The No News is No News Purgatory Thread, Vol. 7

Morning all!

Vamp dust for Leanan!

Made it to page 126 in edits yesterday. Let's see how far I get today. God, I'm starting to talk like a game show announcer. This is scary.

Rick, I'm very, very late to the party, but you have my congratulations. I hope you are having a wonderful time!

Snappy, I loved Fear Street as a kid. My mom was a middle school English teacher, and she used to order me a ton of those books off the Scholastic book orders. Along with Christopher Pike, Caroline B. Cooney, and a bunch of other teen horror writers from 20 years ago.

I've been around. Kind of. I've had a lot of up and down and up again with the book currently on sub. I was just released from physical therapy for vertigo, but I'm not much better. It takes time. It's not like physical therapy after you break your ankle or something and see results within a few weeks. It can take months for vertigo. For me, it may be semi-permanent. Driving is precarious because going around curves on the highway or sometimes just watching the stripes on the road can make me dizzy and sick. The scanning motion of my eyes when I read or the new letters popping up on the screen when I type can do the same thing. Medication works only a fraction of the time. It's been very challenging to write or spend much time on the computer. I have three small kids who depend on me to ferry them around to school, appointments, and various activities. I have coping mechanisms, but it's can still be rough. I "just keep swimming" one day to the next about now.

Mornin', Purgies!!! TGITH!!!

{{{MrsB}}}

Good Luck, Leanan

Yay, Sammy

Hey, Purgs.

So Clovia dragged me crying and whining out of my depression. I have sworn to finish and pub the Krampus smut. By the end of October. Go!

*hugs* Mrs. B. Vertigo is a bitch.

(((Mrs. B)))

Red, Red, Red, Red!!!! Krampus smut is demanded by all. And you will make some Yule bucks off it.

Go, Red!!!

(((mrs. brommers)))))

I'd like a couple of nice, quiet weeks if possible. Universe, are you listening?

Morning purgies!

RED!!!

Yay, Red!!!

(((Mrs. B.)))

I was approached to edit a blog for my favoritest vet in the world yesterday. His morning radio show may be going into syndication and he was also asked to write a weekly blog for a well-known pet site that gets somewhere around a million hits a day. He came to me as his resident "expert" on writing. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty laughable when newb me is an expert, but I said yes anyway.

He has always been so good to me and my dogs and besides, it lets me do something in a roundabout way for animals. I turned down money. My podcast producer was ready to shoot me for that. I figure if he makes a ton, then I'll revisit, but meantime, I'm doing a good deed and building good karma. And paying back someone who is always ready to walk me through the medical issues with my dogs, even though he isn't in an office again yet.

When he called, even though he already asked to talk to me about writing stuff, his first questions were about my girls. He's a good man and young and even easy on the eyes. I'm enormously pleased that his show is becoming so successful, but I'll also be glad when he is back in an office.

(((Mrs. B))) Welcome back, and I hope the vertigo stops soon!

Red - Yay! for Krampus smut. End of Oct? Go-go-go!

Dragonstar said:

a well-known pet site that gets somewhere around a million hits a day.

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* ponders putting dog into Book 1 and adjusting target audience *

{Mrs. B}

Yay Red!

Dragon, that's awesome.

Bad dog story of the day: The Slobbering Beast has been very unhappy lately on leash around other dogs -- he's had a couple of unpleasant experiences this summer, and he's holding onto them. I was hiking with him today in the woods and a very small white fluffy dog barked at him. I didn't pay much attention, just kept going, but apparently he did. I went left, he pulled right and SNAPPED the web leash in HALF (while wearing a prong collar!) The little fluffy white dog got the surprise of her life. Thank God he didn't actually do anything -- just stuck his nose under her and almost lifted her into the air, but no snapping or growling or anything. Scared the $#$# out of me, though, and definitely out of the other dog owner. (Who hopefully will think twice before letting her pet randomly sass other animals...)

Off to buy a new leash.

Phoenix, I bet the Beast felt better and less aggressive as soon as he snapped that dratted leash. Of course, he was the only one...

phoenix - haha thank goodness he didn't do anything! That would have given me a heart attack.

Today at work I was going through proposals sent in by authors before we do a meeting about them next week. Was very strange being on the other side of things, but it's not fiction so I don't feel as dirty

Coming really late the reading as a kid discussion, but: I didn't get into reading until jr. high. I read @nastaia Krumpn1k in elementary, but other than that, I didn't like reading. It wasn't until I picked up a copy of The Sw0rd of Sh@nara my brother had left lying around and discovered the wonderful worlds of fantasy that I found I really loved reading.

Zoom forward to twenty-year-old me and the revelation from my mom that I'm dyslexic. I tell you what, I had one of those stunning moments where my entire childhood suddenly made sense. It also explained why reading was always such a chore for me, until I discovered a genre that was WORTH taking three months to read.

After that I read constantly, and now I can read a book in a day. A very slow 12-14 hour day, but still a day.

Morning, well...okay, early afternoon, Purgs!

Red, count me in in Team Pro-Krampus-Smut. Also hugs for everything else.

(((Phoenix and BSB))) Poor puppies. Glad everything went okay after all. May the Big Slobbering Beast only encounter nice, friendly dogs from now on.

Lily, that's just not cool. We have tons (tons!) of apple, pear and apricot trees in our backyard and two cherry trees up front. We have neighbors come up to us and ask whether they can have any of the fruit all the time. Since neither housemate nor I really do anything with them, we just have other people go at it (really, I leave anything outdoorsy to Housemate, since I have a black thumb or something... ).

Um. So that whole sleep thing? Still not working out for me. Actually contemplating whether the meds my doctor prescribed aren't actually making it worse. Guess it's too early to tell. But hey, I "made" myself chill and sit through a whole two-hour movie last night (which actually was writing research of a sort, so hey, I did something writing-related!). Something I haven't let myself do in...oh, a year at least? There always seem to be so many other things to do. Anyway, it's a silly little thing, but I did that and finished reading a book last night and that's all I did. Sometimes it's the little things.

Hi all. Quick lunchtime checkin. I repped as I went, as I wasn't sure if I would get interrupted.

((Mrs. B)) I hope the recovery doesn't take as long as you fear.

((Dys)) - if it doesn't start working, call your doctor.

Phoenix - see, as the owner of a little dog with fear aggression, I always worry about something like this. Yay for your dog only scaring the little furball.

yay for Fire! I responded on twitter, but I am assuming you cheered here somewhere, too.

Lily - I hope it was just deer - it would be sucky if people theived your apples.

Still working on the outline for my agent (note outline, not synopsis, which makes it simultaneously better and worse). I hope to finish tonight.

~suki

callalily61 said:

*gives dys a totally platonic full-body massage, to encourage sleep*

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You call THAT platonic?

...I like your take on that one.

Anyway, yeah, seeing my doctor for a follow up at the end of the month actually, so we'll see.

Now I must do homework and start writing all the book reviews for all the YA I've read recently.

Also, continuing yay's for Fire!

And I hope Suki gets to catch an actual break, too. Also, synopses are scary. I'd take outlines over those, too.

I'd rather outline than write a synopsis.

...this from the girl who HATES outlines.


Guess which I'm working on today.

Skype visit later today and I just happen to have black kitten to show the kids who is just like the black kitten in WR. They'll be far more interested in her than me.

I don't know if I've posted this before, but the librarian who arranged this told me their area is so poor, parents won't let the kids have library cards because they are afraid they will run up the fines. Very sad.