I missed my usual Friday night post. The beta reads for The Enhanced League are pouring in, and I kind of want to jump right into my modifications. Experience has taught me not to do this, but the heart wants what the heart wants. It's better to get them all and look for the similar comments and address those first.
To distract myself, I turned my efforts to Lisa Burton Radio. I had several in various stages, because of my trip to Kentucky and all the catching up from being gone. I'm happy to be all caught up on that front, and Lisa's Thursday show is all scheduled.
Sean Harrington delivered the last poster for The Enhanced League, and they all look fabulous. I'm sure Lisa and I will need to have a discussion about proper baseball footwear, but I already know what she's going to say. Robot girl legs are probably more resilient than human legs.
Speaking of Sean, I sent him a fresh new inquiry about The Yak Guy Project. I haven't even started editing, and it needs some time to ferment, but it pays to plan ahead.
We're going to Guardians of the Galaxy II tonight, and I'm pretty stoked about it. My next project will be a paranormal adventure, but it's going to have a lot of fun/cranky banter. GoG has some of that going for it, so if I call it research, are my movie tickets tax deductible? Maybe I ought to dig up my last tickets to Ghost in the Shell, since it will help with my Grinders novel that I'll start in 2018.
Memory lane moment. This is what I did to my name tag at a conference last year:
It gave me a nice option to those tags that say, “Hello, my name is:” I used to write… Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.
I still need to get started on my short story for the anthology, and I have some reading to catch up on. This is on top of getting two books ready to go, and keeping my blog active. It's probably good to stay busy.
Today and tomorrow are my only real chance to get things done. Then I have one more hell week at work, and that event is over. I don't see any big-picture writing projects happening this weekend. There are a multitude of small ones though, and I probably ought to get to them… right after I add a new Otto video to Facebook. Old What's Her Face got one of those promotional plastic footballs yesterday. Otto thought it was scary, and took his time making it safe for all of us. (It's in pieces now.)
Nice post, Craig. You are busy, busy, busy as usual. I also have a tough week coming up and have to work tomorrow afternoon.
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Employment is such a burden to us writers.
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Hahahaha. How do you tell a writer from other convention attendees?
A new Otto video? Oh, I can’t wait!!! BTW, when’s Frankie coming home?
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Frankie shows up next Saturday. I’m sure there will be pictures and videos, but we might spend that day just making her feel at home.
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“It’s in pieces now” makes me giggle. Our new furry kids have made several of the extra large Wubba toys “safe” for us! 😁
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They’re handy like that. Keeping the world safe from plush toys, balls, plastic…
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It’s always nice to have projects to keep us busy.
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Busy, Busy
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Looking forward to the Enhanced League posters. Having fun reading it too. By the way, have we ever done an Ichabod Brooks/Lisa Burton Radio thing? I think we might have talked about doing it for when the short stories are released.
Enjoy the movie.
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Posters came out good. We have never had Ichabod over, and it sounds like a fun idea.
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Cool. We should do that. *checks email* I’ll get to that. At least you’re familiar with Ichabod and I feel like we’ve talked about this before, so I can answer those questions with ease.
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We are all Groot. 🙂
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I just got back from seeing Guardians of the Galaxy II. Loved it. Funny cast, great writing, and great action. And baby Groot is irresistible.
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Wonderful, Can’t wait.
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So looking forward to it too! 😀
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It was the perfect escape!
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It was awesome.
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I can’t wait to see the new Lisa artwork. Sean always does such an excellent job or you. You’ve got lots of irons in the fire and that’s awesome.
I’m currently watching the Kentucky Derby pre-show in prep of the main event. Once it’s over, I’ll be focused on writing again 🙂
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We’ve got the derby on too, but turned it on late. Looks like it didn’t stop raining since I left.
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Penguins game 5 tonight, so that’s what I’ll be doing.
I wish we were close enough for a doggie play date. Otto and my two would get along famously. My dogs also protect us from random things. Today, one of them protected us from a pencil and the other from a plastic fork… both of which my daughter carelessly left where they could attack. (I’m just glad the dogs won those battles… pencils and forks are tougher than plushies.)
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I’m sure they would have fun. Otto loves everyone and other dogs too.
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Busy,busy,Groot – and tell me how was Guardians II?
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The movie starts in about two hours here.
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I enjoyed the football video 🙂 He’s soooo cute.
Not a fan of the name tag thingy. We have them at church, laminated and whatnot. The Mister never wears his, and no one says anything. I can’t even make it into the sanctuary without someone telling me/ asking if I’ve forgotten it.
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Never heard of them in church before. I am kind of a heathen though.
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Lucky you have Otto to defend you from vicious things like that. 😉
I hope this next week isn’t too chaotic, and that you have the time after work calms down to get to the projects you’ve been dying to work on. Mind you, with Frankie coming home around that time, it might be a little while before things actually calm down for you…
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Yeah, but both drafts are finished. I can drag my feet getting them published.
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True… That should buy you time to deal with puppy training before it’s time to work on the next project. Anyway, I bet you’re super excited about Frankie coming home soon?
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We’ve talked about almost nothing else at home. Went and bought all the peripheral stuff she’ll need, and probably some things beyond that.
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Haha! Can’t say that surprises me. 😉
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Love the name tag – have only heard good things about the new movie. Hoping to get there this weekend.
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It was a blast.
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