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stillsostrange ([personal profile] stillsostrange) wrote2009-06-18 11:50 pm

RE: My brains

I am suffering from the usual menstrual neurosis today, and it amuses me what my brain finds to latch onto when it has to be neurotic. It used to be full-on "I'm ugly and friendless and will die alone", but the farther I get from high school, the less able I am to believe that even in the throws of depression. Then in became "I suck at writing and will never finish anything" or "I have no money and am a failure as a responsible adult". Those don't stand up in face of a) having a book contract and b) having a day job. Now it seems the best the brain chemicals can manage is "I have too many books to write and not enough time and omg how will I write them all before I die?!!eleventyone!"

Poor brain. It tries so hard to be crazy, and can't quite make it.

But I'm still neurotic, and will now indulge in my favorite hobby: compulsive list-making.


The Bone Palace - Necromancer Chronicles 2 (38k)
Kingdoms of Dust - Necromancer Chronicles 3 (notes and pipe dreams)

Dreams of Shreds and Tatters - Sex, drugs and byakhee (63k)
A Dirge in Yellow - The last Hastur book, though I have no clue what the second one is (one scene and pipe dreams)

Mist & Chill - Ghosts, Gods and MacGuffins (7k)
Dust & Clay - GG&M 2 (pipe dreams)
Salt & Rushes - GGM 3 (pipe dreams)

Prayers to Broken Stone - Girl meets ghoul, girl loses ghoul, girl gets ghoul back (20k)

Pinion - North Texas Gothic with angels (37k)

Spiral - Cultists Gone Wild in Prague (7k)

Salvage - an SFnal 80s cop thriller, or something (a list of names and a crazy dream)

Fishsexstravaganza - the not-a-title says it all (a list of names and a crazy dream)

Mad Max Beyond Ragnarok - again with the informative titles (one scene and notes)

FauxMayanSuestravaganza - The book that will not be called Dark House, because that is boring (notes)

Highlanderspotting - the Highlander romance in the style of Irvine Welsh, with bonus gangster mages (a list of names and a crazy dream)

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2009-06-19 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
I'm impressed you have titles. I have images (the book with the rock pillars and the forges; the fairy mistress endogamous clans book; the labour unions in space book... The ones that have word count are in a box, though, and are staying there. I have no faith in my old work.)

[identity profile] matociquala.livejournal.com 2009-06-19 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I love you both.

I too have a list, but none of it seems interesting anymore...