"Hallways...always..."

[greygirlbeast]

Yesterday, I wrote 2,117 words on Chapter Eight of The Red Tree. So, that's one day down, two to go. And I am so near the end of the novel. It really is unnerving. Knowing that, whatever I came here to say, I have to make sure it's said, because the curtain will be coming down soon. And it has gone to such a very dark place, this story. I do not mean ghoulies and ghosties dark (though there are both, after a fashion), or guts and gore dark, or even murder and mayhem dark. This is a darkness of the mind. There is no worse place to become lost than within the confines of one's own mind. There is no less forgiving environment. But, yes, a very superb writing day yesterday, though it left me feeling withered and disoriented.

Spooky baked oatmeal cookies (with raisins).

Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. Also, subpress is still taking preorders on A is for Alien, and the mass-market paperback of Daughter of Hounds is available. Thanks.

After the writing, and the reading what had been written, Spooky went to the market. I stayed in (too weary for eyes on me, and the autumn sky) and read "Superiority, Competition, and Opportunism in the Evolutionary Radiation of Dinosaurs" (Science, 12 September 2008), which examines the question of just how dinosaurs managed to come out of the Triassic so much better off than their crurotarsan contemporaries (non-dinosaurian archosaurs, including phytosaurs, aetosaurs, 'rauisuchians,' etc.). No clear solution presents itself at the present, only that the survival and radiation pattern could not have followed from the traditional view that it was all a simple matter of some innate dinosaurian "superiority" and competition. I also edited the Wikipedia article on aetosaurs, because it needed editing. Of course, it still needs editing. I don't know how long it's been since I stepped away from editing paleo' articles on Wikipedia. A long while now.

Anyway, last night we resurrected the ritual of Kindernacht, and had hot dogs and watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone again. And then, of course, we played World of Warcraft. We're trying to get our blood-elf characters up to the level of our night-elf characters, and then we'll do the same with our Draenei before going back to Mithwen and Syllahr. So, right now, Shaharrazad and Suraa are dug in down at Tarran Mills in Hillsbrad, helping the local undead polish off an unsightly infestation of humans. We've poisoned puppies, murdered farmers and councilmen, killed cattle with wanton glee, and collected thirty human skulls for a bored undead soldier. He gave us shiny magical rings in exchange. Poor Zhar'los (Shah's big blue minion). He just wants to go home to the Nether.

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[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yesterday was rainy and grey, here, and I had to work, in a coffee shop from the early afternoon, to about 10pm. One of the ways I got through it was by forcing the entire coffee shop to listen to Haunted, among other things.

It's that time of year.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

One of the ways I got through it was by forcing the entire coffee shop to listen to Haunted, among other things.

Good for you!

[tinkbell.livejournal.com]

Maybe the crurotarsi were victims of the electoral college

[hypanebliss.livejournal.com]

I wrote two entries today that I'd you to check out. My stream of consciousness may not be your thing but I'm willing to take a shot. :) It's cool if you don't want to also.

http://hypanebliss.livejournal.com/

[tinkbell.livejournal.com]

By the way, I've just picked up Daughter of the Hounds again; I didn't stop reading it because I didn't enjoy it, but wanted to save it, for some reason. Maybe because it is an intense thing to read about a place you live. (The train tunnel under Benefit Street is part of the local mythology; some friends of mine did shows there a long time ago, with giant puppets and costumes; there was a riot and fire at some point. I just realized that I should send DotH to one of them for that reason; he lives in Texas right now, and I needed to send him a trade for an amazing black metal/punk tape, anyway.) "Silk" was like that - I happened to read it at a time when a friend in Georgia was making me think of my roots, in Colorado. This was not a major thing about the experience of the book, which of course I liked for other reasons; but I think it helped me, in an odd way, as I think Daughter of the Hounds has just now; I felt a new energy last night to finish some comics, and the one I feel the most guilty about abandoning happens to include people who live in tunnels. That might have come from "The Burrow" by Kafka, though it's not very similar to that, or your book; it just really helps to be engrossed by a story that has a sort of personal reverberation, when trying to give life to something. Again, I'm enjoying story for itself; I guess my only point is about how some books have special timing.

[sovay]

We've poisoned puppies, murdered farmers and councilmen, killed cattle with wanton glee, and collected thirty human skulls for a bored undead soldier.

That is rather wonderful.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

That is rather wonderful.

Yep.

[ladyazraelle.livejournal.com]

Can't go wrong with Harry Potter.
Collecting skulls, poisoned puppies, murdered farmers, what an awesome night you've had!!! Busy, busy!

[westlinwind.livejournal.com]

I ordered both A is for Alien and Tales of Pain and Wonder from Subpress today, and I was wondering if you knew if they ever plan on reprinting Trilobite: the Writing of Threshold?

Also, I will be in Providence for a conference the last week in October and would very much like to drive to the sea while I'm there. Any recommendations for nearby beaches?

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I ordered both A is for Alien and Tales of Pain and Wonder from Subpress today, and I was wondering if you knew if they ever plan on reprinting Trilobite: the Writing of Threshold?

Honestly, I doubt that will ever happen. eBay is your best bet, maybe. Thanks for ordering the others.

Well...if you want a sandy beach, Moonstone. If you want a rocky beach, Beavertail.

[blakesrealm.livejournal.com]

Just a personal preference, and the same goes for my wife actually, but I recommend giving a Hunter a try in WoW. What a fun class to play, very solo friendly (same with duo friendly) and once you get the hang of it they can be quite devastating.

Just a suggestion. Welcome to the world of WoW, may your addiction be less all-encompassing than ours. :)

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Just a personal preference, and the same goes for my wife actually, but I recommend giving a Hunter a try in WoW.

One of my three characters is a Draenei hunter.

[tarots.livejournal.com]

The WoW Hunter is my favourite class across
all the games I've dipped into, and I do not
want to count how many hunters across WoW
servers I have right now.

The warlock gets second place.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

The WoW Hunter is my favourite class across
all the games I've dipped into, and I do not
want to count how many hunters across WoW
servers I have right now.

The warlock gets second place.

Right now, warlock is my favourite.

[blakesrealm.livejournal.com]

AH excellent. Then you'll know soon enough what I'm talking about. With the most recent patch once your hunter gets higher level, enough to put 51 talent points into beastmastery, you can actually take one of the meaner Dinosaurs in the game -- the Devilsaur.

[blakesrealm.livejournal.com]

erm 'tame' not take. :)