From Twitter 06-25-2010

• 07:23:30: RT @austinhwilliams: Just read on @galleycat "Stephanie Meyer Burnt Out on Vampires." This is good for her, as her books have nothing to ...
  
• 09:01:21: Payday! Just preordered Unholy Magic by @StaciaKane and bought Pagan by @doomsbreed and Armageddon Bound by @Marquitz. Happy Nome!
  
• 09:01:59: Also ordered The Girl's Guide to Guns and Monsters anthology. Couldn't resist that title
  
• 09:33:57: @kazmahoney I have emailed you back! *goes away from email before boss sees she isn't actually working after all*
  
• 09:40:04: Today I am mostly eating things in pink wrappers.
  
• 09:41:04: *checks drink* And drinking pink drinks
  
• 10:39:01: No Brain, we aren't going to be working on another Ethan Banning novella until Blood Hunt is finished. Werewolves trump demons this summer
  
• 13:11:30: Can the YA market take a heroine who self-harms and has an eating disorder, and also Satanism? Anyone?
  
• 13:11:51: @etaknosnhoj Your reports sound eerily similar to mine, except I was never any good at maths.
  
• 13:35:13: @etaknosnhoj You'll never anywhere without that baroque music knowledge. I'd start brushing up if I were you
  
• 13:46:40: @etaknosnhoj By which I mean you'll never GET anywhere. Clearly I need to brush up my English skills
  
• 14:39:30: @yolandasfetsos Sounds like something I should read... Who's the author?
  
• 14:48:21: @yolandasfetsos Sounds awesome! Adding it to my wishlist
  
• 14:51:57: Had a mozerella baguette for lunch, now feel really lightheaded, hot, and have stomach pains. Coincidence?
  
• 14:52:22: Being allergic to cheese is quite an unpleasant idea
  
• 14:58:43: Although thinking about it, I felt this way last time I had a baguette from the maths canteen. Maybe it's the maths, not the cheese?
  
• 15:14:03: @caseyparry Eek, I don't want to go blind! I like Wensleydale!
  
• 15:17:26: I now have a headache and backache. Pretty sure backache isn't a symptom of food allergies, but it came on pretty damn fast...
  
• 16:31:00: @etaknosnhoj Wait, aren't we overlooking the most important thing? The octopus is called Paul! That deserves greater attention, surely?
  
• 16:37:22: Giving up and going home. This girl ain't right
  

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Writing Meme Days 23 & 24

23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story—from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?

It varies wildly. My fastest draft was SILVER KISS, which took just over three months. Longest was Wild, which I started in 2007 and finished in 2009, then rewrote a couple of times in early 2010. It depends on a lot of stuff - how bad my arm is, what's going on in Real Life, and whether I have a deadline or not. I tend to be quite lazy if I don't have a deadline to meet, and if I overdo it, I usually have to take a couple of days off to rest my arm anyway, so there's no point trying to speed-write when I don't have to.

24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What’s the most interesting way you’ve killed someone?

Very willing, if the plot demands it. I'm against killing characters off just to up the shock value - I'm against doing anything just for shock value; I think it's a cheap way of eliciting reader sympathy. But if it's a natural progression of the plot, then yeah, I'll happily kill people off.

As for interesting ways, I guess without being too spoilery, I like some of the deaths in AFTERLIFE, where men are dragged to hell by a ghostly girl! Huzzahs! 

( Questions under the cut )