light of night
Today is both happy & melancholy, a blue Sunday shot thru with dawn color; fluorescent pink dawn color at that, raping the thighs of Night. I'm happy -- I've been able to see well enough to do a couple rewrites of "Relayer" (whose ending is still too Trekkie & needs a lot of work). The melancholy? I'm not really sad, more like sedated -- the Benadryl is in my blood & the blood is in my head: this morning I took one at 6:30 & fell asleep until 9:00, the first time that I got up that late in ages. I'm just relaxing while the Mighty Insect Slayer cleans the kitchen.
Yesterday Trish had to work, to make up for taking Wednesday off, which is Say Bra for you. I ate at the soup kitchen -- a terribly imbalanced meal; besides the soup (a good component), there was Heinz baked beans (get saucy), corn on the cob, baked potato, grapes, & cake -- I really have to start asking them to stop putting desserts on my tray. I spent the afternoon on "Relayer", using one of the few helpful crits I received. When Trish came home we rewatched Aeon Flux before taking it back to the vid-store, then I fell asleep thru most of the Mask of Zorro while Trish was in the shower.
Just for the hell of it, this morning I read thru Crit #1 of "Relayer", the one that'd made it obvious I'd sent in the wrong draft. It sounded like it came from a retarded teeny-bopper who's into "skiffy". First, he did nothing but lecture me about how a story must have "a point" & be "like foothills leading to a mountain", then he exhorted me to "purge the story of 'was', beginning with the first sentence" -- isn't it obvious that this is coming from one of those idiots who read Strunk & White & other "books on writing"? -- then he called the science "a bunch of mumbo jumbo", which if he can't understand any ideas more complex than the comic book level, what's he doing reading SCIENCE fiction? Jennifer Flipped me off the same way, but at least the other Critters had some brains, albeit some of them were erased for being of the wrong draft. That damn retarded high school kid has me so pissed off I'm thinking of writing a "was" random enumeration just to spite the fucking Elements of Style. In addition, he called Tina "a junkie" for using Soma (which a few Critters thought was an allusion to 1984), which shows off his monumental ignorance. I think I'll go ahead & delete my deleted items folder, which may also rid me of the lesbian Trekkie who complained about my "male fantasy".
I wish I'd never read that kid's crit. He can cram his Strunk & White up his ass.
Yesterday Trish had to work, to make up for taking Wednesday off, which is Say Bra for you. I ate at the soup kitchen -- a terribly imbalanced meal; besides the soup (a good component), there was Heinz baked beans (get saucy), corn on the cob, baked potato, grapes, & cake -- I really have to start asking them to stop putting desserts on my tray. I spent the afternoon on "Relayer", using one of the few helpful crits I received. When Trish came home we rewatched Aeon Flux before taking it back to the vid-store, then I fell asleep thru most of the Mask of Zorro while Trish was in the shower.
Just for the hell of it, this morning I read thru Crit #1 of "Relayer", the one that'd made it obvious I'd sent in the wrong draft. It sounded like it came from a retarded teeny-bopper who's into "skiffy". First, he did nothing but lecture me about how a story must have "a point" & be "like foothills leading to a mountain", then he exhorted me to "purge the story of 'was', beginning with the first sentence" -- isn't it obvious that this is coming from one of those idiots who read Strunk & White & other "books on writing"? -- then he called the science "a bunch of mumbo jumbo", which if he can't understand any ideas more complex than the comic book level, what's he doing reading SCIENCE fiction? Jennifer Flipped me off the same way, but at least the other Critters had some brains, albeit some of them were erased for being of the wrong draft. That damn retarded high school kid has me so pissed off I'm thinking of writing a "was" random enumeration just to spite the fucking Elements of Style. In addition, he called Tina "a junkie" for using Soma (which a few Critters thought was an allusion to 1984), which shows off his monumental ignorance. I think I'll go ahead & delete my deleted items folder, which may also rid me of the lesbian Trekkie who complained about my "male fantasy".
I wish I'd never read that kid's crit. He can cram his Strunk & White up his ass.
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