Hey folks! Since both Michelle and Liam were not present last week when we took the time to discuss what is currently concerning us and our individual writing careers, we decided to give them a chance to vent as well.
So if you have questions, concerns, or things to complain about, this is the right show for you!
Join us as we discuss anxiety, laziness, Netflix, and all those other things that come with being a working creative.
Hello? Is anyone there? What’s that sound. Quick! BEHIND YOU!
RChazzChute Dear god! It’s a….a TOUGH CROWD!
xgranville RChazzChute Oh noes! *ducks*
IT’S THURSDAY!
Good mornevening.
xgranville
CateMorgan xgranville RChazzChute Wait, no Wade… Does that mean I have to talk this week?
Liam Kingman CateMorgan xgranville RChazzChute To quote the great Rocket Raccoon: “Oh, yeah”
I’ve been to Oklahoma. It’s everything you think it is.
Liam Kingman xgranville RChazzChute YES. *cracks whip*
PatrickSzabo It sounds frightening.
xgranville I have a question. Why are you such a jerk to me?
JamieDodge xgranville Because I am a bad Canadian.
xgranville PatrickSzabo Tumbleweeds.
The Cyclons have a plan….though not really.
Liam is talking!
michelleread You are late!
JamieDodge michelleread Bad! Bad girl!
Who the hell has parades at night?
Oklahoma, Xavier. Oklahoma.
All parades are creepy.
They do one of those at Kent State University here every halloween. A zombie walk, I mean.
JamieDodge michelleread I know I’m sorry! I was eating fried chicken…
I use my vagina as an excuse for things.
PatrickSzabo It’s in a jar.
michelleread How do you stay so small and eat all that junk food?
Fear spurs me.
PatrickSzabo
JamieDodge michelleread Magic metabolism
The point of bing watching is to keep you from doing what you know you need to do.
xgranville PatrickSzabo It IS a jar.
CateMorgan PatrickSzabo omg Cate 🙂
JamieDodge Correct
After sex? I seem to be stuck in the before sex mode. Shit!
RChazzChute A worth motivator!
RChazzChute I spat my metaphorical drink. And now I’ll have some of my real drink.
RChazzChute worthy even
michelleread PatrickSzabo What can I say? I really hated doing the show in high school.
RChazzChute hahaha
CateMorgan michelleread PatrickSzabo Yes it can be tedious
PatrickSzabo xgranville lolololol
michelleread CateMorgan PatrickSzabo But…but…the wind comes sweeping down the plain!
PatrickSzabo michelleread CateMorgan I was going to say that!
PatrickSzabo michelleread We used to make up dirty lyrics to get us through rehearsal.
CateMorgan PatrickSzabo michelleread THE TASTY WHEAT SURE TASTES SWEET!
Plans are for losers.
CateMorgan PatrickSzabo michelleread Haha!!
I tried to plan out writing times. yeah, okay.
Liam Kingman Good answer.
Kids…they’re what’s for dinner.
xgranville it’s Friday here. Jealous? 😛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppKkYkM0apI
xgranville does that make you American?
JamieDodge Liam Kingman Ah, day jobs–those vampires of creativity. Even when I have time to write, I may not have the mental stamina to write because I’m drained.
I have 75K words to write before November 1st.
Whoops, was making a cover and forgot the time. I’m here now though! 🙂
BatmanErica YAY!
michelleread you wear more makeup than I do 😛
BatmanErica Greetings!
PatrickSzabo Wow.
CateMorgan it’s been a real dick too. I’ve started again today but it has to be done >.<
Apparently, my minions. 😉
I would rather bleed from my eyes than vomit.
As weird as it sounds, I write better when I’m sick.
BatmanErica michelleread I put on lipstick three times today! All the fancy girls would be so proud.
PatrickSzabo omg me too
I puked the other day but that was after I came home from the office and after finishing up my self editing. But the puking was kind of self inflicted as I cleaned out the stuff that had been in the fridge for like 6 months and stank so bad that my stomach had no choice >.<
BatmanErica Yikes! I know the feeling. I had one I must have done ten times before it was finally done. I’m still not thrilled with it, but I’m definitely OVER it.
BatmanErica GROSSSSSSS!!! I’m sorry 🙁
I used to take what I call ‘mental health’ days when I was working for someone else. I took quite a few of them sometimes. I had a lot of mental health 😛
BatmanErica haha
BatmanErica aka, Sanity Points.
michelleread PatrickSzabo I’m phobic about it, diagnosed with emetyphobia. I’m even on crazy pills for it.
michelleread so was I. Especially while I was scrapping liquified food–that had once been a solid–out of tupperware and into the loo WHILE I was puking into said loo >.<
CateMorgan funny thing is the last job made my depression worse. Hubby was very happy for me to leave there for good 🙂
JamieDodge PatrickSzabo Yeah. I’m a friggen moron.
CateMorgan the one I made the other week was perfect. Took only hours.
PatrickSzabo michelleread So so bad…I take hipster concoctions to avoid it. And sometimes they seem like they’d be worse than getting sick and I’m like NO. NOTHING is worse than getting sick!
BatmanErica I just got out of one of those a couple years ago. I love my job now, but I have certainly had some doozies.
JamieDodge That’s not weird – you’re forced to be still.
michelleread PatrickSzabo what about vomiting out of both ends? I’ve done it. I don’t recommend it >.<
Actual question: How do you shut the crazy up in your head? You all know what I mean.
CateMorgan the job was easy and I was good at it but there were at least two stupid people there that didn’t pull their weight and I ended up overworking myself. It wasn’t pretty.
michelleread PatrickSzabo Yep. I’ll do anything in the world to avoid it.
