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2010


DeCember

Salvation Santas should have a tax deductible swipe machine next to that bell
--Nov 31, 2010

@charlesv If I start walking now, I can make it there never.
--Nov 30, 2010

It's all Guns 'n Roses outside 
--Nov 29, 2010

Wanting to be a plumber is a different type of pipe dream
--Nov 29, 2010

"Portion Control" was Prince's song about weight loss. 
--Nov 25, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving! #2ndBestHoliday #LessDissapointingThenIndependenceDay #LessScaryForChildrenThenIndependenceDayTheMovie
--Nov 25, 2010

"It's okay," said the linguist, "it was a freak accent..." 
--Nov 24, 2010

You know what this novel needs in the third act? 5 new characters. My imagination is trying to kill me. http://yfrog.com/jc12toj 
--Nov 24, 2010

I wrote last night for about 2 hours. Everything is stitched up smoother than glass. The end is nigh.
--Nov 24, 2010

New My Chem is shockingly good. It goes from ugly duckling to swan song pretty quickly. 
--Nov 24, 2010

November & December are the twin hearts of the colussus. The Beast of the End-Year will leave us for driftwood.
--Nov 20, 2010

"Bros? Where we're going, we don't NEED bros..." #TimeTravelingLesbianSororitySpecScript 
--Nov 20, 2010

(Yes, I know I skipped chain of memories. I left it on the beach of a gamestop. "I'll find you" I told it. "I know..." the game replied) 
--Nov 20, 2010

I woke up, watched Deep Dive, and popped in Kingdom Hearts 2 http://yfrog.com/mh511qj
--Nov 20, 2010

It is nearly 4:30 in the morning, and just finished Kingdom Hearts. What the hell is wrong with me.
--Nov 20, 2010

Bleu's "3 is a charm" was the theme song to my wreck of an adolescence. 
--Nov 19, 2010

Writer's Gout 
--Nov 19, 2010

I'll say this about youtube--being able to read other people's reminisces about the same things I miss is deeply satisfying.
--Nov 19, 2010

Lull 
--Nov 18, 2010

@Stobert HP4: the most upsetting adaptation since the Super Mario movie.(which, against all logic,my childhood still pines for a sequel to) 
--Nov 17, 2010

I want to open a barbecue joint, where the staff leaves to pick up your order from another restaurant. It's called BRB BBQ 
--Nov 17, 2010

My friend Brandon is amazing. http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery/?video=4264 
--Nov 17, 2010

Fixed the chapter. And then broke it. Or noticed a crack. which might actually be an intricate design. I need more time... 
--Nov 15, 2010

It's pictures of people, paying too much for tea. It's called a Teavana Bible.
--Nov 15, 2010

Just dropped my porcelain sex doll
--Nov 15, 2010

I've been worrying about the ebb and flow of the action into this chapter...I think I fixed it. At least, in theory...
--Nov 15, 2010

"The jig is up" is something I will say, when I spend a million dollars, constructing a state of the art jigsaw puzzle factory. On the moon 
--Nov 15, 2010

LINK http://tinyurl.com/2wg8o4n Which,if your going to be lost, is a great last song to be playing. If you're a thing that plays last songs. 
--Nov 15, 2010

The Library called! They found my iPod!-- the last song I played was Restless Natives...
--Nov 15, 2010

It's been 4 years,& I've finally misplaced my iPod.I think it slipped out of pocket sometime on Saturday. #PreciousIsLost #BetrayalCutPants 
--Nov 15, 2010

I just got up. I don't think the chapter is done.
--Nov 15, 2010

#Wrote. I think I just finished a chapter? I don't know. I just don't know... this calls for a 24 hour ponder. 
--Nov 24, 2010

Writing to the opening of Dissidia: Final Fantasy is a snap. 
--Nov 13, 2010

Wrote! Chapter is Violent. And Quick. Fun, fun, fun. #WhenWeLeftOurHeroesAtLast
--Nov 13, 2010

Writing. #WhenWeLastLeftOurHeroes...
--Nov 13, 2010

...and a beard, woven with great care to show a sign of diligence AND showcase a collection of geometrically set swords. 
--Nov 13, 2010

..and thus, something I can't google.It was perfect.Like shabby sheik Conquistador Samurais.
--Nov 13, 2010

12 hours of sleep success! Sad that the cool outfits I dreamed up were not, as I discovered, Spanish knights-wear, but something I made up.. 
--Nov 13, 2010

Finished Birth by Sleep on Sunday, and watched the secret endings last night on kh13.com...
--Nov 11, 2010

I think sick kids who aren't dying should get a "make-a-reaonable-wish" foundation"
--Nov 5, 2010 

@daveshumka What would be your #1 song pick for a Canadian Rock Band. You can't have Remote Control by Age of Electric. That's mine.
--Nov 5, 2010

I think Prince should change his name to "[weird symbol] charming" 
--Nov 5, 2010

Wrote. Next chapter started. One more day toward the end. #novel #novelist #novelling #noveller #novelpeaceprize 
--Nov 4, 2010

@Stobert It's amazing to me how often I write something without thinking and find out why later on. (I thought i just meant book too) 
--Nov 4, 2010

Origin of TOME:Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos section, roll of papyrus, tome,from temnein to cut; 
--Nov 4, 2010

Definition of -TOME 1: part : segment 2: cutting instrument VERY INTERESTING! 
--Nov 4, 2010

