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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-​11-​22

  • @bil­lious Prob­a­bly not as bad on deeper PC key­boards with more key travel. But on a flat net­book key­board, even 1mm nails slip. in reply to bil­lious #
  • @niassa @kazoochica Sadly a squid don­key prob­a­bly would have made for a bet­ter movie. Assum­ing they dumped Deb­bie Gib­son. in reply to niassa #
  • @kazoochica That would explain why you laugh at my jokes. in reply to kazoochica #
  • Ditto. Build­ing mon­en­tum sucks. RT @matociquala: Why do I always have to slog to 700 words, and then I find third gear? #
  • Patri­ots have scored 24 unan­swered points on Indy. Won­der­ing if it’s safe to go back to writ­ing. Against any­one but Pey­ton Man­ning… #
  • @kimidreams miss­ing thumb because of yet another sense­less onion-​related injury? in reply to kimidreams #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard I know what hap­pens for the next 3 scenes at least. Maybe too well, hence my lack of moti­va­tion to write them. in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • Those were with­out a doubt the salti­est pick­les I’ve ever had. If only I weren’t too lazy to go get more water. #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard Oh, I have great lit­tle moments where the nar­ra­tor sur­prises me. Need to embrace those more. The plot != the writ­ing in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • @robkroese What? But it’s got reli­gious stuff in it and every­thing! in reply to robkroese #
  • RT @OTOOLEFAN: In Amer­ica, Read­ing should be Fun­da­men­tal, not Reli­gion. #
  • @nyne­shaydee Could be cute, could be Daddy isn’t tak­ing the hint. in reply to nyne­shaydee #
  • RT @Your_Novel: An Inter­net inter­ven­tion –http://writeordie.drwicked.com/ #
  • @niassa w00t! You rock! Now fin­ish the book, or it’s all for noth­ing. in reply to niassa #
  • Think­ing I need to read more to recharge my writ­ing bat­ter­ies. Plan to fin­ish Night Shift by @Lilith­Saint­crow tonight. #
  • @jesshart­ley Lili’s an inspi­ra­tion in a num­ber of ways. in reply to jesshart­ley #
  • @Alli_​Flowers A gor­ram good one. in reply to Alli_​Flowers #
  • RT @tibbarerew: I dis­cov­ered the cure for writ­ers block. Have the floor eat a guy. It’s amaz­ingly effec­tive. #
  • RT @Westernwizard: Holy crap! What a game! #Colts #Patri­ots #
  • Okay, fine. The Colts are a Team of Des­tiny. #
  • RT @mollywood: And that’s why I *always* watch Colts-​Patriots. #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard Colts vs Saints is going to be a pretty good Super­Bowl. in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • 1050 words this morn­ing, 1300+ to go. #amwrit­ing #nanow­rimo #mguwc #
  • RT @JeremyCShipp: On my desk, tiny power rangers in cow­boy hats are rid­ing demonic hedge­hogs, las­so­ing pygmy Mr. Belvedere mimes. #
  • O HAI CAFFEINE SURE YES HAVE SOME #
  • @aslap­inthe­face Yup, that’s where I was going with that. Ghost­busters: Per­haps the most quotable movie of all time in reply to aslap­inthe­face #
  • If I can write 1311 words in the next hour and a half, I can watch Big Bang The­ory and Cas­tle tonight! w00t! #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo #
  • 2440 words today, man­u­script at 25056. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo #
  • RT: @Christine_​dAbo Need to sit down and con­cen­trate on my wri – hey look at this shiny thing!! #
  • RT @DRSPod­cast Tis the sea­son, folks! How ’bout giv­ing the gift of lit! http://tinyurl.com/giftlit. Please RT. #
  • @nyne­shaydee Hey, that’s bet­ter than half! in reply to nyne­shaydee #
  • @niassa Next time I see you, remind me to tell you about the ter­ror­ist squir­rels on Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS. Hate the damn things. in reply to niassa #
  • RT @sam­ple­re­al­ity #NaNoW­riMo Tip: The arc of the moral uni­verse is long and it bends toward slutty vam­pire nov­els. #
  • @Alli_​Flowers w00t!! Foot­ball!! in reply to Alli_​Flowers #
  • @richfinck It’s about sev­eral hours long. in reply to richfinck #
  • Holy goats, I’m ser­ial tweet­ing again. Must mean I got my word count for the day. #
  • @MaxGeek Did it involve a mon­key and/​or an ele­phant? in reply to MaxGeek #
  • RT @splatnuk: RT @miss_sarah_s: I’m going to make him an otter he can’t refuse #mis­quot­ed­movielines #
  • RT @splatnuk: “Round up the usual mup­pets.” #mis­quot­ed­movielines #
  • @tib­bar­erew Bustery is good. in reply to tib­bar­erew #
  • RT @TeeMonster: (@brandg) The Horse will be with you. Always. #Mis­quot­ed­MovieLines #
