Strangeblue on 13/7/2006 at 19:20
Aww... thanks youse guys.
Ah, yes... 96K in pay would be nice... but I've never made that in my life, so... I can hardly complain on that score.
Shayde: There is hope! My degree is in magazine editing and I contract as a tech editor to pay the bills. State contract requirements force me to take 100 days off if I've been with the same contract for a year, so... I write like a demon in the "break."
Today, however, has been a mixed bag: got the ms printed and boxed and was printing out the cover letter and outline when the cat decided to hack a hairball. So I tossed him outside to make his mess. He jumped back into the boat, past the printer, spattering kitty yarf all over my shirt. Luckily, the ms was already put away in the box, but the letter and outline looked a bit worse for... well, not "wear"... more like "Ewwwww! WTF!"
And then he got all pissed off when I put him in the sink to wash him off, since I wasn't the only creature he managed to goop.
And the ferrets were dancing around underfoot doing the "hey, whatcha doin?" dance and trying to be speed bumps while I'm washing the cat and tryng to change my shirt.
And then I discover that 445 sheets of 20# paper only half-fills the Priority Mail Flat Rate box, so I have to find something to take up the extra space....
So I stole their carboard tube and put chunks of it in the box as spacers. Boy are they....
indifferent.
Dexter went to sleep and Taz got this "well, if you're going to steal my toys I'll just go eat" attitude on. And the cat is brooding about being wet.
Alas, Ducky, no ducks. Will you settle for a Hispanic vampire?
Matthew: I may be in the UK in the fall of 2007....
SD on 13/7/2006 at 19:55
Quote Posted by Paz
Good heavens, 96,000 words in 12 weeks. I often struggle to get about 2,000 out in a fortnight.
Operating with that volume of words AND making sure they're quality is rather beyond my comprehension. Kudos indeed!
IT TOOK ME TEN MINUTES TO WRITE THIS POST
Well, 96,000 words in 12 weeks is about 1,500 words per day for a 5-day week, which is more or less what you are expected to write as a professional journalist. And 80% of words write themselves... ;)
But I don't want to take away from the magnitude of the task, so well done 'blue! I very much doubt that I could produce that volume of verbage in that period of time writing on a single subject, I'd just get bored.
Then again, they do say there's a book inside everyone; I'm a little scared of unveiling mine in case it's an epic tale of sex-starved, rubber-clad female pirates on a mission to relieve chubby scouse civil servants of their underpants.
Waffling, I'm waffling (this is how you do it Paz). I'll shut up now. Okay. :thumb:
Paz on 13/7/2006 at 20:03
Fortunately I am in no way professional.
Anyway, when did slightly rearranging AP press releases begin to count as writing?
(ho ho, it's a classic 'most journalists are useless hacks' joke!)
SD on 13/7/2006 at 20:10
Quote Posted by Paz
Anyway, when did slightly rearranging AP press releases begin to count as writing?
Oh, that's just... cold. And way too close to the truth for me to find it funny :(
Strangeblue on 13/7/2006 at 23:38
Autobiography doesn't count, 'Dog. ;)
Mr.Duck on 14/7/2006 at 02:49
Quote Posted by Strangeblue
Alas, Ducky, no ducks. Will you settle for a Hispanic vampire?
Only if he eats tacos so as to further the stereotype agenda :cool:
btw....ftw, Bluesy! :D
Gestalt on 14/7/2006 at 03:15
He does not eat... tacos.
Congratulations on the book, Strangeblue.
Shayde on 14/7/2006 at 06:45
Quote Posted by MrDuck
Only if he eats tacos
Ducky, king of the double entendre.
TJKeranen on 14/7/2006 at 06:51
Job well done, Blue. :)
Strangeblue on 14/7/2006 at 06:57
Quote Posted by TJKeranen
...well done, Blue. :)
Rare, thank you.
(beware: small medium at large.)
