lyrics are more chronological), a tribute to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama II, who will represent the post-Cold War generation of the 21st-century.We Didn't Start the Fire Bill Clinton, Tina Fey, capitalist China, O.J.,Asia rising, Facebook, Kareem Abdul-JabbarDick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ugg boots, SeinfeldWest Bank,

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One of the most important people in my life died a few hours ago.I was fortunate in that I had time before and at the end to let them know how I feel...felt.I will not be online very much for the next couple of weeks while I grieve. I expect to be back mid-January.May everyone have a great holiday season and a bright New Year.Don't wait until its too late. Say it now.

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Ok: I am pleading the 5th, while hunting with the 2nd, cussing with the 1st, being treated like a Pre-13th, while having a pint with the 21st in the booth with with Sarah Palin doing the 19th AND the 9th because the 4th cant do a damn thing about it, until we got caught and put through the 6, 7, and 8th. Luckily, for me, Palin is an 11th and HAHA God Bless the 10th!

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I done finishered dat der Nanowreeeemo with all 65458 words.In newer news, the manuscript is hereby relegated to the TBE file drawer until March, when NaNoEditingMonth will drive me to spend 50 hours editing and rewriting in a mere 30 days.Until there, aloha and so long-a.I not am drunk, twas the keyboard that were loaded.

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Because when all of India is afightin' (they got nukes and are pissed at Pakistan who has some too--oh lovely), it stands to reason that the people (da British) that "civilized them" a few 150 + years ago would decide a drunk Scot singing at the cops is a jailable offense. Really, can't they get over that whole abandonment-for-the-colonies issue and enjoy a nice "Thanksgiving"?A man in Scotland

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Current word count: 43,928NaNoWriMo goal: 50,000Days left: 4Novel goal: 85,000Days left for rough draft: 20And now for something cutesy. Its as photoshopped as the larvae boob (don't click the link unless you want something nasty BURNED into your brain. You have been warned!) but way more amusing.

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-28501653659506519082008-11-24T23:44:00.004-06:002008-11-24T23:53:01.760-06:00

This is a piece I wrote many years ago. As I've been cleaning up my old blogs (what Nano?!), I thought a repost would be in order.A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on it for the first time, vices & virtues floated around and were bored, not knowing what to do. One day, all the vices and virtues were gathered together and were more bored than ever. Suddenly,

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I received seven calls in forty minutes from this number: 402-464-7509.After the first no-breather, I didn't pick up the others. They rang long enough to get the machine and then hung up. I googled the number and got pages of complaints. "(402) 464-7509 is a land line based in Lincoln, NEThe registered service provider is Windstream Nebraska.N. Country WindowsDetailed listing information is not

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Remember those days, back when you were a kid - depending on your age, before all of this technology... A time before emails, text messages, cellphones, blogs, digital photography, youtube, tivo, etc. I can remember writing a letter and mailing it, having to stop home to check my answering machine, writing notes and passing them off to friends at school, calling from a payphone, taking a roll

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I've been rather lax in my daily goal of 1,667 words. I should have over 25,000 at this point but currently my word count stands at 23,848.Getting rid of the blackmail that had me hosting Turkey day helped. I should get a few thousand words done tonight and tomorrow at the write-in. If only life had such a guarantee!

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I have made my previous post private. The words were as I believed at the time. I know them no longer to be true. Barack Obama is a natural-born citizen of the USA through a biological parent confering citizenship. I didn't delete it because that would mean I had something to hide. Ironically, it was because I was so vocal and public that I was given access to a file which proved my concerns [

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-560332758865362062008-11-04T06:40:00.004-06:002008-11-04T06:56:28.482-06:00

I thought of the first line while I was en route to the Kick-Off party. I think its killer (pun intended as the story is a suspense thriller with a body count) and I'm reticent to publish it until I've had a few dozen agents laugh at it--or find an editor who will pay me for publishing it.I've been doing pretty good keeping near the 1,667 words a day goal. I'm better when I can write at my peak

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-40034875797235831402008-11-01T05:15:00.003-05:002008-11-01T05:45:32.257-05:00

The servers are overloaded because of the huge sign-up and response this year. Ironically even the separate area to contribute to getting new servers is down.Still, I start because these are my hours and its time for my words.NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth is every November. During the 30 days, each participant tries to write 50,000 words or about a small novel. It works out to 1,667 words a day.