...I was thinking about the relation to dialogue, and how it doesn't seem to fit, or feel important if you don't know the character.
--Nov 4, 2010

"It doesn't matter what a character says, unless they are a character." I woke up with that in my head...
--Nov 4, 2010

I'm allergic to Peanuts. The comic strip.
--Nov 3, 2010

In the studio to record my holiday single: "No shit, it's Christmas"
--Nov 3, 2010

@2000umbrellas Or at least relatable. 
--Nov 3, 2010

@2000umbrellas We should be related on twitter too.
--Nov 3, 2010
 

I finished the latest chapter last night. I just realized that. That last scene is rough, but it services.
--Nov 3, 2010

I don't know, it keeps writhing and sprouting new heads.But one more scene, and I'll be another chapter closer to it's tail.
--Nov 2, 2010

Speaking of which, I only have one more scene left for this chapter, and then iot's a straight shoot to the end...4 more chapter..i think...
--Nov 2, 2010

Book 3 (of a series I'm not even writing yet) keeps stitching itself together. I can't stop. Like a projector from an alternate life... 
--Nov 2, 2010

so sleepy, thoughts are driftwood and eels.
--Nov 1, 2010

This is fucking amazing 
http://emcarroll.com/comics/faceallred/01.html (sent to me by @joeyciccoline) 
--Nov 1, 2010

Novembrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrz

I figured out book 3
--Oct 31, 2010

A coke habit, is what a nun wears when sponsored by Coca-Cola. 
--Oct 28, 2010

I need a revolver, filled with confetti, so I can shoot this fucker a party.
--Oct 27, 2010

For Halloween, I'm going to just yell really loud, at cool moments, and tell everyone I'm dressed as a Hans Zimmer score. 
--Oct 27, 2010

My Halloween costume in kindergarten was Private Pizza http://tinyurl.com/32xtugl Homemade by my dad. 
--Oct 27, 2010

I just ordered a large pizza for 6 dollars, and I've never been more excited in my life.
--Oct 26, 2010

I was NOT in the mood to write tonight. But I did. And it was brilliant. Well, first draft brilliant. But BRILLIANT. #!
--Oct 26, 2010

Sometimes I quickly re-tie my shoe on the escalator, just to add a sense of drama to my life.
--Oct 25, 2010

Wrote. 
--Oct 24, 2010

Missing ingredients. Bitter roots and sugar. 
--Oct 22, 2010

If you write stories you need to read this:http://io9.com/5666113/the-famous-writing-advice-that-could-seriously-mess-up-your-game
--Oct 22, 2010

My brother Sam is getting married today. 
--Oct 22, 2010

When in doubt, check your Notes app, you will be shocked by how much you've already thought of, and written.
--Oct 21, 2010

I'm going to make @joeycccoline dress up with me as these guys for Halloween http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDFIHfTFqg I get the horn!
--Oct 21, 2010

Cut down on dialog in flashbacks.
--Oct 21, 2010

Oh...I thought drag racing was something ENTIRELY different... 
--Oct 19, 2010

I like the word "where" because it cam be a question, or a direct statement of location. (in the BLANK where the BLANK) 
--Oct 19, 2010

up early on a Saturday. Working on a card game.
--Oct 16, 2010

I just figured it out. #FrenchToastGaming #HowThingsAnchor #HashTagsNoONeUndrstands
--Oct 13, 2010

Have an Idea for a film:2 guys, who are roommates,fall in love by email after mistaking each other for women, & it's called You've Got Male. 
--Oct 12, 2010

@plaguerat33 Welcome to the future. Where we only use letters and links.
--Oct 12, 2010

And it kept going, maybe. #TheLastSentenceInMyHomemadeInceptionAudioBook 
--Oct 11, 2010

Had a dream where I finished the scene of the chapter I've been stuck on. I think it will be easier now...
--Oct 10, 2010

Just F-Y-aye,aye Captain #PirateEmails 
--Oct 8, 2010

And I would say, "because the rest of the are 10,000 maniacs!" ...and then I would unleash them. 
--Oct 7, 2010

...because people I didn't like at parties would ask, "Why is that one named Natalie Merchant?" 
--Oct 7, 2010

But if I had a whole swarm of bees as pets on strings, I would name the first one Natalie Merchant. 
--Oct 7, 2010

If I had a pet bee on a string, I would name him Honeyfuckle. Without a second thought. 
--Oct 7, 2010

My fly was down, as was the custom of the time...
--Oct 6, 2010

Seamstress.
--Oct 6, 2010

@joeyciccoline #WeShouldOnlySpeakinHashtagsFromNowOn.
--Oct 5, 2010

"lemo-lam-lam-suckin--ona-lemo-lam-lam-suckin-a-suckin-a-lemo-lam-lam -everythiiiiiiiiin-lemo-lam-lam-everythiiiin--#KidA--nniversary
--Oct 5, 2010

How is it the 10 year XXX of Kid A? It was JUST the 10 year XXX of OK Computer...oh..four years ago #IsThisWhatOldFeelsLike?
--Oct 5, 2010

It looks like it's going to be a French Toast day; with card art in the morning, and Game Design tonight with Sakroka. 
--Oct 5, 2010

Wowww. Just got the first sketches of card art in my inbox from mysterious sources. Wowee--wow.The Bard in particular is drop dead gorgeous. 
--Oct 5, 2010

