darkfoxprime

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For me, a lot of it is stability. I like my world to stay the same. I also feel like my OTL completes me. I can't imagine not having him around, to talk about stuff, to snuggle, or just to be ignoring each other in the same room while we're both playing different computer games. Even after 16something years, I still can't sleep well if he's not home. It was never a conscious choice for me, it's just the way it is.

I've only ever been in one relationship. It started in mid-1991 and is still going strong. Before I met him, I hadn't had any sort of a "relationship" beyond friendship. I never even dated in junior high or high school. Wouldn't have known what to do if I had, anyway.

I voted for the second one, since I tend to pronounce it closer to "mir" (short i sound). When I first saw the thread, though, I was thinking in my head "dubya" and "shrub" O.o

music fills my mind. the baffled king composing inspires harmony. still listening to the kd lang and john cale versions of leonard cohen's hallelujah. - dfp

I always find it harder to *keep going* with a story once I've started it. I start stories when I wake up in the middle of the night with my brain going a mile a minute and the words trying to spill out onto anything. After getting the start going, though, I lose interest, and it's tough to go back and try to push it to the conclusion I had in mind.

I put in the 18-24 range (21) as being the time I officially came out. I had always fantasized about boys - as far back as like 2nd or 3rd grade, in non-sexual ways - but all through highschool and the beginning of college, I still kept thinking it was wrong to be thinking about boys like that. Of course, I never tried to do *anything* with girls; I only even ever had two friends who were girls, and one of them laughed in my face when I said I thought she was a good girlfriend. In some ways, I wish I had figured it out for sure before I did - but in other ways it was just right, because me figuring it out was part and parcel in getting together with my One True Love. I came out, became suicidal because of it, spent a week trying to figure out how to kill myself without it hurting (yeah, I'm lame...), then got introduced to my love by a mutual friend, fell in love over the phone in a single evening, and we've been together for coming on 17 years. - dfp

I don't know if there's any one particular time when I get the *ideas* for stories, but they always seem to flush themselves out while I'm trying to get to sleep at night - I always end up having to get out of bed and spend an hour or four writing before I can actually sleep. - dfp

That's funny; the story I'm working on now is the first one I've ever done in first person, and I'm finding it much harder than third person.

When I'm writing, the only kind of information dump I usually find myself doing is background information; I try instead to make that come out in flashbacks or, preferrably, in thoughts, memories, natural conversations, or other kind of in-story mechanism. As a reader... it depends. I can't stand Tolkien's styles of information dump (going on for pages about the history or the songs of a particular part of the world that the characters are travelling through). On the other hand, I just finished reading the latest of David Weber's "Honor Harrington" series, and while he does, in places, have a couple of paragraphs of technical data dump, it's done in a "this is background information that everyone in the world knows except you, stupid" way that's not quite as hard to swallow (except the "stupid" part, which was my addition ) Anyway, dunno if this rambling made any sense at all, so I'll just stop now O.o - dfp

Oh no, does that mean we can look forward to War and Trust? I miss Dom. I hope he's surviving and thriving at whatever he's doing, of course, but I also hope he'll make it back here soon. - dfp

Have a great birthday; I hope all your wishes come true

Yup, Spiderwick Chronicles was pretty good. It didn't follow the books literally, but it did a good job of following them in spirit. There were a few editorial problems, and a few look-at-the-watch moments, but overall it was worth the price of the discount movie tickets. My next movies coming up are Prince Caspian and Wall E. I remember seeing trailers for others I might be interested in, but I forgot what they were called O.o

Blasphemy!

Currently reading At All Costs by David Weber, the newest book in his Honor Harrington series. Before that, it was Waterways by Kyell Gold, a Furry novel about coming out and coming of age, and before that, an old novel Dragonworld by Byron Preiss, Michael Reaves, and Joseph Zucker. Next up after that is the first historical romance I've ever bought, Venetia by Georgette Heyer, hopefully followed by Bridge to Terabithia if I manage to buy it in time. - dfp

After having spent Saturday listening to about 30 different covers of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and then Sunday and Monday pretty much listening to K.D. Lang's cover on infinite repeat, I'm back to Carrie Underwood again

Yalokinesis or Gyalikinesis? (Yalos or Gyali, greek for glass)

I just really "discovered" this song yesterday - after having heard versions of it in movies and tv shows everywhere, I finally went and did a systematic search for covers. My favorite version is KD Lang's, I think.

I dunno. I don't write enough to know if I've "found my voice". I know I'm trying to change the way I write, somewhat. I tend to write sentences that always include some combination of two or three clauses or prepositional phrases, which makes them overly complex. I'm just having a hard time finding how to write shorter, simpler sentences without sounding choppy.

ROFL!

What's an ex? I never had a boyfriend or girlfriend all the way through schooling and college, until I was introduced to the person who (within the span of a few hours) became my "One True Love", and we've been together for the 16 and a half years since. Given my personality, if I had an ex, I'd probably be in the "stop talking to them completely" camp; I never give up grudges O.o - dfp

My valentine card is finished, complete with sappy fold-out "i love you" panels and a glowing heart instead of the sun on the beach-sunset picture and I bought some gourmet truffles (all-dark cocoa liquor, mexican chocolate, and grand marnier) for him.

Right now, the only thing I have planned is attempting to use my nonexistent drawing skills to draw a picture of a sunset at the beach, since I've owed him a walk on the beach at sunset for about 13 years now.

My average is pretty darn close to 0. I get the writing "bug" very rarely, but when I do, I'm generally in the 3000-4000 word range per day. For everything I've written before my latest attempt, that would've been about one chapter. This time, my chapters are under 2000 words each, and I got three chapters transcribed from organic brain to electronic brain on the first day; then I lost the "bug" again, so now I'm doing about a hundred or two hundred words a day as I push through the "this is work" part of trying to continue the story. - dfp

I'm confident it's not shut down entirely. Something will show up... - dfp