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Listening to:  "The Barber's Unhappiness" by the Matches This week in my life: I've taken a decided risk to this whole publishing business. I've written a delightful paranormal romance about vampires. Its well received by my peers and has been downloaded almost 500 times for free. However, since it is about vampires, and the market is tremendously saturated at the moment, I doubt I'll find representation for it. It'd have to be the greatest vampire novel of all time to do that, and it does fall just short of that. (Just.) Meanwhile, I've written and crafted a wonderfully original paranormal romance not about vampires, or werewolves, or witches, or ghosts, entitled Switched . I think its set. Ready to go. Publishable. Magical. Since my last major revisions, I haven't sent it out to agents. This is because I've decided to develop a platform.  Basically, my vampire novel will end up being a throwaway novel (despite being very good), with hopes of...

I don't understand people who want to be writers. I don't mean people who write and want to be writers, I mean folks who say, "I would love to write a novel." Or "I wish I could write." The urge to write when you don't you actually have to the urge to write. I guess its because, to me, it seems so simple. As long as you're literate, you can write. Not well, probably. But if you've had a 3rd eduation, you enough of the building blocks where you can go from there. So, once you're past 3rd grade, if you want to write, what's stopping you? But more than that, I don't know why anybody who doesn't write would want to. I mean, I write. A lot. And I enjoy it. A whole lot. But I don't play football because I don't enjoy football. If I did, I would. I watch a lot of movies, play video games, and read/write a lot. I enjoy these activities so I do them. So I'm assuming, that if you enjoyed writing, you would write. And you don...

You know what I think? (I'm going to assume you do since you're here, reading this.) The answer is: They take a really simple concept and turn it into this gorgeos elaborate thing. And they do it all for real, in one camera shot. No CGI. Yes, this has turned into another one of my CGI rants, but with Alice in Wonderland  opening this weekend (and me going to see it), I can't help but feel betrayed by Tim Burton. The new OKGO video reminds me of the magic and awesomeness that Burton introduced us at the opening of Pee Wee, so his new film only shines as an abomination of that memory. If you haven't seen the super sweet OKGO video, here it is: (P.S. The song itself is super awesome.) Eric, my platonic life partner, makes the claim for the new Alice by saying, "He couldn't have done those things without CGI." And to an extent, I agree. Eric keeps going on about how amazing Helena Bonham Carter (Queen of Hearts) looks, with her big head to little body ratio. A...