A Twist of Things to Come

First off:



My NaNoFiMo was a limited success. I hit the word goal for NaNoWriMo, but I spread the words out over two projects and so did not actually finish anything. Yet. I am easily within 50 pages of the end of the Shape-shifter novel, and I have some good ideas for the re-write. I'm still indecisive about such basic things as POV, but I suppose you can't have everything. Heh.

I have most of the major conflict done, though the plot will need some fortifying at this juncture. All that is left is the agony (I'm really good at agony), one character's self-mutilation and the clothes backwards thing. But the really hard part is done-- it will have to be re-done extensively, but what the heck.

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I have a confession to make.

I like mouthy, opinionated women. Even when I don't agree with them, even when they are cruel, close-minded and boorish. I generally try not to provoke the latter, it's true. But even when I find a particular tirade pointless and annoying, I'll still pick the mouthy wench over the slink-off-and-boil type of gal. This is mostly because, if you slink off and boil at me, I generally don't notice for quite a while. This tends to make the boiler even angrier, and in the end it's just too much energy expended on something I didn't even know I did.

So, there.

Now, generally speaking, I do put a lot of energy into getting on with people, keeping the peace and so forth. I must be fairly bad at it, though, on account of the number of people I offend regularly.

Also, I offend more women than men. I think this is because women, in general, have a tendency to read more into what I say than I actually intend. Read what I write literally, without so much between the lines, and you'll get a better grip on what I'm saying than if you see implications in what I say, no matter how obvious they may seem. I can be surprisingly oblivious.

While it is possible that when I say something nice there are a dozen not nice things that I might think but choose not to say, that is true of anyone and we'll all be happier if we don't go there. :)

For example, if I don't like a song or a movie or a book that you like -- if I do, in fact, have rather a good time joking about it -- it doesn't mean I don't like you, or value your unique gifts. It just means we disagree about that song, book or movie.

Also, you're a wanker.

;)

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It's been rainy and foggy here, sort of darkish all day long. I can tell the weather just by looking at my hair. Seriously. *FOOOOOM* Moist air makes my hair go all kinky. (Whereas the rest of me... HAR,HAR!)

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Things I want to pull the trigger on this week:

DANCE!
Work on a video. (These two items are unrelated.)