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-65548143615313774412008-10-28T04:20:00.003-05:002008-11-01T05:47:47.730-05:00

It makes no difference who I am voting to be the next President of the United States of America. I advise all viewers of this post to actually read it.Fox, CBS and NBC have decided that money makes it okay to flex FCC rules about equal time and air a half-hour "special" of whatever Barack Obama decides is suitable propaganda to influence viewers and/or voters on Wednesday, October 29th. The "

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Housewife wins battle with publisher to remove swear word from book by best-selling children's author By Daily Mail ReporterA housewife has taken on the combined might of one of Britain's best-selling children's authors and a leading publishing house and won. Random House Children's Books has agreed to remove a four-letter swearword from a popular book by Dame Jacqueline Wilson, after

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Its going to be a scary six weeks while my niece goes into kindergarten, my 'baby' brother goes to college, my new house gets rewired, my new assignment goes through and the two major political parties in the USA hold their nominating conventions (which I will be covering in a way by doing AP rewrites).Soooo, I won't be around any of my blogs much (I have 16 and this is a primary one!) while I

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Drunken Swede tries to row home from DenmarkCOPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A drunken 78-year-old Swede stole a dinghy after a night out in the Danish town of Helsingor and tried to row back to Sweden, but fell asleep halfway, Danish police said on Monday. When the man discovered he lacked the necessary funds to pay for the ferry from Helsingor to Helsingborg in Sweden on Saturday, he decided to row the

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Homeowner Confronts BBQ Sauce-Covered Man in His BasementPolice say an Appleton family is still recovering from a scary incident early Wednesday morning when a man covered with barbecue sauce was in their basement. Investigators say 35-year-old Aaron Maurice broke into the family's home on North Wilmer while they were sleeping around 4:30 A.M. Not only was it frightening but police say it was

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-45169726342049520762008-06-27T03:50:00.004-05:002008-06-27T03:58:56.598-05:00

Its happened again. I'm trawling someplace innocent online (no .xxx for me!) and come across (yes pun intended) a link to something weird, involving sex, and which has a picture. Of course I click--and now I share with y'all! {photo at the link and yes, he does look like a serial killer}Man caught having sex with table gets 6 monthsBELLEVUE, OH -- Police say a man was arrested after admitting to,

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Thumper Takes Down Jeckle (or Heckle)It seems I have been paying too much attention to my other blogs and this one got neglected. My apologies to those who are subscribers--y'all ain't getting yous moneys worth. {sic}But I return with something disgusting and unworthy. I probably should have waited longer.http://view.break.com/526149 - Watch more free videos

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Observed

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Tis the SeasonI'm getting this out of the way now before I forget later.Happy birthday to two of my brothers who have back-to-back birthdays this week. The e-card is in the mail.I'm not particularly big on my own birthday. Its in the summer and stopped getting celebrated around the time my fourth sibling arrived.I do like making a big deal out of others because I think everyone deserves something

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Like a Phoenix SinkingSo its been a few months since I last posted here. I got into a snit about the new controls and took my words elsewhere (I have 11 other blogs to blather).All was well until I decided to move. I still haven't sold my old house, the new house is complete chaos and the only computer I was using up and killed its motherboard right before the start of NaNoWriMo.Which meant I

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Breaking what workedI have supported Google for a long time. Both their products and nearly immediately, their stock. I am therefore entitled to complain.I HATE THE "NEW" BLOGGER/BLOGSPOT!!!!!!I'm tired of having to sign in repeatedly only to lose posts when it mysteriously logs me out. I'm really fed up with having to save every post and trying to publish it several times before it maybe goes

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The Great Smell of...NothingOf course its too expensive to give to all the people who assault me hourly with their layers of deodorant, body powder, perfume, body spray and/or aftershave---all in different scents. Seriously people, pick one scent and then spritz your shoes. It will be smelled.Ahem.I don't know how long the link will be up, so I'm posting the properly credited article.Like before,

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Pulped fiction: Publishing is booming. So why are writers struggling?(note: this article is from a British/UK paper. The current exchange rate is $.52 to the £. To understand the money involved, roughly double the pounds to equal dollars.) Peter Kay is laughing all the way to the Book Awards with two nominations. But while a few authors strike it rich, a new study shows most earn a

