Echoes in a Hollow Space

Random quote of the day:

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.”

—Sarah Williams, “The Old Astronomer and His Pupil”

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Laurel and Hardy, Ariana Grande, or the Salvation Army Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars?”

—Tunisian proverb

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“The revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies—and as mysterious.”

—James Thurber, “Thinking Ourselves Into Trouble”

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: ‘God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don’t do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.’ So I really don’t think in the long sense.”

—Marlon Brando, New York Times, July 2, 2004

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.”

—William Blake, “Proverbs of Hell,” The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

 

*Extra bonus points to whoever gets the obscure movie reference.

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

 

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.”

—Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Quote of the day:

"He who still sees the stars as 'up' does not perceive with the eye of truth."

—Friedrich Nietzsche


Writingness of the day: I've passed the 9k words cut mark, which is almost halfway to my goal of 20k. Unfortunately, I'm on the last third of the ms. So when I finish this read through, which is also integrating the three critiques I received, I'll let the whole mess sit for a week, then read through it again with a concentrated eye on killing words. Kill, kill, kill! Take no prisoners!

But here's an irritating thing: on three different computers with three different versions of Word I get different word counts in SMF--PC using Word 2000, work Mac using Word 98, home Mac using Word 2004. And I'm not talking about a few words difference, I'm talking about a 3-4000 word difference! It's the same file, with the same margins set, but a vastly different page count between the three platforms. I do not understand this at all. This difference pretty much disappears when I use the Word line count, so I may be forced to use that. It's higher than my lowest SMF count (on Word 98), whine, whine.

(And yeah, I did that 60 characters across the page, 25 double-spaced lines down the page to make sure I wasn't doing something dippy.)

So if the SMF word count for Night Warrior/The Making Blood on Word 98 was 187k, that means it's even longer than I thought and that means . . . I don't want to think about it.

In other fascinating writing news (because I know the above paragraphs were riveting), my final cut on "Eudora's Song" is 6,200 words. I've managed to bring it down from the bloated first draft of 10k words. It's a much better story for it. But I still don't think it hits the spot, exactly. It's just done for now and--out it goes.

You're getting sleepy...sleepy...

Here's something to wake up merebrillante:

( Mesmerizing )

Like the man said, irresistibly dumb. Or is that "numb"?

Starship Captian! by Uberdude
Username
What is the name of your starship?
Uptight First Officer	junaras
Closeted Helm/ Navigation	riemannia
Token Alien Scientist	pnh
Tarty Nymphomaniac Yeoman	maggiemotley
Substance Abusing Ship's Doctor	kimberlychapman
Ensign Smith (aka "the victim")	kmkibble75
Ship's Engineer /Drunk	tryslora
Arch Nemesis Alien Commander	tiellan
Your ship's secret weapon	Paris Hilton
How dose your mission end?	You become space pirates
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