Browncoat Bar and Grill- Shirtless and Sunny
POSTED BY: nvghostrider
UPDATED: Monday, May 3, 2010 20:16
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HUGS Anjl... see where's our writers guild??? and the people who will pay us vast sums for writing...sigh
ok back to work....so many things to do so very little time
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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Hey all,
The blog I found was here http://steampunkworkshop.com/visit-steampunked-home via http://twitter.com/RockLoveJewelry whom I might be visiting soon for something to wear round my neck since I've been naked up there since my silver chain broke and it don't feel right!
Long days but productive, I seem to have suddenly developed importance at work and am getting dragged into meetings and asked for my opinion, which nice but not helping me get things done!
Slowly catching up with maths so think I might make the next deadline (I can probably get it stretched if I ask nicely)
I've actually got back to some writing myself Anjil, I have the longest drawn out writing of Vampire novel going, which I just want to finish so I can start fiddling with it, written in three sections but only finsihed first two sections and the second needs a heavy re-write! Also awaiting the results of writing comp I entered, not got my hopes up too much or anything but would be nice to know if I made the short list or not and won't know till the end of May and I'm shite at waiting!
Anyway, must crack on, want to get a few words out before bed time
*magics up drinks for all, including enough Dews for those that want them*
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Hey MsA - Working on the sums...not vast, but this year, I aim to get an agent. And something actually finished. One of the ideas I had for an FF fic might actually transpose nicely to a proper book.
FLT - doesn't it look like fun? I'm going through a bad sword obsession at the moment, and writing something with LARP in it as an excuse. 
*waves to Gee* I like classic fang-fic, myself, I just worry about this bit-chick-lit everywhere. An awful lot of Sue-age abounds, especially in the published stuff. Love the steampunk stuff - someone has nicked my copy of 'The Difference Engine', I've just discovered.
edit: was that the CWA Dagger you entered? I missed the deadline this year. But I was looking at the Waterstones thing.
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That steampunk house was full of very pretty things. I'm not even all that into steampunk, don't really know what it's all about, but it sure looks nice. Good find.
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(sets up some Irish Car Bombs)
(sets up a Dirty Martini and a jar of Olives)
Well my lack of free time and hard work has seemed to pay off! Got a promotion today. W00t!
Still in the same office but a big raise, company vehicle and not being directly associated with the Blue Falcon anymore!!! WIN!!!
Drinks are on the house!
(dances a jig)
(leaves a -1.1 Dew and some M&M Ice Cream Sammiches in the shadows)
(Leaves another Dew for that sneaky Navy)
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*commandeers one of the sammiches from the darkest corner, leaving only a business card emblazoned with a stylized I*
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MSA here- Steampunk looks cool, but I'm not sure of it's origin
Oh good luck with the agent Anjl
awesome link Gee
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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn
Smarts are the brains that make America think.
-Will Sasso as Steven Segal, MadTV
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Congrats on the promotion Barkeep.
*steals... wait, it's not stealing if they left one for me. Boo.*
*flees anyway*
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Yay for promotion for barkeep, sadly extra work and less social time is just leading to extra work for me, even if I am all of a sudden having meetings with very important people all of a sudden who want to ask for my opinion (I'd like the jammy dodger please!)
Also, yay for the links working, I really do like a lot of the Rock Love jewellry, if only I had more money to treat other half and myself!
As to your question Anjl, good grief no! The CWA Dagger is for published books, at least that's what I believe and sadly my poor little novel still hasn't made it through first draft yet alone be in a fit state to show people other than good friends. I entered the Bristol short story prize, and thoroughly enjoyed the change of pace in writing style and it was nice to finish something again!
As for Vampire books, read a lot, mostly avoided the bit-chick-lit although you have to dip your toe for context, or at least you do if yours is set relatively in the real world. Read a few Anne Rice and forcing myself into some Twiglight so I can be balanced in my reference (it's just too popular to ignore completely - would be wrong) but some of the Somatov and others have been really good and I always adored Dracula. I'll stop now, I'm far from being an expert but have read/watched more than most.
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I read through a copy of Stoker's original version. (Special collections at the college library, I was researching for a class project.)
They shot him at the end.
With a regular gun and bullets.
Seriously.
(Okay my eyes were blurring, but I'm pretty sure that's what I read.)
I did not enjoy the read.
I also hated Frankenstein. That was the first time I ever threw a book across the room when I finished it for wasting my time.
I liked Anne Rice better. She pulled you in and you could almost feel the scenery.
Related geographically but not dentally: I read "Yellow Fever" (I think that's the title), set in contemporary New Orleans, heroine is a doctor who is a direct descendant of Marie (Levesque? I am having sooo much trouble with names tonight..), and involves voodoo. It's a good read. A little gritty, a little scary, goes down smooth and fast. I can't remember the author's name, but she's good and it's a series.
Oh, I finally got my "eyeopsy" done. (Biopsy of the eyelid. Boychild quietly listened to me talking about my eye problem to adults and he heard it as "eyeopsy", kids are cute.)
Explaining the bruising:
Mom's suggestion was "bar fight".
Mine was "he missed" (with gesture).
Doctroid offered to wear a cheap tshirt with a pack of cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve if I wanted to go out in public with him so I wouldn't have to explain. (If you're going to get the looks you might as well give 'em a show!) That ensemble is about as "him" as a bicycle wearing a trout in a tutu, in case you were wondering. Or a pig in a jumpsuit and logging chaps. You get the idea.
Not that he doesn't wear Tshirts, but they've usually got humorous physics jokes on them.
All in all I think I might have preferred the bar fight. I'm in the right place.
(Looks around for a likely cohort with whom to incite mayhem.) 
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