think think think
i think i may have trapped my heroes into a box.

to set the sceen: Its kinda mad max levles of tech. Much tech got whiped out by the evil snake men that took over the world
here's a question:
you have:
6 people- our protag (a professor of mytocronology) who can see betwen worlds; one snaek/ bug nerd; one healer; one diviner/ teleporter (see below); one woman who may be brainwashed but is trying to prove shes not one souldier of the eristance movement.

aprox 8 guns (nothng huge, handguns and a coupple shot guns)
some mild magic but nothng huge and fancy.

1 teleporter and uncnoroled diviner but that taxes him badly he also has one werid power but its darogours to him to use it. he can kill people with his brain effectively, he can also tleport all of the team but it taxes him badly, lke brain hemorages and the like.

the underground tunnelsystme in chcago, the now abaodnomed el.

how do yo go about taking out a den of 25+ snake men?

brainstorming:
I need a name fo the Bad Scarry Cult that People THink Is Secretly Distroying THe Wolrd but Is InFact Trying To Save It

they are very envimental/ Natural oriented.
they are predomneantly snake people
they are old as dirt
predomanaqy noctunal
interdimeional

things i have rejeced:
The Hand of the Serpant-- Sounds cleche in my head and makes me think of satan
THe Black Hand-- dosn't fit plus my brain thinks its heard it elsewher
The Green Hand--um, yeha, i don't know why i thought that was good.

much updateaege

Second city ia on forced hiatus because my eidtor is being slow. Imjust glad the other peices showed up

But, it made room for two more shinies:

Don't Be afraid-- short piece, i've sent it to 3 people one has goten back to me with some notes. and will have a hard coppy to me soonish

the shortest one-- scrpt (and non-genra no less, wht am i on ) coming along slow but steady. New format is new, new genera is new. Curently in the plotting phase. Unlike in prose its much ahrder for me just to ramble unitll i get somehwere.

No word back form apex on Crawlers

i've alos been really underdiscapilned about owrk lately.

when to keep yourself focused y ou start writing your comments on your novel in cat macro speak

ARG novel weaving is hard. stupid fucking RED SHOES EVERYGORRAM PLACE


WHY AM I NOT STEPHEN KING YET. HE WROTE GUN SLINGER AT 22. GARBLE.

I've been banking my head against "how i stoped worrying and learned to welcome our human overloards"
so i quit for the time.

Then i banged out a drabble wich *amused * me. now i jsut have to not over edit.
and i have a place to publish it.


then later after i was looking for the book my mom loaned me cause i'm sposed to read that, i gave up and picked up Interworld (Neil gaiman and MIchael Reaves YA tasty)

And it was like seeing a friend i hadn't seen in years. Reading his introction made me smile it zinged stregit to my heart as if Neil himself was saying "welcome back, you were missed, have some tea"

I'm happier reading this stuff. TO hell with realism.

Its so comfy.

blah.

I think i'm putting too much pressure on this peice and its not coming out as aresult

i'm tring new expernment in my haiauts from Second City and writing some shorts-- this one's due.


its coming a long SO SLOWLY and i've had three days where i wrote somethign read it the next day and tossed it

You should write a book or two and start a magazine, even if it never makes a dime....

So enjoy yourself and do the things that matter, cause there isn't time and space to do it all.
...
don't live another day unles syou make it count, there's somone else that your'e suposed to be. thers's somehting deep inside of you that still watns out

and shame on you if you don't set it free

-- mucho love, JoCo

good title for another book

"the offhanded jester"

I am soooooooo bad at titles here's some that have been in my head:
Chicago(taken)
Shadow (under or over) Second city.
Paralle butchers
Building, breaking, rebuilding: The Fall of the Second City and the Rest of the World
In Bond and Oath
or....
TOSA vs the Mexican Snake men

