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    Emotional Rescue

    By Cole Matthews

    Ahhhh!  The plot is thickening.  The characters have developed perfectly.  You have balanced your pace so there is riveting action, informative scene setting, and a richness to your tableau.  Everything seems to be going so well, and yet, your beta reader drops a bomb on you.  "It's just falling flat."   What are you supposed to do?  Where do you turn?  How can you enrich and round out your characters?  How about a little emotional rescue?  Let's try filling in the back story of y
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Viv's Blog

an idealist and a teacher...

This gorgeous boy I know (thanks Vin ) gave me this link last night and I took this test and this is what it says about me. Pretty dead on accurate if you ask me... If you'd like to take this, too... http://kts2.personalityzone.com > Take the KTS-II > Take It! Then register... it's free, and answer the questions... and to get the additional info, you have to join, which is also free... Rich took it too. He agrees it's accurate, but he's not sure he likes that he is what he is.   Your T
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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Too much black

I didn't get a shower last night or this morning in Corning because I planned to get one tonight or tomorrow morning at the truck stop in Wheeler Ridge.   Nice plan, except they're having a power outage here.   And, the wind is still blowing. The big truck is rocking and rolling and I'm not even listening to iTunes. Luckily, I hope, it takes about a 70 mph gust to knock over a loaded big truck.   So, it's really dark here and I'm not going to get a shower. They'd better get power by tomo
CarlHoliday

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Ikaria Here I Come

whoo hoo!!!   I just got off the phone with my grandpa and he told me that he wanted to do something special for me this summer since it's going to be my last summer vacation in high school. I halfway jokingly mentioned that I wanted to go to Greece and visit the island of Ikaria (that's where our family's from) and he was all, "Okay!" So I talked to my dad and he said it was okay, so it looks like I'll be Greece bound this summer. :icon1:   The only thing that I need to worry about now is
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Viv's Blog

spicy fingers, update on sucking the big one, butterscotch

Happy last day of 2007 everyone! Kay that's done...   So I just finished making home made salsa and it's SOOOOOO yummy, but now, as I'm eating it, I keep licking my fingers and they're spicy! I washed my hands three times since I made it... freakin' peppers...   So update on my 12 year-old... she managed to talk me into grounding her for a second week by being over at that same kid's house again, with those same boys, while she was grounded, and then lying about it. This is how it went
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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Did it!

I know this is worth about as much as the paper it's not printed on, but I just finished reading every story in the Winter Anthology.   Yeah, yeah, I know, so what?   Well, I also went to each and every forum and entered a comment about what I liked about the story. I, also, sent a PM to one of the authors with some personal comments that I felt were inappropriate for the forum. (No, it wasn't something nasty. I liked the story and felt the writer could've done a better job. So, I made a few
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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Not sleeping

It's midnight and I'm not sleeping. I'm not sleepy, either. I am cold, though.   I was driving south on I-5 and needed to pee, but there wasn't any parking at the rest area. So, I drove to the Love's truck stop south of Roseburg. When I came out I noticed the air hoses under the trailer were not hanging by the spring. The service line had been worn through. Of course, if it had been the other line, I'd have been up the highway with locked brakes, not a pretty scenario.   Needless to say, I w
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Blah

Maybe it's a side effect of heavy THC exposure, or maybe my bf Taylor is just a moron, but just when I think he can't say anything stupider than he already has, he proves me wrong. Here's what happened.....   We have a friend Suzie who got pregnant last year and had a baby over the summer. We didn't really like the guy that got her pregnant, but nobody ever said anything bad about him to her. I think he was kinda controlling, but no one else seemed to pick up on that. For the most part, we jus
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Happy Endings

I was chatting on MSN the other night and the subject of Happy Endings came up. It seems there is a trend against them. People tire of reading them, convinced that they don't exist.   Call me an idealist, but isn't that the point of a happy ending? Is it not an escape from the reality we know and see everyday? Truthfully, how many of us have personal knowledge of a sustained Happy Ending? Who is to say Cinderella and Prince charming fell into a loveless distant relationship after the whirlwind
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hands in the air.

Grope me, please.

