Long weekend

[ostarella]

Well, they did it to me again! Now they want me to come in to work today from 4 until midnight, because it's going to be sooooo busy getting all the orders out they can before the deadline. Well, sorry, folks, but I looked at what's on the floor and 80% has a ship date of mid-April, and they never push the ship date when it's that far out. 4-5 days maybe, not two weeks. (sigh) Nothing like pushing my whole day ahead six hours - ever try forcing yourself to go to sleep six hours before you normally would? Yuck. So I'm hoping I'll get a call this afternoon saying, Oh, hey, looks like we won't need you after all.

Damn.

Anyway, on a brighter note - a couple of neat links from Fiction Factor newsletter:

What’s In A Name?

http://www.fictionfactor.com/guests/whatsinaname.html

A little advice on choosing names for your characters and how important it can be...

A Sprinkle of Sparkle

http://children.fictionfactor.com/articles/sparkle.html

Something JFM might find interesting, as it involves a new way of editing - at least, new to me ;-)  But it's interesting in how the author suggests deciding what's good and what can be tossed in your story.

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[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Went to work, no busier than usual, snow and rain covering the roads with slush, so when I found out the lines were going to slow down to next to nothing, and observed the "regulars" standing around talking and playing on the internet, told my boss I was going home. Period. So worked a total of four and half hours, spent a total of almost two hours on the road - but now I'm home, with my computer, with a full night of wakefulness and in a dark mood - perfect for writing the next scenes LOL