totally not enough blood in my caffeine stream this morning

I have stuff I wanted to add to the ongoing comments about the Google Settlement seminar, and a book review I need to write up, and something funny I want to share with y'all...

but I have Other Stuff I need to get done this morning and at 7:40 I'm already behind schedule. BBL.

EtA: Jay Lake is funny and accurate (if not truthful) about the larval stages of becoming a writer. He specifies speclit, but I see it happening in all genres and mainstream, too. Maybe especially in mainstream.

the state of the meerkat, thursday afternoon

Option material is away to mine editor at Luna, who will in turn take it higher up the chain, and they will come back, eventually, and tell me if I get to eat for the next year, or if I'll have to go on a very extreme unemployed diet.

As Bear would say: La.


Meanwhile, having decided (under the influence of too much Michael Chabon, methinks) to throw common sense to the wind and let "Paris 24" (not its final title) go as damned litfic-esque as it wants. After deciding this, I also realized how the damn thing is supposed to end, which surprised me a great deal and will hopefully surprise you, too. Remember that thing I say, about trusting your instincts and letting skill pave the road to where the story needs to go? Yeah. I forget too, sometimes. And then I remember, and things get better. Or at least less head-against-wall-worthy.

And yes, have been reading Chabon, specifically GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD, or, as he calls it in his afterword, "Jews with Swords." Two parts Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, one part Dumas, and totally impractical and impossible and probably doesn't work at all except that it does.

Genius and humor get away with shit we mere mortals dare not try. It does give one the courage to try and fail, though.


Oh. And Leverage squee. ( spoilery talk under the cut for the DVR-impaired )

And yes, I watched Criminal Minds, too, but Bear already did a better wrap-up than I could. Just go and comment there.