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"Best" Buy? Good Luck!"The Courant site confirms an oft-rumoured possibility: Best Buy does indeed maintain a second website for what one could assume is for the purpose of defrauding its customers. State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal ordered the investigation into Best Buy's practices on Feb. 9 after columnist George Gombossy disclosed the website and showed how employees at two

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The Secret of BloggingOkay, maybe not THE Secret but its a biggie. Call it the pulling back of the curtain...will you like what you see?Ahem. What is this fabulous secret, you ask?Blogs need Fresh Content!And, uh, I've kinda sucked at doing this lately.So I hereby promise to at least remember this exists at least weekly and to put up some kind of contents beyond:woke.pee'd.sorta dressed.turned on

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The worst fear...of a single writer living alone. At least he didn't have cats. Mine would eat me, I'm sure.Mummified body found in front of blaring TV Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:19am ETNEW YORK (Reuters) - Police called to a Long Island man's house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set. The 70-year-old Hampton Bays, New

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Super Sunday, 'Sup Ideas?!There is apparently a football game going on today. It is being played somewhere warm where all can partake of the less-is-more clothing options.I will not watch but for the last 10 minutes.Its not for love or hate of the game. I am just not interested in either team. And the little viewing I will be doing this year is to curse at the clock and painfully yet patiently

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-21457962736199111902007-01-22T23:53:00.000-06:002007-01-23T00:05:16.556-06:00

LacklusterI find myself getting bored with a new project again.I went into it with great enthusiasm. I was excited about the plot, a few of the characters and the overall creepy tone I was going to have fun writing.Two days into the research and I'm wishing I had picked something different.Its not that the information or the topics are boring, I think I'm just scared I won't do it all justice. If

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-71891975884951293742007-01-13T19:08:00.000-06:002007-01-13T19:14:31.637-06:00

Love or Murder?I love my family. There are days I don't like one or more members. But I love them enough to not try and kill them (or have them killed).I'm watching Dateline NBC . One twin is going undercover to 'smoke out' the killers (based on the preview clips, I'm guessing the ex-husband of the dead twin is head of the list) of her missing twin.I also watch 48 Hours Mystery. Years ago, there

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-48391488657637959232007-01-06T18:21:00.000-06:002007-01-06T18:52:39.485-06:00

How many balls?I have specific ideas for novels (stand-alones and series), short stories (some connected with a novel universe, some complete one-offs), and [screen]plays.At the moment, I have been working on a novel in a children's series, a novel in a skiffy series, a pair of unrelated (to anything) short stories and a bunch of poems (a separate blogful).I know I should focus, but I like the

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Quiz me baby one more timeHere's a terrifying quiz. Are You Right for Writing? (snagged from Holly Lisle)Question 1: You've turned off the t.v., the stereo, and every other possible entertainment device, you have removed all books, and you are sitting in a dimly-lit room doing absolutely nothing. So. . . how long can you sit without going

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-41065136815451815842007-01-01T17:37:00.000-06:002007-01-06T18:20:19.628-06:00

News 101This is my 101st post. Considering this blog is almost three years old, that seems slightly pathetic to me. Yes, I have 13 other blogs, but I only post 'regularly' on five. (A list is somewhere in the links.)As a celebration for the New Year, I'm making an unresolution. I will make a list of resolutions on July 3rd. It was good enough for those dudes 231 years ago, its a good enough time

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Another end, another beginning2006 A.D. is nearly over. In about 13 hours, another gregorian calendar year will be upon us all.I like endings, they mean new beginnings for me. There is always a chance, as long as you're alive. I forget who said that, but I'm taking not taking Alive as a for-granted status these days.I do make resolutions, but realistic ones that I can achieve in a few months

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-9708948973156438282006-12-22T06:23:00.000-06:002006-12-22T03:56:38.290-06:00

Technically old but usableAnyone have any cool Mac software they'd like to point me to?My 'newest' Mac before this was 11 years old. It is a Power Mac 6100/66 (the latter number meant it was a faster clock than the standard 60). It was the shizzle (am too that white) in 1995. It runs OS 7.6/8 (a hybrid mix of extensions) and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups (I have it networked with the rest of my

