The Overlook Hotel

The best compliment I've ever received did arise as a result of a foot massage. So I suppose I look back at Drunk Me foot massage antics with more amusement than embarrassment.

Kit Z. Fox

Well, I should hope. That's a very nice thing.

You must save me from the rabbit hole.

Writing!

Metamaterial girl

Let us hunt and snare the elusive Word Count Target!

Wanna sprint?

Kit Z. Fox

Yes. Yes!

Metamaterial girl

1:55 AM

Yarrrrr!

Kit Z. Fox

15 minutes?

Metamaterial girl

15 mins?

Jinx :D

Anyway, ready?

Kit Z. Fox

271

Metamaterial girl

Steady

GO

Metamaterial girl

2:10 AM

@KitZ.Fox Ping!

My count is horrible, I had a distraction.

Like 210.

Kit Z. Fox

Ugh.

621 - 271 =350

eh. Another?

Metamaterial girl

Yesh.

Ready?

Kit Z. Fox

Woo. Let's do it.

Metamaterial girl

Steady

GO at 7:12!

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2:23 AM

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Q: I'm unable to figure out the logical solution to a problem; how do I keep writing?

I'm outlining the plot for a scifi screenplay. I have the main characters, premise, the first half of the story, and the climax thought out. I don't want to bore you with details, but the story involves an enemy who can perfectly anticipate your moves. The main character needs to figure out how t...

Metamaterial girl

@KitZ.Fox Ping!

Kit Z. Fox

979 - 621 = 358

Keep going?

Metamaterial girl

463 that time.

Kit Z. Fox

Nice

Metamaterial girl

Yeah, let's pound it!

Ready?

Kit Z. Fox

2:29 AM

yes

Metamaterial girl

Steady

GO at 7:29!

Metamaterial girl

2:44 AM

Aaaand @KitZ.Fox ding.

516. That's better.

Kit Z. Fox

1320 - 979 = 341. Can't seem to go any faster.

More rum, then let's hit it again.

Metamaterial girl

in Captain Jack Sparrow voice So THAT'S where the rum has gone!

Kit Z. Fox

Not when I'm drunk. I'm very not good at remembering to be good when I'm drinking.

Especially when you're making me think of you as Johnny Depp.

I would hate to violate your personal boundaries in my exuberance.

Metamaterial girl

That's okay. Captain Jack Sparrow's boundaries are very...negotiable.

Also, he gives good footrubs.

Kit Z. Fox

I'm writing young adult here.

...but a footrub sounds nice.

Metamaterial girl

2:49 AM

Yarrrrrrr.

Let's do it.

Ready?

yep

Steady

7:50 GO

Metamaterial girl

3:05 AM

Aaaand @KitZ.Fox ding!

528.

Quality's crap though.

Kit Z. Fox

1730 - 1320 = 410

Better because I didn't have to move.

Hit quota. Keep going?

Metamaterial girl

I think I need a little brain break, but I'll cheer you on if you want to go at your own pace.

Kit Z. Fox

OK. I'm in overtime, but I want to make some progress on my backlog.

Metamaterial girl

YOU CAN DO THIS

The box is full of horrifyingly detailed sculpted dolls with real hair and baby teeth and little holes and screaming mouths.

I mean, little holes punched in their skin

Kit Z. Fox

I went for something a little more subtle.

Metamaterial girl

3:13 AM

Awwww, I don't get to eat creepypasta for dinner

Kit Z. Fox

I can post what I have so far if you want to read it.

Here if you want.

Metamaterial girl

Yiss!

Oh wow

Your writing is so much CLEANER than mine.

Kit Z. Fox

?

What?

You crazy.

Metamaterial girl

No, seriously. It's not rough quality, it's final quality. I only saw one little misspell and it was a present tense where you meant to put a past tense.

And it flows and everything's nice and smooth.

Kit Z. Fox

@Metamaterialgirl Maybe. I write Lucien with a funny dialect.

@Metamaterialgirl Argh all this pressure!

