Me too...

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Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."

How about here?

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Augh!

*elmer fudd shotgun blast*

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Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."

I had a vampire story, but I decided the characters all sucked.


Thank you! Thank you! I'll be here all week! Remember to tip the wait-staff!

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

Hey, jokergirl! If you have any more ammo in that shotgun, could you take care of this guy too?

Forget the shotgun. I found a bigger gun. But if you want something with a better rate of fire...

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

Man, you guys are a tough crowd! Well, *I* thought it was a good one anyway.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

It was.


But you and the cookie monster are still going down.

Ba bum bum!

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

Geonuc's right, but I'm feeling merciful, today. You're free to go. The furball stays behind. We'll take care of him, later.

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

Almost time again...

Although work WILL get the better of me this time, so I'm not competing. I'll be aiming for a lot of LoC (lines of code) at work instead.
And possibly, just possibly, 30 comic pages of something nice and simple. Maybe someone wants to provide the storyboard?

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Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."

Here's the link again, for those of you who are like me, and too lazy to page back to get it.

My g/f gave me an idea for a story I could probably use, but it's more a matter of whether or not I want to divert attention away from the other story I'm slowly-but-surely writing (~20,000 words as I approach the "conflict", probably a record for me).

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

Woohoo, Fazor!

I've been giving serious thought to this. I know I can do 50,000 words. I've got one story out there at 130,000 already, but it took a lot longer than 30 days to write.

Since I can write at work, that's shouldn't be an issue. My problem is that I can't seem to come up with a solid idea that isn't a short story. Most of the ideas I do have could never be dragged out that far.

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I'm not evil.
An evil person would do the things I think up.

I've been having trouble writing fiction for years, but I may give it a try this year to see if I can get over that. If my mental state picks up.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I've done 50000 words for NaNo before. Problem was that I had written myself into a corner in the end of the story and I never managed to pick up from there afterwards.

I also did a 30 page comic, much the same problem there. But I might try the comic again, sketching comes easier to me than writing (it's a time question really).

Now, does anybody have a suggestion for the plot?

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Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."

A boy's magical journey in a home-built balloon? You can even use the soo not cliché twist of, at the end, having him wake up in a box in the attic, only to realize it was all a dream.

Should probably name the boy something cool, like Raven. Or Eagle.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

Some Portugese fishermen discover a secret underwater UFO base?

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Well, I was pondering doing something with the Bridge Bunny characters I sketched up a while ago...

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Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."

An old friend of mine (I think I met her in third grade, and no one seems sure how old her husband and I were when we met) actually asked me today if I'd written a suspense/mystery thriller-type book. I haven't, but I may ask her to give me until December to see what I can come up with.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

How about this: a boy and girl fall in love, but their families don't like each other. In the end they commit suicide. I think it's a good one, but somebody's probably done it before.

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As above, so below

That's my current focus. So far I've got ideas for 6 novels, and 30 short stories, of which 8 are written. The problem is that while I can come up with the basic plots easily enough, I have a hard time working out the details. I wouldn't have any of them ready to go my November.

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I'm not evil.
An evil person would do the things I think up.

After finding them I realized you meant bunnies on a starship bridge rather than my first flash, which was bunnies living under a bright ready to rob unsuspecting travelers.

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‘To those who regard “crime fiction” as some sacred icon which must follow a rigid formula, I will always be the man who writes 18-syllable haiku.’Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

I'm still waiting for jokergirl's scary vampire story.

Did I say I would write a scary vampire story?

Although... vampires being the "in" thing right now, it might possibly sell. Somehow. I'll just have to get rid of those pesky standards I keep around for some reason...

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Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."

Why, yes. You did.

Post # 21.

Books to be read

Oh indeed, I did.
Well then. Any requests on story/setting/characters? (I take dares.)

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Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."

Oh, good grief, JG!

Carl: (LHC scientist, walks into the coffeeshop, rain dripping from the newspaper on his head. He shakes it off, intending to read it, but realizing he's dry, chucks it into the trash can by the door)

Waitress: Two for you, or are you single?

Carl: What?

Waitress: I didn't, I'm sorry - how many?

Carl: One. Uh, do you see anyone else?

Waitress: Oh, I see all kinds of people. I've got you a seat over here...

Carl: Thanks.

Your turn, JG!

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

Somebody had already done it several times before Shakespeare did Romeo and Juliet, including Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe that he parodies in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

That it's been done before doesn't mean it can't be done better.

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‘To those who regard “crime fiction” as some sacred icon which must follow a rigid formula, I will always be the man who writes 18-syllable haiku.’Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

I already provided one.

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‘To those who regard “crime fiction” as some sacred icon which must follow a rigid formula, I will always be the man who writes 18-syllable haiku.’Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

I missed it. What is your scary vampire idea?