That pretty much sums it up.
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Added by Nicole on November 4, 2008 at 11:21pm —
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I think after another week of this I will have earned the right to slaughter someone.
"Or it means that a skilled poisoner acting alone set events in motion that villified you before a misguided populace." Exaulte pointed out, leaning back in his cushioned throne. "This 'conspiracy' could be more limited in scope than you fear."
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"Tell me something, your highness... why are you asking me all of these questions, anyway? You're the strategist. I'll follow your orders even if they don't m…
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Added by Nicole on September 27, 2008 at 11:30am —
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I can't get my head around anything nowdays. I missed last week. I've stalled on learning how to program, although maybe I can energize my brain enough to get back into that. I'd hate not to finish that particular project. Understanding makes me all warm and fuzzy.
I've got absolutely nothing today. Really goddamned distressing.
The name "Exaulte" is a placeholder.
"It's worse than we feared, my lor-!" She cursed as the page bandaging her hands slipped, tearing open some the burned flesh.…
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Added by Nicole on September 20, 2008 at 2:51am —
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Sessia stared at Lilinara's rapidly retreating back.
"Valarin..." She shook her head. Without sparing her brother a second glance, she took off after her friend.
What a ridiculously girly sequence of events. That's going to be edited to death if I ever go back and edit.
Communion.
Every year, in the dying days of the harvest season, the children of the Thirteenth Gate
No, damn it. That's not working.
Crap. It's Friday! I'm not going to have anything up!
The damned ceremon…
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Added by Nicole on September 6, 2008 at 2:30pm —
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So I'm starting a story. And even if I finish it today, it's posting on 9/6/08. Cos I need to keep up with at least one a week, and if I can work ahead enough, it will get me through dry spells.
Of course, on the sixth, there may be just one sentance posted. Who knows?
Still thinking about world building. Not sure how to handle race, if at all. Do I need to become an anthropologist and figure out climates and cultures and clothing and appearances? I think I'll make the main setting as mixed ba…
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Added by Nicole on September 1, 2008 at 3:00pm —
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I'm wondering what the best approach would be to building the setting for these stories.
I'm inclined toward what I've seen Mr. Jerks use, topology>ocean currents>weather patterns>climates>trade routes>political evolution>etc. It makes sense, because everything is built on what comes before, but odds are, I'd quit while drawing the squiggly lines on the coast.
Maybe I can work from both ends and see if I can make it meet in the middle. Like how people build roads in Michigan…
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Added by Nicole on August 30, 2008 at 1:55pm —
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An attempt to get back on the bloody ball! Next on the list of shit I'm not good at- dialogue.
That'll be it for the forseeable future. Dialogue, scene setting, introspection, possibly snuggling. Shit that makes me want to get up and go watch a movie or something.
Yippee.
Lilinara flung another cushion onto the pile that was quickly taking over a corner of the room. The down-stuffed confection slid down the mountain of voluptuous disarray. Loose feathers and wisps of silk floated lazily…
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Added by Nicole on August 30, 2008 at 1:42am —
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Some problems occur to me when writing.
1) I have no idea what fabrics are used for what purposes and what technologies produce which textiles usable by which income levels in a pre-industrial setting.
2) I have no idea how medicine should work in a fantasy setting.
3) I know not a goddamned thing about weapons/ military action/ martial any goddamned thing.
Unless I'm going to write about naked people tearing each other apart with their bare hands, I've got some research to do. Don't know w…
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Added by Nicole on August 27, 2008 at 10:51pm —
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Hunin's such a sweetie.
These next few will probably be extra boring, cause I'm gonna try to go on a murder diet. One death a month, max. Ah, lucky figments of my imagination- you will live to be horribly mutilated another day...