RT @joeyciccoline "i have a cannibal on a flying carpet, and i think i just figured out his motivation." - @toddmichaelr
--Oct 4, 2010

Miami Vice Versa the show about crime solving twins in Miami Florida
--Oct 4, 2010

Let me lick you on the face with the tongue of my shoe.
--Oct 4, 2010

Sitting down to Write. 
--Oct 2, 2010

I think if bugs could form punk bands they would name one Pesticide...
--Oct 2, 2010

Sometimes I practice my double-take.
--Oct 1, 2010

When will the hipsters stumble onto ironic dating?
--Oct 1, 2010 



OCCCCtober

But most importantly, I wrote while listening to the opening theme from Dissidia. It is important to pick the right soundtrack.
--Sep 29, 2010

I started too late. One hour of Novelling and three pages...but I did figure out a lot of the next scene...interesting stuff. #Wrote 
--Sep 29, 2010

"Can a saimese twin have a one man show?" is just a Whitman sized sample of my wit from tonight. 
--Sep 28, 2010

I think I just wrote eight pages in just over an hour. #Wrote.
--Sep, 27, 2010

Had a dream 8-bit cities were being built on my fingernails. And, that this might be a sign of a deadly white fungus.
--Sep 27, 2010

I wrote over six pages in two hours. It's all downhill from here. #Wrote.
--Sep 25, 2010

The end is nigh, the steps are growing downhill, and the moments these characters have shared are fading into history. Here I go. #Writing
--Sep 25, 2010

This is the chapter I've been waiting to write form the beginning. Only three left after this one, I think...
--Sep 25, 2010

Today I am sitting down to start the new, next chapter in the novel. It's not just MY novel anymore. It's THE novel. It's real. it's living.
--Sep 25, 2010

"I'd make a jug band out of HIS washboard." #RewritingEmmettOtter
--Sep 24, 2010

I just finished this chapter.A million Hurrahs.#confetti #ConfettiCake #IamExhausted.
--Sep 23, 2010

I'm a much bigger fan of Kitase then Sakaguchi. This article is GREAT http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3178085 #FinalFantasy
--Sep 23, 2010

Wrote a novel for two & a half hours. hands shaking. need food. chapter is almost done. cut out pages. PAGES. almost done.
--Sep 22, 2010

Wrote until my brain stopped.
-Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:39:18 PM

I am afraid of a page full of words. #Writing.
--Sep 21, 2010

A girl, a sword, a wolf, a steward, a council...the thoughts made me clap like a seal.
--Sep 20, 2010

Walking in the wind outside, I found a new piece of the story...and I think it will make other stories...
--Sep 20, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--fiOmgWWR4 Hikari Orchestral (staff roll music from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep) it's great!
--Sep 20, 2010

"This is your heart." ...The music for the Ending Credits to Birth by Sleep is beautiful.
--Sep 19, 2010

Much better. Me. As in Me. I am much better. Writing. At Writing. It's been like two hours. Sentences are hard to come up with. Sorry.
--Sep 19, 2010

Writing.
--Sep 19, 2010

I'm sitting down to write for the first time in three weeks. I feel odd, and nervous...and like a sprinter who's waiting for a gun to sound.
--Sep 19, 2010

It was never my intention to be the fat one...I just kept making skinnier friends.
--Sep 17, 2010

I played Birth by Sleep for 9 hours this weekend;the joint between my thumb and fingers is literally twitching. The game is just amazing.
-_Sep 13, 2010

Things that I touch / disappear like Tetris blocks
-_Sept 13, 2010

Today, just for one day, why not find the oldest lady you can, and ask if fries come with that shake?
--Sept 3, 2010

Septembre

Has it been an hour already? I'm done. A very short writing session. But I put the rest of the chapter in the correct order!
--Aug 31, 2010

Writing a novel...
--Aug 31, 2010

I want to write a movie about a outcast killer fish and call it Pariah-anah
--Aug 31, 2010

My cosplay costume is an alternate timeline version of myself who is not into cosplay and will not be wearing any costumes.
--Aug 31, 2010
Ghost Ride the Whip- - -whipped chocolate, that is! ...With Hershey's new Ghost Ride the Whip chocolate bar.
--Aug 31, 2010


Spent a lovely morning listening to Andy Partridge warble his way through questions in this old interview http://tinyurl.com/2a3yhlw
--Aug 31, 2010

...Thicker than you're imagining...
-Monday, August 30, 2010 10:43:33 PM

...because Sakroka always has a story that can end with a genuine nickname or irreversible memory.
--Aug 30, 2010

...A movie where two guys search for their missing copy of "The Hunt for Red October", ...called "The Hunt for The Hunt for Red October".
--Aug 30, 2010

Another Page! and I'm done for the night. A very productive Sunday..
--Aug 29, 2010
 

A long walk and a pastry later, back to Writing.
--Aug 29, 2010

two hours later. two full pages. I need a break.
--Aug 29, 2010

Fingers, keys, eyes, and mind; everyone get ready it's typing time! #I'msorry #Writing
--Aug 29, 2010

I'm surprised there's not a "DaVinci Code" buddy-cop type procedural show, where Tom Hanks & the inanimate Mona Lisa solve crimes together.
--Aug 29, 2010

Each draft is always so much better. It's comforting. and scary.
--Aug 28, 2010

"Forever or Never" the Strictest Christian Dating Show!
--Aug 28, 2010

I wish I had a reason, to say Cape Cod-Dammnit.
--Aug 28, 2010

"Vacation Brazil! A Southern America where they don't say 'y'all'"
--Aug 27, 2010

