C.E. Murphy's Blog, page 59

shannara livetweet, eps 2-3

o no i’m watching more #shannarachronicles
i might have to livetweet it again
i don’t know if i can resist

*SQUEAL* ARE WE GONNA HAVE THE KING OF THE SILVER RIVER
OMG I’D FORGOTTEN HOW MUCH I LOVED THAT SCENE, THE WRITING, OMG

lol “what happened to eyes up here”

question from the reading audience: perhaps a silly question.. I grew up on the books.. is this worth the watch?

i too grew up on the books. the show’s a train wreck. i’m 4 episodes in & not gonna quit. take that as you will :)

OOH...

Writing Wednesday: I finished a book!

It always strikes me, when I use that phrase, “I finished a book,” that I usually mean something different than 99% of other people do when they say it. Possibly 99.7%. I, of course, generally mean I finished writing a book, as opposed to reading one. (Although let me tell you, there are times anymore when finishing reading one seems like as much of a triumph…)

Anyway, so on Monday I finished the (oh my god so very) rough draft of REDEEMER, which has been hanging over me for what feels like f...

Kitsnacks: Apple Butter

(whoa i thought i’d posted this months ago but it’s been sitting half finished in my queue! i discovered this because i finally opened the caramel apple butter last night and OH MY GOD it’s good! and somebody asked for the recipe so i went off to find it and woe! it hadn’t been posted!)

My sister made a bunch of apple butter the other day (with apples I gave her) and although I don’t really *like* apple butter (or don’t remember liking it; I haven’t had it since I was about eight) I’m now app...

shannara chronicles, omg

I accidentally livetweeted watching the first episode of The Shannara Chronicles while Somewhat Tired. It went like this:

…I can see that #TheShannaraChronicles is going to be an extreme addiction sort of thing.

o god manu bennett i luv u

(trying to explain the show setup to a friend):
oh wow they’re really making the whole “this is our world only After The Fall real clear here aren’t they
the credits have the toppled thing in seattle
sky tower
uh
jesus christ
thing
the THING
SPACE NEEDLE JES...

2016 work schedule

Want to know what I’m doing this year? Or at least, what I’m trying to do? Here. Let me tell you!

Publishing MAGIC & MANNERS
I’m in the very last stages of getting MAGIC & MANNERS out into the world–the last bits (the ISBN bar code, mostly) are being generated for the cover, it’ll be handed off to a professional to convert it into e-books, and it’s the first book I’ll be publishing through the Ingram self publishing system, which will theoretically make it order-able in bookstores all around...

I need an app for this.

I need somebody who can write An App For That, because man, there is a thing I want an app for and I can’t find anything like it on the interwebs. The closest thing I can find are to-do lists and self-discipline apps and life coach apps, none of which really do what I want.

It’s something that you could run on your mobile or whatever although what I REALLY need for it is a Smart Wall or something in my house (I guess the tv would do) and it wouldn’t be just a to-do list. It would be more inte...

weekend writing retreat

I had a little stress-induced breakdown this week (mentioned earlier under the cunning title “rage bot murder machine” or something like that) and consequently Ted sent me away for a weekend writing retreat this weekend.

My primary goal going in was to get the REDEEMER manuscipt to 90,000 words (about 4/5ths done), and my secondary goal was to write 15,000 words if I could (these two goals were separated by a wordcount of about 1500 words).

I wrote about 16,000 words, which comes out (roughl...

Kitsnaps: Canal Reflection

I’m going to have to do something about the fact that my Computer That Goes Clunk can no longer run any image manipulation programs (the failed update that caused it to start Going Clunk had something to do with the graphics card, and even *booting* photoshop elements is now impossible), because I’m running low on the handful of Photo Friday images I’d prepped. Fortunately (?) I’ve been doing such a bad job remembering to post them they’ve lasted a while… :}

Reflection on the Grand Canal in A...

don’t tell me truth hurts

…little girl
’cause it hurts like hell

I wouldn’t have thought I’d have two posts to make about David Bowie, but then, I wouldn’t have really thought I’d have *one* post to make about him, so what do I know?

I’ve spent most of the last two evenings, when I’m not writing, going through my FB friends’ list and listening to all the Bowie songs they’ve linked to. Or rather, that was my plan. What actually happened was that on Monday evening a friend posted, “So I’ve been working on this list all...

rage machine murder bot

Yesterday I woke up a rage machine murder bot. Ted suggested I stay home from the thing I was supposed to do and work instead, as the combination of the thing I was supposed to do and having done *no work* lately were the basic components of my rage, and although I should have done the thing I had a giant hot chocolate with a lot of whipped cream and wrote instead, and by noon I had mostly (mostly) thrown off the desire to murder absolutely everything.

I had to delete a chunk of REDEEMER and...