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I need coffee and cigarettes.

Not that I drink coffee or smoke cigarettes or anything. Just that maybe if I had the writing atmosphere, I could get into the writing mood.
Felicia did some commentary on my story, which helped me clean up some bits of it. Some things she's 'corrected' I already edited on my copy since posting it on LJ, but it's the thought that counts. I wanted to get him off that roof tonight, but I'm not sure it's going to happen. Maybe, but I need caffeine, of which I am in short supply.

I also need to have a nigh-finished draft of a nigh-finished story by next Tuesday, for my Creative Writing conference. I'm going to have her go over whatever I have for The Ascension, but she wants at least one finished piece by the end of the year, and The Ascension will be a novel-sized work if I can help it, so I don't expect it to be done in another two months. Not at my pace, anyways. I think I'm going to take Sunglow and turn it from a Snippet into a ShortStory, and see how that goes. Flesh it out into more of a world-view type, and see if I can get it to go for five or so pages... it my be a bit of work, but that's what i plan on working on this weekend. that and my philosophy paper which is due next Wednesday. Whee.

So, yeah, maybe I need coffee and cigarettes...

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It's true, it's true, we don't exist.
-Blind Guardian, Punishment Divine

I got a new idea for my Shortstory, one that I like better. Sunglow is far to strikingly realistic, and trying to build a story up from it is just feeling forced. SO, instead I'm writing a story about a Vampire Hunter tracking and killing his prey. A little bit Done, perhapse, but I just need to find some hitch to make it interesting. As both an odd turn on Sunglow and an appropriate name for the story, I'm calling it Moonshadow, at least for the time being. We'll see how that goes.

Still no coffee or cigarettes, but I had some coke and string-cheese. It's mostly just made me hungry, though.