UnpleasantlySexy

I had a job interview today for a "technical editing" position with Harcourt Achieve, a textbook editing company.

I kicked so much butt that I got tired and had to switch to my other kickin' leg in the middle of it!

They called me back already to schedule a second interview with the big boss, and while I certainly don't have the job yet, I really won 'em over today and I'm excited.

If this pans out, the job pays 20-24 bucks an hour, which means that I'll have enough money to cover our bills, my gadgetry and comic book expenses, AND still have enough left over to pile up on the floor and roll around in! Whee!

All right...calm down. I'll keep you posted as the deets develop.

Next on the agenda: I'm in the process of buildin' me a website! I hope to put drawings and stories and music and all sorts o' goodies up on it, and you all should check it out. The URL is:



It sorta sucks as far as memorability goes, but that's it.

A word of warning, though - as of now, there's nothing on it, and it may remain that way for a while, so don't get impatient with me. I'm just tryin' to catch this "inter-web" wave while it's hot - I don't know what I'm doing yet, and I have no real content to put up there right now.

However, FEAR NOT, brave comrades! I will soon be putting up a sci-fi story I've begun writing, and it shall be the start of a great experiment. I'm gonna set up a way for you guys (the handful of you that might have an interest in reading what I write), to submit criticism and, hopefully, your own ideas for the story arc - kinda like an online Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, but not really. I'll be cherry-picking the stuff that best fits with my overall story structure, so not everyone's stuff will make it in, but it should eventually produce a cool twist on my own tale. I'll also be writing the story to completion on my own (leaving in any similarities between my original outline and the Frankenstein-ed one), so it should make a really interesting comparison when they are both complete.

I think that, if I provide a framework and general criteria for each section so that everybody knows the narrative path, it will help keep the suggestions somewhat controlled and on point. Otherwise, anything goes. For example, I may say, "Now accepting submissions for chapter 7. Bob will be dead by the end of this chapter. Based on what you know of the characters so far, I want you to come up with the details involving his demise. The only limitation is that Heather didn't have anything to do with Bob's death."

It'll be more like a social-networking-produced novella, I guess. Let me know what you guys think of this, because I can take it somewhere else if it doesn't interest (or out-dorks) you. It won't hurt my feelings, either - there's plenty of writer forums out there to join.

So yeah...that's my idea. It may never happen - we'll see as time goes on, but I think it could be pretty cool.

Man, I'm a genius!

Oh, and happy Easter, all you Easter-celebratin' crazies!



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