Don't go just yet We have so much to do Please stay longer We'll get it done It's true We still have the beach And hanging out at night Wait Please Don't go now Make it through this time And we have...favorite foods never came in sight I never had the time to go to the woods Or take you to the beach like I knew I should Please forgive me and know I'm sorry I forgot you were not impervious to time

I am thrilled and relieved to report, that as of 3:50 p.m. Eastern Time today, I have completed the first draft manuscript of The Calling , my first original supernatural thriller. Now I shall run my...that is done, I will consider taking a few hours off before I begin my read-through and polishing draft, starting from page one. But until then — can I get an "AMEN!" brothers and sisters? AMEN

Not sure if anyone else is even remotely interested in these, but personally I enjoy going back and looking at snatches of my first drafts, which is why I keep them. It helps me be reflective as a writer... I want my hair washed, I just want to feel human again!" "Forget the Zeus plugs," he had said, "I'll have the sonic screwdriver." "And boy," she had replied, "am I sick of that sonic screwdriver!"]

   Ah, the ever ubiquitous first post! I've had a few different livejournals and still haven't found a good way to open things up. So I'll start with a quote: "To live a creative life, one must lose the... Okay, Now Panic by boz4pm (Lord of the Rings) The Human Series by keelywolfe (Transformers) Occupational Hazards by regan (Psych) Here's Us Together series by fourteencandles (Entourage)

* i had brunch today with a friend i hadn't seen in nearly 4 years! we both used to live in LA, and then she moved to NYC. then i moved to chicago, and somehow we never managed to see each other until...are 1/4 to 1/2 way finished. i'm a compulsive novel-starter. but hopefully, having finished this second one, i have started a trend. i said hopefully . enjoy the rest of your labor day weekend!

I did! Just a few minutes ago! The second draft will double its 45k wordcount. I've marked this draft with enough notes for new scenes that it'll at least do that. But I'm going to take a month off from it first, after weeks of intense concentration. I said I wanted to get this done by the end of August, and I did it. I nailed it! Yes! :))

 I think I'm stuck. My first tactic at writing this story (still untitled, here I am calling it 'Ruby', for the main character)  was to simply sit down, start at the beginning, and go .  See, usually... and would I start over then?  I also don't want to skip around, writing different plot points and favorite scenes.  That hasn't worked for me in the past, and I doubt it'll work now.   Boo.  Stuck

Karen rammed the mop into the bucket. Water splashed onto the kitchen floor and spread across the tiles, seeping into the cracks between. “Bloody kids!” Lifting the mop out again, she grasped the handle...now he was dead. Still making a mess. Shit. She looked from Mike to the mop, and from the mop back to Mike. She couldn't help it, a laugh bubbled out of her as she saw the irony. More bloody cleaning

Hooray! I finally got the first (and a half) draft of "Green Glass and Dreams of Tomorrow" complete. Now I can get to the part I love most--editing! Yeah, I am one of those freaks who loves the editing part. You get to take a piece of crap and rip something beautiful out of it. What's not to love?

[Recovered by IntSec from a damaged PDC 3000 RED] Video recording shows Troubleshooter Team TEX-47 entering an HPD&MC office, in which panicked workers mill around while alarm klaxons blare. The Computer...themselves are abandoned, aside from Lu-R, who continues to wear his, minus the helmet and paws. Thusly geared up, the group continues on to their next stop: R&D. (Recording continued next post