Metamaterial girl

3:28 AM

Yeah, but it still makes sense. I mean, you're writing his words correctly, just showing his mildly different speech patterns.

And LOL

Kit Z. Fox

Well, I guess you haven't actually seen the rough cut parts. The "and then they all went and did this different other thing"

cuz I couldn't figure out how to get them there.

Metamaterial girl

coughs I, uh, have a couple of those.

'And then xxxxx happens'

Kit Z. Fox

"So then they stopped eating breakfast and switched to the next scene"

Metamaterial girl

LOL

'Then: PLOT'

And then there was cake.

Kit Z. Fox

{TODO: something interesting happens}

Metamaterial girl

3:34 AM

SUDDENLY: all this random shit makes sense.

Kit Z. Fox

Note to self: edit this so it makes sense.

Later.

OK. I should write more.

Metamaterial girl

So much editing.

Yarrrr.

Kit Z. Fox

I want to get 600 more words.

Here I go.

Metamaterial girl

And now I KNOW you can do it b/c I've SEEN you do it.

GO!

Kit Z. Fox

4:11 AM

OK. Quitting time. Busted out a lot of words, but I still have a long way to go just to catch up.

2843 tonight.

Good night!

Metamaterial girl

WOOOO!

G'night Kit!

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9:41 AM

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Q: First page of the Diary - Qoute

am gifting some one a diary I want to write something meaningful in the first page of it. All I could come up with is... In the most ammaaazing journey that you are yet to embark upon, Called Life! Record all your beautiful memories.. so that one day you'll have something sensational to read ...

quotes

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Q: In need of a professional book cover design?

I represent a group called RED RAVEN and we offer services exclusively for the publishing industry. Our main goal is to help authors and small publishers getting their books published, from the cover to interior layout, proofreading, reviews, promotionals and publishing advice, we have a multita...

publishing self-publishing book

Kit Z. Fox

11:09 PM

@Metamaterialgirl Are we sprinting tonight?

I am stuck again. I can't figure out what Mr. Bumble's story is going to be about.

Metamaterial girl

Hm. Maybe should brainstorm a bit instead? I'm down.

Kit Z. Fox

Yes, that would be helpful.

Metamaterial girl

I'm a little stuck too; I know the general gist of what should happen but I have it happening like 3 different ways and I'm not happy with any of them.

Kit Z. Fox

OK. Maybe we can swap ideas.

Metamaterial girl

Yarrrrr.

When's a good time?

Kit Z. Fox

11:10 PM

Problem I'm having is that I'm not sure what problem I'm solving with Mr. Bumble's story. Not sure of its function.

Hi @Jasper.

@Metamaterialgirl Now? Or is now not good?

user174558

@KitZ.Fox Hi, I see you are not in the other room, so I came.

Kit Z. Fox

Oh I just came over here because of writing. Is everything OK over there?

user174558

Yes.

Metamaterial girl

Now's good. Grocery shopping's on my list but it's gonna be a circus till evening anyway.

Hi @JasperLoy.

user174558

So many mods in ELU now that nothing can ever go wrong again.

Metamaterial girl

11:12 PM

So tell me about Mr. Bittle?

I mean Bumble

user174558

@Metamaterialgirl Hi Meta!

Metamaterial girl

damn, was reading another thing and it overlapped.

Kit Z. Fox

He's really, really old. He lives at the end of the street. You go past his house and down a dirt road to get to the cemetery.

You can take apples from his orchard if you tell him a story. Today, he's decided it's his turn to tell a story.

Metamaterial girl

how has he figured into the story thus far?

Kit Z. Fox

He's sort of old wizard-y.

Not really, but like kindly grandfather-ish.

Metamaterial girl

11:15 PM

Hmmm. And he has a story to tell that is important to the greater story?

Kit Z. Fox

Probably. Seems like it should be. He only just told me it's his turn, but he didn't say what or why.

Other stories have included the protag's sister relating a funny story about their childhood, and Crystal telling a ... dunno, how snakes got scales over their eyes.