  • RT @pjwal­dron I’M out of hors d’oeuvres?! YOU’RE out of hors d’oeuvres! This whole damn court is out of hors d’oeuvres! #mis­quot­ed­movielines #
  • RT @MattFnWallace: My body used to be a liv­ing weapon. It is now much more akin to a used kitchen appli­ance bought at a con­sign­ment store. #
  • Yesterday’s fin­ish was the end of the act 1 turn­ing point. Next 14 days, words 25k to 60k, are the dreaded act 2. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard Dreaded to write, mostly because the out­line for this act is very sketchy. Lots of the unknown. in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard I’m great at begin­nings and end­ings, but mid­dles scare the crap out of me. I always worry they read like filler. in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • .@ev @biz @twit­ter Just wanted y’all to know that I love the new Retweet func­tion. Hope you don’t give in to the squeaky wheels. #
  • @mike­cane Wait, isn’t Six a Cylon? in reply to mike­cane #
  • @MariKurisato Blade Runner’s good, but I have to go with The Matrix as best SF movie ever. in reply to MariKurisato #
  • @MariKurisato Peo­ple for­get how ground­break­ing The Matrix really was. Plus, it’s neat to dis­cuss with phi­los­o­phy pro­fes­sors. in reply to MariKurisato #
  • @MariKurisato I’ve seen both, but GitS just didn’t hit me as hard. in reply to MariKurisato #
  • @MariKurisato I don’t remem­ber. Prob­a­bly GitS, as my sis­ter is very into animé and got me to watch a lot of it. in reply to MariKurisato #
  • @CRA1G I really like it. That and the auto refresh have made twitter.com all the client I need on a PC. in reply to CRA1G #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard I know it’s not filler, and should be where most of the inter­est­ing char­ac­ter stuff hap­pens, but I still worry. in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • @MariKurisato All three LOTR extended releases, which I count as one story. in reply to MariKurisato #
  • @MariKurisato OH THE HUMANITY in reply to MariKurisato #
  • ATTN @crimsonsky76: from the maker of Phat­Notes RT @mike­cane WritePad Pro for iPhone http://tinyurl.com/yhz6vy2 <- of inter­est to writ­ers #
  • 706 words over lunch, 2,238 to go for the day. Man­u­script at 25,762. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo #
  • @nick­o­laswriter I like the new RTs because they’re quick and easy. If can still do it the old way if I need to com­ment. Best of both worlds. in reply to nick­o­laswriter #
  • @Daph­neUn I’m hon­estly curi­ous. Given that you can still RT the old way if you want to com­ment, what’s so bad about the new RT fea­ture? in reply to Daph­neUn #
  • @nick­o­laswriter How is it any dif­fer­ent than retweet­ing the old way from Twitter.com? If you com­ment, has any­thing actu­ally changed? in reply to nick­o­laswriter #
  • @nick­o­laswriter Accord­ing to Twit­ter, clients that don’t under­stand the new RT func­tion will just show “RT user­name blah”. Same as before. in reply to nick­o­laswriter #
  • How would you kill some­thing that had nanites in its blood that repair dam­age (injuries, aging) almost as fast as they hap­pen? #research #
  • Wow, good sug­ges­tions, folks! (except Alli, who pro­vide more of a tease) #research #
  • @crimsonsky76 No, behead­ing doesn’t work on them. They just put the head back on, let it reat­tach and keep going. in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • @crimsonsky76 The grenade launcher idea from the orig­i­nal doesn’t work either, too easy. in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • @crimsonsky76 A virus doesn’t fit the story. Doesn’t work if the humans can kill them all off at once. in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • 1319 for the day so far, plus my tweeple have given me lots of idea to mine for Act 2. Might have a full out­line tonight. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #
  • Act 2, I haz it. A chase thru DC, Bal­ti­more, Philly, NYC, Newark and end­ing with a demon and an angel in Beth­le­hem, PA. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #
  • @dgawlik324 Good call, added elec­tro­cu­tion in Philly to the list. Ben Franklin would be proud. in reply to dgawlik324 #
  • RT @JeremyCShipp: Mail­men often push the enve­lope. #
  • @kimidreams I went to high school in Nazareth PA & did my USAF years in DC. Love the east coast. in reply to kimidreams #
  • @mau­reen­john­son The video was awe­some. Really cap­tured the ter­ror. in reply to mau­reen­john­son #
  • RT @Mainframe: Soft kitty, warm kitty
    Lit­tle ball of fur.