Uh-oh. Shit. Can't...focus. OK. Just keep typing, no deletions allowed. It works best, I just shouldn't be so hesitant to do it. I do maintain the presence of mind not to go into an undeletable listing of my personal flaws and sexual kinks,
such as a love of spanki…
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Added by Nicole on August 26, 2008 at 10:00pm —
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Girl or boy, human or not. Which manner of character do I profile next? Can I come up with a plausable conflict for an individual at any point? Probably not. Can I avoid yet another pointless action sequence, or is my interest in writing only aroused by the opportunity to graphically describe the sensation of killing another thinking being?
Even if the answer to that question is "Yes", I should probably make an effort to display that the answer is "no."
Would I ever write a story that involves…
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Added by Nicole on August 9, 2008 at 11:00pm —
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Today we received a request to fill out a document surveying our gender and ethnicity, for the purposes of completing the EEO-1 report, as an employer the size of mine is required to do.
Something about this irritates me, like sand in my eyes.
I did a quick read on this report, and apparently employers are required to submit this information by visual survey (guessing race/ethnicity by looking at people) or voluntary survey, with the information stored separately from employee files.
1) Race/…
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Added by Nicole on July 31, 2008 at 6:30pm —
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7/20/2008 I enjoyed The Dark Knight. It was one of the better comic-book movies I've seen.
I had more fun watching Iron Man. That movie, I will be purchasing on DVD.
7/23/08 I am so fucking angry. Can one single task that I take on at work come to me without issues I need to resolve because whoever had them before me couldn't take the time? I'm not exactly a wellspring of extra capacity . I am very likely to start losing vacation time because I can't take time off. This is upsetting to me.
7/…
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Added by Nicole on July 26, 2008 at 8:00am —
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Hm. I can mumble textwise and post-date blog posts so I'm on a schedule! Wouldn't it be embarassing if this is the only sentance in this post when it posts? Mm. Post.
I don't much like the word blog, on the other hand.
"Her eyes were the same hypnotic emerald crystalline color as yours, my serpentine sister." Kharan's voice The clipped, cultured voice came as a surprising counterpoint to the bestial profile of the speaker. "I would speculate that this consideration played no…
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Added by Nicole on July 19, 2008 at 8:00am —
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I cannot motivate myself to write. I can't get myself to sit down, open a word document, and finish the fucking story, or start another one, or make notes, names, lists, ideas, snippets.
So fuck it. Let's try stream-of-consciousness blog posting getting some kind of god damned output going and maybe I can fish something out of this shitstream. Maybe not feeling self-applied, it's a task so I'll procrastinate and never get it done styled pressure will let me post
something weekly, and one…
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Added by Nicole on July 12, 2008 at 12:00am —
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-Lazy, Late, and Incomplete. Shame on me.
Ipsana Karee panted heavily, hunched over a basin in her dressing room. The smell of sickness caused her stomach to heave again, emptying of the last of its contents.
When it seemed that the bout of nausea had passed, she moved painstakingly to the washstand that stood to the right of her dressing table, and splashed the cool, rose-scented water upon her face. She rinsed her mouth with the water, the bitter, aromatic oils removing the sour taste from h…
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Added by Nicole on June 1, 2008 at 12:56am —
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The thing that Valarin Sil Ivernos knew best was that this was not where he should be.
The clash of metal against metal rang harshly upon his ears, far better suited to soft music and sweet nothings whispered in the moonlight. The haphazard footwork required to match his opponent’s maneuvers twisted his lean body in ways he preferred not to reflect upon, distorting the crisp line of his shirt.
The vibration that traveled up his elbow as his saber slid along the blade of that held by the Baron…
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Added by Nicole on May 17, 2008 at 2:30am —
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Her name was Lil, and she was a Hellborn.
She held on to that thought as she struggled not to scream, not to breathe, not to embrace the relatively mericiful death of smoke inhalation as flames lapped at her skin, reaching hungry tongues to caress her bound form.
Muscles coiled and flexed in her shoulders as she strained at the bonds that held her to the stake. She nearly sobbed in relief as she felt the fire-weakened hemp slip and give, loose, fraying threads dissolving into ash.
The rising…
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Added by Nicole on May 17, 2008 at 12:00am —
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