Screwy sleeping schedule is screwy

My sleeping schedule has reached new heights of screwydom (new word). I was up until around 9am working on TBSOL. I really wanted to post the chapter today but I spent about four hours rewriting a paragraph that I then - eventually - deleted. So progress was no good. I woke up at 5:30pm. No good, either. My mom's last email cracked me up: "te llegaron 2 cheques $30 y $60. Me puedo retirar..... a dormir." [+]

Another day, another blog post

Firsties, I've got a post up at AfterEllen that's worth checking out because it's about Kristin Chenoweth. Perhaps more exciting than that, though - if anything can be more exciting than something involving Kristin Chenoweth - Malinda Lo has an interview up with Sarah Waters. A video interview at that. In other news, I've spent my afternoon outlining the entirety of TBSOL - Chapter 42. I outlined 10 scenes, half of which may actually belong to Chapter [+]

TBSOL v2 Update - Chapter 40

Sorry this took so incredibly long to get out to you guys. I’m hoping Chapter 41 goes much faster. Chapter 40 @ the TBSOL LJ [+]

… and a fresh coat of paint.

New layout here at MI! I’m still playing around with the code, but this is more or less how it’s staying for a while. I wanted something a little cleaner and I got tired of the old layout. If you hate this one, don’t worry, it will probably change again in a few months. I have a (layout) commitment problem.  And now some randomness: Twitter is a strange thing. It calls to you. It says, “Please, [+]

Rambling and Another TBSOL v2 update

So, 2008 is upon us and that's kind of ... terrifying. I feel like it was the year 2000 like yesterday. Anyway, I'm really bad at New Year's resolutions, which is why I don't ever make any. But this year I thought I'd give it a shot. And after a lot of self-reflection I came up with: 1. Do laundry more often - so far this is working out well. 2. Read more books - I've been really [+]

Apples, Weeds, & TBSOL (in reverse order)

I wasn't sure whether to post this here or in my LiveJournal, which is were most of my personal-type posts go. But I accidentally opened BlogDesk instead of Semagic and I figured I might as well start typing. That, and I didn't want anyone thinking that because I've pulled TBSOL v2 off the website it means I'm no longer working on it, or that I intend to keep it all to myself forever and ever [+]

I know I should have deep thoughts

I wish I did. It's 1:20am and I am sitting at my computer and I figure I should be thinking something deep and meaningful ... or at least something witty and/or romantic. Or at least writing deep, meaningful, witty and/or romantic things. But instead these are the thoughts going through my head: They have to have a Gilmore Girls season 8 ... they just have to I really can't visualize inverted images Amarula. Amaruuuuula. Heh. That's fun to [+]

Mental Ping Pong

I was actually mentally writing a blog post on the subject of (literary) sex scenes and how the erotic is subjective, but I haven't had my coffee yet and I think my point got lost somewhere in my muddled brain. So we'll skip all that for now and head for safer ground. Elisa from the wonderful Uber Etc. emailed me to ask whether I had plans to post TBSOL (the Rewrite) in a linkable, not-under-lock-and-key sort [+]

I take comfort in the consistency of others, because I myself am inconsistent…

I've been trying to organize myself lately: to do lists, calendars, RSS feeds in folders, email properly labeled. All of it is unnecessary, I realize. There's really not that much I need to organize, just things I need to do. It has always been the doing that gives me trouble. Lately, I've been thinking a lot about what I want, where I want to go with this life I'm living. I always viewed moving to France [+]

The Blind Side of Love … to me

I started writing TBSOL pretty much right after I finished Alix & Valerie. It had been a story in my head for months. I had told everyone I knew about my idea, and they all seemed really unenthusiastic about it. I couldn't find one person - of my normally really supportive friends - who told me that The Blind Side of Love was going to be any good. No matter. I was in love with [+]