Fickle-Psyche In reply to Covens-ZAW [2009-07-11 05:15:29 +0000 UTC]

Hey, I like... fetched stuff. Sorta.

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Covens-ZAW In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-07-14 21:15:00 +0000 UTC]

yea ill give you that lol

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to JaKaSla-56 [2009-05-01 21:29:33 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to EvocativeSilence [2009-04-22 02:43:26 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome. I love the curl of the hands.

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-14 00:45:18 +0000 UTC]

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, but okay. And yes, I just now logged into this account and need to feature you. I'm a bit of a procrastinator, but we covered that already.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-14 00:53:02 +0000 UTC]

Being a werewolf, I spotted vampire teeth, In your favorites, and the urge to kill came over me, but only for a moment. I was trying (Put2 is helping me type) to look shy and dumb but the growls kept coming out. Probably just prostethics though.
Is your novel represented anywhere on DA?

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-14 00:57:12 +0000 UTC]

Nope, no novel on DA where it can snatched by idea thieves. I'm paranoid about that. And you're just about featured. So, if I'm a vamp, and you're a werewolf, should we cease speaking? Hypothetically, that is.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-14 01:35:08 +0000 UTC]

Good question. of course hypothetically. Two thoughts. I will the change and I don't have to. Secondly, I can't smell you so I don't have any confirmation. But I think yes, still I'd like hell about your whereabouts. I never know when duty was going to overwhelm all else.

I think this way. If an idea thief stole my ideas, or better, copied the execution, and if I found out that they had published, I'd sue them. Steal their profit, and have a lawyer add on pain and suffering. Might be easier than the other way...

Working on the preliminary of religion.

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-14 01:56:03 +0000 UTC]

Okay, perhaps I am stupider than I thought, but I don't know what this means: " But I think yes, still I'd like hell about your whereabouts. I never know when duty was going to overwhelm all else."

Care to explain that better or possibly insert an omitted word or two?

And well... my idea is copyable without being suable, I am sure, but different enough to maybe be interesting to a publisher which is why I only email chapters to people who show interest and whom I trust.

Would you like me to trust you?

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-14 02:13:46 +0000 UTC]

'lie like hell...' just kidding of course! missing the word like. My brain moves a lot faster than my fingers, and I have to keep telling my cat I don't need her help, but I appreciate the effort.

Of course I'd like you to trust me. That's most of the point here of being honest about me. I also have experienced a few years of trying to get published and have had two agents, so maybe I can be useful in some ways. I'm not kidding about this: I've been on a program to expiate my sins for sixteen years,or more, maybe 26. What year is this....no, i6 is more accurate. Any animate being I can help, arachnids exluded, i want to, in any way I can, unless I think it will lead them into some harm, or seems a useless endeavour.

I'm reallly a, bad four fingered typist. Pretty fast, but make so many errors it's useles.

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-14 04:07:10 +0000 UTC]

That would be great, if you could point me in the right direction of being published. First I need to finish my story, though Which is taking forever. Okay, technically, I wrote 56,000 words in seven weeks, but I have long periods of 'no go' time between bursts of writing. I get too distracted by everything else.

And why four fingered? Is your body even more horribly mangled than you've already said? If so, perhaps the knowledge that I suffer from ...yeah, okay I can't top that. Points for trying, though.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-14 04:26:56 +0000 UTC]

It's just the method Ilearned from watching my father. Never learned to touch type. No all ten fingers are still attached. And there's difference I think from being scarred to being mangled, and any mangling is usually internal. busted up my hand punching a wall I thought was drywall and I could punch right through it. It was plaster covered cement. I did break several metacarpal bones and dislocate two fingers, and had to have the hand, right, that I write with pinned together. That didn't help my penmanship. However, in second grade I was the only person who got D's in an A to F system. Straight A's in all the stuff like reading and writing and 'Rithmetic, but D in conduct, D in posture, D in penmanship, and this I don't understand, D in effort. How did that happen when i for straight A's in everything else!