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People can surpriseMy mother gave me a brand-new MacBook Pro totally tricked out. I received it nearly 48 hours ago and have been happily customizing it since.Okay, I spent a few hours having dinner with my grandfather on both of the evenings and I did nap once or twice, plus ran errands so I really have spent only about 29 hours loading software and such, but I am so totally in love with this

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Just because its December don't mean its snowin'I finished NaNoWriMo 74k+ strong. My mind immediately entered the rehab of chocolate cream and I haven't heard from it in days. My brain keeps rattling around trying to make my body breathe without sounding like popping popcorn, walk like its 21 and not 92, and eat more than crackers and apple juice without getting nauseous.I think I need my mind

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-1164617944754520402006-11-27T02:56:00.000-06:002006-11-27T02:59:04.780-06:00

Because I should be writing...I'm nearly 10k away from the 'end' of NaNoWriMo. I'm tired, weak and in horrible pain.So of course I decided to take an online quiz.What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Dedicated Reader You are always trying to find the time to get back to your book. You are convinced that the world would be a much better place if only everyone read more.Obsessive-Compulsive

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What Holiday? There is only one thing on my mind today.Blogging is a lot like Sex ... 1. At first, you’re just blogging once every week or two, but it’s not long before you’re doing it a couple of times a day. 2. A lot of kids fool around with blogs in high school but the serious blogging doesn’t start until college. 3. People really only have one good entry at a time, but will often fake

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Its ALWAYS Something!Anyone who can help me figure out what ate or where last month's post disappeared to, please let me stat--before this one follows! I SWEAR I didn't fall off the wagon, the internet ate my update!!So.Another month, another drama. My own walking pneumonia (with nasty nauseating pleurisy) not being enough, the over-trusting GFTW decided to scare my mother with a little red poo (

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-1155717370765586942006-08-16T03:28:00.000-05:002006-08-16T03:36:10.816-05:00

Better IntentionsI had intented to post at least every day for a few weeks, to get people used to reading me again. Then I would taper off to five days (not necessarily consecutive) a week.Alas, my car decided to flatten a set of tires (lots of construction going on between my house and Grandfather's) and in my weakened state, I couldn't do the job solo. What really sucked was going to six houses

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-1155575712054991802006-08-14T12:00:00.000-05:002006-08-14T12:15:12.073-05:00

When good sleep goes badYesterday, I took a sleeping pill when I wanted to go to sleep. I took it around 5:30 so I would fall asleep at 6:30 am. It takes that long to work its way through my system.I don't do this often. Though the sleep-aid (actual name) is over-the-counter, I still worry about becoming too dependent on it. This was the first time I'd taken it in over a week. I was in desperate

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-1155450158105905282006-08-13T00:58:00.000-05:002006-08-13T01:22:38.133-05:00

Its beginning to look a lot like WTFH?!With my off-site (from my home / office) treatment generally concluded (pending results), I thought I would spend the weekend wading through my bloated bloglines account (its a access-from-anywhere-with-internet-rss/atom feeder) and commenting and/or responding to things I read or got in my email in one big post that would also announce my return to blogging

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More mailI am not yet back. I have received a diagnosis, a "dietary food regime" and lots of other instructions. Add that to the pileup in my notebooks, email inbox and blogroll, and I'll be spending the rest of the month running forward to a spot two spaces back.But I digress.I did happen to find something at the top of the heap. It didn't get whisked off to the spam trap, though it contained

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Where do I go from here?I have been taking a break from the internet, the world wide web, online life ...I'm nearing my 31st birthday (June). I guess I'm 'taking stock'. I found some old journals while moving things. As the saying goes "Humans plan, God laughs". There are a lot of things that I have that I thought I wouldn't, but many things were lost--many beyond my control, but the hurt is

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-1148970880163906552006-05-29T02:21:00.000-05:002006-05-30T01:34:40.186-05:00

And the drama keeps bubblingI got a few more emails regarding the mysterious "Mr Meiners". Two claim to be from Linda Oneness. First blasting me for publishing the first one and second apologizing for the first email. The others are from Rose DesRochers. Coincidentally enough, Rose has had dealings with PA (both pro and con) and claimed to have been stalked online.As someone who has had their

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-1148023606832811672006-05-19T02:10:00.000-05:002006-05-19T02:29:22.523-05:00

Yeowtch10 days. I think this is the longest I've gone without a post to any of my blogs for the last three years!So, sorry 'bout that. Pesky family keeping me awake during the daylight makes for bad inspiration at my typical 2 am. Ignore the current clock. I'm sleep deprived which can look like inspiration. When I actually read this later I may think entirely otherwise. Graduations, open houses,

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-1147177593600410742006-05-09T07:23:00.000-05:002006-05-09T07:26:33.630-05:00

True Blog LiesI wrote this post.Or did I just copy and paste that sentence from someone else's blog?Just because you're a smaller fish, doesn't mean someone isn't trying to copy your gills instead of breathing on their own.Link to a blog plagiarising article.I'm going to sleep now. My brain hurts from all this original thinking.