JamieDodge there is no off switch
BatmanErica JamieDodge I turn off her mic.
HEY-OH!!!
JamieDodge You embrace it.
I love working for myself. Working for others was so frustrating. You made a product but it was a product that held no meaning for me. Now I make sexy products with sexy times in them and I’m much more satisfied–ooer 😛
JamieDodge I trick the little bastard, personally. If I can mollify it by warming up before drafting for the day, I can generally get it out of my system.
PatrickSzabo duct tape?
Self-imposed deadlines are easy to skip, but I have found that giving myself a deadline does motivate me a little more than not having one.
PerryConstantine what about a deadline you’ve imposed as you’ve booked an editor for a certain date?
PatrickSzabo BatmanErica I did not make this statement. I in no way am involved with this statement. No woman should consider these words to have come from me.
BatmanErica That makes it more real because you’ve got someone else who you have to answer to.
PerryConstantine harder to skip 🙂
BatmanErica THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID. No. Really. She totally did. *points*
michelleread I write a ‘to do’ list up. When I used to work for others I would write it up at the end of the day before.
PerryConstantine I love deadlines. I like the WHOOSHING noise they make as they fly by.
BatmanErica michelleread I’ve been meaning to get back into the to do list writing. Putting things down on paper is such a big help!!
CateMorgan Douglas Adams was so awesome.
Still making the cover while listening but do I want a bald chick on the cover as well as the hot bearded human hero? She’s the heroine and the alien in the story.
BatmanErica Oh, yeah. And one of them was my supposed boss, who would give certain people who didn’t deserve it an insanely hard time, and yet let someone else get away with sleeping at her desk. THANK YOU NO.
BatmanErica Ohhhhh. Why not. Sounds cool.
PerryConstantine CateMorgan I found my copy of all the Hitchhikers books the other day. A massive, hilarious, tome.
BatmanErica Sigourney Weaver proved bald + alien works. Just sayin’.
CateMorgan luckily I didn’t have that problem with the last job. Although I once had a manager who I was the PA for who only trusted me to print out her daily calendar and cut the edges off so I could then stick it in her physical diary. That was it.
CateMorgan this is true, but it’s a sci fi romance. Not sure how it would look
michelleread whiteboards are also awesome 🙂
BatmanErica CateMorgan can you show us?
BatmanErica So no Space Marines, huh?
michelleread I’ll put something up in a minute
BatmanErica I worked hard on my cover today. I said “” xgranville get it done now.” It got done.
CateMorgan well he’s a former space corps dude who left his commission to colonise a planet, but then his wife and son were murdered and the story starts a couple years after that, while still on said planet
JamieDodge did it work?
BatmanErica JamieDodge The group dug it haha
BatmanErica It did. AS much as I hate to say it, he did an awesome job.
I don’t write pretty, Michelle. I just write to tell a story.
Writing is meant to be magical?
BatmanErica I always sacrifice a goat before a writing session.
PerryConstantine BatmanErica I thought I was the only one!
michelleread Was that a word?
PatrickSzabo But is it magical?
xgranville BatmanErica You mean there are people who don’t do it?
xgranville PatrickSzabo It’s magically delicious.
Ah, yes. The Internal Editor. Also known as the Infernal Editor, or “Toby”.
I got my edits back today. My editor left comments in track changes that include: LOL. He put them in all the right places too!
BatmanErica That’s a good sign. My editor and I make each other crack up quite a lot.
Okay this isn’t ASDF but it’s as close as I could get.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEIWcZuLWdo
CateMorgan that’s always good. This is the first time I’ve used this editor. I put out an emergency call to a few editors and he was the first to respond saying he could get it done in just a few days. Am quite happy with the turnaround 🙂
This is the one that’s safe for people that are afraid of puking, because that’s what was in the other one.
Gotta go kill somebody. Have a great night, guys!
michelleread looks a little like happy tree friends
BatmanErica I call mine the Pink Jedi, because she does inline edits in scathing hawt pink.
RChazzChute Don’t forget the carbolic acid!
RChazzChute G’night!!!
CateMorgan ooh nice. Better than the pink power ranger 😛
Seconding michelleread’s bootstrapping suggestion.
BatmanErica michelleread Definitely needs a bald chick. 😀
michelleread Has to look up a hooker?
PerryConstantine michelleread Yay! Do it, Liam. So we can all watch
JamieDodge michelleread Yes, hold please.
BatmanErica She was known as the Pink Hammer, until I changed it and it caught on.
RChazzChute You’re just passing out again. Admit it.
The intertubes is garbling Liam Kingman
michelleread A Hardy Boys book I would actually read.
michelleread hey I used to read the hardy boys, along with the three investigators
SPREADSHEET! *drinks*
I think I wrote 2k words last month
Dang right he is!
This is magical!
CateMorgan ah! <3
BatmanErica yay!
(since covers are being spoken of at the moment)
xgranville The 24th! www.facebook.com/events/1659831217637006/
This is Leifeldian in its badness.
xgranville No name. 14 authors.
PatrickSzabo Um, tell me that isn’t Superman’s, er, KRYPTONITE front and center. Because I can’t unsee that. o_O
xgranville Plus I’m a jerk!
Yes I will!
CateMorgan PatrickSzabo I cannot tell a lie…so I won’t.
If you’re ion a vehicle travelling the speed of light and turn on your headlights, will anything happen?>
AFTER PARTY!!!!!
https://hangouts.google.com/call/s7a6zwpkdalkhg77ssbw4ppinya
BatmanErica Liam Kingman Yeah, it hates me… Or living in the middle of nowhere caught up to me.