From Twitter 07-05-2010

• 07:07:40: @yolandasfetsos Awesome news, congratulations!
  
• 07:26:50: Back to work today. I feel souless and crushed already. Sigh
  
• 07:31:08: I need to work harder on my plan to start a new life on a tropical island making cocktails
  
• 07:31:36: And drinking cocktails, more importantly
  
• 09:29:07: @thetheoryof Ooh yeah, that would be really useful!
  
• 09:29:38: Back at work 45 minutes. My desk is covered in other people's crap, my intray is full of crap that other people could have dealt with...
  
• 09:30:01: ...And I have to go to a conference call at 11 for a project I have no desire to be involved in. Is it Friday now?
  
• 15:29:47: Woo! I'm going to the She-Wolf conference! (Once I pay...)
  
• 17:24:42: @Scarimonious Read the satyr porn! Read the satyr porn! Do it, do it, do it! You, you, you, you, you, you! Read the porn!
  
• 17:40:21: @Scarimonious Yay! I look forward to many horn-related puns
  
• 17:42:03: @Scarimonious Did his prodigious manhood unbalance him or something?
  
• 17:46:58: @Scarimonious I'm torn between laughter and anxiety
  
• 17:56:59: @Scarimonious This hermaphrodite needs to visit St Louis, stat
  
• 18:08:22: @Scarimonious It's a porn match for the ages!
  
• 19:09:02: I wasn't cut out to deal with money. That's why I became a writer
  
• 19:28:07: RT @TrishaTelep: Desperately seeking submissions:anyone have any female-oriented psychological thrillers a la Sophie Hannah they want pu ...
  
• 19:28:15: RT @TrishaTelep: ...pretextagency at murderone dot co dot uk. I have stumbled across some free reading time! Please help & pls RT to any ...
  
• 20:27:00: @Scarimonious Sex with the air sounds like a euphemism to me...
  
• 21:08:46: @Scarimonious Now I'm just disturbed. Semen is not for swimming in!
  
• 21:23:45: @Scarimonious And install an aqua sex swing, presumably?
  
• 21:29:00: @Scarimonious Are you sure this isn't satire porn, rather than satyr porn?
  
• 21:33:58: @Scarimonious I'm lmao so hard right now. I can't help but recall the Ash/Charizard slash I read one fateful day. It changed me
  
• 21:35:44: The neighbour's cat just jumped through the window and went straight for the fridge. The very definition of cupboard love
  
• 22:05:15: Submitted a story to another Static Movement anthology. Think it's nearly full, so fingers crossed!
  
• 22:15:57: I want to write a story with a perambulating skeleton in it
  
• 22:19:08: Mostly because I found a gothic romance title generator, and perambulating skeletons seem like something a gothic romance should have
  

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Of Cats and Wolves

 We appear to have acquired a house guest. A couple of weeks ago, we had the front door open and a cat wandered in, had a poke around, took a nap on the stairs and wandered off again. A few days later he came back, had some cheese, took a nap, and wandered off. Now he's a regular visitor, so much so that a couple of Sundays ago, he actually found his way up to the bedroom and napped there with me. Last night he invited himself in through the living room window, and stayed until about three in the morning, at which point he came upstairs to get all up in my face and demand freedom.

He's back again tonight, currently having a quick wash and contemplating my feet. I've no idea whose cat he is. He probably does this to several different families to ensure maximum food and affection. Dirty little cat tramp.

Anyway. BLOOD HUNT. Shannon and Ayla are preparing to visit the catacombs, and encounter some horror. I'm a bit worried about the pair of them, to be frank. I do not want to spend this entire book retreading the issues they had in SILVER KISS. It's inevitable that it will happen to some degree; BLOOD HUNT takes place only a few weeks after SILVER KISS ends, so there are going to be unresolved problems to deal with. But I don't want people to think this is all the two of them are ever going to do - whine and bitch and cry at each other. After all, they've been together a few years; surely they should already know the best and worst of each other? I guess this is the challenge in writing an established couple as opposed to a couple just getting together. 

 

12072 / 70000 words. 17% done!

Not quite a thousand words tonight, but close enough I'm not going to beat myself up over it!