    Happy kitty, sleepy kitty
    Purr purr purr.
    #bbt #
  • RT @OTOOLEFAN: ‘Going Rogue’ makes Dan Brown look like Ken Burns. #
  • RT @JeremyCShipp: Evil twins are peo­ple too. /​/​Shouldnt that be “peo­ple 2″? #
  • RT @NathanFillion: More news. We got some­thing for Buffy fans com­ing up on Cas­tle! #
  • Okay, Twitter.com retweets don’t seem to show up at all in Tweetie. Rethink­ing my “pro” stance. #
  • @dgawlik324 I’ve been really happy with Dreamhost. in reply to dgawlik324 #
  • RT @samplereality: #NaNoW­riMo Tip for the aspir­ing hor­ror author. Pol­i­tics makes strange bed­fel­lows. So does zom­bie erot­ica. #
  • @Ali_​Davis There is no spoon. in reply to Ali_​Davis #
  • @Ali_​Davis There is, how­ever, a back­hoe, if they don’t mind the noise. in reply to Ali_​Davis #
  • FRICKIN’ PANTS BADGERS #
  • 923 words today so far, 1700 to go. Really get­ting excited about Act 2. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo #
  • At 1313 words, I’m 50.05% of the way through my word count today #amwrit­ing #mguwc #prob­a­bly­tak­ingthes­enum­ber­stoo­far #
  • W00T. RT @kazoochica: #Nanow­rimo Word Count: 41,304/50,000. Holy moly less than 9,000 words to go! #
  • DO IT NOW! RT @mightymur: Sud­denly want to write an essay called ‘fezzi­wig and boba fett: the power of minor char­ac­ters with < 10 lines’ #
  • @rohde­sign I think what I’m writ­ing now is some of my best work. Keep in mind NaNo’ 1667 words/​day is eas­ier than the 2k/​day pros pro­duce. in reply to rohde­sign #
  • @rohde­sign Good work can be done fast or slow. The ques­tion is what level of out­put both chal­lenges and sat­is­fies you? in reply to rohde­sign #
  • @rohde­sign Exactly. I’m doing 7 books in 10 months because I need to push myself and make writ­ing not so much habit as autonomous. in reply to rohde­sign #
  • @rohde­sign As long as you’re happy with your pro­duc­tion, I’d say you’re doing fine. Some peo­ple need the struc­ture, some don’t. in reply to rohde­sign #
  • Max­i­mum Geek Vol. 3 Ep. 2 http://bit.ly/1TpnmD #
  • G’Kar killed Deckard’s wife. #just­sayin #
  • @sunilse­bas­t­ian You know, you can get all 110 eps of B5 here any time: http://www.slashcontrol.com/free-tv-shows/babylon-5 in reply to sunilse­bas­t­ian #
  • @sunilse­bas­t­ian And yes, Blade Run­ner still rocks the hiz­zouse in reply to sunilse­bas­t­ian #
  • Holy crap, a char­ac­ter I didn’t even know existed just walked into the room and started F’ing things up. Love this. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #
  • BTW, 1656 words for the day so far, just 1 word over 50% to my word count goal for the day. Want to hit 31000. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo #
  • Oth­er­wise I have noth­ing inter­est­ing to say, other than this is my 5600th tweet. #
  • @nyne­shaydee Sure, he’s FBI Assis­tant Direc­tor Louis Got­tlieb. Do with him what you will. in reply to nyne­shaydee #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard I knew my FBI agent would get pres­sure from above at some point, totally didn’t expect it to be in this scene. in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • @nyne­shaydee If I stick to the sched­ule I’ve mapped out, I should catch back up to my 2k/​day pace by Thanks­giv­ing. #num­ber­snerd in reply to nyne­shaydee #
  • @Dar­ren­Humphries @aslap­inthe­face I’m always proud to take credit for run­ning off at the mouth. in reply to Dar­ren­Humphries #
  • Man­u­script is now 100 pages long, and start­ing to look book­ish. 29728 words so far with today’s goal of 31000 in sight. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #
  • @Ras­plundjr Know­ing where to find the pipe also makes you a hero if in a Zom­bie Apoc­a­lypse. in reply to Ras­plundjr #
  • @Ras­plundjr Know­ing where to find the pipe also makes you a hero at most hip hop con­certs. in reply to Ras­plundjr #
