Made some good progress on my outline. Started to read it from start to finish and fill in the holes. Need to have Teague’s plotline good n’ done before I focus on the side plots. I’m doing some mean things to her now, which may or may not include bear traps and giant spiders.* I always forget how much of a challenge writing a story from start to finish is. Maybe because I crapped out on The Raimos, so I haven’t finished a book since January. :O
In random news, I’m making butternut squash soup tonight for the first time ever. I’m very excited. This youtube video makes it look so much fun.
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*Note that I despise spiders. It will be interesting writing for one.
Good luck with your outline, Chuck.
ReplyDeleteBut giant spiders? We need different bugs to get giantified every once in a while. Don't let spiders hog all the glory! Let the mosquitos have a turn. =P
C'mon, that's so Jumanji. :P Though I guess giant spiders are, too.
ReplyDeleteWhatev, Jumanji had a little of everything. Even a random safari gunman, if I recall correctly.
ReplyDeleteSo giant pillbugs then, there you go. Imagine a stampede of them rolling down the mountain after your main character.
I will pay you money to write "Pillbug Armageddon."
ReplyDeleteOr better yet, "Rolly-Polly Armageddon."
We call them potato bugs. :D What's the technical name, I wonder?
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillbugs
ReplyDeleteThere's a whole family of these bugs, as is usually the case, since we can't have just one species--we need a good 8 million or so. But it is interesting that it is a dialect question. I've heard them called pillbugs and rolly pollys before, but don't think I've heard potato bug very often...
http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_74.html
I may very well write a short story with these terrifying creatures, spoofing the booming post-apocalypse genre going on right now...
I always called them potato bugs too, Chuck. I learned of this silly "rolly polly" and "pillbug" nonsense when I got older.
ReplyDeleteYes, I just decided to value my dialect over Nick's and Nathan's. Deal with it.
Let me know if your squash soup turns out, Charlie. The acorn squash soup I made a little while ago was kinda lame.