Writing (or a lack of), Real Life, and F*cked Up "Authors"

[azraelz_angel]

Yeah, so for over two weeks I haven't even really picked up a pen, let alone come up with any ideas. It is pretty bad. It actually makes me really worried cause I have a lot of writing I need to do. Perhaps that is it - perhaps my brain has just freaked itself out by the sheer amount fiction I owe people.

But I think I've managed to break it, at least I hope I have. Sunday I didn't have a damn thing to do besides sit down and write. It felt good. I really got into a long overdue Sweet Charity fic. And though I didn't work on it tonight, I've got the whole thing buzzing around in my head. I'll give it a good go tomorrow night and see what I can come up with.

I still owe amara_m her Sweet Charity fic. But I've decided, because I must be clinically insane, that I'm going to spn_j2_bigbang for her. Crazy, who me? Yeah - that is going to be an insane amount of porn.

And I still owe satyrnfive a would-be Sweet Charity fic (after I get my two official ones done). I'm not sure I'm ever going to get done my writing requirements.

But it appears to be coming back. I can't hate too much on my muse any more.

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I'm currently housesitting for two weeks for one of my boat dealers. Yes that was boat before dealer. *snicker* I use the word dealer too often and people of course take it out of context.

The first night I was here, the big mutt dog Khaki either puked or pooped in the sunroom (where they are kept). That was an awesome 'welcome home' housesitter present. It got better though cause even though I let them out at midnight and set my alarm for seven the next morning, Khaki managed to piss a freaking river, lake, ocean, something all over the sunroom. Thank god for tile right? Except she happened to piss and it flowed under the wood stand where they keep their drinks. So I was on my hands and knees, practically in the piss, cleaning under the stand. And then there were several soda boxes that got soaked in piss that I had to throw out the box and wash off the soda. Yeah that was pleasant. Please remind me why I do this again....oh right, the money!

I'm very much looking forward to going to San Diego at the end of next month. Seriously, yay for San Diego. After Sara (my best friend) gets done her conference we are going to haul ass out to the desert - otherwise known as Victorville - and stay with her father for the weekend. Yay for free lodging!

Oh, and I made an appointment to get my hair cut. I'm fairly certain that it is all long enough to donate. According to Locks of Love I can do multiple ponytails to get the hair to 10 inches. Egads I'm going to have short, short hair! Yeah, so everyone pray that my hair will grow like crazy in the next month. I'm going to get it cut right before I go out to San Diego. That way I'll have new short hair that I'm not sure what to do with and I'll be frustrated the whole time I'm out there - best plan ever right? Haha. Oh, and I'm going to get highlights *beams* and some dark red chunks added in as well. Hello crazy hair!

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Now this one might get me in trouble, but damn it, it is my journal and I'm going to say whatever the fuck I want to. I'm so freaking tired of some of the authors that post to TtH. Seriously. How hard is it to write a sentence with punctuation? How hard is it to write one with proper punctuation? Spell check - we offer a free version during the posting process. Do you think that the bad "authors" take the time to use it? Hell no! Because they don't realize they suck - and badly.

Normally I wouldn't call someone out. But this just made me giggle, and giggle, and giggle some more because it is so fucking ridiculous!

Review of chapter "Chapter One" from sassycat
Review:
nice convo's
if u need help with the sex scenes, lemme know over at route 66 a couple of my friends refer to me as queen of smutdom

*falls over dead from laughter* Seriously - WTF? Oh my god - I seriously suggest that you all go read her work. Seriously. Go follow that link above and read what the self-proclaimed "queen of smutdom" has to say about sex - Dean and Buffy style.

Meanwhile I will be sitting here, laughing at you as you realize you want to gouge your eyeballs out. I know that some people make this mistake, and I've been guilty of it a time or two, but seriously - apostrophes do not make things plural. If you do this please don't think I'm making fun of you, unless you are one of the people I've repeatly mentioned this to in your quarantine messages at TtH. I know I've told her that like um...a lot. A lot more than I should need to. But apparently it just doesn't stick...

And okay, I suppose it isn't awful. It is readable. You can get the general gist of what is supposed to be happening, but there are spelling mistakes, there are grammatical mistakes, there are just too many issues with it.

And I've pointed out, several times, to this author that she should take the time to find a beta to go over her work since she clearly just doesn't get it - "it" being proper writing. Instead she tries to keep posting the same crap to the site, only now it appears she's finally gotten the message and stopped. Thankfully.

