Jun 25
2008

Round Robin and Other Bits

Seems like we’re all a little preoccupied to play with the round robin, so we’re going to shuffle that to “on hold” status. If you don’t like having it left up in the air, well, the dead bodies all come to live and eat everyone, the end. Hopefully at a later date we can make it a more satisfying HEA such as two zombies really have the hots for each other and discover there is love after death.

Writing has its ups and downs for everyone. Some people can write when the world is crashing in on them. They’re able to tell the firetruck hold off for one more minute while frantically typing away on a really “hot” scene while the place is smoldering to ashes around them. Other people find they can’t write today because the moon isn’t aligned with the proper constellation. Then there’s the rest of us in the middle. Some days we frantically write as the words pour through us and out our fingertips and other days we sit with that cursor staring at us and wondering what’s on TV or isn’t there a blog I haven’t checked 10 times today. Right now, my kids are home for the summer. This is tampering with my muse, she really wants to write, but can’t seem to write when we snatch a few odd moments here and there.

I wish I could afford to send them to more camps, but honestly, those things are expensive and I can’t justify the expense when I’m not bringing in any dough. So for now I’m not writing. You could tie my to the computer and I don’t think any words would trickle out. Maybe tomorrow I’ll woe my muse with something, anything to bring her back to full throttle.

What do you do when your muse takes a holiday? Are you a no matter what this MS is getting finished or I don’t know how I’m ever going to get this MS finished?

Jun 13
2008

Round Robin 2

My installement. :)

“I should have known.” He sounded resigned. “How many this time?”
“Just him, and three others.” Anna brought her hand down and shielded her eyes against the glare of the flashlight. “Mind lowering that?”
The light lowered to illuminate the body. “What did I tell you about doing this? People get entirely the wrong idea and I get a call that someone is dragging a body around.”
“We need them, Cal,” Sue piped up. “Without them our research comes to a halt, and you’ll end up with even more zombies.”
“Yeah, Cal,” Anna mimicked Sue, fully aware he hated being called Cal, “without them our research suffers a setback. They decompose too fast to get much use out of just one of them.”
Caleb’s narrowed eyes told their own story. He didn’t like this. At all. But then, he’d never believed in their research into Zombieism anyway. He probably thought they got their rocks off with some stiffs. Anna shuddered at the thought.
Use?” Obviously the word had only just sunk in. He visibly shuddered. “I don’t even want to ask.”