Here's a word of advice off the top. Go to a bookstore and look through the books closest to yours in kind, if any, and do an estimate of their word count. And aim for it. Also make a note of the agents if it's mentioned in the preface and submit to them first. And never submit it to an agent that if they accept it asks you for any money to cover their own business exspenses.

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-14 04:36:27 +0000 UTC]

I already know the estimated word count. I even format it to the 'T' like a book in the genre, counting how many characters across a page justified, font size, margin size, and how many lines to a page. All of it is irrelevant, however, when an editor hands it back and says 'cut 5,000 words' 'add a scene about...' 'this plot branch is pointless...' etc etc. I'm just going to write it my way without worrying too much about it being too long (which I'm sure it will be) and let a professional decide what to do with it, if anything. And yeah, I won't pay to publish. The only thing I'd consider doing, if absolutely no one on the planet is interested in my story, is doing the internet publish your own thing, just to hand my dad and some friends a pretty copy of what I wrote.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-14 04:48:40 +0000 UTC]

I'm, intersted, and if you decide to trust me I'd like to see some, But how wuld you deliver it? Email? My feeling about art and writing in general is if you like what you do, that's enough. Recgnition, ehhh. Imean like having to do book tours and things like that. I don't like trying to sell. Money would be nice though. But I've temporarily given up trying to find representation.

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-14 05:00:56 +0000 UTC]

I'll send you the first two bits of it, if you give me an email address. It's fantasy/sci-fi, so if that's not your cut of tea, then you won't like it. It's nothing at all like my little shorts. It's more light hearted and is an adventure/mild romance/time travel/tweens' book sort of thing, although I think I'm failing a bit at the last part since all my older friends are reading it and love it so far.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-14 07:14:28 +0000 UTC]

nunheh@aol.com
I wonder if you've read any of the outakes from my fantasy and sci-fi novel. It's really what they call heroic fantasy, and the setting is on a similar world to earth. There's hints of magic as the story develops, and late in the book the characters are trying to figure out what circuit boards are. In Book two, which I've written in my head, and a little on paper the secret and the villains get fully uncovered, and hopefully destroyed. A setting and technology that could probably span from 100 AD to 1800, but most people live in a medieval world. And I'd have a specific request for your comment. There's battles and wars, a good (I think) assassin who is a developing were cat and wolf, doesn't yet change into one, and a big old cat and....Oh so many things.

The question is this: can you follow the story for the first 100 pages, which are usually my worst before I get my chops loosened. I've rewritten it, the beginning, several times. Also, in the beginning, does the hero talk too much. And do you like the heroine. I'll send you the whole book. No expectations that you do anything. It would be useful to me though. I know what the story is, but I'm not to sure it gets across to the reader because of it's structure. Flashbacks in particular. One problem is that agents often ask for the first three chapters. I've read a lot of Fantasy, but specifically the heroic sub-genre. My favorite line though, if I may, in the book is when the assasin hero kills three men at the beginning who are robbing a coach and getting ready to rape the girl. Grateful that she and her brother, a useless sort, have been saved, she tries to slap the make on our hero, and finally says something like "Surely our hero is entitled to some kind of a reward," Coquetishly of course. He's leaving the scene, and turns around and says, gesturing toward the bodies, "I am not your hero. I am their executioner."

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-14 11:49:38 +0000 UTC]

I responded a bit in my email, but now I've gotta run to work. Don't delete something from Cacoethes Scribendi. That's me. Hope to hear from you soon and I'll write a bit more when I get to work. Also, today is my assigned 'hone day' so if we are busy I will have to help with the phones. If that happens, I won't be able to chat.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-14 12:35:52 +0000 UTC]

Received it but didn't open it yet because I wasn't sure who it came from. What word processor to you use?