...More like Peter Parkour, am I right?
--Aug 27,2010

Beautiful: http://cgi.ebay.com/XTC-JAPAN-MINI-LP-10-CD-RARE-OOP-1ST-PROMO-BOX-/150458773699?pt=Music_CDs
--Aug 26, 2010

...I bet they sing "The Bells of Notre Dame" whenever I leave for the night. (reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_of_notre_dame)
--Aug 25, 2010

..i bet the typos try to escape with a limp, With a real look of fear in their one misshapen eye.
--Aug 25, 2010

...are the words I pick that wild; the moments I wrote so unbroken, that they could cantor away whenever I close my mac book?
-_Aug, 25 2010

Puzzlingly, I seem to have misplaced several paragraphs. I wonder where they went. It's no matter, I remember them well enough...but still
--Aug 25, 2010

Finished for the night. The chapter now seems to have a definite shape & flow. Like brook water, pouring over intricately placed rocks.
-_Aug 25, 2010

-Writing!
--Aug 25, 2010

-Wednesday, August 25, 2010 8:03:33 PM...and the pacing of the reader's eyes between the black words and the nothingness.
--Aug 25, 2010

...there's a lot of white, and a lot of negative space. I must really be into that. Which makes me think of the whiteness of a manuscript...
--Aug 25, 2010

It feels a lot like when I drew out the Team Genius site (before @joeyciccoline laughed and made it better, and REAL) ...
--Aug 25, 2010

(I just drew out a finalized design for the front of the website. The COVER if you will)
--Aug 25, 2010

Also, any moment when my brain switches back and forth between card games and writing, is like some sort of sugar lightning orgasm.
--Aug 25, 2010

whatever doesn't move the story forward, I cut and hide in other places, or lose it altogether. Ah...exciting thoughts of excitement abound
--Aug 25, 2010

It's something I've been learning this entire book...
--Aug 25, 2010

Have just now listened to the silent nagging thought in the back of my head.
--Aug 25, 2010

It is a very old rough draft, with pieces fallen in disrepair. Histories are like old houses, and time has a way of settling them.
--Aug 23, 2010

My mind speaks in sigh language.
--Aug 22, 2010

...But the local words just call it "Rumble Town". #Writing #JustaWarmUp #ICouldHaveKeptGoing...
--Aug 21, 2010

...I walk right on past him, into a town they call Paragraphs, in a metropolis called Story.
--Aug 21, 2010
 


A grin that spells out the word, "adept"...
--Aug 21, 2010

..They seem to have grown longer, and more adept. One f them is looking at me right now. A smug grin on his face.
--Aug 21, 2010

At the Library, about to start Writing. It has been a long time since I've sat down to knock some words around.
--Aug 21, 2010

Every one of my favorite episodes of Futurama was written by Ken Keeler. ...Well, except this one: http://tinyurl.com/2esyzy6
--Aug 20, 2010

I just wrote two pages of notes and dialogue on my phone. 374 days of writing, and this novel is still just as exciting as ever. #Writing
--Aug 19, 2010

missing ingredients.
--Aug 18, 2010

Oh, I definitely just stumbled upon something important. (Flippable Anchors) #FrenchToast (#notawaterbasedjoke)
--Aug 17, 2010

Me: 4/6 Sakroka 2/6, but I should point out that @matthewelam won 2/2 against me earlier.
--Aug 15, 2010

This is the best game ever. #FrenchToast
--Aug 15, 2010

...used the Dopple-Mage to control time in his favor, then he cast a Ghost, who posessed my dead Asassin, and used HER to kill my Lich.
--Aug 15, 2010

Pulling him out of the ether Left me reeling, but it was worth it. But THAN, Sakroka cast a Doppleganger, told it to copy my Mage,
--Aug 15, 2010

Sakroka is here, declaring magical warfare. We're on game six. So far: I brought out my Lich, (an undead Lord of Nightmares)
--Aug 15, 2010

Geordi LaForge uses automated eyesight/ to run the Enterprise and it's warp-drive space flight #TNGrap
--Aug 14, 2010

Three weeks ago, I thought I was nearly finished. Manuscript Clairvoyance is a cruel mistress.
--Aug 14, 2010

So French Toast's first game is technically being played around the world. Will celebrate by eating French Toast.
--Aug 14, 2010

Evan texted last night to say he got the package (500 cards) and that he will be bringing it with him to China.
--Aug 14, 2010

What creature has spoken, what chains unwrought, that I find myself headed downtown?
--Aug 13, 2010

@jrobertking I did the same thing once,& awoke to a VERY non-canonical Star Wars tale,from Chewbacca's experimental adolescence on Kashyyyk.
--Aug 13, 2010

WTFWJD
--Aug 11, 2010

According to Twitter: I have been writing this novel for 1 whole year, as of yesterday. #Writing #ohmygod #proud&whatnot
--Aug 8, 2010

Today's Score: Paxson of Ashgarden: 1/3 Sakroka: 2/3 Todd 0/3. I almost won the last, but Sakroka is a fucking Sorcerer. Do not trust him.
--Aug 7, 2010


Spent the entire day with French Toast, playing cards and arguing over the rules of casting Spells. Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
-_Aug 7, 2010

If the serving size of Boston Baked Beans is 11 pieces of candy, then I am ten times the man they expected me to be.
--Aug 5, 2010

