Stuck, but not stuck, just kind of stalled.

Need an unstuck day.  A day to play around on graph paper and doodle.  To poke at high idea generators with a stick, and then have the low idea generators to poke back at me with crit and thoughts.  Time to play around with plot lines and theme and other creative hiccups.

Hail, mistress of the end of the middle book blues!

I'm not actually depressed about this, just irksome in that I want to make shiny things now, and I am full of "MEH" at where to go next.

Did figure out that the chosen few are only for the actual operation, and the children of the movement will be providing distraction and destruction duties.  Think WIPO mayhem.

I want to make this glitter and gleam.

(an aside:  I have a perfectly formed idea for a 6-9 panel comic about elisem's jewelry from the PoV of a bead.  Wish I could draw :| )

Well, I will say this of having to stay at home for most of the weekend: It gave me plenty of time to do some writing (2K+, yay) and let the story demons simmer around some. I pushed Martin further up a tree from a sideline character/issues that I thought was going to be tertiary. How cool is that?

Struggling a bit with how to handle chat/IRC type communications. Guess I'll just be consistent and fiddle with it later in the process for now.

I'm abusing the crit group a bit as I start out, because I'm stitching stuff together and giving them a bit more raw material than normal, but I need some push-back on a couple chemistry bits from each scene, and don't want to travel too far with out feedback.

It's been a real struggle with first person, not so much as keeping with the character, but I find myself slipping into present tense with it too often. I think the present tense might work alright for thoughts and character asides, but not for action and normal observation. What do you folks think? I do love present tense, but only when well crafted, and I know it is a huge turn off for most people, so I'll steer clear where possible.

I'm really irritated with the Mega-D worm/botnet/spam vector. I've been getting close to an additional 500 spams a day with it, and I think I may have missed communications from some peer/mentors that I sent out about the agent search. So frustrating. I can't noodge, that'd be too rude, but it is so hard to tell if people got your email and responded when you've got over a thousand emails in your spam filter. Grr.

In other news, could the Superbowl ads for that sales place get any more racist? Ranks them right up there with the Go Daddy morons.

Random question for the week: Anyone know what the wordcount requirements are for ANY YA sf imprints? I'm drawing a complete blank.

Back to my addled consumption of hot medicinal beverages.

[[EDIT: Also saw an extended trailer for Jumper. Yay! Looks like tasty fun.]]