This is weird...I got to sleep at about 6am, really starved for sleep. But I fell asleep right away. The door bell rang and woke me up at 7:30. I scrambled for some clothes and went tot he door but whoever rang it had left. I looked at the sky, stormy, and I had dreamed of tornados sweeping through the area, one of my more rare nightmares. And I assumed that it was 7:30pm So I was rushing around, turned the computer on, made some phone calls I needed to make, fed Put2 and a refugee cat who has to stay outdoors. Finally got back to the computer. And touched the tme icon to to make sure I knew which dday it was, and it was only 8:30 Am. So I'd only slept an hour and a half. I guess I'll find out when I open your book what word processor it is.

Creatures of the night: I read a study once that that clamed 8% of the population of earth is genetically coded for night (It was a theory.) For myself I've always, even as a little kid, felt better in the dark and kind of hit my stride about 2AM. The study theorized that primitive man needed night watchmen to keep away the predators and marauders of the night, Keep the fires going, sound the alarms, put up a preliminary defense. Natural selection required night people.

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-14 13:14:32 +0000 UTC]

Gods, I hate when I do that. I get all out of whack when I wake up thinking it's a different time than it really is. My adrenaline starts pumping and I start freaking out, and then when I settle down when I realize the time, I am out of sync the rest of the day. I used to be a night person. I would stay up until 2am or so and still go to work at 7am, but since going back on the Lexapro in November (I quit it for about six months) I can barely stay up past 11pm anymore.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-14 14:04:09 +0000 UTC]

Speaking of day, it's now bedtime for bonzo. Hope the tornados in my dreams have stopped, and nobody in there is trying to harm my cat

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-14 18:02:01 +0000 UTC]

Do you fear assassins are going to snuff her?

And I've sent you all of my confusing and probably too verbose story up to this point.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-14 23:23:38 +0000 UTC]

No, before the tornados a 7 foot 400 pound mentally challenged man was using my cat for a toy, and she ws screaming. He'd squeeze her two hard and she;d whine and he'd laugh and drool, then he'd throw her in the and catch her by a leg and she'd howl. I came runnung up beihind him and pounded his huge, mishapen head. Didn't seem to bother him. I jumped on his back but coudn't lock my legs around his blubbery girth but I could get my arms around his neck. He let go of the cat, who limped off and the big boy tried to stand but couldn't, tried to pull my arms away from his neck then slowly collapsed to the floor. I held on until there was no movent then went after my cat, looked over my back where the body lay, an a score of duplicates of the giant guybut only 3 feet tall came after me. I ran trough a door, picked up my limping ca, and woke up

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-14 23:34:40 +0000 UTC]

I usually dream I am someone else. I rarely dream that I am actually me in my life. Sometimes I'm me in another life, but usually I am someone completely different, and dream me doesn't realize that she's not real until I wake up. Last night was different, though. I was surprisingly my own self in my dream.

As far as your big guy becoming many little guys, it reminds me of an old horror movie called 'The Gate' where that happened to a demon.

And what happened to the mini mentally challenged guys when the tornado came?

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-15 00:38:47 +0000 UTC]

The tornados dozens of them, were the night before. People cars,etc. were being swept up into the clouds. I hung onto the trunk of a tree, that almost got ripped out of the ground and finally fell on top of me, pinning me, and the tornados kept on coming.

My dreams areusuually populated with accuately depicted people I know, who behave as they do, then I end up with eihter monsters or evil people after my cat.

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-15 00:59:30 +0000 UTC]

I also rarely remember my dreams, but the ones that I remember, I will remember forever, I guess. I remember nightmares from when I was really little, and a particularly bad one I had when I was 17.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-15 01:10:36 +0000 UTC]

As a kid I had recurrent dreams that Huey Louie and Dewie, Donald Duck's nephews, would chase me around Fenway Park and I'd duck into a tunel that kept getting smaller until I got stuck. The ducks were in front of me and a giant spider appeared from around a bend. I'd wake up screaming.

