Surreality and Cats and Prose

Posted on | 4 years ago, in the evening | 1 Comment

I’ve mentioned before that Spain the Cat snores. No, seriously. She snores. When this 12-pound animal — who sleeps beside my head at night — really gets going good, she sounds like a whoopie cushion being sodomized by a hyena; and if you don’t know it when you hear it, it can be quite confusing. I mean, surely that godawful noise can’t possibly be coming from that cute little coil of fur? Can it?

Oh yes. Yes it can.

Anyway. So last night I was having this weird dream that Spain was talking to me. She wasn’t saying anything important, she was just very slowly saying very random words, and in the background, someone was revving a motorcycle. Hey, it’s a dream. these things happen. And at some point in this dream it dawned on me that yes, I was dreaming — ergo, the cat and I were not conversing in any fashion. So I woke up. Sort of. Actually, I woke up just enough to hear this coming from the warm spot beside my pillow:

zzzzSHOEzzzz…
zzzzPENCILzzzz…
zzzzKIBBLEzzzz…
zzzzWINDSHIELDzzzz…
zzzzCANDLEzzzz…
zzzzPARKINGSPACEzzzz…
zzzzPIGEONzzzzz…
zzzzMIRRORzzzz…
zzzzPIZZAzzzz….
zzzzBATMANzzzz…

It was the Dark Knight, what jolted me all the way awake. I didn’t realize Spainy was a fan.

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In other news, my word count is lower today than it has been lately, but I have an excellent excuse: I didn’t write very much. Afternoon stats for the trashy adventure about a neurotic vampire/thief and her wealthy blind client, now with Bonus! half-Cuban drag queen and military intrigue are as follows:

Project: Bloodshot
New Year’s Resolution Status: Satisfactory.
New Words Written Today: 2151
Present Total Word Count: 24,193 words
Goal: 30,000 words and a proposal.





Things Accomplished: Imminent peril in the form of government hackers and/or men-in-black; hot blind vampire guy confusion; nice hotels; discreet seeing-eye ghoul; our heroine must make like a banana and split.
Other Accomplishments: Brought “The Catastrophe Box” up to Draft Two status and sent it off to first reader; dragged about 50 pages of steampunk sample content up to Draft Two status.
Stumbling blocks: Accepted a quickie freelance gig that must be done tomorrow, so I fear for tomorrow’s word count and/or secondary project material too. That’s fine; I could use the money and it’s an easy assignment. One day maybe I’ll be in a position to say, “No! No, you easy gigs that eat up only one afternoon! I am a busy and successful fiction writer, with no time for such frivolities!” But today is not that day.
Reason for Stopping: Husband will be home from work soon. Am hungry. Should begin preliminary set-up on freelance material.
Total Fiction Words Composed in 2008: 48,505

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One Response to “Surreality and Cats and Prose”

  1. Cyndy
    January 29th, 2008 @ 8:59 am

    Spain wins at life, clearly. :)

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