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Helll*yawn*oooo againWow. I didn't realize just how long its been since I posted.I have been obsessively tweaking a short story for an anthology as well as creating my very own plagiarized writing sample. Yes, there is a legitimate purpose to this upfront criminal activity.I've also been working on my attempts at a garden by digging out trees and years of weeds from three decent beds. At least I

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Soiled DebutI had a brush with PA aka Publish Anything America. A real scam outfit.They offered a contract, I accepted. They never printed published my manuscript. Instead they waited 14 months to let me know "production was backed up" and would I sign another contract? My initial contract specified they had to publish within a year or the contract was void. The contract was also for seven years.

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Imitatable InternalizingAren't I cute?I've got a new avatar. My old one was me posing like the late Princess Grace of Monaco. The new one is a cartooned version of me done up like Pippi Longstocking.I suppose I could try an original pose, but leaning on books with blue and red pencils in my head just seemed a bit cliche'd and a tad corny. Just don't remind me of that statement when I use it for

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Again the sameSome people just don't learn*. You will be found out* if you plagiarize!This one had used the same excuse.Is it unwell of me to be wondering if plagiarizing a fanfiction # novel# is actually wrong?It seems to me I'd receive more money and prestige completely making things up.* Requires registration. Try bugmenot for free logins to avoid spam.# Cached pages. URLs currently do not

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Peace, sunshine and shoesIts all sunny and peaceful (aside from the lawnmowers) this afternoon.I'm not paranoid in wondering when the other shoe is going to drop. There is precedent record of God's humor. Though its more of my personal history of not being able to be calm without checking the sky for gathering thunderclouds.I'm enjoying my crawl through wikipedia( I'm on the cleanup and

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-1145463344843755942006-04-19T11:08:00.000-05:002006-04-19T11:15:44.843-05:00

Shiny NewIsn't it pretty?I completely redid the blog template to match the (almost done) new template on my website.I won't say what did it (though the olives, pineapple and fluffy chix are suspect), but I got a nasty case of something that was either a small bout of food poisoning, a light go-round of the flu or God saying "so you had a deadline? HAHAHAHAHA". God has a strong sense of humor when

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-1145007499343023762006-04-14T04:16:00.000-05:002006-04-14T04:38:19.383-05:00

Hustle Bustle Toil and ?I'll admit, I've been a pretty bad poster of late. I used to post on at least one of my blogs every single day. Some blogs would go a few days, but if you checked all the blogs I contribute to, one or more of them was given attention each day. And now I go nearly a week between postings.I'm not ashamed. I have been very busy with a completely new novel that an agent

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Good Busy?I have been very busy over these most recent days. My brother had his 17th birthday. I took him bowling and let him beat me. Okay, barely. It was 69 to 68. I had to bowl odd frames with my left hand and even frames with my right. The kid is bad! Then he went go-karting, we grabbed a bunch of candy at the grocery store, saw TCON:TLTW&TW (the narnia movie) at the cheap seats and then

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Its not just a photoA few image links that might spark ... something.Charlie Williams gets more than he bargained for on his cover.Some people just have to show off their inner voice.Its in the middle of nowhere, so it must be god.An unusual key to ??It is possible to bend a tree... to your will?

