Posts Tagged ‘short story’

the midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Insomnia tonight. I feel wired and tense. When I don’t get sleep I start clenching my teeth and they start hurting within a few hours.

My semi-incestuous story is about 2580 words. Imagine that from the paltry less than a thousand it started at. It feels more complete, more story like. I’m pleased with it though I still feel it’s not the best it could be. I was talking with a classmate and her story also started off as fanfiction. I was pleasantly surprised and pleased. Since my original fanfiction had a rather OOC Peter Pevensie it was fairly easy to make him an original character. I’m glad I kept the archery aspect, archery is always something I’ve been fascinated with.

I won a ‘free domain’ from the Name Cheap contest over at Twitter. I have my eye on one, maybe if I win again I will get it (it’s a .nu). That would mean mean I have five domains. Yikes!

New smilies for this blog and I also have started reviewing some movies since I’ve been catching movies in theaters lately. Once it’s on DVD I rarely, if ever, watch anything. It’s terrible but I can’t concentrate and I don’t really have a DVD player hooked up to my screen (I use a flat screen TV as my computer screen).

Stressed. Graduation is so close I can almost taste it. Good news is that unless I royally fuck things up I should pass my classes. Also, my books have started arriving! :)

the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Changing over the server has been taking up nearly all of my free time. I think I have finally gotten it right. I’m saving nearly $135 dollars a month. The old server company offered me the same server at a discount but even now I’d be saving nearly $60. It’s only well and good to move up if it’s strictly necessary and it doesn’t seem it will be. mod_evasive and mod_security have been the banes of my life the past few days but it seems to be moving smoothly now… have I spoken too soon?

We workshopped the semi-incestuous story last week and it got a pretty good reception. I also got some help from another individual online – desperately need to reply to that! I think that will be the story I want to revise first and foremost. I think it needs more work than the other story even though the ending is leaps and bounds better.

I desperately want to buy books. I’m nearly done with the stack of books I bought last spring and I know I could get good deals on them on the Internet. Shipping killed me last time and doubled the price tag. However, I will probably hold off until after Christmas. I want to read more Jeanette Winterson, I want to read Lolita, I want to read Cloudstreet, I want to read more poetry. I’ve moved away from poetry and that makes me sad.