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Posts by kilian
I’m Considering How To Best Explain My Current State of Mind Without Resorting to a Long Winded Diatribe That Meanders On Pointlessly for Quite Some Time Before Breaking Down Into Unintelligible Swearing But I’m Failing Miserably…F#$king, S&*t, A$$, F@#k, B!^%h!
13 days
by kilian
in Random Normality
Because, as is often the case when I am very, very upset, I have no one to blame but myself. And isn’t that just the worst, really? When you want to go and just punch some asshole in the mouth for totally fucking with your shit but the reality of the situation is that, oh hey, you’re actually the asshole in question and you’re not really “down,” as the kids say, with kicking your own ass.
Perhaps explanations are in order…perhaps not…but I will provide them nonetheless.
Word Count 34,697: The Shell Game Has Commenced
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At this point, I’m essentially re-arranging chunks of text. Most of the stuff that needed serious revision has been duly revised. But that, it turns out (ironically?!), was the easy part. What I’m doing now is cutting and pasting sections from various drafts into a new file. It sounds easy, sure, but the way in which the first several drafts were paced was to switch viewpoint characters about every 1000 words, or 4/5 pages of double spaced text in Word. This draft (the final draft, yes?) forgoes the constant shifting to allow more pages per viewpoint character scene. So what I’m left doing is paging through multiple older drafts to find several chunks to fit together into the newest draft, before going back over what has been imported and making edits. I had believed, for what reason I can’t say now, that this would go faster than the large revision of the front part of the text. But while that was actual creation, built on top of ideas that had been percolating in my mind for, in some cases, years. This is more like trying to put together a puzzle where the pieces have have been scattered across several boxes that also include pieces I don’t need…or in some cases, are severely ashamed of.
Ebooks Should Not be Feared in the Same Manner as Axe Wielding, Midget Clowns
26 days
by kilian
in Random Normality
I’m going to preface this whole post by saying I just got back from the gym and, excepting the last two weeks, I haven’t regularly exercised for…how old is my daughter…oh yeah, five. Suffice it to say, I’m still in the “my limbs feel like jelly and my brain is akin to a bowl of gruel” stage when I’m done, so this may not be the most coherent post ever on the ol’ NR. Not that the bar is set particularly high, mind, but just know you’ve been warned. Furthermore, this entire strain of thought was prompted by a facebook post to which I was going to respond.
I generally log into facebook, say, every half year or so. Today I was prompted to do so by one of those “so and so has requested to be your friend” emails, but the person who was supposedly making said request wasn’t someone I recognize. So I logged in to see this person’s profile, only to not actually see the aforementioned request. Then, before I could get the hell out of there, I happened to see a post in which a person referenced this guardian article where Jonathan Franzen talks about how he’s afraid of digital books. I was intending to simply add a comment and be on my merry way…but, well, my mind doesn’t really operate in “facebookz” comment friendly sizes.
It’s not like Franzen is afraid of digital books in the same way he might be frightened by axe wielding, midget clowns. His actual quote is:
I’m Staying Pessimistic to Blunt the Inevitable Heartbreak to Come
113 days
by kilian
in Television
My guess is I’m not the only one watching Once Upon a Time. I mean, it’s not like I’m looking at the ratings or anything…OK, I do check on them from time to time…but Once Upon a Time seems to be doing fairly decent 9 episodes in, so I’m hopeful it will at least finish out the season and get renewed. Of course, I’m always skeptical about fantasy-style shows and renewals.
Word Count: 23,475
166 days
by kilian
in Random Normality
It is, perhaps, odd that I write a post today. There isn’t really a compelling reason for me to be posting something today…or, at least no more compelling reason than just about any other day. And, sure, I could just be posting one of those bs “let me catch you up on shit” kinda things but I’m much too tired for that. And while the comic there is old…I’m not working on my thesis, obviously, at this moment I resemble Kilian there much more than is probably healthy.
So why am I even posting something?
That’s a valid question…
A Brief Plea for Help
3267 days
by kilian
in Random Normality
Assuming this missive reaches any out there in the ether known as the interwebz, I humbly submit the following request.
Let’s say, hypothetically, that I was taking part in a sort of social experiment. Said experiment is cheifly populated by writers, and readers, and possibly writers who read, and maybe even readers who write from time to time. As part of this experiment I am given some amount of “space” to present certain bits of information about myself such as:
- Favorite Font: Century Gothic
- Favorite Place to Write: Does this hypothetical place serve coffee?
- Favorite Place to Read: Anywhere, really, because I often find myself reading even when to do so is seen as rude by others
I’m Cheap…but, Not Really
3270 days
by kilian
in Random Normality
I had previously wondered whether or not I could concievabley spend $15 a month for HBO in order to watch Game of Thrones. It turns out that, for reasons wholly unrelated to HBO (more on that later), I can’t. There are, of course, other ways to “watch” a show, and so I have indeed seen all four episodes that have aired. I have no moral qualms about seeing episodes of a series on a “pay channel” without paying for said channel. This is due to the already admitted (on my part) fact that I will purchase the season one blu-ray the day it comes out. As I write this, I have a House Stark stein ($20 US) sitting on my desk that I will likely be purchasing tonight.