(okay that one is a joke(ironicaly it's sitckng better than anything else, unforntatly its not acommedy) Rad and i were chatting about it, and in my explainaitnon i called my group of protags "The Team of Supreme Awsome" and the voice i did for the Nagakin was kinda the sterioytypical mexican accent, (i beleive i said "and they're like 'Beeech i keeel you")

this is an old rant that has been kicking aroudn in my head for ages, no really it is. any connction to actual convestations is conicdence and shite timing. If you're gonna thorw a bitch fit, or get all bunchy undies, skip over this entry and save me time

I hate when peopel try to say they know how something is, when they don't and try to relate it to somethign they know/did.

especaly with work.(see there is a reson its here, not in norokrex)

No. you don't knwo how it is to draft a novel if you've editied essays.

no you don't know how writers block is if you've goten stuck on an essay.

No, you don't know how it goes unles you've tried to write something substatial that didn't matter accaemicaly but was for you critical.

You can be sloppy in accademia. You can turn in something your not quite happy with and while you may get a less than pride inducing grade, its not ultimately life shattering.

You don't know the Head-slamming-agains-desk frustration that comes with editing a section that you know is utter shite but *cannot* be left that way. Nor can you fix it. YOu don't know how yet. You need this to be fuckign perfect.

you don't know the *terror* of having worked at somehting for years, only to get stuck on a point that simply needs to change and you can't figure out how or the bleakness of realizng that your baby of several years is simply not good enough. Or the *fear* that happnes when you get too mcuh critizism and think."what if i this is crap, what if i'm not good enoguh to do what i've deidcated my life too"
you don't. know. stop predtinding you do

Why can't it be"the best you can do" and not quite perfect?

because there are *thousands* compeating for your spot in the light. An agent or editor gets hudnreds of manuscrips in a day. You have to really shine to get their attetion. You don't get to send them the whole book or even a chapter sometimes. Somtimes you have to blow minds with a two page queery and summery jober.

ANd thats only the gateway.
Assuming you get an agent / publications deal at all asuming your work isn't destinded for slush pile/ bottom of the reciclye bin without so much as a form letter for your troubble. Asuming you had the artitisic timing and skil to make this sparkel in a way that makes edward cullen look like a dusty lawn oriment.

assuming you did all of this, if you don't sell well... if no one wants to pick up your book theres devistation and fear all over gain.
Okay its a first book, but can you do it agian... even better this time?

can you make this thing not only sing, but *fly*? No, flying's not good enoguh, the last one flew and it didn't wowrk did it? You need this fucker to *sore*. You need it to grab the reader like a fist from hell , and keep them there.


so no, you don't know-- you haven't the slightest idea the stakes we deal with.

Unless you're another author. Then you get it.

I'm woring on sumbiting a few shorts of mine. I've had it up to *here* with this mag that has been jerking me around for 6 months.

bleh i'm having my every so oftenly "i'm crap at this and will never be good enough to publish and i'm going to have to eventualy turn to short stories and even those won't be good enough to publish i'll die living off my parents and no one will no my name execpt for freinds and family"

( emo entry, with lots of delusional crap )

201 pages, 44051 words.

i wanna look it over and see what i can expand to be sure the story is donebut tentitvily... we may have a draft......Squee.
idealy i want about another 1000 words in there maybe more for cusioning cause i know i'll cut a lot.

I was wrong about 100

every page longer than the last draft is a victory.

and we are curetnly 7 pages byond that and *knock wood* still going.

i got four pages done.... nomraly this would be cause for concern.... but damnit i did it, no more block....it was a push never said they were *good* pages but its something, yaknow?

i really need to not do things in the morning befeor i work.... headche bad. THreating to become writers block and i've bee prety cloggy of late.

weather is not helping i feel like i have rocks on my head.

arg....

2,755 / 50,000 (5.0%)

this is just here to keep me going
80k is realisticly a "fullsized" novel 300+ pages i'm shooting for 200 see where i get

"it was soft and smooth like well mositurized skin"

http://www.overheardeverywhere.com/archives/003625.html

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