Spell Cards are almost done. Saturday is the big Playtest day with most of the rest of #FrenchToast
--Aug 3, 2010

AugUoost

I always thought Lady gaga was talking about a Greek Uncle. #Papa,PapaRazzi
--July 31, 2010

I had some very cool thoughts yesterday. About the last Character I met/created, and the stories I could tell with him.
--July 31, 2010

My names Mitch/I'm your brother/ I'm a child/from your mother/ I'm a sinner I'm a saint/ I do not feel ashamed... #IApologize
--July 30, 2010

I used to be respectable/I used to have a car/and I used to drank that alcohol/ 'till the judge said I went too far #Countryiseasy
--July 28, 2010


I don't wanna think about it.
Don't wanna think clear.
Don't analyze, What I'm doing here.
Wanna be impulsive, Breakfast.
--July 28, 2010

Last night I dreamed I was listening to Martin Newell. It's only fitting to spend the morning doing the same.
--July 22, 2010


@BRIANMBENDIS Avengers 3 was very, very good. I really enjoyed the fight in the broken window. It was clever.
--July 22, 2010


Sent out a very cool email this morning to the members of French Toast, my semi-active gaming group. We're Back! I think...I have ideas...
--July 22, 2010


@f8tedbloodline I hadn't been that obsessed with a cartoon since 1994's Spider-Man the Animated Series.
--July 21, 2010

@joeyciccoline I can do Sunday afternoon, or Tuesday through the future... NOT January 52nd though. As that would be impossible.
-Wednesday, July 21, 2010 8:49:58 PM


@jrobertking And yet it says something that neither of use pseudonyms on this very Social Network.Although we do keep a few letters secret..
--July 21, 2010


@joeyciccoline It is one of the best ever, except sometimes, when the writer's don't realize they could be writing one of the best ever.
--July 21, 2010

BRAGGING RT @jrobertking Excellent reflections by @toddmichaelr about writing a novel and naming characters! 
http://ht.ly/2erU6
-July 21, 2010


@jrobertking You're such a lovely man.
--July 21, 2010

Done Writing for the night. Odd sort of Novelly night. Good things done. I think. Wrote bits and pieces of things. Fixed two chapters. Etc.
--July 20, 2010


Writing.
--July 20, 2010

Yes! I love it! (story problems click and fix like mechanical menageries. When they change it looks like magic.)
 --July 19, 2010


After nearly a two week absence, the great big novel is back under my fingertips. As of now...now.
--July 18, 2010


World 3 is achingly gorgeous. It is that Miyamoto inspired "Tears to The Eyes" art design, that you only get from one of his games.
--July 17, 2010

I was so excited by the return of a certain enemy that I died. #SuperMarioGalaxy2 or #WorstShortStoryEver 
--July 17, 2010


@steven_moffat I think your stories are brilliant.
--July 17, 2010

In bed with headaches. Writing down the sort of ideas that you write down when you have headaches.
--July 12, 2010


Comic shop was out of Scarlett, but Children's Crusade was great!
--July 10, 2010

Abd now, several of the bits and pieces I jotted down a week ago are closer to prose than rambling.
--July 10, 2010


Two hours of writing is two hours closer to a finished novel.
--July 10, 2010

Sometimes I call people with a fake voice, & try to make them guess if I'm Sebastian from The Little Mermaid, or that guy from Kings of Leon
--July 9, 2010

In bed with a relentless migraine. Fixing story problems for an unwritten screenplay and trying to pass out.
--July 8, 2010

Has NO British tabloid used the phrase Expecto Petroleum yet?!
--July 8, 2010

Two hours of writing has my words and future sanity sorted.
--Jul 3, 2010


Also, I just texted a pretty strong Power Rangers: Zeo reference to a friend. A perfect day?
--Jul , 3, 2010

JUL    Y

@Stobert ...unless, of course, someone were to ask me what my least favorite "snack bar" was.
--Jun 27, 2010


@Stobert Kudos on the apartment. And I'm saying this as someone who never says "kudos".
--Jun 27, 2010

@Stobert I'm sorry. I had a migraine spike up while I was typing. Loss of grammar was imen..immenint? (google) imminent.
--Jun 26, 2010

My head is pounding. And my fingers are exploding with story ideas. It's either coincidence, or the final dying drum beats of heat stroke.
--Jun 25, 2010

It is twenty degrees cooler than it could be. Thank you, Jesus of the Sun.
--Jun 25, 2010


Thank God, none of our political parties has stumbled upon "I believe in a thing called .gov" as a possible slogan.
--Jun 24, 2010

I just wrote notes, for the end of something...that I have been thinking about since I was in ninth grade. It unexpectedly involves a couch.
--Jun 21, 2010


For Father's Day this year, try telling your Father "Feliz-navi-DAD" #You'reWelcome
--Jun 20, 2010

@BRIANMBENDIS New Avengers #1 : You have never been better. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
--Jun 18, 2010

@matthewelam don't make my mistake; don't buy tickets for Cup World...
--Jun 18, 2010

New Tokyo Police Club is dynamite.
--Jun 10, 2010


"Hey, did you know Gulliver's travels was originally called Gullible's travels?" #Meta-Joke
--Jun 10, 2010


I really am past the halfway mark of this novel. I just realized it. Man.
--Jun 10, 2010

UB40: not just a rude thing to ask in a Jamaican accent, when talking to a woman.
--Jun 10, 2010

