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Monday, September 22, 2008

to answer your questions...

No, I have not gotten to reading your books, yet. My pile is very high, I know. It grows and grows.

I also must write books of my own. Seriously, I'm close enough to the end o' this draft, I can smell the bottle of wine that is to be my reward.

I just have to kill like three more people, okay! Also, a troll! Oh, and I have to unkill a couple people, too. Apparently, I needed them later and I thought I wouldn't.

The only thing I've been reading is the same book, very very slowly and only a touch at a time. Because I'm writing.

Hi-ho, Hi-ho,
Back to work I go...

8 comments:

Lola said...

So do you go on a wine fast when you write? (ironically close to Whine fest, which is what I do. :D) I need to learn the drinking rituals for writers since I'm legal EXACTLY one week from now!

Anonymous said...

Lola, just don't do the Dylan Thomas method. Or Poe's technique, yeah, that's strictly for the pros. Now Charles Bukowski -- but you need a castiron liver for that one.

Joe, what's more fun, the killing or the unkilling?

J m mcdermott said...

Do you need to ask, Lola?

The killing. If the killing wasn't way more fun, I wouldn't have gratuitously murdered and cannibilized those folks.

I'll be happy to teach you any drinking rituals you need to learn, but I think Patrice will have to chaperone because I'm a bad, bad man.

Anonymous said...

the unkilling can be fun in its own way. I'm sure that I've given a few characters a sense of whiplash. "Jeez, lady, make up your mind! Dead, not dead, just give me a break!"

(Joe, you want me to confirm that you are bad bad bad or you want me to attest to your sainted qualities?)

Lola said...

I'm glad my books don't have killing yet. I don't think I could handle the killing or the unkilling. But I'm writing a kidnapping right now... it's still pretty funny though because it's a mistaken kidnapping and there's some gay sex fantasy innuendos in there.

Bad can be good.

J m mcdermott said...

No comment, Patrice.

I consider Lola fairly warned.

Anonymous said...

Lola, would that be "The Ransom of Red Chief" meets Laurell K Hamilton?

Lola said...

Well... a little yes. Except throw in some Greek myths, gay men, indie music and much much more comedy. Maybe like Will & Grace meets Xena... plus Fraiser, but in Austin.

haha. I have a hard time explaining my own novel. Awesome. I should work on that before I start sending queries to agents.