Tweets for Today

• 18:20 Going to attempt writing tonight. I'm sure it'll be in vain. #
• 20:40 Managed to get a whole scene done! (Only took 5 fucking rewrites and 10+ pages to have soemthing to distill into 2 pgs of something useful.) #
• 21:28 Hey, looks like, typed out, I got three pages out of it! Now, WTF's the next scene...? #
• 07:22 Friday! (Thank Christ...) ♫ blip.fm/~10noc #
• 10:58 Wrote for 90 minutes this morning, and still don't have a clear idea of scene #2 of the WIP. #
• 10:58 And so far, the only good thing about The Diamond Mines today is the Bryan Adams on the CD player. #

Via LoudTwitter

Bat Out of Hell: Urban Fantasy Soundtrack?

Something to pass the time, since LoudTwitter is apparently FUBARed.

It occurred to me that the romance subplots of the urban fantasy/paranormal romance fiction I've ever heard discussed seem to have already been summarized back in 1977, at the beginning of Meat Loaf's classic "You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)."

BOY: On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?

GIRL: Will he offer me his mouth?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Will he offer me his teeth?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Will he offer me his jaws?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Will he offer me his hunger?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Again, will he offer me his hunger?

BOY: Yes!

GIRL: And will he starve without me?

BOY: Yes!

GIRL: And does he love me?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Yes

BOY: On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?

GIRL: Yes

BOY: I bet you to say that to all the boys.

I've always said Meat Loaf was a sage, ever since I first heard the truism, "There ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box."

November Scorecard

The subs period for a few of the mags I like to try closed last month. Now, I need to figure out a whole new set of shells to play the submission shell-game for the stories I'm (not) writing. Luckily, I got a couple of rejections in time to sneak them in on the last day of the month.

Rejections:
Submissions:
Acceptances:
Publications:
Circulating:

3
1
0
0
3

I gotta get these numbers up.