Wrote for an hour and a half. Everything is clicking. Like waffle blocks and crescendos.
--Jun 7, 2010


I have been writing the same story for 304 days. And it is still not done. How cool.
--Jun 7, 2010

Painting a wall in a colorblind orphanage.
--Jun 6, 2010

Just wrote for the first time in a week. Two hours of despair and excitement. I'm getting closer.
--Jun, 5, 2010

If you like words, you might also like this site: http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html It's a searchable dictionary of the Scottish language.
--Jun 4, 2010


(Also skarrow, scarra; skerry, scairy.)You don't want to know how long it took me to find a definition for Scarrow. Damn you, Simon Scarrow.
--Jun 4, 2010

SCARROW, n., v. 1. A faint light or reflection of light, of the moon, from a wall, etc. Also fig. a figure of speech, a metaphor.
--Jun 4, 2010

HIgh Violet is as much a novel as an album. Or at least, it feels this way. My absolute Favorite album ever this moment. Bravo, The National
--Jun 3, 2010


If you haven't read the Illuminator, you should, as you might like it almost as much as I did
--Jun 3, 2010


"May a dingo eat your privates. " -Traditional Australian farewell
--Jun 2, 2010
June

Printed out what I had writtten so far, and marked through it with a marker. Now I just have to think a lot. #writing
--May 31, 2010

Okay, never mind. I'm an idiot. It's one chapter. I put "just a shadow" on repeat and fixed everything. I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING NOW!
--May 31, 2010

It seems to be that all of my chapters end in the middle of where I think they will end. Best not to fight it.
--May 30, 2010

I'm referring to fiction mainly, but this has occured in real life just as often.
--May 30, 2010

It is becoming increasingly apparent as I get older, that I don't remember how people look, until I get to know them.
--May 30, 2010

What is the plural of "spouse"? "spice"? ...Were the Spice Girls married?
--May 29, 2010

He's here. With tea. Better get on with it.
--May 29, 2010

I am hunkered down beneath sodium colored lighting, waiting for the Prince of Stories to arrive.
--May 29, 2010

Writing! --Construction has turned my Library into an empty war-torn barrack of books and desks.
--May 29, 2010

@Jiffrenson Ah! But have you seen the VERY moment Andy freaked out in Paris and quit touring forever? http://tinyurl.com/38qbv9x
--May 28, 2010

If I remember correctly, there's about an hour of @matthewelam and I eating snowcones.
--May 27, 2010

Off to watch old Boy Friends footage with the rest of the Former Team Genius! Every outtake, every errant laugh!
--May 27, 2010


@Jiffrenson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_duBu56MqQ
--May 27, 2010


Some genius uploaded the entire soundtrack. http://tinyurl.com/2udeqpa My iPod's shuffle function is going to die from eclectic-ution.
--May 27, 2010
That "Worthless song" ruined a whole generation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34wjKZOmyhg See?
--May 27, 2010

I call this "Brave Little Toaster syndrome". Which I saw recently, and it was terrible. All except for the soundtrack.
--May 27, 2010


And so sad when it didn't hold up to my childhood memory. (part 2: http://tinyurl.com/2vt8wpp )
--May 27, 2010


I was very happy to find my favorite episode of Eek the Cat on youtube... (part 1: http://tinyurl.com/36lbchz )
--May 27, 2010


@joeyciccoline That dark presence you felt in Spring Hill last night was me. 
--May 27, 2010


Is there an iPhone app that plays a song whenever I walk into a room? Because that's what I want out of this phone.
--May 26, 2010

@pagemasterjim have you seen the latest series? I am in love with that show. Stephen Moffat is a genius.
--May 26, 2010

I Fell asleep sometime during the last episode of the Ark in Space, featuring Tom Baker as the Doctor. Loved it.
--May 26, 2010

The chapter is pulling together, getting the pieces swept up ship-shape. It's longer than I thought.
--May 25, 2010

Kick the page in its teeth. If it does not have teeth, write the word "teeth" down, and punch it up a bit. #Writing
--May 25, 2010
 


If this picture moves you, http://tvmedia.ign.com/tv/top100/imgs/screenshot_55.jpg we can be friends forever.
--May 24, 2010


If you like writing stories, this interview with Cuse & Lindelof is really very interesting http://tinyurl.com/2bsqs63
--May 24, 2010

I was a little to speechless last night to say anything. Still am, mostly, because LOST had the best ending I have ever seen for a story.
--May 24, 2010


"What article in the newspaper? Why are you yelling?!"
--May 23, 2010


Usually, when I get bored in a conversation, I start trying to slip in lines from Nada Surf's "Popular", until someone catches on.
--May 23, 2010

I'm going to throw a LOST party on Sunday, and give everyone the wrong directions.
--May 21, 2010
 


Your happiness is infectious, ...and I am a gaping wound.
--may 21, 2010

"I brake for physics"
--May 21, 2010

This forum chatter was typed up just for me http://www.antimoon.com/forum/2004/5937-2.htm (Researching dialects and Lexis of Great Britain)
--May 20, 2010

@BRIANMBENDIS Avengers #1 was the best I've read from you in awhile. Keep it up. 
-- May 20, 2010 9:08:25 AM



@daveshumka No, no, the fault is all mine. Drinking a swig of coffee after someone starts talking about Fred Durst is on me.
--May 19, 2010


