Stuff like this is WEIRD

"Weird" is probably one of those words "good writers" don't use (you know, like expletives?) because they can come up with much better adjectives. But seriously, this is just weird…

Sat down to write Fifties Chix today and one of the characters asks another character when she was born (it was kind of a trick question, because the Fifties Chix have time traveled from 1955, and she was born in 1940, but can't say that because the current year is 2010 and that would make her 70 years old, which she's not). Mary (being written by me, of course) goes to answer with her birthdate (minus the year). Not remembering this detail, I had to go to my special file – where I outlined all the characters and their details this past summer – to look up her birthday, and guess what it was?

JANUARY 13.

That's today, folks!!

WEIRD, right?

I know!