Apparently that's the vibe I was giving off last night. I went to Club tigerheat for the first time yesterday with two of my girlfriends. We got there around 11, and had to wait in line for an hour to get in, but it was actually a lot of fun! It's only the second club I've ever been to (Rage being the first), and I have to say I really liked it. The go-go boys were really cute, and the music was fun to dance to, give or take a couple of songs.   It was fun, that is, minus the groping. I
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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Modesto of my dreams

I'm on the road, again. Wednesday, I picked up a trailer full of Coke and took it to Redding and Marysville, CA. Then it was down to Modesto to pick up what I'm carrying now. Hopefully, I'll drop the trailer in Portland tonight and pickup another trailer headed south. I need to maximize my on-road time for the next few weeks. It was nice being off over Christmas; well, it was mostly nice being off over Christmas.   The wife is sick. She has a cold.   "My nose burns!"   "You have a cold."
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Skywriting

Killing me softly

I picked up today Lois McMaster Bujold's Paladin of Souls. Bujold is a favorite author of mine, so by page two I was grinning, enthralled with her words. I've been reading rapturous, for the last hour, but it just now hit me why I like this story so much.   I wanted to write it.   Well, not exactly this story, the details aren't all there, but a story I developed three years ago opens along the same premise as this. One woman, nominally mistress of her domain, feeling more like she's been cl
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Myr's Corner

Great Day

I hope everyone had a great day! Merry Christmas!   My uncle brought this kid up... Bo Burnham on YouTube His song... "My Family Thinks I'm Gay"   My Favorite:   The Perfect Woman:
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Myr in Life

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B-rated dreams

What does it mean when you dream about home, but the home you dream about is a house you haven't lived in for ten years?   In keeping with earlier crack-headed dreams; I had a dream last night. It was odd in the way anyone blowing their head off is odd. I was at home and there was this strange guy there. Mid 50's stocky and bald, I don't know this person. I don't know why he was in my head last night. I surely don't know why my head decided it was prudent for him to remove his.   I think he
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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Bummer!

The mouse pad gave out. Nothing lasts forever. We live in an era of programmed obsolescence. Use a mouse pad on a laptop too much and it stops working. Not the pad, the switches. Switch the switches, but they still wear out.   So, I bought a replacement mouse. Its lifespan was a couple years and then it gave up the ghost and died. Not, the mouse, the cord.   Plus, the USB plug-ins on the laptop are right next to the power connection. They interfere and the monitor flashes every time the lapt
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Myr's Corner

Getting some stuff done

I've had a busy little day today. I got a bunch of stuff done around the house. I went to see "I Am Legend". It was good, but weird. Interesting story concept at least.   I also got some time in with Mass Effect today. I'm looking to get more done with that tomorrow.   I did manage to focus a bit on Gay Authors today. I worked on the letter and poll I'm setting up for the end of the year.   Right now, I'm working on installing a major new program that is a beta. It is looking like i
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Goal Setting:::: 2008

Lately I've been thinking a lot about what I want to accomplish as a writer in the year 2008, and I'm pretty sure I have it all figured out. In no particular order, here are my priorities: Re-write Bodega Bay and remove all of the graphic sex scenes Write a second volume of Time In A Bottle, from a different point of view Clean up all of my stories as far as spelling, grammer and pucuation goes Release a new series of short stories with one central theme Finish my work on If
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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Doing it!

Okay, I've said this before, so if you're not interested or if you're put off by my incessant whining, you're excused from reading further.   I considered commiting the ultimate sacrifice tonight.   No, I did not consider offing myself.   Get that out of your heads right now.   I'm too F**KIN' chicken to do myself in. I can't stand the thought of experiencing a nanosecond of terminal pain.   No, I considered going away for awhile.   You see, the thing is, there might be enough money
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Myr's Corner

4 days off

I now have a nice 4 day weekend. I have a lot of things on my list of things to do. A lot of it is writing tasks. Keep your fingers crossed.   I will also be devoting a lot of time to playing Xbox 360. I think I will mostly be focusing on getting the rest of the achievements for Mass Effect. Though, I will also hit up a few other games.   I'm going to crash and start my day early tomorrow.
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Myr's Corner

One More Day

There is just one more day this week of work. Thank God! There is so much junk food at work that you can't walk two feet without tripping over some. It's driving me crazy.   Tomorrow is the official office party. (tons more food) I spent the last two nights baking for it myself.   I will finally have some rest and relaxation time for myself this weekend. Except for wrapping the gifts, I'm home free for 3 of the next 4 days. I'm going to work on some writing and more Mass Effect gami
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Skywriting

Been a bit

Life accelerates past the point where I can handle it.   I've been talking online a lot to a fellow Gayauthorite (hey Mike), so I assume some of the creative bleed off that this blog functions as has been satisfied in that manner. Really, I write here because I need to write, constantly, and this gives me an excuse to do so without such considerations as characterizations and plot continuity.   I work a second job now, minimum wage, but at least it gets me out of the apartment and into the w
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Myr's Corner

Yikes!

Today was a long long long day.   I'm about written out, because I had to do a lot of career type things. (resume, cover letters, stuff).   So, this is short and sweet.   Catch you tomorrow.   Myr
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