From Twitter 06-23-2010

• 09:07:20: @AndreaBlythe Pandorum was excellent - so much better than the trailers lead me to believe! I wish I'd seen it at the cinema
  
• 09:07:48: @Scarimonious I wish it had just been about cannibals, without any of the stupid virus crap and the girl from Rise of the Lycans being all..
  
• 09:08:22: @Scarimonious ... "IR SO TUFF! OMG!!" everywhere. She ruined a perfectly good post-apocalyptic Sawney Bean rip-off
  
• 13:11:57: Another 1k written on my lunchbreak. Ayla is looking for a mime and people are having domestics in public. Also: Monster!
  
• 13:23:25: @TezMillerOz That would be telling!
  
• 14:39:03: Has it occurred to anyone that England won't win anything because they're all just crap at football?
  
• 14:40:48: I personally can't wait for England to crash and burn so everyone will stop asking me if I'm watching the game
  
• 14:41:08: I will never watch the game!
  
• 14:42:12: @TrishaTelep Inappropriate fun sounds fun! What are you reading?
  
• 14:47:12: @doombreed Darling, you couldn't pay me to watch a football match, let alone one played by England!
  
• 14:47:33: @ktabic Spit-roasting and binge-drinking isn't a sport?
  
• 15:38:22: @LABurtonhorror Woo! You need to celebrate!
  
• 16:04:35: @TrishaTelep Hot plates and nooses?! I want to read this!
  
• 16:08:54: Why do the Shiny New Ideas hit hardest when you've got to write something else?
  
• 16:15:34: @TrishaTelep A valuable lesson for any child!
  
• 16:19:53: @TrishaTelep I have vague memories of collecting worms in a bucket as a child for unknown purposes. Don't know what that says about me
  
• 16:27:02: @TrishaTelep It all makes sense now!
  
• 17:09:07: @doombreed Our professors had it playing in the main seminar room. I was forced to endure it all regardless of my wishes!
  
• 17:25:05: I want all my books to smell like bacon! http://smellofbooks.com/aromas/crunchy-bacon-scent/
  
• 17:33:39: @doombreed Ah, the importance thing is that everyone is now happy!
  
• 17:34:25: @doombreed Except for our Slovenian professors
  
• 20:57:12: Only 200 words needed to pass the 5k mark on Blood Hunt, formerly Bad Dogs. If I achieve this tonight, I will be back where I was last week
  
• 20:57:21: I can't decide if that's cause for celebration or woe
  
• 21:11:38: When will people abandon guns as the weapon of choice in the zombie apocalypse?
  
• 21:20:14: Oh Twitter, I love how for every random stray thought I tweet, there is someone out there who will follow me for mentioning it
  

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Writing Meme Day 22 - Scene Unseen

22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you’ve never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not.

Oh God, there are so many scenes I've never written! That's such a ridiculous question for a writer.

Lol, well, there's the non-canon slash between Ash/Christian and Ash/Isaac that I wrote forchaostheory . Beyond that, there's a whole slew of Scarlett/Ash scenes that are just in my head right now because I haven't yet gathered up the guts to write them. Not because they're particularly salacious, but just because I haven't yet conquered my need to make their story absolutely perfect, and I know if I try to write it before I've gotten over that, I'll just make a hash of it by never being satisfied with it.

There's the scene where one of Christian's love children shows up on his doorstep wanting to get to know his dad and Christian is all o_O about it and decides the easiest solution is buy the kid hundreds of presents and send him back to his mum until a paternity test can be arranged. I'd love to write a scene showing how Vince and Joel from the Urban Wolf novels got together. And Ayla and Shannon for that matter.

Oh God, and there's mine and chaostheory's  epic scene of epicness where all the guys in the Scarlett world stage an intervention and force Ash to go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, and Ethan gets really into it and starts trying to initiate group hugs. Christian tries to pick up single women by promising them booze, Kas is all "I'm thirteen, why did you make me come?" and Blade and Isaac just huddle in the corner holding hands and being nonplussed. Ash is furious and keeps threatening to kill Ethan, who refuses to give up on him and pesters him constantly to admit he has a problem and accept a group hug. I have a 70 page printout of the MSN conversation we had about this scenario, and we still talk about it today.

( Questions under the cut )