Agent Kate!

Ah. If you need more time to make it right (or take a step back), though, she'll understand.

My advice is to stop rereading it and push through, just to get it out, but also to take more time with it if you need to.

I need some help with UK geography in terms of where container ships pull into port, how far from Liverpool, and how far Liverpool is from Buckingham Palace. Anyone feeling helpful?

Sorry, I've been MIA. Typo and Sail, loved your drabbles.

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Screaming had died down, and they hadn’t found him. Yet. He harbored no illusions that they wouldn’t. Fuck this government and its shoot-first-and-then-shoot-second mentality. Not that he had any say. Or rights.

A soft droning in the distance grew louder.

They’d come in peace. Giant bees, so what. Yeah. Didn’t count on their fuckin’ warships. Or their wacky abilities.

The din increased. He could see the fluttering shadows. A razor sharp tendril phased through the cell bars.

Nothing to use as a weapon, not even on himself. Fuck.

It reached out and through him. Tickled a little. At first.

Ack. Wolfram, that gave me the serious heebie-jeebies. Yehh.

Thanks. (Influenced by the books The Stand and Ender's Game, and by recent viewings of the films I Am Legend, and Shaun of the Dead.)

Please, to find my motivation and self-confidence and give both a swift kick in the ass?

I have got to quit babbling about favorite movies and get on with writing. Especially since I'd like to have something to submit by September/October.

I have the file open and everything, which is an improvement over yesterday.

I need to add the writers-readers group at Library Thing to my list of "groups not to read less they make me very annoyed."

There's a thread on pen and paper vs. computers for writing, and some people are insisting that "serious" writing can only occur with pen and paper because computers encourage lazy thinking and bad writing and you can't possibly rethink your prose to its inspired perfection unless you rewrite every word and judge its fitness before putting it down.

Typewriters are sort of allowed because you have to consider every word.

There are other obnoxious snobs, too. They annoy me.

But I am a little curious as to whether there is a higher purity/purpose reason to write on paper rather than a screen. I disbelieve, because I'm fully capable of reading text on a screen, frowning, and juggling the words until they work.

For some people, it works better that way. For others, not. I'd advise letting it go (and clicking the handy little red "x" on the LibraryThing thread, which makes the letting go oh so much easier).

I think you're right. I should just read the Holmes group and call it good. And the Buffistas.