  • @Ras­plundjr Know­ing where to find the pipe does not make you a hero at a plumber’s con­ven­tion. in reply to Ras­plundjr #
  • @robkroese How’d the Com­modores get rid of him? in reply to robkroese #
  • RT @Gartenberg: Key attribute of clouds is that they tend to be made of vapor #chrome #
  • @Steph­TheWriter I keep flesh­ing out things later in the series I’m writ­ing. Damn thing has to be writ­ten sequen­tially, though. in reply to Steph­TheWriter #
  • RT @OTOOLEFAN: In honor of Sarah Palin’s return to Twit­ter, I pro­pose a moment of sci­ence. #
  • 30035 words. I’m over 30k! #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard If I stay on sched­ule, I’ll hit 50k oddly appro­pri­ately on Thanks­giv­ing. in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard Accord­ing to my sched­ule I should hit 60k on the 30th, fin­ish the book between 12⁄10 and 12⁄20. in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • @dmc­duck As we never actu­ally said grow­ing up in Texas, “YEEEEEEE-​HAAAAAAAAAAH!” in reply to dmc­duck #
  • Man­u­script at 32,000 words even, 4310 for the day. Am now caught back up to the #nanow­rimo pace at least. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #
  • RT @tobiasbuckell: Wow, xkcd maps movie nar­ra­tive charts: http://xkcd.com/657/ #
  • RT @FakeAPStylebook: When a story is killed it is worth 45 expe­ri­ence points and drops one item from Trea­sure Table B. #
  • RT @FakeAPStylebook: “Awe­some” implies feel­ings of rev­er­ence or fear. Great Cthulhu is awe­some, as is the lat­est Tay­lor Swift sin­gle. #
  • And the out­line changes again as my char­ac­ters once again prove they’re smarter than I am. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo #
  • @The_​MOW Some days (the good ones) I’m just the schmuck writ­ing down what they do. Spooky how often they sur­prise me & improve the story. in reply to The_​MOW #
  • @The_​MOW My writ­ing part­ner had a build­ing eat some­one. You could always try that. in reply to The_​MOW #
  • “we’ve got a guy who spe­cial­izes in spat­ter pat­terns, and Dex says this is pretty much how it went down” #wip #amwrit­ing #shame­less #mguwc #
  • While I’ve been ham­mer­ing the words, one of my best friends is mov­ing to NYC and my mom may or may not have thy­roid can­cer. MEEP. #
  • @nyne­shaydee They’re tak­ing the whole thing out right about the same time I should be fin­ish­ing Rev­e­la­tion and trans­fer­ring to new job. in reply to nyne­shaydee #
  • @crimsonsky76 They’re tak­ing out the whole thy­roid either way. They won’t know if it’s can­cer until well after they take it out. #con­fused in reply to crimsonsky76 #
  • @nyne­shaydee Thank you! in reply to nyne­shaydee #
  • @jeanet­temarsh She met with the sur­geon yes­ter­day and seems con­vinced it’s rou­tine. I’m still wor­ried. in reply to jeanet­temarsh #
  • @jeanet­temarsh Thanks for the reas­sur­ance. in reply to jeanet­temarsh #
  • RT @JeremyCShipp: What is it with giant polka-​dot crick­ets and their unso­licited med­ical advice? #
  • @dmc­duck Keep going! I’ve writ­ten two scenes today I had no idea would be in the book. in reply to dmc­duck #
  • In the last 26 hours, have slept, show­ered, done day job stuff, and writ­ten 20 man­u­script pages. 0_​0 #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo #
  • @dmc­duck Keep going! The next 1k is always eas­ier than the last! in reply to dmc­duck #
  • Also, in my book the Arch­bishop of Bal­ti­more speaks Sumer­ian. Who knew? #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo #
  • @dmc­duck Bring it. I’m shoot­ing for 36k before I call it a night and go buy my Star Trek DVDs. in reply to dmc­duck #
  • @dmc­duck @jef­fkirvin cack­les glee­fully, and rubs his palms together… in reply to dmc­duck #
  • @dmc­duck I’ve got a 599 word head start on you. in reply to dmc­duck #
