iamshaylen

This is so cute!!

How exactly is Donald Duck disturbing?

Um.... I don't know, maybe Elmer Fudd. He kinda freaked me out. And the red haired one with a moustache. But I wouldn't have said disturbing or anything. LOL.

My SF Humour piece "Stellar Characters" is live.

Yes, Neonbeam released its 9th issue earlier than normal! YAY!




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Hilarious! And I thought my cat had issues with how she loves strawberry yogurt. LOL.

Another couple completed short stories. Maybe a publication. Or even development work going swimmingly. There is a lot to be optimistic about...

It's hard to be upset by a rejection like this!!!

( Quite possibly the best rejection ever! )

& because I've become addicted to this site, The Yooouuutuuube Version!

Nope. But I bet this would be pretty rare anyway. . . There are a lot of the old me on Facebook, however. It kinda makes me laugh.

AT LONG LAST!!!

( clicky, click! )

YAYZ! And here I was thinking all my submissions have been for naught of the late. . . what with the state of the economy and so many fledging publications at this time. It's even better that it was the retitled "Red Dwarfs" SF piece I penned last May! ;-)

art by THIENBAO @ deviant art

Total Work for the Week: 3396 words, edited 53 pgs, notes, two rejections, one submission, and lots of reading, as per usual it seems. ;-)

Wrote 1179 words for "TDG" + Notes

Wrote 1923 words for "Fucking Find Me" + Notes

Wrote 294 words for "The Rock Robber"

Wrote a paragraph of "Lagomorph. . ."

Edited 53 pages of Dante part 2

"Sweet Tale from the Candy Factory" submitted to Weird Tales

"The Boat" rejected by Summerset Review, form letter

"Red Dwarfs" rejected by Kaleidotrope. Found it interesting and would welcome submissions in the future.

WOTDS: portend, ephemeral, supernal, outré, labile

Still. . .

Reading "A world lit only by fire" by William Manchester

Reading "Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins

Reading "Fool" by Christopher Moore

Listened to PhilosophersNotes on "Love" by Leo Buscaglia and "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell

Read "The Wolf and the Seven Kids", "Allerleirauh" (ick!), and "The Hare's Bride"

Finished "World Myths"

I also did six days worth of cleaning up my PC and laptop, thanks to the addition of a portable storage drive. It was worth it as I have never been more organized. Next week I must locate the notes for part three (the scene with Skull & the prison), finish editing part three, and finally move onto part five at long, long last. Also, I need to wrap at least one or two of these short stories I've begun. They're absolutely demanding it!

Tags: and the rest of what never happened, dante, editing, reading, rejections, short stories, submissions, weekly tally, word of the day (wotd)

This is too hard for me to personally answer, however Dante's theme song for his life is "Running for Home" by Matthew Good Band. And has been since the conception of the novel. I don't know Dante's favourite food, no, but I do know his life's theme song.

“If you wish in this world to advance your merits you’re bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven’t a chance.”
-- Sir William Gilbert

Okay, playwright and poet, but his work is beautiful. It reads like music.

And another, my favourite back in High School. . .

“When you’re lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety."
-- Sir William Gilbert

Five years ago; and it pertained to my final psychology exam (learning and lateralization of the brain), procrastination, knee blankets, and my brand new novel "Dante, and the rest of what never happened". Heh.

"BubbleBobble!" on the original Nintendo.


And before that, on Atari, "Frogger!"


Oh and on commodore64 "Rags to Riches"


Oh and on gameboy. . .

Okay, I'll stop now.

Edit: Wait, Tetris too! In any form. *Nods*

Haha, I also found this: $*#@ing hilarious! Yes, level 57 required major skillz.

Happy Easter Everyone!!


taken last Easter, 2008

ROTFL. I don't know who looks more shocked, Lady or Silly Foo. Haha. XD

I vent most to my El-Jay. Interestingly, El-Jay houses my -family-, my friends, and strangers too.

Thank you El-Jay. You're better than therapy! ♥

Shaylen. But I've already played that game!
Anymore renaming and I might become a symbol formally known as. . . or something. LOL.

art by desideriasp

Total Work for the Week: 699 words, edited 34 pgs, 4 pgs of notes, 3 rejections, and lotsa reading. ;-)

* Wrote 699 words for "In a dark, dark wood"
* Edited 17 pages of Dante part 1
* Edited 17 pages of Dante part 3 (including nine pages of new content)
* 4 pages of notes for a new novel concept

* Prepared 4 submission packages for MM! (32 puzzles & 32 solutions & envelopes & SASE)
* "Turtle Bones" rejected a second time from Black Ross Press
* "The Good Gnome of Grief," rejected by Zahir and Strange Horizons
* Reading "World Myths"
* Reading "The world in six songs" by Daniel Levitan
* Reading "The ancestor's tale" by Richard Dawkins
* Reading "Fool" by Christopher Moore
(yes, it helps that 3 of the 4 are non-fiction)

* Read "Little Red Cap", "the old man and his grandson", "the water-nixie", "the death of the little hen", and "the louse and the flea" (from Grimm)
* Read a bit of "Picture of Italy" by Dickens
* Read "What we know" by Teresa Dunyati-Long @ The Oracular Tree

& spent nearly 12 + hrs cleaning up my PC & laptop.

I work in PJS pretty much 24/7. And I do most of my writing now from bed. Talk about lazy! Haha. I dress up to go out & usually that's jeans (preferably with holes in them) & a vintage t-shirt and a hoodie. I do own dress clothes sure, but I rarely have a reason to use them. Um, so in short. . . no.