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10 Awesome First Lines

nobody@vox.com(The Black Market) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:37:24 -0800

I'm supposed to be working on a novel right now. A real one, I mean. Not for NaNoWriMo. And I am! But I decided to write the first chapter all over again, and I can't get past the first paragraph. Those first lines set off the mood of the whole...

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Officially old enough to dread 30!

nobody@vox.com(The Black Market) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:41:50 -0800

I turned 28 yesterday. You'll all be happy to learn that I received enough birthday greetings and presents to delay my inevitable village-destroying wrath. The gods of Katy Mountain are appeased (for now). Among the birthday loot was a DVD set ...

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That's all she wrote for NaNoWriMo.

nobody@vox.com(The Black Market) — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:52:51 -0800

Yessss! YESSSSSS! I have done it! I've met the NaNoWriMo challenge! I bravely churned where no viking has churned before and something about hordes! IT SAYS SO! 50,140 words in 29 days, folks. Bam! Eat that! And other remarks that could ...

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Be a mind-sticker...

nobody@vox.com(The Black Market) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:12:05 -0800

Why haven't I posted in a while? I'm glad you asked, Bobby. I've been reserving my writing energy for NaNoWriMo. I'm 35,000 words of torture in! 15,000 to go! I've never written that much in my life! And no! You can't read it! Not when it inclu...

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Stabbing should take longer.

nobody@vox.com(The Black Market) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:52:44 -0800

When times are tough, I look down at my notes at work and remind myself to look at the bright side: not everybody's tasks include extending a stabbing.

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Yep. We did.

nobody@vox.com(The Black Market) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:28:47 -0800

I didn't get a chance to post last night; I was watching election coverage with Doug, his roommate, and some psychics. (That story's not as interesting as it sounds like it could be.) So, here's my delayed response: YESSSSSSSSS!!! YES! YES! YES...

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Happy Day-after-ween!

nobody@vox.com(The Black Market) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:00:28 -0700

Halloween was a fine time, and my Bonnie Parker costume went over reasonably well despite the lack of a gun or bullet holes. I don't have any photos of myself to share just yet, but I do have a blurry night photo of my neighbor's troll doll. ...

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Attack of the Vampire Bride Cake

nobody@vox.com(The Black Market) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:42:49 -0700

Up past me bed time. I was making a cake, see. No reason. I just always wanted to make one of those fancypants cakes with the fondant and whatnot on top. Anyway, it's Halloween, so mine's bleeding. Happy Halloween! Oh, and it's m...

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Faye Dunaway

nobody@vox.com(The Black Market) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:46:08 -0700

Halloween is coming! HalloWEEN is coming! It's this Friday, and I've just put my costume together. I'm going as Faye Dunaway playing Bonnie Parker who's just been shot but before she's been shot as much as she was. So, it's like Bonnie Parker w...

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Get Back, Ky-ote!

nobody@vox.com(The Black Market) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:11:07 -0700

I saw a dead coyote on the road this morning, and it was a pretty gruesome mess. :( I don't want that image stuck in my head, so I made a new one.

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