Just make sure to leave yourself enough breadcrumbs/blood drops to follow the trail of your ideas later.

Ha! But I like your BS about college football … or I would, if I followed college football.

Sweet!

It's bitey!

I feel ya. Right now, I put stuff down (in terms of stories, the novel, etc.) and just don't pick them back up, because reasons. I can push myself to do short stuff, but there's still the issue of polishing/revising/getting stuff out there.

Yes. Loved listening to him on NPR, and reading his column in various places.

There are ways to deal with this. What kind of story are you writing and what sort of hell are you willing and able to put your characters through to get them from the beginning to the end?

No … I should be editing more than writing and my month is too scattered to devote the time needed to succeed at NaNo. I have friends who are, though, and I wish them much success.

Yay!

It's … a disappointment.

I can't believe I forgot to mention coffee. Perhaps because I don't think of it as a drink, but rather Life's Magic Elixir Without Which I Would Be Nothing.

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Doo eet.

The Blood Countess or another Bathory book? Because as beautiful as the prose in the first one was - I had to give a big red no to trying to empathize with a sadist who viewed human life so cheaply.

Do you mean Coke(TM) addict or the white stuff?

Oh, and the hibiscus-flower punch you can get at taquerias … jamaica. Boy, do I love jamaica …

A not-too-sweet non-alcoholic ginger beer. Lemonade with ginger and cayenne pepper. European-style hot chocolate (the really thick stuff).

Shea all the way.

Guy Davis is perfect for drawing disgusting frogmen taking over the world in B.P.R.D. and I can't stand his art.

As someone who regularly kills plants, the self-watering herbs intrigue me … but not at over US$50. Dang.