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Karmic ServiceNo deodorant, no soap, no mouthwash?I want to add No Service. It would serve much better than no shirt, no shoes, no service.I would take a shirtless, barefoot, cussin' pygmie over the layered, smelly and just plain gross people who choose to get indignant when given good service in return for rude attitudes. I completely sympathize with managers who choose to throw these people out

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-1143955205618093062006-04-01T23:07:00.000-06:002006-04-01T23:20:05.663-06:00

Five reasons to keep up with your blogroll1) Very cool knowledgeable people might post answers to your questions.2) You won't send an email to someone saying "have you seen this about you" AFTER they've already posted it on their blog. But at least she didn't sic KY on me or label me Nitwit of the Day.3) You won't miss an opportunity to send a favorite hidden project to the right editor at the

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Excuses, excusesAlphabeter is hereby excused from blogging for three days while she basks in the glow of getting her 'new' car fixed while waiting for the registration to go through and having her legs waxed for the family Easter photo.This horsepuckey note is valid for two days.SignedAlphabeter's computer

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MemesMemes are these sometimes cute, generally informational and (to me) rather annoying little lists that are passed from blogger to blogger. They entice you to fill them out and post the results, thereby sharing a little of yourself with readers.And now a paragraph or three from Wikipedia.The term "meme" refers to any unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea or concept,

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Welcome visitorsSince I have returned those photos to Mr Konrath, he graciously published an article of mine today. I hope everyone who found their way here from his blog enjoy my little section of chaos.A few things to know about Alphabeter (yea! its another list!):1) I'm lazy. I don't post every day. When I'm in the middle of finished something (like the last two weeks). I can go a long time

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Lessons learned from fast food1) Listen to the order and get it right the first time. Super deluxe is fine, but when the guidelines request a small side don't hand out a family pack and then wonder why the complaints.2) Immediate =/= super awesome great. It may come out fast, but it still needs to be assembled in the right order and wrapped correctly. There is rapid stupidity and then there is

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Just Another NumberIt seems my life has once again come down to a series of numbers.My Social Security Number, my driver's license number (now different to prevent identity theft), my health plan number, my health savings plan number, my address, the square footage of my office in my house and my house itself, my vehicle license plate (I'm changing cars), and the amount of income I made writing

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More?!...and WhyI'm going through and cleaning up my bookmarks (seeing whats still visible and not subscription-hidden or deleted). I've been enjoying some of the goofier ones as a way of shaking loose some inspiration. I thought I had the ending but its just not there. Everything leading up to the original plan doesn't work now thats its been written out. There are a couple of ways I could

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-1143052311705315852006-03-22T12:31:00.000-06:002006-03-23T11:51:40.800-06:00

This is the first of a series of oddball pics.Edit: I put the rest on my livejournal. I was having trouble getting Imageshack to login here.

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Story IdeasA stroll through Reuters gives me pause. How can I make these true tales strange enough for fiction?ALMATY- Burglars in Kazakhstan locked a funeral parlor employee in a coffin and kept him there unconscious while rummaging for cash in the shop.Serik Sarsenbayev said he was on his own late at night when two masked burglars burst into the parlor and beat him until he fainted.The thieves

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-1142992568284199932006-03-21T19:54:00.000-06:002006-03-21T19:56:08.300-06:00

Its contagiousAnyone else having problems with blogger/blogspot?I can't see other blogs archives, I can't post comments (logged in or out/anonymous) and I've tried to post this three times--and keep getting an error message.Pooh.I'm going back to writing. I can control things there.Stop snickering.

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Good Things. Bad Things.Good Thing-watching my brother perform his first swing choir solo in competition.Bad Thing-learning they didn't make finals because the solo after him was badly off-key.Good Thing-seeing my goddaughter niece for the first time in three months.Bad Thing-not seeing her older sister/my other niece because she was asleep.Good Thing-getting copy of new portrait taken of nieces

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Top O' the Blog to YeYou're 70% IrishYou're very Irish, and most likely from Ireland.(And if you're not, you should be!)How Irish Are You?I'm actually a mix of twelve things we're sure of (mostly white European) and there is Irish in there, about 8%. But Welsh buttons don't get ye free drinks tonight!

