Shut up and do something
Jeigh hadn't written in a while. One reason for this was that the stupid website couldn't recognise the password even though it had saved it on default for when she typed in her screen name. So she had to change the password...to exactly the same word it was before.
Jeigh had made some progress on her novel, Haven, but was coming across a few problematic stones too slippery to step on. For one, she had a character, Percy, who was very lively at the beginning because of his interactions with the character, Biaji. But then Biaji began focusing his energy on Seyhak, and Jeigh realized that Percy didn't really do much when not prompted by Biaji. Now he just stood around in the scenes and never really added anything. So she knew that he'd have to be a pivoting point. That would be easy, but how to go back to his silent moments and liven him up without forcing him to speak?
There was also the matter of her "evil" character, Rachel Stone. Seyhak was pretty icy as it was, so how to make Rachel Stone more evil, she didn't know. Seyhak was defensive and talked a lot. To be really scary, Rachel Stone would have to be concise and leave the others to draw their own conclusions by bickering with each other.
And the climax was coming up -- the real climax, not the satire climax (she'd done that chapter already). This had to be intense, but she'd been using WAY too much dialogue lately. She'd need to cut down on that and focus on action and emotion. That would be hard after already transitioning into this frame of mind. Tell the protagonist to SHUT UP and DO something.
What else was new? This old Josh Joplin CD "Boxing Nostalgic" was exceptionally wonderful. Not that "Jaywalker" wasn't fantastic, but this one was so different and had a fancy little enhanced CD portion that didn't play on Jeigh's laptop. It played on her home computer and managed to amuse her for hours. No, that's not pathedic, shut up.
Oh, and do you know who was on TV? CP Roth. He was on the Denis Leary Christmas special with his brother, Adam. The Barenaked Ladies were there too -- quite good. There's talk of releasing it on DVD. If you don't know who this is, you suck.
Jeigh had a birthday on November 18th. Yes. She also had some more of those weird dreams that predict the future in a twisted guessing game sort of way.
Jeigh had also seen two very good plays "recently" including Harvey and The Underpants.
It snowed, dang it.
All of Jeigh's classes she wanted for next semester were filled up. And she cut her finger really bad on the laundry basket. It was so deep, she could see her left kidney. It burned in the shower too. No, these were not subtle suggestions that, yes, perhaps Jeigh did clean up once in a while.
She gave a ten minute speech this morning. She's pretty sure she doesn't even remember standing up there because it's a known fact that when multiple people look at you at once, time jumps into another dimension so that by the time you sit back in your seat, you don't remember having stood up there at all. Then the teacher tells you to go sit back down because you've just given your speech, don't you remember?
20 days until Serenity is on DVD. Orange u excited?
Jeigh had made some progress on her novel, Haven, but was coming across a few problematic stones too slippery to step on. For one, she had a character, Percy, who was very lively at the beginning because of his interactions with the character, Biaji. But then Biaji began focusing his energy on Seyhak, and Jeigh realized that Percy didn't really do much when not prompted by Biaji. Now he just stood around in the scenes and never really added anything. So she knew that he'd have to be a pivoting point. That would be easy, but how to go back to his silent moments and liven him up without forcing him to speak?
There was also the matter of her "evil" character, Rachel Stone. Seyhak was pretty icy as it was, so how to make Rachel Stone more evil, she didn't know. Seyhak was defensive and talked a lot. To be really scary, Rachel Stone would have to be concise and leave the others to draw their own conclusions by bickering with each other.
And the climax was coming up -- the real climax, not the satire climax (she'd done that chapter already). This had to be intense, but she'd been using WAY too much dialogue lately. She'd need to cut down on that and focus on action and emotion. That would be hard after already transitioning into this frame of mind. Tell the protagonist to SHUT UP and DO something.
What else was new? This old Josh Joplin CD "Boxing Nostalgic" was exceptionally wonderful. Not that "Jaywalker" wasn't fantastic, but this one was so different and had a fancy little enhanced CD portion that didn't play on Jeigh's laptop. It played on her home computer and managed to amuse her for hours. No, that's not pathedic, shut up.
Oh, and do you know who was on TV? CP Roth. He was on the Denis Leary Christmas special with his brother, Adam. The Barenaked Ladies were there too -- quite good. There's talk of releasing it on DVD. If you don't know who this is, you suck.
Jeigh had a birthday on November 18th. Yes. She also had some more of those weird dreams that predict the future in a twisted guessing game sort of way.
Jeigh had also seen two very good plays "recently" including Harvey and The Underpants.
It snowed, dang it.
All of Jeigh's classes she wanted for next semester were filled up. And she cut her finger really bad on the laundry basket. It was so deep, she could see her left kidney. It burned in the shower too. No, these were not subtle suggestions that, yes, perhaps Jeigh did clean up once in a while.
She gave a ten minute speech this morning. She's pretty sure she doesn't even remember standing up there because it's a known fact that when multiple people look at you at once, time jumps into another dimension so that by the time you sit back in your seat, you don't remember having stood up there at all. Then the teacher tells you to go sit back down because you've just given your speech, don't you remember?
20 days until Serenity is on DVD. Orange u excited?
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