Drunken Owls and Other Delights

I've been feeling a bit frustrated with my writing lately. I mean, really frustrated. It's become obvious that for some reason I'm avoiding writing conflict. [Pretty sure that has to do with IRL stuff too, but that's another post.] Am I overthinking it? Am I worried that I'm writing too many chatty non-action transitional scenes? I don't mind writing these, but they're making my stories boring and I hate it when that happens! Which makes me think that what I need to do is get myself used to writing tense scenes again. I mean, that's what I have the 750 Words site for, don't I? 

Geh. I feel like I've been stuck in this position for almost a full year and I'm not sure why I can't get out of it. I need to find an outlet, methinks.

Meanwhile, A is in the kitchen at the moment making pepper jam and gassing up the entire apartment with its potency. *kaff kaff*

Other than that, not much to report...we're going on another mini-vacation at the end of the week to Monterey (just an overnighter), so that should be fun, though I'm hoping it'll be less foggy and overcast than it's been up here in SF! 

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Say what you will about small and reasonably quiet midwestern Massachusetts towns, Athol's got quite an interesting history and has inspired a lot of my writing over the years. :)

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Mountain Dew aaaand.....whatever goes good with Mountain Dew. ;)

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The Beatles, and yes, definitely.

As if you had to ask. ;)

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Oy. Uh, wait...buh? Ooh, shiny!

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Okay, my first thought was that it reminded me of the movie poster for The Mothman Prophecies. This is the second time this movie's come into my head over the past month, plus I've heard Low's "Half-Light" (the movie's theme song) on my MediaMonkey over the last few weeks as well. Coincidence? Maaaaaaybee..... O_O

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Natively: English (although some would say otherwise, given my propensity for tripping up over words and cognitive thoughts :p )
Sort-of Remember from School: French, Spanish (I can understand it better than I can speak it)
Conlang, Self-Created: Anjshé (somewhat...I'm out of practice)

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I posted something about this a few weeks back, but here's my latest earworm again, for your enjoyment/pain/sadistic pleasure:

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Bob, of course! ;)

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Most of you already know...jonc + writer = joncwriter! :p

And yes, it's pronounced "jonc", not "jon-see". A lot of people who ask for my email usually make that mistake, strangely enough. It comes from high school, when I had this running joke in a story I was writing with head58 and others where everyone was referred to by their first name and the initial of their last name, smooshed together. I've used Jonc as a nickname ever since.

I should tell you all about the Vanishing Misfits story in an RTS post one of these days...