*flails from laughter a little more* Queen of Smutdom - WTF!?!

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The End.

Comments

[kaylashay81]

*smiles*

Very ranty and nice. :-)

yay!

And yay for short hair! It'll be okay... short hair is wonderful. And yay for highlights and chunks of red.

Boo for messy dogs though... yay for money!

[azraelz-angel.livejournal.com]

Glad the rant wasn't too over the top but I have been dying for days to comment on her comment.

*shakes head*

Yes, I am actually looking forward to my short hair. It is too long, it's the longest it has ever been, and it is getting on my nerves. So I'm going to cut it all off and start over.

I just the dogs out for the evening, so hopefully they will come back inside and go to bed and not pee puddles in the floor!

[amara-m.livejournal.com]

Maybe a little smut, of a *ahem* better quality would help?




Someone was going to find them. Jensen was sure of it. Positive.

It didn't stop him from leaning back against Jeff, or from mouthing against his neck while Jeff's cock pulsed inside him. Fast and dirty...over a prop desk in a half-dismantled school set where they didn't belong. His ass still smarted from the ruler Jeff had laid across his bare skin before he slicked himself up and pushed inside him.

Jeff's whiskers rubbed against his shoulder as Jeff reached around and covered Jensen's cock with his hand, stroking it in long pulls, slow and lazy, like they had all the time in the world.

"Gonna teach you a lesson, boy." Jeff growled in his ear, and just like that, Jensen tensed up, clenching his ass tight around Jeff's softening cock and spewing over the dusty desk.


*beams*

[azraelz-angel.livejournal.com]

*is dead from the hotness* Jesus! Jesus!

Seriously this makes me want some alone time.

I was driving back home (aka where I'm currently housesitting) yesterday evening and had a random plot bunny jump into my head for your little piece (prior to bigbang) that I promised you. It had nothing to do with the prompts you requested but there was defintiely some J3 action. You should hopefully be seeing that little piece soon.

Thanks though for brightening my evening. Yum.

[amara-m.livejournal.com]

Hee!

I had a shitty day, so I figure to cheer myself up by randomly porning everyone else!

Glad you liked it. I did a Sam/Dean car sex one over on brynwulf's journal.

Comment porn is fun AND therapeutic!

I look forward to the J3!

[writinginct.livejournal.com]

You can never have too much porn. ^_^

[azraelz-angel.livejournal.com]

And that is the truth!

[azraelz-angel.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that I'm only feeling a little bad that you had a bad day? Cause I got comment porn and you know...

J/K - I'm sorry to hear that you had a shitty day. What happened? Want to vent?

And how goes your job situation?

[kaylashay81]

oooo.... yummy.... oooo...

[azraelz-angel.livejournal.com]

Definitely!!

[writinginct.livejournal.com]

Cookie?

lol...

Yay for Locks of Love - I did that about three years ago. If I do it now (and my hair is long enough) I will end up in divorce court. My husband has a *thing* about my hair. ::rolls eyes::

TtH could always take the stance of that archive I posted to that went in and made changes to my fic without asking me before they posted them. NOT! lol... Seriously though, there is such a boatload of crappy fic being published. No capital letters, no punctuation (not even BAD punctuation), et cetera. Bluck. Just bluck.

Now here's a question for the spelling/word usage fanatics - I wrote this sentence:
"She thrust out the pizza box and he took it autonomously."

My intended meaning being that his hands acted of their own accord and just took the pizza without him having think about it.

So I get this review:

"Autonomously doesn't mean the same thing as automatically. You might have meant automatically."

I'm slightly irked, or maybe put off, I don't know. Regardless I don't think my use of the word "autonomously" is incorrect.

What do you all think? I personally love using *different* words to get my meaning across. And I am the dork that will read pages out of the dictionary for fun.

^_^

[azraelz-angel.livejournal.com]

Yay for cookies!

And yeah, I'll leave TtH if it ever took that stand and went in and fixed author's stories, especially when the author doesn't have a clusterfuck of a story.

Even published books get through with a few mistakes. It is human nature to error.

It is clear even when I read the sentence (before reading the review) what you meant. I think the problem is that it is a big word, and some people fail at them, and it isn't widely used, especially in this situation. I think that automatically is used more often than not for this purpose.

[avamclean.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the 'welcome home present' but at least you have a house all to yourself for the next several days. And squee!! for the short hair. I'm more than sure you'll look super cute and possible damn sexy (I have a thing for shorter hair on girls).