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-15 01:24:40 +0000 UTC]

I had a dream that my parents (dad and cynda) and my sister and I were in Paris (I was six at the time) and we were walking along a river that had wrought iron rails. When we went to cross a small bridge, a shark jumped out of the river and landed on the bridge, then began to run like Jabber Jaw, chasing us. We all ran in different directions, and it chased me. We ran all through the streets until we were passing a little cafe that had accordion music playing and we both stopped running and began to dance with one another. Then I woke up.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-15 01:27:20 +0000 UTC]

Might be a new idea for a dance craze! Do the Shark!

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-15 01:36:28 +0000 UTC]

I worry that it'd look a lot like the funky chicken or the mashed potato, and together that sounds like dinner at grandma's.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-15 01:44:44 +0000 UTC]

In my home town
where I used to stay
the name of the place,
was Augusta G A,
Down there,
we have a good time
we dont talk
we all get together
in any kind of weather
and we do the Camel Walk

It look like the Boogaloo to me.

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-15 01:49:48 +0000 UTC]

Do you often spout random lyrics or poetry? I've noticed this is becoming somewhat of a trend with you.

I've never seen the Camel Walk, but I'd imagine whatever dance The Shark is, it wouldn't look much like a camel.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-15 01:59:14 +0000 UTC]

James Brown lyrics here: Mash Potato made me do it. Mash Potato is in the song,but it wouldn't crear memory. But the Boogaloo did.

Here it comes I think
There was a dance
now dig this
there was a dance
they called the mashed potato
I may not do this dance
as well as you
But baby,
youu can bet your bottom dollar
You'll never hear me hollar
I'll do te best
that I can do

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-15 02:06:55 +0000 UTC]

Are you writing down random song lyrics to procrastinate in writing part 2 of religion? Shame on you. I see through your conniving ways.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-15 02:14:36 +0000 UTC]

That's the problem. You know me too well. I'm thinking of creating a text file. It will start with "The eye cannot see itself," a Upanishad text from about 2300 BC, and for me that is the key to some of the mysteries (and another less critical,) "See that rock? That thou art."

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-15 02:21:04 +0000 UTC]

I'm... a rock? I dunno, I'm sort of soft and squishy. Maybe I'm that sort of spongy rock that is highly porous and kind of course.

And the eye can see itself in the mirror.
*waves from other side of mirror*

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-15 02:24:13 +0000 UTC]

No, it sees it's reflection in the mirror. Poke your eye reflection in the mirror and see if it says, "Hey, don't do that! Owwwwww! Pain Hurts!

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-15 02:25:35 +0000 UTC]

Well, I'll never see my girly parts without a mirror, either, so what does that mean?

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-15 02:29:12 +0000 UTC]

Your girly parts can't see any way...well, I don't know that, but substite for eye, mind. and fergit about them girly parts!

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-15 02:35:13 +0000 UTC]

*snort* I know. I's jus' playin'

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-15 02:44:48 +0000 UTC]

That's what I suspected.

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-13 18:34:57 +0000 UTC]

Oh, you SING, too? You are such a talented guy. I'm impressed. Yeah, and as you can see, this whole 'reply to me' thing is working out wonderfully. See how popular I am and how much my 'friends' love me? Ah, the internet. Just one more way to be rejected by humanity. And you are totally getting featured now (once I get home and can do the coding and proper account browsing). In fact, I'll feature you at BOTH accounts so all FOUR of the people who look at my stuff will see yours, too.

Now I'm signing back into my other personality. I mean... account.

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nunheh In reply to Fickle-Psyche [2009-04-13 19:44:19 +0000 UTC]

well, I ain't no kind of exhibiitonist or nothing like that....but ok.

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Fickle-Psyche In reply to nunheh [2009-04-13 19:59:22 +0000 UTC]

Aw, is that the one thing you haven't done? Gone streaking naked through town?

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