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Remember why?As I sludge through the last chapters/section of a first raw draft, I'm trying to remember why I started writing in the first place.Oh sure, it was love. I like being able to create and control; to just let my imagination roll over space, time, and species 'limitations'. But what I'm going through is what stops a lot of writers from being successful. IT'S WORK TOO.Once upon a time,

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FlotsamThat girl in Florida who had two prosthetic legs stolen in a matter of months had both returned to her--quietly, which is code for "they tried to cover and they'll be punished but we're glad to just have them back".-I have had a real vinegar craving all weekend. I've been downing black, green, and blonde olives of all marinations along with various flavors or pickles and peppers. I swear

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NaNoEdMoOh crap. I was supposed to be editing my NaNo from November this month as part of NaNoEdMo.I'm buried deep (and happily) in my big Realms and new Ships [temporary placeholder names] series (I always have to work on at least two at the same time) as well as unburying my house from everything that got dumped in it from a storage locker I can't afford anymore now that I had to get a 'new'

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Just call me AmbassadorTo paraphrase a famous television ad: "Writers don’t let writing friends (and acquaintances) get scammed.”I am a Writer Beware “ambassador.” And guess what? You can become one too! All you have to do is become AWARE of how the agent and publishing scams work, and spread the word. Refer writers you encounter to the WB website, and to Preditors and Editors. Refer them to

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In the Red ZoneI'm going to stay inside.

Alphabeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914679523208829232noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546322.post-1141196288145001372006-02-28T00:52:00.000-06:002006-03-01T00:58:08.146-06:00

Like Letters for ChocolateI'm writing, but posting mostly on my poetry blog. Its listed along the side, if you like to be tortured.I'm around, but I have 200 posts of Miss Snark alone to catch up on, not to mention JA Konrath, MG Tarquini and the rest of my blogroll in between.I keep wondering why I don't just shut everyone off, curl up with a few movies (I've not seen the second and third LOTR

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BreakThe trip stunk. People lie.The best thing was the airline coffee on the last part of the trip from Minneapolis to Sioux City. It was that bad.I am very behind on my postings over on FM, as well as my other writings, so I will be spending the next few days buried in them. I have always found solace in writing.

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Horse and Buggy vs Murder by eTicketI would like to thank the woman who left her bag at the security checkpoint entrance to Concourse B of the Houston airport. Because of your carelessness, the entire courcourse of 16 gates had to be shut down, all the planes emptied and everyone (around 2,000 people) marched back out. Then we were re-screened before being allowed back in.I had to leave my plane,

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Happy happy happy Dance of JoyMy flight doesn't leave until tomorrow morning, but this will probably be my last post until after I get back in the middle of next week. Unless I'm having a lousy time, in which case I'll be whining every few hours I am near an internet connection.But I have room for only happy thoughts right now!This is my first 'vacation' (although I'm scouting for a house, job

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Snow, snow, snowAnyone know how to manipulate the permanent link titles for blogger? Like today's link I'd like to be http://alphabeter.blogspot.com/2006/02/snow-snow-snow.html but it will probably end up http://alphabeter.blogspot.com/2006/02/snow-snow-snow-anyone-know.htmlOn the snow front, we had one here in corn country. A whopper of a few inches. Its bitter cold and the heater in my car is

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Teen's Prosthetic Leg Stolen – AgainPeople OnlineA teenage girl's prosthetic leg has been stolen from her home in Temple City, Calif. – the second time it has been swiped in several months.On Tuesday a burglar took two cosmetic legs belonging to 16-year-old Melissa Huff: a $12,000 prosthetic for everyday use and a $16,000 "sports leg" that had been donated after her first one was stolen, the

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Strawberry PonderingsI like cheap food. I'm parsiminous that way (it sounds nicer than frugal). So when a plastic tub of strawberries was marked at $.75 from $2.99, I scooped it and its twin right up last night.Ignoring the almost third of them which were starting mold and/or had bruises, I carefully shocked the rest with a cold water bath and snipped their tops.Having recently finished the last

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Vroom, choke, sputterIt smokes, it smells, but its running without dripping expensive fluid all over.For my next trick, I'll attempt to save more than a dollar for the lottery in six weeks.Though I vow I will set up a scholarship to BEA for underpriviledged writers if I win.

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Yes, oh Yes! Not.I am sexually aroused by people driving ten miles below the speed limit in designated passing lanes.Please continue to do this.My uncomically starving sex life depends on it.The Genius of Real GeniusIs anyone else as hooked on this movie as I am--twenty years later? I remember the first time I saw this movie on HBO in 1986. I still giggle and snort and recite lines nearly as much

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Day FourWhat feels deliciousThe great experiment is a failure. Without a car I can drive more than a mile without smoking, going to the library and/or Panera every day is just not possible.I'm going to drown my sorrows in vanilla ice cream blended with Roasted Honey Nut Skippy Super Chunk peanut butter, one of the few things (food or otherwise) of which I specifically have to have the name-brand.