As for sassycat...um all her stories have been taken down. That's a shame, right? *listens to crickets chirp*

By the by you're icon is nifty.

[avamclean.livejournal.com]

Nevermind. I got your hopes up for no reason. Apparently she only writes FR21 stories and my setting was on FR18. *headdesk*

[azraelz-angel.livejournal.com]

I'm going to forgive you, only because your icon is superhot and does naughty things to my brain. *wink*

*snuggles you*

[azraelz-angel.livejournal.com]

I've got the possibility of looking damn sexy huh? *moves hair cut appointment sooner* j/k

I'll post pictures so you can be the judge, sweetie.

And yes, the welcome home present wasn't so pretty, but it is getting better. I've begun rationing the dogs water and my boss is letting me run back to the house on my lunch break to let them out. 10 hours is way too long to sit in the house and not pee all over the floor. I don't blame them, I couldn't do it unless I was sleeping.

And my icon was my gift in the spn_holidays fic/gift exchange. The wonderful milenaa made it and several other items for me. You can see the rest of her gifts for me HERE (http://community.livejournal.com/spn_holidays/40107.html). Neat huh?

And you got me all excited with your comment about sassycat taking her stories down. I was about to do the Snoopy Dance of Happiness. And then...

[exposed1.livejournal.com]

This got me all sorts of WHAT!? REALLY!? OHMG! And then I read your next comment and the world tilted.

[azraelz-angel.livejournal.com]

I know - she is just a damn tease. Yes that is what she is. *loves on avamclean*

[exposed1.livejournal.com]

This could very well be my favorite post of January 2008!

I don't like when people leave reviews where they leave shitty teen-net speak. It rankles me. The rules for English language just doesn't vanish when you log-in online.

Plus, it doesn't make me want to go read that reviewers work. It's more of a deterrent for me.

Queen of Smutdom? I hate shameless plugs like that in reviews. Send the author a private message or email offering to help out with the smut. Bugs that crap out of me when people rant and rave about how amazing they are. Usually the ones that go off about how many nominations they got or awards they won or how many reviews they get aren't the OHMG fantastic authors. The OHMG fantastic authors are generally a bit more humble, at least the ones I've come across.

[azraelz-angel.livejournal.com]

I had actually read over this twice before I could stop laughing. I'm so tickled that you liked my post. I was writing it cause I was in a bitchy mood and it crossed my mind about how you were going to react, and I was hoping you wouldn't get angry, and you didn't - so yay! And I was wondering how you were going to react simply because sassycat (http://www.tthfanfic.com/Author-10357/sassycat.htm) posts on Rt. 66 and I wasn't sure how you felt about her and I in no way wanted to insult you (and/or Rt. 66).

Phew - that was a rambling mess wasn't it?

*huggles you gently so not to disturb the bay-bee!!*

And she is not all that and a bag of chips. Nope, not at all!

[exposed1.livejournal.com]

Thrilled I could bring you some laughter on this Long Wednesday. *grins* Not the slightest bit angry. Honestly, everything you mentioned or felt/feel are a lot of the same feelings that I go through as Mod there. I'm more embarrassed though. I wish there were filters or something where people couldn't say x. *laughs* I suppose that's a little dictactor-y though isn't it? *bats eye lashes* Stupid freedom of speech. *mutters*

I didn't feel insulted. *squish* I myself got a great laugh from your post. It was a delight to read!

I like a good ramble! Never apologize for rambling.

[darkscarab.livejournal.com]

apostrophes do not make things plural

LMAO....LOL....I had other things to say but I can't remember now...*snickers*

[azraelz-angel.livejournal.com]

Haha. Yes, so if we have all learned nothing else today, please learn that apostrophes do not make things plural. I can't yell too much about it, as I have said I do it from time to time too. God, I was reading through some things I had written in my notebook (because I write longhand and then type it up) and was just horrified at sheer amount of wrong words, missing words, etc. It's not wise for me to write when I'm in bed...nope, but at least I go back and fix my mistakes. *nods*

Hope you are feeling better today!

[exposed1.livejournal.com]

Is it mischievous of me that I now want to make up a quote icon about how apostrophes fix ALL mistake's? (did you see that little ' I put in there? *snickers*)

[azraelz-angel.livejournal.com]

Oh it would be fantastic if made apostrophe icons. One with "apostrophes do not make things plural" would be hilarious and other of "apostrophes fix ALL mistake's". That is hilarious - fantastic - wonderful. *bats eyes* You know you want to make those. Purdy peas?