LIfe Update
Mar. 19th, 2007 04:15 amJob: Is actually going better than I thoguht it would when I first started. The work is mind-numbing but not overly difficult, and I am picking up a regular salary, which is the most important thing. My first bi-weekly evaluation went very well. I thought I sounded terrible in the playbacks, but my supevisor seemed to like what she heard, to the point of sending one of my co--workers over to listen to my technique the enxt day!
Stories: As i feared, I'm getting stuck on the next plot bit for "Black Hearts". Writing Miles in a panic is easy, writing him trying to out-clever the villian is damned hard. Especially when Mavra is definitely niether gullible nor in a position of weakness. On the plus side I think I finally nailed down the middle and end-game of the unfinished T&M story "Unforseen Consequences". Admittedly it does involve a literal deus ex machina, but at least I don't have Tez going on a murder spree and he and Maria running away into the night as the manor burns down with the bodies inside.
"Flyboys" is also itching at me. I'm convinced that mjkj's plot idea is the way to go now. I want to get T&M's next bit finished though, if only to be one step closer to getting their stories published on lulu.com.
In other news, perhaps I really ought to lay off the suggestions of Yaoi between Teri and Matt now.
Stories: As i feared, I'm getting stuck on the next plot bit for "Black Hearts". Writing Miles in a panic is easy, writing him trying to out-clever the villian is damned hard. Especially when Mavra is definitely niether gullible nor in a position of weakness. On the plus side I think I finally nailed down the middle and end-game of the unfinished T&M story "Unforseen Consequences". Admittedly it does involve a literal deus ex machina, but at least I don't have Tez going on a murder spree and he and Maria running away into the night as the manor burns down with the bodies inside.
"Flyboys" is also itching at me. I'm convinced that mjkj's plot idea is the way to go now. I want to get T&M's next bit finished though, if only to be one step closer to getting their stories published on lulu.com.
In other news, perhaps I really ought to lay off the suggestions of Yaoi between Teri and Matt now.
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Date: 2007-03-19 08:30 am (UTC)Ahem. I'm really glad the job is working out.
Re Black Hearts... Perhaps we might get a look at how Leeza and Kareen are doing? I'm personally quite worried about them...
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Date: 2007-03-19 02:26 pm (UTC)writing him trying to out-clever the villain is damned hard.
*sympathizes*
That's one of the reasons I'll remain solidly on the consumer side of this business!
Good luck.
**lol**
Nice to hear that the job is fine - and you are even used as a good example =P
Ooooooohhhhh, I am soo looking forward to the new part of Flyboys :)
mjkj
Ooohhh?
Really??? *is astonished*
I will take you up on that promise....
mjkj
Re: Ooohhh?
Date: 2007-03-20 12:17 pm (UTC)Fw: **lol**
Ohh, well, then concerning Black Hearts...
...well, if you are stuck, then leave it be for a while - then it is easier than forcing it and mostly better, too...
*smiles*
mjkj
Re: Re: Ooohhh?
Well, _I_ did not force you to respond.
That is your own free will you have...
...and you have to exercise it to respond...
*lol*
mjkj
Re: Re: Ooohhh?
Date: 2007-03-20 12:21 pm (UTC)LOL
K.
Fw: Re: Re: Ooohhh?
...to respond...
...or not...
to respond or not respond that is the question...
mjkj
Re: Re: Re: Re: Ooohhh?
Date: 2007-03-20 12:24 pm (UTC)Well, nobody says you have to respond immediately... =P
mjkj
Re: Ooohhh?
Date: 2007-03-20 12:27 pm (UTC)Anyway, go read the Tez and Maria installment!
Re: Ooohhh?
Date: 2007-03-20 12:28 pm (UTC)Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ooohhh?
Well, if you leave the notifications unopened in your email you will still see at home that you did not visit these and can do it afterwards :)
So, it stays as I have said, it _is_ your free-will decision... =P
mjkj
Re: Re: Fw: Re: Re: Ooohhh?
*lol*
I knew you would like that =P
*lol*
mjkj
Re: Ooohhh?
Date: 2007-03-20 12:38 pm (UTC)OK... (besides, I'm currently waiting for my colleagues to finish something off)
Re: Re: Fw: Re: Re: Ooohhh?
Date: 2007-03-20 12:39 pm (UTC)Re: Re: Re: Re: Fw: Re: Re: Ooohhh?
Well, yeah =P
Definitely not possible for you...
mjkj
Re: Ooohhh?
Date: 2007-03-20 12:44 pm (UTC)Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ooohhh?
Propriety... well, it is not impolite to respond a bit later... =P
Yeah, always blame the colleagues...
...for the lack of self-restriction and -restraint...
mjkj
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fw: Re: Re: Ooohhh?
Yeah *oops*
I also were just thinking about what Royce would think of our chatter and clogging up his post... *lol*
I hope he does not mind too much - well he even can make them invisible...
..if he wants
*sorry* *tries to behave...*
mjkj
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fw: Re: Re: Ooohhh?
Date: 2007-03-20 10:26 pm (UTC)*quietly begins to weep when he thinks how much beta-reading they could have done on UD if they'd just quit frelling around on LiveJournal!!!!!!*
Ahem.
Re: Fw: **lol**
Date: 2007-03-20 10:27 pm (UTC)Re: Ooohhh?
Date: 2007-03-21 08:54 am (UTC)While, on the other hand, LJ doesn't.
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Date: 2007-03-23 09:06 pm (UTC)