CassieQ

My coworkers can be pretty cool sometimes. The receptionist found an old plastic spider and has been playing a kind of game where she will hide it in different spots (employees only) in the clinic. Two of my coworkers told her she needed to knock it off because I am arachnophobic. She is sulking now, but the evil bit of plastic is safely ensconced in her office.

Waiting for you to unwrap your present?

I had too many mimosas and wine today, am I a drunken sot? If so...awesome.

Congratulations!!

But don't come rudely knocking when you want a new chapter of something and act like I owe it to you! Are you kidding me? Now *YOU* fucking want something, so decide to speak up??? If you want to be a silent observer, then stay silent! Fuck off! Suddenly you want me to entertain you for free just because you asked me to pop up like a genie every time you rub the lamp? PREACH!

That too.

Tease.

Too late. Mine now.

Are you crazy? I'll take him if he's not cute enough for you. 😜

Dystopia be damned, that date was adorable. I like the care given to Zaltho, he was described very well without having too much info dumped on the reader at once. I especially like how Symmie had to rely on his body language and their straightforward dialogue was very refreshing.

No, no, they should not.

Everything in Australia is meant to kill you. Mad respect for people who actually LIVE there.

Well, I was going to do some writing tonight. Instead, I have to figure out where the cleaning lady put all my stuff. I told her that my worktable was the ONE place I didn't want her to touch, then I come home and she just stuffed everything into boxes and piles. This is a nightmare.

@raven1 told me I should stop by more often. Hi.

I also own a black cat. His name is Houdini. He's a master of hiding, getting into things that he shouldn't, and outsmarting his owner.

Sign me up!

I love how the chapters are named after tarot cards, and the reading at the beginning of the chapter. I hope there is more to come, I love seeing tarot cards in stories.

I'm only slightly disappointed to see that Jared did not snort Fun-Dip off the cafeteria table. Intriguing start.

I used third-person omniscient after snorting a line of Fun Dip. Apparently I've been eating it wrong all of these years.

I had my work stolen before. I was so angry I hurt my shoulder punching a couch cushion. I don't think I've talked to an author who felt flattered by the theft of their work. It's like being flattered that someone stole my purse because they liked the design or thought I looked rich. It doesn't make sense to me.

The big difference to me, is between ideas and story. I think there are no new ideas, but you can take an idea, a concept and make it your own. If I have an idea of a...I dunno, a cowboy falling in love with a city slicker or something, I can't claim that idea and say that no one else can write it because they are stealing my idea. But if I work to make it my own....flesh out the plot, develop the characters, write it my way, then I would say if someone took that, it would be plagiarism. It's my work at that point. Anything in between is a gray area, but most people are cognizant enough to know when something is theirs, and when it's not. If you don't put the work in, real work, not just changing a characters name or the title, then it's not yours and claiming it as such is wrong.

Having to spend my Saturday doing continuing educations classes for work made me very lachrymose.

Congratulations!!

'Star Wars' does this a lot though, so I'm used to it. Which is why Luke can make out with his sister and we just conveniently forget that part in later movies. No, we remember that just fine and it still squicks some of us.

Thank you. I felt well enough earlier to shovel snow off my driveway since the HOA guys never showed up to do it, so I think I can handle a light day in the office tomorrow.