That’s how I feel today. You?
It’s a happy kind of head-slammedness, anyway. It results from my having finished the rewrite for my Deathlands novel, Blood Oasis, and shipping it off to Gold Eagle.
As rewrites go, this one went more smoothly than any I can remember. However, the intensity with which I rewrote (facilitated, lo, by that very smoothness!) has completely fried me.
I always get a little nuts when I approach the end of a writing project. Okay, a little more nuts. I haven’t showered in like five days and have barely been out of the house (no doubt fortunate in light of the foregoing.) And getting one out the door, electronically speaking, leaves me spent and shriveled like a cast-off cicada husk.
You’re welcome for that visual. Oh, and the olfactory.
I cannot rest long on my … whatever cicada husks come to rest on; twigs, mostly, I suppose. I have to get back and finish the long-deferred rewrite of my Wild Cards yarn (sorry, George and Melinda!), as well as, yes, the rewrite of Dinosaur Lords.
I’ll actually try to get back on them today. Although I’m not sure how productive I’ll be, given my current state of having a flat head.
Or it might be safer just to play Torchlight and try to finish up watching Hatari! and the first disc of Outlaw Star, Season 2, so I can get ‘em back to Netflix. Still, I will try the Road of Virtuous Productivity first. My feeble efforts could be amusing if nothing else.
Anyway, I muster a feeble, yay!
More soon. Thanks for hanging with me!
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OOOOooooh! “Hatari!” – good movie. Great score. “Baby Elephant Walk,” sure, it’s cute – but listen to the music in the action scenes too – especially the rhino hunts (the unsuccessful one in the beginning and the successful one near the end).
- M. (\”/)
Crikey! That was fast.
So far so good on Hatari. The Mancini score is quite effective. The scenery’s pretty imposing too. Interesting that much of it was filmed on a game ranch owned by Hardy Krüger, who played Kurt Müller.
I sure see what all the summaries mean by “loosely plotted.” It does just seem to amble – in overall pace, of course, not the chase scenes, which are quite cool. Fortunately the characters are likable and fun to follow.
I’m glad the final rhino hunt succeeds. I want to watch them put one of those puppies in a wood crate and lift it onto a truck by hand.
Watching it has proven an extended process. The damn movie’s over two and a half hours long.
PS – they didn’t show loading the rhino onto the truck at all! Bastards.
You play Torchlight? Oh you and Matt will have much to talk about!
Yep. And thank Goddess for Torchlight, because if I didn’t have that, I might be forced to take interest in (shudder) curling for diversion.
Then again, if I actually took up curling as a sport, I’d get about the same amount of exercise as I do playing Torchlight.
Lemme guess, did you name your virtual pet after your actually fuzzy kids? Because it’s not like we did that or anything….
Matt says when it goes to the MMORPG stage we all need to play together!
Speaking of that thing going on in Vancouver, Charlie White (Davis & White, Ice Dancing) reminds me of you, back when I first met you.