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Day Three...or notThe leaking coolant turned out to be a blown head gasket. If I keep the anti-freeze filled and let it leak on my parking and the engine smoke when I stop driving, I can drive it (hopefully) until I can scrape together enough for a 'new' (to me) car.Unless I find something that pays $75k a year, it looks like Houston is not going to happen.Guess the universe let me know--NO!AndI

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Day TwoBoom.We got several inches of snow, my car decided to leak all its coolant and I missed being able to go to Panera or the library. Pooh.Six more days to cheap chocolate. Six more days...

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Day One of the Great ExperimentI'm on decaf. But its loaded with 'raw' sugar and half & half.I've finished two articles, cover/queries and have been researching possible names for the races I'm creating by crossing non-'traditional' elves, dwarves, trolls, seraphs, goblins...etc. I'd forgotten how much fun it was to get lost in wikipedia.comI'm also going to decide on a consistent CSS style for

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I have decidedIf I keep making decisions like this, I'm not sure I'll be able to recognize me after awhile!If I get the super job in Houston and the financial stuff for the house lines up, I'm moving down there.I have also made some changes in how and when I write. I get distracted easily when I'm alone. I also like to write in the middle of the night, so when I have questions or other things

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Falling from the genetics treeThe Guy Upstairs had a guardian angel on overtime today.Dear crazy mother:Where is not the best place for your six-month-old child who can sit up by themselves?On top of a table in a booth at Panera bread, where they can fall over onto a bench and down under the table faster than you can run back from the coffee bar. Especially when they were eating something with

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I have returned...with news.What can I say about the last four days? My life has (potentially) been completely upheaved.I have a plane ticket to Houston, Texas where I have a job interview for a tech position (that I'm waaay over-qualified for) which would be part-time hours for enough money (more than my mother makes after 40 years working) that I could write full-time. I have a line (

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Western Union has stopped sending telegrams!Waaaaay back in my day...Come to think of it, I've always been too young or too old so when exactly was my day?Anyhoo, I can remember the Western Union telegram guy (always guys around here but the singers were almost always girls. Floosies who would do nasty things according to my great granny Min) delivering a telegram to my great-grandmother and her

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I'm not late, I'm dramatically timed.I normally am awake from around three-thirty in the afternoon until around seven-thirty in the morning. I tend to post during my 'work' time between one am and six am. Since last Friday, a family crisis has been boiled and simmering so I've posted at off times. Today I'm coming clean. I have posted later and back-timed it.From now on, I'm going to post when I

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A Million Little LawsuitsOprah's former pet author James (not N) Frey is getting sued.He seems to have written a decent book which affected its readers (good or bad remains to be seen).What I want to know is does this mean I can start suing those authors whose books were so bad that not only didn't I finish them, I actually got rid of them before they contimated my TBR pile(s)?When I get rid of a

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Writing UpdateThe 2 Year Novel Writing course over at FM is progressing nicely. Until Zette posts tonight, we're in Week Four.Its pretty much growing an idea at this point (it will move faster later-it starts from someone writing a novel for the first time), but going over everything that everyone contributes, I've very happy I decided to participate in this go-round.As for my big major huge

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MUPPETS!I have no comment on the result. I just don't.You are Dr. Bunson Honeydew.You love to analyse things and further the cause of science, even if you do tend to blow things up more often than not.HOBBIES:Scientific inquiry, Looking through microscopes,Recombining DNA to create decorative art.QUOTE:"Now, Beakie, we'll just flip this switch and 60,000 refreshing volts of electricity will surge

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Must not point and laugh at the irony.I should be sleeping, not checking email. But when B&N offered me a free new fiction writing course, and all I would need to buy is this AND I could get a used copy for $9, I thought great!Until I looked at the author.Then I giggled way too hard. I wonder how his sales are doing?Anyhoo, I promise to reply to everyone who has generously sent me dirty jokes,

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No cheese for my whine, but cookies for a good deed.I have a friggin nasty migraine concluding day one of my "happy five".Leave the ibuprofen, the 10th Kingdom DVDs, and the rainbow sushi--then shoo. But PLEASE stop by here first.If you would like to share where you were in your life on Sept 26, 1983 for his project, please email to 1983sept26 at gmail dot comI'll post extra when I stop seeing

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