Metamaterial girl

Hm. Things That Old People Are Good At: remembering things that other people have forgotten, either in a 'the treasure got buried here' or 'I know why your grandma married your grandpa' kind of way....

Kit Z. Fox

Eddie also told a story but not to Mr. Bumble, about the first time he and Jesse went to the cemetery.

Hmm.

Metamaterial girl

Is Mr. Bumble associated with the cemetary? Like groundskeeper or something?

Kit Z. Fox

No. Not as far as we know. He's too old to get out of the house much, so he likes it when the punk kids come visit.

Maybe let's think on your thing and maybe that will give me ideas.

Metamaterial girl

11:20 PM

Mine is more a matter of order, and how much conflict Sianeve has to go through to get there.

Kit Z. Fox

Oh. So I can't really help?

Metamaterial girl

It's not that you couldn't, I'm just not sure if I can even explain it in a useful way.

Kit Z. Fox

Hm. Maybe I should read through some of my flash fiction writes.

Metamaterial girl

I think my problem is mostly that I'm avoiding writing something that I'm mildly uncomfortable with, but is kind of important to the story as I've written it...

Flash fiction?

user174558

@KitZ.Fox I now have only 20 contacts in my email list. I trimmed it down from 50, hehe. And you are still in it. That shows how important you are!

Kit Z. Fox

11:22 PM

Awesome. Thanks, @Jasper.

@Metamaterialgirl The 10-minute freewrites.

Metamaterial girl

Oooh, si si.

For free-association ideas?

Kit Z. Fox

I did like the line I read just now "We’re none of us going to die today. We’re all in, we’re all out. Got it?"

Maybe he could tell a relevant war story.

Metamaterial girl

That DOES have a ring to it.

Ooh, war stories. Would also show a side to him that's more than what the kids have seen so far perhaps?

user116848

G'morning.

Metamaterial girl

Hi @Arrowfar!

user116848

11:25 PM

@Metamaterialgirl Howdy!

Kit Z. Fox

@Metamaterialgirl It certainly would. But what would be the purpose in that.

Hi @Arrowfar.

user116848

Hi @KitZ.Fox. How goes it?

Metamaterial girl

Depending on how you spin it it could be either 'this person who was sort of background is scary competent in some ways and could solve a problem that you didn't think he could help with' maybe.

Kit Z. Fox

@Arrowfar It goes.

Metamaterial girl

Or (other part of the either) it could be that he becomes part of a problem that the kids then realize they need to solve?

Kit Z. Fox

11:27 PM

Maybe...the story involves how his squad dealt with someone who had a psychotic break in the middle of a mission.

user116848

Hello @MattE.Эллен.

Kit Z. Fox

That's not quite right. Going sort of in the right direction I think.

Matt E. Эллен

hi

Kit Z. Fox

Eeek!

hides behind fridge

Matt E. Эллен

Muahahahaha

user116848

11:28 PM

:)

Metamaterial girl

Howdy @MattE.Эллен!

Kit Z. Fox

pounces, puts @Matt in grey sack

Matt E. Эллен

I was here the whole time!

user116848

@MattE.Эллен You don't chat much these days.

Matt E. Эллен

muffled protestation

Metamaterial girl

11:28 PM

pats sack in greeting

Matt E. Эллен

@Arrowfar well, I spend most of my time in a grey sack

Kit Z. Fox

> When one of the main disadvantages of losing weight is tripping out and ending up in a truck stop shower on a Sunday afternoon three weeks and ten states past your last memory, you end up putting on a few pounds over the years and I guess that’s what I’ve done.

I write the weirdest shit sometimes.

Matt E. Эллен

@Metamaterialgirl hi!

Kit Z. Fox

That's probably not appropriate for young adult fiction though.

Metamaterial girl

Hm, the psychotic break, or just any other issue that a soldier could possibly have that could also be appropriate to what the kids are dealing with?

