Voice time again soon? Because finally, I've finished those mind-sucking chapter edits.

Hey. How are you all?

1. I haven’t posted anything in so long it feels like maybe this is Rod’s blog now, and I’m butting in!

Those of you who weren’t around for the Rod days of old might enjoy checking out his first entrance on Sparky’s blog. It was a day that will live in infamy (at least for me it will). If you have the time, check it out:

It was July 21, 2007, Bad Analogies, Part 3, and mine read as follows:

Going on a vacation he couldn't afford was a pleasure and pain thing, like a roofer up there roofing away on your house and getting a good long hard-on kinda look at the naked sunbather chicks sunbathing around the pool in the next yard and falling off the roof and breaking his leg in your yard ‘cause you didn’t have a pool to fall into. Like that. --Robin S. (By the way, I’m using this analogy, fully intact, in my second novel. So thanks once again for your writing exercises, Sparky.)

Anyway, it was in the comments section that I fell in love with Rod’s poning abilities, and got too-shayed (not necessarily in that order).

2. And, here’s the second anyway: I AM FINALLY FINISHED with what I hope is the final draft of my edits with Chapters 10, 11, 12 and 13. Good Lord, that took a while.

3. So today, before the final pieces of Chapter 12 fell into place, or were shoved kicking and screaming like little bitches, really, I went to the grocery, and I was really getting pissed off. These two little brain-free chicks were manning the cash register and bagging duties, respectively, and they were suckingly slow. I’m talking, slowwwwww…..Yeah.

At first I was not amused, and then - I was.

I started smiling and I didn’t stop, when I realized these little dingbats were talking about sex to the whitebread customers filing down the checkout line, and it was fucking hilarious, watching everyone trying to be politically correctly cool with that, and unoffended.

And damn, that was the most fun conversation I’ve had all week, because when it was my turn at bat, i.e., at the register, I started asking all kinds of questions, and getting some mindbending answers, and if you don’t think I wrote some of this shit down for my next novel, you’re certifiable, baby. Damn, that was fun. Made me happy all day, and helped me stay in the zone long enough to finish some weird, wild edits.

Soooooo….I realize this post is all over the map.

But, even so, here are two more thingies:

4. Today is my birthday.

5. AND…how about we do another voice deal in the next 10 days or so, doing what Sparky suggested, and reading a scene from one of our favorite novels?

That is all. …I swear it is. At least for now. I’ve been pent up, people. Pent, I say.