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I kinda want to retreat into Fort Kickass and stay there all day, listening to Stabbing Westward and eating cookies.

The first draft of Ravenswood is with a couple of early readers who will give me the feedback I need to polish it up and send it to my editor. I haven’t decided it if will get released as its own thing (it’s just over 10000 words) or if I’ll keep it as part of the collection of short stories I originally intended for it to live.

Now I’m going back to finish the first draft of another short called Devil’s Gate, and then I’ll circle back around to finishing the puke draft of the short story that became a novella that ended up becoming a novel, which is currently called The Childhood I Lost but needs a better title.

I still don’t know if that thing holds together, and I think that part of the reason I haven’t finished it is being afraid of handing it to an early reader who may say, “this doesn’t hold together, dude.”

I’m late to the party, so most of you have probably watched all of Black Mirror, but Anne and I started series three last night and … wow. It’s intense. I highly recommend it, but probably don’t binge, because each episode deserves at least 24 hours in your brains to unpack itself.

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11 thoughts on “Daily December 14”

  1. Shaun Jex says:
    14 December, 2016 at 1:24 pm

    Funny you should mention Stabbing Westward. I don’t think I’d listened to them in over a decade and then a couple weeks ago I started re-listening to the songs on Wither, Blister, Burn & Peel. Apparently there’s still something oddly satisfying about being angst ridden from time to time 🙂

  2. Glenn Rittenhouse says:
    14 December, 2016 at 1:43 pm

    Black Mirror is so good. I am only disappointed in the short series. Each episode is nearly a full movie really. To sum up, I love the BBC.

  3. Shaun Jex says:
    14 December, 2016 at 2:25 pm

    Also – reading through the comments on your Star Wars post yesterday it seems that a ton of your readers either aren’t familiar with or are just ignoring Wheaton’s Law….

  4. mimi (@mimi78) says:
    14 December, 2016 at 3:17 pm

    I have a story comment today. When we were in LA, we spent a day at the beach. I think it was dockweiler, it’s only 10 mins from Aunt Judy’s in Culver City. The whole family got to go, husbands two cousins, their spouses and all the girls. Kind of great cause Josh is an EP on NCIS and works mad hours. 8 adults, 8 little girls. The waves were pretty rough that day. We are watermelon on the beach and made castles and moats and stayed all day. It was perfect.
    At one point Claire got knocked down by a wave, just a few feet from shore, a few feet from me and her dad, in just a few inches of water, but was being sucked out to sea. She is a good swimmer but immediately was spooked and flailed in the wave… and the parents we are … seeing zero danger … both took a second to wave bye to her before picking her up, and she laughed at us but said not to do that again.
    Happy day to you!

    1. mimi (@mimi78) says:
      14 December, 2016 at 3:39 pm

      Pics or it didn’t happen. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mbecker70/albums/72157673480420403/page1

  5. rdbetz says:
    14 December, 2016 at 7:25 pm

    I don’t like to binge. My wife does it, but I like to stick to a two episode a night schedule.

  6. Chris says:
    15 December, 2016 at 9:25 am

    Have you seen the San Junipero episode yet? Totally awesome 80s nostalgia blast. And much more optimistic than most Black Mirror episodes.

    1. Andy D says:
      17 December, 2016 at 9:31 am

      San Junipero is my favourite (whilst maybe not the best) episode, fudge knows we needed a lift after Shut Up and Dance

  7. Ian Osmond says:
    15 December, 2016 at 12:49 pm

    Hey, I was wondering if you were aware of the podcast “Film Reroll”, which seems like it would be right up your alley. In it, a bunch of folks, who are largely actors who have done improv work, take the setup for a favorite movie, make GURPS character sheets for the main characters, and then play the movie as a game.

    What made me finally decide that, even though I thought there was an eighty percent chance you already knew about this, I had to make sure, was that their most recent one is STAND BY ME.

    If nothing else, once they get around to posting the character sheets, I thought you might want to know your character’s stats…

    Seriously, I think you’d enjoy it. And, well… I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d be thrilled to hear from you if you like it. http://www.filmreroll.com/

  8. Lacey says:
    16 December, 2016 at 5:58 am

    My husband and I LOVED Black Mirror too. We had to stop watching it before bed though because it gave me the weirdest dreams. . . .

  9. Bro says:
    17 December, 2016 at 9:33 am

    Stabbing Westward! Great pick. Which album?

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