Hounding After Hours

The Sheep! The Sheep has returned!

Hi, Boston! Glad to have you baa-aa-aaack!

*throws a net around Bos*

*offers a plate of nachos*

Bos!

I will take the nachos.

But make no promises about being back. Things have gone a bit sideways here - nothing dreadfully serious, just financial setbacks and such - and work's a bit of a cluster .

I will try and poke my head back in a bit more often.



Especially if Bri is posting pics from Portland.

I've gotta wait for Soaps to give me approval on which ones I'm allowed to post! But as soon as she has, I'll be sharing more photos.

BriMaresh said:

I've gotta wait for Soaps to give me approval on which ones I'm allowed to post! But as soon as she has, I'll be sharing more photos.

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That just means you've got the good ones!

Here's a pic of me with the Koffin Kats lead singer, Vic. I hung out with those guys after the show and turned into a total fangirl.

BriMaresh said:

I've gotta wait for Soaps to give me approval on which ones I'm allowed to post! But as soon as she has, I'll be sharing more photos.

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Well you have to send them to me first, dork.

TedTheewen said:

Here's a pic of me with the Koffin Kats lead singer, Vic. I hung out with those guys after the show and turned into a total fangirl.

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Oh cool, Ted. I like his tats.

Vic was gracious to fans. Of course, he closed the show with my favorite song, For Hire, which is about killing somebody for money. And I pretty much screamed the lyrics while standing in front of him, so I think he was weirded out by me. I was the oldest guy in the place and had the longest hair.

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I think he was weirded out by me.

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I overdo my exuberance for famous people I like sometimes (in other ways) and wonder the same thing.

Then I also occasionally do the opposite and clam up right when I have a chance to be social with them.

I fell somewhere in the middle of two at WHC last weekend.

It made me realize I need to get out more. I wouldn't have even gone had a certain skwirrel not got on my case and told me I had no reason not to go.

*timidly peeks inside*

*springs trap and catches smeasking*

Hi! Don't worry about the vampire next to me, she fed recently. You're not in any danger.

Ahhh! Lilli got me. Guess I'll stick around, lol.

Hiya all! *love vamps* I find them quite intriguing. Unfortunately, so much so that the last few refused to turn me, even after I ask them to. Sigh. I suppose I'll have to live with my boring humanity, in which I'm told I ought to be grateful for.

Oh, you don't want this one to turn you. She's kind of cruel at times.

I love vampires and mythic creatures in general. I like my vamps vicious though instead of angst ridden.

Being human is best because we have BBQ.

And mango ice cream.

Good morning Hounds.

jallenecs said:

Hi, guys. Sorry I've not been around today. We celebrated Mother's day with a big cookout. Had a good time.

On the other hand, my mother has finally tipped over into incomprehension. She spent the morning agitated, and this afternoon calmer but utterly incoherent. It's been coming for a while, but nothing quite prepares you. Mom never did have any luck on Mother's Day.

Alzheimer's sucks.

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Sorry to hear that, Junely.

Lillith1991 said:

Final word count for the first draft of Giggles? 1,849 words! Yay! It's done! It's done! Pass the blood wine please?!

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Congratulations! Now get it alpha-ed, beta-ed and send it out somewhere! (Eyeblink has spoken.)

BriMaresh said:

Hah, yes, Atlanta! Is it too soon to start thinking about Atlanta? Let's do Atlanta, all of us, because Portland was so, so incredible.

I have to say, the pro workshops were just amazing. Mine was so encouraging, and Soaps' workshop was, and yes. Everyone was super supportive and kind. But fair and constructive and yeah, those things, too.

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I did WHC four years ago, when it was in the UK. Cons in other countries don't look like being on the agenda, this year or next. My finances should be in much better state a year and a quarter from now, so maybe 2016.

aliwood said:

I would imagine that I'm not the only one to notice, just the only one to comment.

Sometimes I don't respond to things, but I do read tham. I try to imagine the forum as a group of people I'm conversing with, and where there are people who sagely nod their heads in agreement or whatever but don't actually say much a the time.

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I don't post here as often as others, and not as often as I should, though I do read most posts.

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Back to that - I'm going over the notes I got from the pros at the workshop I went to, and boy am I the last person on the planet to realize my writing voice is super YA.

It's weird how blind we can be to our own writing quirks - not just young writing voice, necessarily, but word choice, or structures we use.

What's something about your work you didn't realize, that someone else has pointed out to you? Tendency to use a weird word? Grammar quirk you can't kick? Yeah, that's my preoccupation at the moment.

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YA is no bad thing. My novels in progress are YA (unpublished), though at the older 14+ end. My short fiction is not aimed at YA though.

A grammar/punctuation thing I tend to overuse and always have to take out again in revision would be brackets and parentheses. Otherwise I tend to use present tense a lot - except when I don't. First person - except when I don't. Female leads and POV - except when I don't. (My published stories are roughly 50/50 in that.) "Mourning Becomes Me", my novella in progress, is the latter two, though the "first person" is a lot less straightforward than it might appear at first.

mmm... BBQ

Ted's right. I'm a total carnivore, so giving up my meats for a liquid diet would kinda... suck. *snickers quietly*

TedTheewen said:

Feeling awesome about your own writing is great! Some writers here *ahem* have low self-esteem issues and think their own stuff is bad. .

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Which doesn't include you now, because you had a piece accepted last week. *Wags finger*

slcboston said:

I will try and poke my head back in a bit more often.

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Bos! good to see you.

Smeasking said:

mmm... BBQ

Ted's right. I'm a total carnivore, so giving up my meats for a liquid diet would kinda... suck. *snickers quietly*

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Ooo, a newbque. More sauce, more sauce. Hi Smeasking

Morning hounds.

I managed to do some noodling last night, and also finished a very useful book.

RA, are you there? Get hold of a copy of 'Bird by Bird' by Anne Lamott, and if you can't find it pm me and I'll email it to you. It's really good. this is a woman who understands the writers brain, or at least, this writers brain.

eyeblink said:

Congratulations! Now get it alpha-ed, beta-ed and send it out somewhere! (Eyeblink has spoken.)

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I feel like I should be saying, "yes mistress Eyeblink!" It's out to my alpha reader already. She's enjoying it.

aliwood said:

Ooo, a newbque. More sauce, more sauce. Hi Smeasking

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Thank you, Aliwood!

Am usually just peeking in here and there, but Lillith caught me with a trap at the door this time. *Luckily it was made of chocolate* So I ate my way out, and stuck around after.

Don't try biting me, though! I may be full of sweet stuff, but I also have an extremely low tolerance for pain.

I've lit the grill. Seems a bit late, but better late than never.

EEEEEEEK....! K, running scared now. Too hot in this kitchen!

Lol, been fun. See y'all later! Off to dreamland... gotta work in the morning.

*traps sox*

How's everyone want their sox? I was thinking medium for my bit, with some sriracha of course. Now, did anyone see where I put the sriracha?

*looks at post count* Well look at that, seems I reached 1K in posts.