tadpole's comments (member since Nov 22, 2008)

tadpole's comments from the Terminalcoffee group.

Heh heh Kevin, it might be more like you taking us to FNM rather than us taking you. I imagine that they will shoot the double bird at MO and Chicago will be the nearest stop for that tour. *crosses fingers*

Sorry Gus, but I was too shaken to discuss it. I mean I am pretty indifferent about Oprah even though she gives people a lot of free stuff and has hornswaggled some folks into reading Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy who would not have done so otherwise. My disappointment stems from that literary hoax that I was eventually planning. If i'm not going to get chewed out on national tv in front of every soccer mom in America, it seems kind of pointless to even bother.

Aw man, until I got to the bottom of the list I thought that you had written these yourself, RA. It was going to be my new friend factoid about you that you recently sent an email out to coworkers that ended in "Retards," rather than "Regards,"...

Stay mavericky, RA.;)

Yikes! Hope your house is OK.

Congrats Dan!!!

I went on a literary tear this evening and finally wrote beyond the recommended 1667 for the first time in a few days. I'm at just over 28.5K - a little short of where I should be. Right now i'm still just impressed with myself that I have mustered this many words and still have things to say that are relevant to the story. This is easily the longest piece of continuous fiction that I have ever endeavored upon.

(I'm going to be classy and not mention that I finally pulled ahead of Ms. Pi again tonight...:);))

Woo-Hoo Go Sher! You're SO close. I remember a couple of weeks back when 10K seemed like a major milestone...

I'm in the same boat. Good luck, I know that we can all make it.

DAN! You're almost there. Here's some inspiration music for your last day or two...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf45I1ZI_...

A sure sign that you are old: While eating your viagra pudding you suddenly remember that you use to eat hash brownies in your youth and the irony of this realization does not make you laugh.

I'm fairly comfortable with my vocabulary even though it is not immense, but it bothers me whenever there is a word that has to be used several times in a scene. Example: A scene I was working on last night involved a lecture in a meeting hall. At one level it is a monologue by the lecturer, but at another level it is a dialogue as the reaction of the crowd is integral. It is distracting to keep seeing the crowd, the crowd, the crowd, but aside from audience I could think of little else that fit. I also agree with Abigail in that one could get too creative in this regard and start using things like "the teeming throng" or "the curious but well-behaved onlookers" which can be equally distracting to the reader. It is quite the literary tight-rope walk.

Ha ha, thanks Kevin. It never occurred to me that tadpole could be construed as phallic (in a sadly diminuitive sort of way, no less:/). I will steer clear on theorizing on what an El Liso might be...;)

Sher: Is your current avi the inspiration for your red-headed main character?

Interesting. I guess that is one way to keep one's souffle from falling...

Misha: I have not seen Zombieland yet, but the trailer that I saw looked delightful.

I was going to go there with the Ding Dongs, but I figured that I had exhausted my daily allotment of phallic jokes already...

Sher: I think those bananas are re-enacting the "THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!!" scene from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.:)

Did Sam Eliot show up as a character or did he take over narration duties a la Lebowski? I also pondered skipping ahead to scenes that are already more fleshed out in my head, as I have rarely ever written anything chronologically, but now i've almost decided to push forward through the sucktitude just for the experience of having done so.

Ding Dongs. I was more of a chocoholic back then.

My dad was in the air force doing office type work in Greenland and swore very little. My mom missed out on a promising naval career, as she can curse like a sailor.

Heh...I remember former days of misspent youth when I was sure that the lady ringing up my snack cakes at the grocery store was an undercover federal agent (who was actively conspiring against me).

Hopefully you got at least one quote from him along the lines of "City Hall is really harsh'n my mellow, man."

Misha wrote: "I'm trying to track down a guy named Biggerstaff for an interview today."

That sounds like a naughty euphemism to me...;)

But yeah...guys named Biggerstaff can just saunter through life blowing off interviews, whereas some guy named Dick Little or Rod Smalley is probably praying that someone somewhere will one day want to interview him.

ok...i'm done...

Me too, as i've been unable to get anywhere near 1667 for the last two nights.

Very interesting imagery coming from both of you, as I found myself whining to a friend last night that i'm starting to think that I have an OK opening paragraph followed by 70+ pages of the drizzling s****.

Nice progress Sarah! I knew that I shouldn't have talked trash last night...:)

Yep, that one made me grin first thing this morning Kev, and i'm not usually a morning grinner. Thanks.

I never really liked music in the background whenever I was writing, but tonight I was very tired and decided to pop in the newest Slayer CD. WOW! My pencil flew across the page. I would bet that with this new alliance of me and the Slaytanic boyz, Sarah Pi doesn't stand a chance in the daily word count fight (BTW, I prefer my crow medium well with lots of salt and pepper and a side of Tabasco...). ;)

I know that Dan mentioned his outlines, but has anyone else started running into continuity issues? I will start writing a passage and have to stop and think "Hmm, that fellow who works the counter in the clockwork menagerie...is his name Baxter, Benson, or Bienvenido?" Ahh...heck with it. That can all be fixed in post production with CGI...right?