To bed with you, wench! Avast! Feather your timbers!

(It was very good champagne, and I only allowed myself half a fluteful)

I had a terrible evening. Went to see Suzzanne Farrell's ballet troupe. In my humble opinion, it was awful. And All of the costuming was nasty.

Watching a bunch of horses jumping over stuff now. Very soothing.

I found out about this a couple of days ago, and just realized that someone else might be interested.

Half Price books is holding their annual children's bedtime story contest. The deadline is December 1, and the stories can be no more than 300 words. Poems can be no more than 50 words. Each entrant may submit up to 3 entries. All entries must be typed and include name, address, phone number and e-mail address. E-mail entries must be in Word or RTF.

The entries are judged by employees of Half Price Books, and the winners will be published in their collected bedtime storybook. Winners agree that Half Price books has the right to publish the story in the book. Entries will be judged on quality and content. Winners will be notified by March 1.

Grand prize: $200 gift card from Half Price
2nd Place: $100 gift card
3rd Place: $50 gift card
Finalist: $20 gift card

All finalists will be published in the book.

e-mail entries to saygoodnight@halfpricebooks.com

There's nothing in the flyer about format, other than Word document or RTF.

eta: Anne, if I remember correctly, you offered to beta a children's story if I wrote one. One has been sent to you. If I'm wrong and you don't want to read it, let me know. It's not short enough for this, but I like it anyway.

Yay! I'd be thrilled to take a look at your story, Deena. I just checked, and it appeared to show up in my inbox all safe and sound.

Question: With NaNoWriMo, are people showing their works in progress to anyone else?

Anne, I showed it to a couple of people, mostly to see if it was even worth pursuing. Weirdly, I even showed it to my brother (he asked) and he liked it. It's not "nice" so something I wouldn't normally show to family.

Hmm. Once I get to a certain point in my novel, I may ask people to take a gander.

Writing projects on the docket for today:

NaNoWriMo (tentative title: Pax Delmarva)
the Hermanos Numeros Story
shitloads of beta-reading
the Sailor Moon/Homicide fic that would not die

I'd be happy to look at it if you'd like, Anne, whenever you're ready. The children's story is no rush, so you can kind of slide that one to the back burner if that's more convenient.

I haven't yet, Deena. Too messy and brings up too many feelings.And some days I think it sucks all kinds of ass. Writing Projects: The Fic That Ate My Life My Nanowri about the Crip Experience And probably something else as a distraction from the others.

Even though 3 people have now told me mine doesn't suck ass, I still think it does. It's gotten all complicated and I don't know where to go from here. My brother likes it and that makes me think it's because he doesn't realize the lesbian relationship is about to start and then he'll hate it, but I don't know how to tell him he can't read any more if he asks. I think I feel frustrated because I'm a little overwhelmed by how long it's supposed to be instead of just focusing on the next step.

Me too. And I haven't been working on it for a couple days, which makes me feel like a loser. What else am I doing?(Porn, mostly. And phallic stake jokes and fighting off a toothache which mercifully seems to have passed. But no kids, no stressful job...I should be able to write 2000 words with one hand tied behind me, as long as it's not my hand I type with. Maybe I should quit playing in my lj till I get done? But I like the variety...if i'm too grindstoney about it, I might say "Fuck it. I quit." Again. And I gotta tell you, I've been loving writing the stake jokes, in a very twelve-year-old place.