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I have been tired all fucking day.

I would like to pretend that I actually have something to say here, internet, but I don't. I've been exhausted for no reason all day, my foot hurt so much last night that I started crying but when I woke up it didn't hurt at all so I guess the epic pain was worth it, and my anxiety has decided that now would be a great time to rear its ugly head and start being an asshole again.

It has also hit that point in time where I'm going ">:( THE BOOK THAT I WANT TO READ DOES NOT EXIST THEREFORE I MUST WRITE IT >:(" and poking at the book I've been working on for... well, a while. And I'm realizing that, for all the amount of F/F porn/erotica I have, I am still really fucking shit at writing F/F sex scenes. Never even fucking mind F/F/F ones.

So, have a meme instead.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
~~6. Tag five people.~~ I AM TOO CRANKY TO TAG PEOPLE.

Who would use a kitten as a Proxy? Maybe the dead joker next to him.

This was so none of my business.

While I am not a cat person, I am even less a dead-body person. But it's not like I hadn't ever been to a funeral before. I could handle seeing dead poeple. I didn't much like touching them, but in order to get the kitten out from under his arm, and maybe then to a shelter, or at least away from the dead jerk, I had to move the dead arm.
--Magic to the Bone by Devon Monk

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It has also hit that point in time where I'm going ">:( THE BOOK THAT I WANT TO READ DOES NOT EXIST THEREFORE I MUST WRITE IT >:(" and poking at the book I've been working on for... well, a while
So much excitement!

REALLY IT JUST MAKES ME SUPER CRANKY because I want it to be written already god damn it >:(

Oh, I hate that feeling. :(

<3333

I WILL PUNCH THIS STORY IN THE FACE UNTIL IT WRITES ITSELF, KATE >:( >:( >:( oh my god why is porn so hard to write :(

:(((((((((((

I dunno bb, it just is hard. :(

You should try sleepwriting. Then it's like it writes itself!

THAT WOULD BE SO GREAT incoherent, but so great.

Yeah, but you'd have the shitty first draft! Then it's all editing, bb!

Currently, my shitty first draft consists of "Scenes from five or six years ago that have no relevance to the plot but were more interesting than the plot", "porn from various stages in the plot", "lolzy sociopathy that, in retrospect, only I and maybe SK and Epon will find lolzy and not horrifying", "lots of [PLOT GOES HERE] and [SOMETIME PROBABLY TRIES TO KILL THEM AROUND NOW] and [HEY NICK MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE PAYING ATTENTION TO YOUR OUTLINE INSTEAD OF WRITING ALL THE SCENES THAT MAKE YOU LOL FIRST]"

Hahahhahahaha, yeah, I know it. I've got six drafts of my cheesy vampire novel, none finished. I'm probably trying it again for NaNo this year. Just keep poking it, bb.

I would rather stare at it angrily in hopes of intimidating it into writing itself. :(

:(

Or you could invent a robot to WRITE IT FOR YOU.

THAT WOULD BE PRETTY GREAT!! But I am afraid that a robot who could write a book for me would also be a robot that could pass the Turing test and it would end in blood, tears, and robot oil. :(

You have cats! Put THEM in front of the computer! Someone will write this for you.

I got like three chapters into Magic to the Bone and was bored to tears. Does it get better?

Sex is hard to write.

ihni, I haven't actually started reading it yet. It's my take-along book, and I just haven't had to sit anywhere long enough to read any in the past couple weeks.

What other UF are you bored by?

I've gotten into the habit of actually reading a chapter or two at the bookstore before buying these days, but:

Kitty Norville straddles the line. I alternate between loving the books and being bored by them. It's weird.

What was Amber Bensen's book? That one was boring.

I've started Street Magic by Caitlin Kittredge about three times and never gotten far.

Rachel Caine's adult books. I love her YA, but her adult ones not so much.

The Connor Grey books by Mark Del Franco are ones that if I force myself past the first few chapters I know I'll love them, but it's getting past those chapters.

The Simon Canderous ones by Anton Strout are the same way.

The Hollows books by Kim Harriosn. I got about a quarter of the way through the second one, put it down, and never picked it back up. I really wanted to like this series too.

I don't have the best memory for things I didn't like. Let me know how Magic to the Bone turns out? I really wanted to like it.

I've not read any of those beyond Kitty Norville (I think I stalled out at Dead Man's Hand? Raises Hell? Whichever one isn't the most recent.), so I have no idea if our tastes are at all similar, but I will let you know when I finish it!

I just finished Silver Bullet and am in no particular hurry to move onto the next one.

Perhaps things I do like?

Cal Leandros by Rob Thurman

Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

Mercy Thompson and Alpha & Omega series by Patricia Briggs

Greywalker books by Kat Richardson

Nightside books by Simon R. Green

Only one book into the Walker Papers by C.E. Murphy, but they look good.

October Daye books by Seanan McGuire

Caitlin R. Kiernan is rather wonderful. She is like if Lovecraft had been writing today, setting his books in Alabama, and not had the dodgy race stuff.

I really wish there were more places to talk about UF in a fannish setting.

That is what I have off the top of my head.

Edited 2010-06-02 05:40 (UTC)

saj;flkd Our tastes are neither similar nor dissimilar. Have you read Ilona Andrews' Kate Daniels series? Because that is pretty fucking great. Also, I just started Greywalker (again; I keep getting distracted after the first chapter or two and putting it down) last night! :D

Yes, I forgot to put that on the list, but I love Kate Daniels to bits. I'm eagerly anticipating the next book. I wanna know what happens!

I actually owned Greywalker for about two years before I finally read it. So worth it. I love the books so much now.

♥♥♥♥♥Kate Daniels♥♥♥♥♥ I'm working on a review-ish post about the latest book that is basically summed up as "♥______________♥ BE STILL MY BEATING HEART ♥_____________♥"

I'm not sure I could do a better review then that. It pretty much sums up my feelings.

Hey, for whatever it's worth, I have a lot of experience with F/F and F/F/F (both doing it and editing it)--if you want someone to help, even if it's just reading things over and going "more of this, less of this," lemme know, yes?

♥4EVA

I might actually take you up on that! \o/ (On the other hand, I might actually continue my strategy of going "D: THIS IS AWFUL" and putting it away for a couple months in hopes it magically turns into something I can edit into awesomeness. It has not worked yet, but thirtieth time's the charm, amirite? :D? :D? :( )

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