  • @dmc­duck 36026, for 4026 on the day. Think I’m done. The word count gods can kick me in the nads again tomor­row, but tonight, Star Trek! in reply to dmc­duck #
  • Need another 204 words today to pull ahead of @lilithsaintcrow. Not petty, just try­ing to keep pace with a pro. #nanow­rimo #mguwc #amwrit­ing #
  • @lilith­saint­crow 36267, 4267 for the day. My com­pet­i­tive streak has been appeased. Thank you for the inspi­ra­tion, Lili. #amwrit­ing in reply to lilith­saint­crow #
  • Okay, now I need just 43 more words to break yesterday’s out­put of 4310 (see the game I got going on here?) #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo #
  • Really done for the day now, onto Star Trek. 4361, new per­sonal best, for 36361 total. Thx every­one for the encour­age­ment! #amwrit­ing #mguwc #
  • @dmc­duck Nicely played. ;-) in reply to dmc­duck #
  • @kazoochica w00t! Keep going! in reply to kazoochica #
  • @Philip­pa­Jane Define “freaked out” in reply to Philip­pa­Jane #
  • @dmc­duck GO GO GO in reply to dmc­duck #
  • @dmc­duck We will revisit this tomor­row. in reply to dmc­duck #
  • #doycetester­man #NaNoW­riMo: Okay, how far behind are you? http://tinyurl.com/yandgve #
  • Just fin­ished a pretty cool arti­cle about Indi­ana Jones and the sus­pen­sion of dis­be­lief for Mon­day. Now on to the fic­tion. #amwrit­ing #
  • Shoot­ing for 40k today, just under 3600 words to get there. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo #
  • @JNGold What’s a tech? in reply to JNGold #
  • @Writ­ing­Dad Thanks! I’m learn­ing so much from this expe­ri­ence already. in reply to Writ­ing­Dad #
  • @JNGold but seri­ously folks, I’ll prob­a­bly return to tech top­ics in Decem­ber. Right now I’m in a #NaNoW­riMo frame of mind. in reply to JNGold #
  • First writ­ing sur­prise of the day. I totally didn’t expect my demon to destroy those police patrol boats. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo #
  • @dmc­duck Thank you! It’s going to be rough keep­ing this going over the next 9 months with­out folks to race against. #nanow­rimo #mguwc in reply to dmc­duck #
  • Need just 569 words to hit my goal today. Manuscript’s at 39431. #amwrit­ing #nanow­rimo #mguwc #
  • 40018 words, 3657 for the day. Goal achieved. Now to decide how much of a head start I want for tomor­row. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo #
  • Also, halfway through the book, on pace for a book every six weeks. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard Haven’t decided yet. Might try edit­ing 5 – 7 pages a day of book 1 while writ­ing 2k a day of book 2. #mguwc #amcrazy in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • Tacked on 500 to put myself over 4k for the day. Only 3.5k tomor­row, then back to 2k/​day. Done 12k in 3days, start­ing to feel it. #mguwc #
  • @West­ern­wiz­ard Yeah, and I know AC Crispin out­lines one book, writes the draft of a sec­ond while edit­ing a third. in reply to West­ern­wiz­ard #
  • Totally know how you feel. RT @JeremyCShipp: I just real­ized – I’m not a writer. I’m a writ­ing addict. #
  • After a com­bined word count in excess of 5k today, think­ing about start­ing a new arti­cle as a way to avoid play­ing Set­tlers of Catan. #
  • @choon­dooga Time to switch to dic­ta­tion and text recog­ni­tion. in reply to choon­dooga #
  • Holy smokes! RT @niassa: Very pro­duc­tive write-​in tonight. Got in another 8k. Wooooot!!! #
  • Okay, San Diego’s “Wild Frog” vari­a­tion of the Wild­cat is an even dumber name than Denver’s Wild Horses. #bron­cos #
  • Sweet. Eff­ing. Christ. #bron­cos #
  • @nyne­shaydee Not for 15 years now #spent6yearsinDC in reply to nyne­shaydee #
  • @dmc­duck I’m at 41390, try­ing to write dur­ing the Bron­cos game. My sched­ule is col­laps­ing around me! #amwrit­ing @mguwc #nanow­rimo in reply to dmc­duck #

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