I just choked and spit up coffee EVERYWHERE. Thanks, "Stop Podcasting Yourself" http://maximumfun.org/stop-podcasting-yourself/episode-113
--May 19, 2010

I did not want to wake up in a world, where I had not written the day before.
--May 17, 2010
 

(!!!) If I play my cards right, I can finish this chapter tomorrow afternoon. I need to figure out some structure stuff first.
Saturday, May 15, 2010 8:11:54 PM

Has it been two hours? Wow. thank God. I am starving, and done for the night.
--May 15, 2010

Writing. Two solid hours of novelling about to commence.
--May 15, 2010


OH my God, I had this blue lunchbox! http://www.trsrockin.com/images/om_lunchbox.jpg 
--May 12, 2010

Oh my God, I had this too: http://www.trsrockin.com/images/met_dd_8.jpg Pretty good for a kid who didn't have a Nintendo.
--May 12, 2010

...lo, and behold: http://www.trsrockin.com/zelda_stickerfun.html
--May 12, 2010

The internet! ...I just had a memory, of sitting on a playground Flipping through a new book I had fallen in love with. It was first grade.
--May 12, 2010

I've been trying to get my friends together for a special breakfast of hash-browns and laser tag, just so I could do this: #hashtag
--May 10, 2010
 

Time-Traveling? ...Maaaaaan I've been time traveling since, like, the future.
--May 6, 2010


Horchata? More like whorechata, am I right?
--May 3, 2010

First drafts often change. Sometimes you just have to let it happen, and write about a girl named July.
--May 3, 2010

I'm trying to combine elements of Self Loathing with bits of Stark Raving Mad. If it works, I'll call it Sad.
--May 3, 2010

2 AM Story Epiphany.
--May 2, 2010

May


Working on the Secret Project (comedy pilot)with my mysterious Partner. Well, I wrote, and sent it to him, we're emailing it back and forth)
--Apr 30, 2010

Blockbuster Night: Homeward Bound: Loss of Innocence
--Apr 18, 2010
 


Quite possibly a rather large amount of writing is about to be accomplished. "Itches Must be Scratched, and all that" <--motto.
--Apr 18, 2010

 For anyone that spent time playing Halo 2 with their roommates, this is an amazing article. http://tinyurl.com/y9jx6xc
--Apr 13, 2010

Anyway. I wrote some good stuff, and some bad stuff. Another two hours or so further into this novel.
--Apr 12, 2010

...realize my headphones are sitting in my ear without me even turning on the iPod.
--Apr 12, 2010

It is 10 o' clock where I live, and the Writing has stopped working. And so has the rest of my considerable intelligence, as I just now
--Apr 12, 2010

...and I still don't know what I'm doing.
--Apr 12, 2010


Writing seemed so much easier when I didn't know what I was doing.
--Apr 12, 2010

...Especially Nomura, on designing the characters, and Nojima, on writing the story.
--Apr 8, 2010

...Absolutely incredible to hear what they thought of it after 10 years.
--Apr 8, 2010



If FFVII changed your life as much as it did mine, then you really must read this interview with it's creators. http://tinyurl.com/y8wmyda
--Apr 8, 2010



3 day break is over. On to the next chapter. Writing.
--Apr 7, 2010

I had been hoping for a translation of the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania guide & lo, and behold: http://tinyurl.com/ya6tzsr Really fascinating
--Apr 7, 2010

IT'S DONE! The chapter is done. Just now. Countless hours of my life, and it's done. 5 MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
--Apr, 3, 2010

Now that I've set my desktop background to the cover of Birth by Sleep...it is time to start Writing...
--Apr 3, 2010


I'm in the very last section or so, soon, 5 months of my life will be finished, with the click of a key.
--Apr 2, 2010
 


I just-just-just-just fixed one last minute problem with the chapter, taking a walk and eating an apple until I thought out everything.
--Apr 2, 2010


Writing.
--Apr 1, 2010

April


(as soon as this coffee hits.)
--Mar 31, 2010

(writing).
--Mar 31, 2010
 


I just totally named a sword Cicada Woodwind.
--Mar 31, 2010

This is my favorite, the aptly named "Saber's Edge": http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=7231612&song=
--Mar 30, 2010

Though I didn't finish the chapter last night, I fixed every major problem I was worried about. Holy shit, it's almost done.
Mar 30, 2010


I wrote. I'm loving what I'm doing. Life is good. ...Now back to Barthandelus.
--Mar 25, 2010


Oh my goodness. I've been writing novels for over a year now. How did I miss that? (probably busy writing)
--Mar 12, 2010

three days until I turn 26, and I just drank horchata for the first time. I'm sorry Mexico. I won't waste our next 26 years together....
--Mar, 12, 2010

Random evening of clarity led to me going through the chapter and writing little rainbow colored notes of what to change and why.
--Mar 7, 2010


Still sick. Very sick. But I wrote for 40 minutes, and it makes all the difference.
--Mar 7, 2010 

I don't know if any of you are writers, but this interview is startling and wonderful (to me) http://tinyurl.com/yg6vazb
--Mar 5, 2010

Writing.
--Mar 3, 2010

@Plainhuman I not only get the reference, I can back it up with reams of in depth canonical analysis.
--Mar 1, 2010

I've been playing Pokemon Diamond for a week, and all I've caught is eye strain.
--Mar 1, 2010



Marcshhhhhh

This never happened.
--Feb 31, 2010

The sickness must be lifting, I just figured out how to end this chapter. I think...Exciting. Thank You good health and Twilight Sad album.
--Feb 26, 2010

