Blow up

Outrage of the day?

We saw the Rude Man of Cerne Abbas when we were in England in 2004. Now he's got a friend. [broken link of Rude Man and Homer Simpson]

I don't know whether to be outraged at the desecration or laugh. Ah, I guess I'll laugh.

Writingness of the day:

I just figured out how to fix another novel from the trunk. This was another heartbreaker that stalled at around 60k.

I had a string of three that stalled between 1998-2000—my own particular millennium bug. Three years of writing like a demon, but not finishing anything. Much frustration. I finally finished a long novellette. Thereafter, I wrote story after story, and the novel bug bit me again the year after. I picked up one of those stalled novels, Shivery Bones, and finished it. And I've been writing novels ever since.

Random quote of the day:

"When in doubt, blow something up."

—J. Michael Straczynski, TV producer

Which holds true for one's psyche, too, I believe.

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