Speaking of which... the moment when one of your clients wakes up in the middle of the night, turns the TV on, sees your face and thinks they're having a nightmare. 
That Moment....
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I'm not in the USA, but well done.TMW you are going to be on 2 News segments on 2 diff News channels promoting your library's book club.
If you are in Michigan and a stuttering librarian pops up on your screen... Howdy
TMW you're on public transport, minding your own business, and some bozo (possibly high or drunk -- or both -- why not both?) starts slurring the words to "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees and absolutely murders the song, singing either the wrong notes, or off-key, or caterwauling like a cat being 'fixed', until you wish you could deck the bastard. But that wouldn't be 'civilised'. 
(Sorry, that happened to me last night ... and actually made me go into a kind of shock at how bad it was. Some people shouldn't sing, and definitely not in public)
(Sorry, that happened to me last night ... and actually made me go into a kind of shock at how bad it was. Some people shouldn't sing, and definitely not in public)
TMW you've been meaning to do some writing, but you realize that you'd been distracted by all the shiny funny stuff on YouTube, and now it's midnight and time for bed.
... followed by ...
TMW the alarm clock rings six-and-a-half hours later, and you groan, disentangle your face from the pillow with resignation and dismay, get up, and prepare for another workday.
... followed by ...
TMW you know you should eat a bowl of cereal for breakfast, but you fix yourself some milk and cookies instead, just 'cos you need a quick energy boost ... which is followed half-an-hour later by an energy crash. Sigh.
... followed by ...
TMW the alarm clock rings six-and-a-half hours later, and you groan, disentangle your face from the pillow with resignation and dismay, get up, and prepare for another workday.
... followed by ...
TMW you know you should eat a bowl of cereal for breakfast, but you fix yourself some milk and cookies instead, just 'cos you need a quick energy boost ... which is followed half-an-hour later by an energy crash. Sigh.
I agree! We need deets!
My Achilles Heel for that is Google Street View. I go in search of information on the way a certain locale looks, and find myself driving virtually (but not virtuously) over any street or alley in the area. This is especially true for places I actually lived in.
TMW the author of one of the books you chose for your bookclub, saw your News interview promoting the book club and mentioning her book... and makes post on Social Media 40mins ago to her MANY followers and now wants to attend the bookclub!
We need a "groan" (possibly of recognition) icon in the reactions (i.e. the ones that include the "Thumbs Up" and the "Beer" etc.), just for this.
Writing drunk, not a half-bad idea.
TMW you realise you got 2.5 days left to finish writing a competition piece
TMW you receive comments from your critique partner at some ungodly hour after 11pm, and you're bone-tired from having been out all day at work and rehearsing for a concert so you're already in bed, fast asleep, and not even aware of them until the next day ... when you see on your phone that you finally received some comments, and you can't wait for the workday to be over so you can get home and get cracking ...
... and you get started on the comments at 8 pm, after dinner is done and the dishes are washed, and you get through them all (well, nearly) by 11 pm ... but you still have questions to ask your critique partner, because you know that your next submission is due the following day, so you email those questions over, and then you're so tired you give up and go to to post in a thread like this!
(Yes, that happened to me tonight. How'd you guess?)
***WARNING WARNING RANT DANGER DANGER WILL ROBINSON***
TMW you come back to this thread to say that in two days, you went through all the critique comments (thanks to all the work you did the previous night, but also thanks to taking another 2 hours after work to do the rest) and OH MY GOD YOU GUYS, thanks to my wonderful critique partner, the chapter I wrote is a whole other level. No kidding. I just one-upped last-week-me by putting some paragraphs in a different order, adding little descriptions and half-scenes of my protagonists climbing a mountain so they can actually SEE FROM THE TOP where they're going to do the fight scene rather than the my protagonists saying "Hey, look!" and the scene turns up (which was my original idea -- oops) ...
Um. Just my way to say that my critique partner is a legend. He puts so much thought into everything he does. I just can't say how good he is at this, and how much better I feel once I solve the problems he sets me.
Sorry. I know I overreacted up there. It just made me feel so damn happy.
I've already also written the follow-up chapter too. It has to achieve a shit-ton of stuff, so I took time over the weekend and constructed it carefully, and it ended up weighing at a ridiculous 8,500 words or some such. (Of course I won't submit the whole thing at once, I'll cut it into 2K batches first). But at least it's done, done, done!!! Until it gets critiqued, of course... ;-P
TMW you come back to this thread to say that in two days, you went through all the critique comments (thanks to all the work you did the previous night, but also thanks to taking another 2 hours after work to do the rest) and OH MY GOD YOU GUYS, thanks to my wonderful critique partner, the chapter I wrote is a whole other level. No kidding. I just one-upped last-week-me by putting some paragraphs in a different order, adding little descriptions and half-scenes of my protagonists climbing a mountain so they can actually SEE FROM THE TOP where they're going to do the fight scene rather than the my protagonists saying "Hey, look!" and the scene turns up (which was my original idea -- oops) ...
Um. Just my way to say that my critique partner is a legend. He puts so much thought into everything he does. I just can't say how good he is at this, and how much better I feel once I solve the problems he sets me.
Sorry. I know I overreacted up there. It just made me feel so damn happy.
I've already also written the follow-up chapter too. It has to achieve a shit-ton of stuff, so I took time over the weekend and constructed it carefully, and it ended up weighing at a ridiculous 8,500 words or some such. (Of course I won't submit the whole thing at once, I'll cut it into 2K batches first). But at least it's done, done, done!!! Until it gets critiqued, of course... ;-P
A chapter consisting of 8500 words!
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TMW you tell yourself you've done enough writing this week and need to take a break.
TMW an hour later you sit down and write a whole new story.
TMW an hour later you sit down and write a whole new story.
A chapter consisting of 8500 words!
Yes. I wrote a plan for the entire story, and I didn't plan it that way, but once I started writing, I couldn't stop.
Among other things, this chapter is my protagonist's Turning Point(TM) from a "Boastful Wannabe Heroine" to a "Badass Heroine". So I tried to make it truly awesome.