...Attacking art like it's a problem,getting to the root of it,and getting things done. It's my personal work ethic & I hope it's yours too.
--Feb 26, 2010

Really wonderful (and inspirational) blog post on Coldplay.com (after the bit about the alarm) http://bit.ly/bh3iSs
--Feb 26, 2010

I can.
--Feb 22, 2010

Can you imagine a funeral where that played, in it's entirety, every time someone walked through the door?!
--Feb 22, 2010

My future doorbell: http://www.musikhandwerk.de/music/krummhorn_sample.mp3
--Feb 22, 2010

The best part of naming our group French Toast, is we can call our headquarters The Bread Forge...
--Mon 22, 2010

Still, very productive day--from a "further down the line I'll look back and nod" sort of way. 
--Feb 19, 2010

My hand eye coordination is so bad; I once tried to catch a baseball, and nearly killed an endangered Iberian Lynx.
--Feb 18, 2010

Kisses & Candy: Valentine's Day tradition, OR the name of my former mixed-race boy band?
--Feb 12, 2010

Every time I begin to forget how to write, I realize it's been two hours since I started. Break and possible end of the Writing night.
--Feb 11, 2010

Yay! Writing...
--Feb 11, 2010

I lost an entire day of productivity to a slight cold and slight-er bottle of Riesling. So I slept eleven hours last night. Let's do this.
--Feb 11, 2010

...and then, realizing you're about to finish ~two~ chapters, instead of just one.
--Feb 8, 2010

There is nothing like realizing you're about to split a chapter in two.
--Feb 8, 2010

Finally. My naked body on Wired Magazine post
--Feb 8, 2010

@olganunes All sad things are honest.
--Feb 8, 2010

Oh, SHIT yes! http://frederatorblogs.com/adventure_time/ Adventure Time is coming to Television!
--Feb 8, 2010

@charlesv Your message was like a telegram, tapped straight into my heart.
--Feb 8, 2010

@neilhimself The former Team Genius thanks you, Sir!
--Feb 8, 2010


This is how you end up...on the internet, naked in bed with puppets: http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd
--Feb 7, 2010

Onward, to Alchemy! #writing
--Feb 7, 2010

Writing. I think.
--Feb 6, 2010

@BRIANMBENDIS If you read Siege #2 backwards, The Sentry is just giving birth to a hero.
--Feb 4, 2010


Two pages in. Two minute Break. Two million words to go.
--Feb 3, 2010

DELICIOUS research http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands_English 
--Feb 3, 2010

Siege #2 was fun. Now, as the espresso is kicking in... on to Writing.
--Feb 3, 2010

Very excited about Siege #2 Being out today; am doing my best to avoid spoilers.
--Feb 3, 2010

Could I possibly listen to the "Restless Natives" soundtrack three days in a row? my iPod is saying yes.
--Feb 3, 2010

@CarltonCuse Thank-you.
--Feb 2, 2010

Twilight fans agree: Avatar would have been better, if the crippled man went into a machine that turned him into a vampire.
--Feb 1, 2010

Febrw2ary

2 pages fleshed out into 10. Am done for the night, but would gladly go on forever, had my brain not threatened to shut down any moment now.
--Jan 31, 2010

Seriously, how can you not love the first opening minute and a half: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V0RBPiHS0w Great Song.
--Jan 31, 2010

Writing.
--Jan 31, 2010


This has been the most productive day ever. I just wrote for an hour. I know how the chapter ends. I KNOW HOW THE CHAPTER ENDS!
--Jan 30, 2010

You must be Balamb, 'cause you're ass is talkin' to me.
--Jan 30, 2010


Holy shit! New Murder By Death Album in April?! (!!!!!!!!) This is a good year for people who are me who like music.
--Jan 26, 2010

Writing?
--Jan 24, 2010

It's been about nine months, and I'm still listening to Big country's "Just a Shadow" about once a day. At least. Sometimes the whole album.
--Jan 18, 2010

Finished (rough, rough, roughly) the scene that's been so fucking hard. Well, one-of-the-scenes-that have been so fucking hard.
--Jan 17, 2010
 
Once more into the breach. I wonder if people ever say that when their doing something against contract.
--Jan 17, 2010

Okay. Now...Writing.
--Jan 16, 2010

This is when I knew what I was doing. I'm so happy I could cry.
--Jan 14, 2010

...Trying to get Rain Dance by Big Country out of my head. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_fj7awXHFk
--Jan 14, 2010


At the library, just had enough for a small coffee. Sitting down to pester my head with words for an hour or so.
--Jan 14, 2010

Further footprints into this story novel thingy.
--Jan 12, 2010

...and figuring out where the fuck I am in this chapter. Compass having previously pointed East of Nowhere.
-- Jan 12, 2010

Apparently,if you're playing pictionary,and you get "Alcatraz",you can't *just* draw Sean Connery holding up a rock. (apologies @plainhuman)
--Jan 12, 2010

If there is a place for prose to go when it dies, then damn these words to hell. #writing.
--Jan 9, 2010

...Writing.
--Jan 9, 2010

Writing?
--Jan 9, 2010

Writing.
--Jan 9, 2010

Think of things--erase, rewrite--think up new things, shrug aching shoulders--repeat.repeat. repeat. BATHROOM BREAK. #GlamorousLife
--Jan 2, 2012

January