Wednesday media consumption thingy

[serene]

Finished: Nothing

Started: Alien Contact, Ed. Marty Halpern. I had already read the Gaiman short in this collection, which I remember loathing, but so far, the rest is entertaining alien what-if stories.

Still reading: On Writing, by Stephen King, which I re-read every couple years.






Bowed out of the brown-bag writing group. I need to find an actual, useful critique group. I think my dream critique group includes firecat, ljgeoff, people like that -- good writers with good (and kind, but not syrupy) heads on their shoulders. Oh, my, syrupy heads. Now there's a metaphor you wish you never wrote.

When I got sick this past week, I stalled on the NaNo thing, but I don't feel stress about that at all, because I'm still writing and submitting, just not on that particular project. I've decided to start aiming for more rejections, as an impetus to send out more of my work. Right now, I have 12 poems and a story out in the world, and so far this month, I've gotten 3 rejections (and 1 acceptance, yay). Shooting for 100 between now and next November.






Still playing Lily's Garden. If history is any indication, I will mostly just play that for years until I'm tired of it. It was like that with Two Dots before this.






I very much enjoy my YouTube Music supermix, and that's what I usually select. Two songs it keeps serving me, and I'm happy about it, are Wide Open Spaces by the Chicks, and 6 Inch by Beyonce.







I bailed out of the Eddie Murphy movie "Mr. Church" because the teenage protag was sooooooo unsympathetic.

We watched The Holy Grail the other night and it was fun to see James enjoy it just as much as he has the other 10,000 times we've seen it.

Now we're watching the Monty Python series, so because he is a completist, that will be most of what we watch together for a long time, besides our Saturday night Svengoolie dates. This past one was "Them!", which we both really like.

Oh, and GBBO (Great British Bak(e-Off/ing Show)), which we also both really like, and which currently has new eps every Friday on Netflix.

Comments

[firecat]

Feel free to throw things my way for crit; I might not always have the bandwidth, but I love your writing.

I'm kind of deliberately just writing for fun right now and I think crit would shut me down.

But if I get more serious about it, I would want you to be part of my writers group too. And ljgeoff, definitely. *&*

[ljgeoff]

I might not be the fastest critter, but I'd be willing to give it a shot. There's a real skill to critting that I'm pretty rusty with -- but I can tell it a story makes emotional sense to me, if there are gaps that leave me confused, and if there's too much tell and not enough show. So, basic stuff. :)