Post-deadline funk

[alanajoli]

You should know that I'm not much of an adrenaline junky. I don't like going fast. I don't like scary movies. I like my adventures to be held around a table with dice, or contained on the printed page. But all that said--adrenaline is a darn useful thing. It seems to have kept me going right up through my deadlines over the weekend.

And then, of course, I crashed and burned. Deep coughing in the chest. General misery. I spent most of Tuesday watching rerun sitcoms, which is always an indication to me of just how much my brain is able to process.

So now that my brain seems to be back on my shoulders, here I am back in the blogosphere. On the writing front, Arielle and I changed the date for my deadline, so that *tomorrow* will be my first foray into ongoing fiction deadlines. I'm hoping to touch up some work today that I can send her for initial thoughts.

To test my ability to learn something new, I'm also borrowing a page (actually, some code) from jimhines. He had a great footer on his blog, and I'm going to see if I can adjust it to what I'm up to. We'll see how it comes out.

Edit: Three tries before success--not too bad!

Edit: *sheepish* Actually, that required a fourth try, as there are two places to change the title of the piece in the code--and I missed the obvious one that showed up. Thanks to jimhines and jpsorrow for the correction!

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Reading Souls in Silicon, by Jeff Duntemann Lulu

Writing "Rodeo at Area 51"

Comments

[stormywriting.livejournal.com]

Glad you're feeling better. :)

And that is the one advantage of caffeine over adrenaline. Still a crash, but you feel slightly less awful.

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad to be feeling better. :)

Unfortunately, caffiene seems to have the nice effect of quelling headaches but otherwise doing very little for my system. I suspect that I may be slightly ADD, and this is why I have this result (as several of my actually ADD friends have expressed this same symptom).

[stormywriting.livejournal.com]

Really? Curious. I wonder why that is? How odd.

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

You might want to change the title of what you're writing, though ;-)

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

Ack! I didn't notice there were two places to change it in the coding!

It's all fixed now. ;) Good thing I let people know I stole the code from you!

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

Yep. The actual text and the image alt code. No worries :-)

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

So you're also writing a book called "Red Hood's Revenge"? *grin*

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am a shameless copy cat. ;)

(It's fixed now--thanks for the correction!)

[the-outlaw.livejournal.com]

I don't like going fast.

That's not what I hear. ;)

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

Pbbt. :)

[ex-kaz-maho.livejournal.com]

Really glad you're feeling better... :)

I might steal that code for myself. I'll probably find I'm writing something called "Rodeo At Area 51" LOL!

(Great title, by the way.)

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm sure that Jim wouldn't mind my passing it along. Let me know if you actually want it.

[pmoc.livejournal.com]

I see you are still winning at Internet. Enjoy the title of what you are writing too.