Well, YA CAN deal with tough themes. I mean, jesus, Hunger Games.

Kit Z. Fox

11:30 PM

Yeah, could be some kind of weirdness.

Metamaterial girl

I think the distinction with YA isn't the problems they deal with, it's...the perspective they bring to them.

Kit Z. Fox

Ultimately, <spoilers> we learn that Crystal is schizophrenic </spoilers> so Eddie's going to have to make a judgement call about whether to believe her or not.

This story could contribute to that.

Metamaterial girl

Oooh, okay. So...hm...how does her schizophrenia manifest? Stuff like the box? Distrust of others?

Voices and visual hallucinations?

Kit Z. Fox

yes.

Metamaterial girl

I'll bet Mr. Bumble has seen some stuff both in and out of war that could remind Eddie of that.

Kit Z. Fox

11:32 PM

She thinks she's on a mission, that she gets special messages, and now she thinks Eddie might be one of the dozen she's been looking for.

Metamaterial girl

Ohhh...maybe Mr. Bumble WAS on a special mission once, and he mentions something that is integral to a mission that you don't want to ever overlook, but Crystal just blows past it, or something...?

Basically a way for Eddie to compare the two and go

'hmm, if Crystal's thing is real, why isn't xxxxx happening'?

Kit Z. Fox

I like the idea that Mr. Bumble was on a special mission.

Metamaterial girl

Or she believes it IS happening (even hallucinates it and tells Eddie that it's so) but he goes to the place where THING should have happened and sees no evidence of it.

Kit Z. Fox

Maybe he explains the sign-countersign procedure. Maybe Crystal even seems to do this with him.

More like it is more convincing to Eddie that she might be telling the truth instead of weird.

Metamaterial girl

Ooh, a red herring, possible

Kit Z. Fox

11:37 PM

A rescue mission, maybe. That's something Mr. Bumble would do.

I'm thinking that the reader is more likely to think she's crazy at this point.

So it would be a good plan to make her seem less crazy.

Metamaterial girl

Yes, either a stealth drop behind enemy lines or maybe go in under disguise, either could be useful

Kit Z. Fox

Maybe.

user116848

So these days whenever someone writes "is" in capitals like IS the first thing that comes to mind is you know who... heh.

user116848

Stupid media.

user116848

;)

Matt E. Эллен

11:42 PM

It annoyed me more when it was ISIS, because that's what we call the Thames in Oxford. So, I would think "hey! that's our word. Stupid terrorists."

Metamaterial girl

Daesh is convenient, even if ISIS/Daesh don't actually care.

user116848

@MattE.Эллен heh :)

user116848

@Metamaterialgirl Also ISIL.

Metamaterial girl

And I didn't have anything against the original Isis, she was an okay Egyptian goddess.

Ah yes, that too.

user116848

@Metamaterialgirl lol

Matt E. Эллен

11:48 PM

good night

user116848

Good night!

Metamaterial girl

G'night @MattE.Эллен!

user116848

Oh sorry typo above I wrote "you" instead of "who" <feels embarrassed>

Metamaterial girl

Ooh, that makes more sense now.

user116848

Or "what" maybe. My typing sucks sometimes.

Metamaterial girl

11:54 PM

Eh, mine too. So many little typos because I'm used to spellcheck tagging them now.

user116848

So do you use a software like MS Word etc.?

user116848

I have MS Word. I use it sometimes.

Metamaterial girl

I use Open Office, or Google Drive, or Scrivener. I've been using Scrivener for this NaNo book.

Open Office is closest to Microsoft Word i think.

user116848

Cool.

user174558

@Metamaterialgirl Use LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice, please.

Metamaterial girl

11:57 PM

That's the newer version, right?

user174558

Yes, there is a history about the split into two.

user174558

After reading it, I am sure you will choose LO.

Metamaterial girl

Ah, I think I remember this subject coming up before once.

user174558

In fact, the original OO developers are behind LO!

user174558

I need to charge my laptop...

user174558

11:59 PM

Charging now.

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