http://www.deadgirlsdontdance.com Confessions of a former? goth princess Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:32:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven't been posting. I am poor, and that makes me unhappy.  When I am unhappy, I write goth princess haiku,  and the closest I'll get to publishing that tripe is setting it on fire and watching the ashes rain down on my hillbilly neighbors, if the wind is right. I ... http://www.deadgirlsdontdance.com/my-apologies/ Oh, goody! I will have at least one person I actually know personally to turn to for sympathy and procrastination about National Novel Writing Month! Subject: Novel in a month Now I went and done it!! I signed up for the writing thingie!! OMG What have I done? (laughing) Chad I can't honestly say ... http://www.deadgirlsdontdance.com/its-contagious-friends-beware/ The Light of My Existence is threatening to leave me, because he thinks I have no ambition, and all I do is sit around playing on the computer. Right. I sit around "playing" on the computer, all right. I don't make much money at the moment, and spend a lot of ... http://www.deadgirlsdontdance.com/no-ambition/ I normally avoid talking politics here, but this big fuss about gay marriage annoys the daylights out of me.  I don't care who marries who. If both parties are over 18 and it's consensual, it's none of my damn business. Therefore, I am ideally suited to offer the following detached ... http://www.deadgirlsdontdance.com/an-analysis-of-laws-prohibiting-gay-marriage/ I heart Dooce. She's eloquent, funny, and uh, let's say brain chemistry-challenged. She's not the exact same flavor of crazy as I am, but it's close enough for me to identify with, sometimes to the point of tears. I'm not much of a kid fan, but I enjoy reading her ... http://www.deadgirlsdontdance.com/mommy-what-does-f-mean/ This post is not about the Snowflake Method, to which I (ahem) faintly alluded in my last ridiculous post. It's about what I was doing ten years ago. So I lied. And I'm stealing an idea. This will be mercifully short. I got the idea from Punchline Walking, who got it ... http://www.deadgirlsdontdance.com/im-a-thief-and-a-liar-so/ Today, I officially started working on the outline of the novel I have pledged to write in November. Because of multiple distractions, I haven't made much progress, beyond a “mind-mapping” exercise that gave me a headache and sent me fleeing to the corner store for beer.Now fortified with mild, fizzy ... http://www.deadgirlsdontdance.com/novel-officially-starts-today/ In no particular order, ten (horrible) things I would like to say to people when I can get away with it: This is my private island. Get the hell off my property or my personal army will open fire in two minutes. You liked the soup? Why, thank you! The secret to ... http://www.deadgirlsdontdance.com/pull-your-pants-up/ The love of my life died this morning. He was the sweetest cat in the whole world for the last seventeen years, and I will miss him horribly. I wanted to pour out my pain in words, but the words won't come. http://www.deadgirlsdontdance.com/farewell-renfield/ I lost my damn mind and signed up for NaNoWriMo this year. Yes, I know it's not until November. Yes, I know that most of the participants either don't finish or write worthless, unpublishable tripe. I'm looking at National Novel Writing Month as an endurance exercise. It's like an Iron Man competition ... http://www.deadgirlsdontdance.com/nanowrimo/