- Dear Me.
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mcdougherty- August 5th, 2011
You are an inconsistent poster. I wag my finger at you.
- blah, blah, blah, the end
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- mcdougherty
- January 11th, 2011
"blah, blah, blah, the end" is something that a friend of mine's kid said to his mother at a party when he was kind of done and ready to go. Heather and I have picked it up and been using it as our "ok, I'm done now" type phrase. I like it, it fits, and it totally feels right for this moment.
So I'm working a conference for my day job assisting with Tech and AV for streaming the conference live. AND I've got a sinus cold. My nose is running, I'm sneezing in randomly, coughing periodically, and just feel miserable...all while I'm staying in a swanky hotel room that's far nicer than my own apartment.
- Writer's Block: On the Go
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- mcdougherty
- January 11th, 2011
I listen to them through my iPod or Android Mobile Phone.
- The Hemingway Defense
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- mcdougherty
- December 5th, 2010
In "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" Stephen King defined "The Hemingway Defense" as:As a writer, I am a sensitive fellow, but I am also a man, and real men don’t give in to their sensitivities. Only sissy-men do that. Therefore I drink. How else can I face the existential horror of it all and continue to work?
Besides, come on, I can handle it. A real man always can…
Tonight I'm reminded that there was a Bean who for a short time showed me the size of my heart and imagination...and also how hard those things can beak.
It's Hemingway time.
- Not sure how to cope...
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- mcdougherty
- December 2nd, 2010
I'm a week in to using the CPAP machine and I've noticing a few changes:- My legs aren't twitching (they cramp up really bad and jerk...it's annoying) as much when I get really tired
- I've apparently stopped snoring all together
- I'm not moving restlessly in my sleep as much (I was the Tazmanian Devil in my sleep)
What hasn't changed:- I'm still waking up periodically in the middle of the night suddenly
- while I'm not AS physically tired (fighting sleep during the day) I'm still pretty tired
- I'm just worn out mentally and physically with no real energy.
- Really, Brain?!? Really?!??
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- mcdougherty
- November 27th, 2010
I am having a difficult time getting through anything. I am sucking at finishing this Zombie novel I'm working on for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I can't wrap my thoughts around some solid ideas for getting Browncoats: Redemption in the hand of every single geek (like me) that I can so we can do something amazing for the charities we are supporting. I have that I am using the word can't so much, but my brain is going about 10,000,000,000, and a few more zeros tacked on there for good measure, a second with ideas going all over the place.
I'm sitting in the Cafe section of a Borders with Kelly who's effortlessly journaling away and I feel like I am having uber A.D.D. Happy fun time, but minus the happy and less on the fun. I am in the worst possible place for me to focus without having a set of headphones, which I intelligently left at home. Normally I can put the headphones one, block out the surrounding sounds of people having conversation, some interesting and some that make me want to walk over to scream 'Please stop talking you are sucking the intelligence out of the room, but in a place where resource materials and caffeine are a plenty. Why not move? You might be asking yourself...”Well, how did I get here” sorry. Talking Heads popped into my brain. I would love to move, but I can't think of a place that would help and I really to make sure Kelly has the time she needs to work through/on whatever she has in her head.
Ok, enough frustration showing it self as self pity. I need to do something drastic like...oooh look...mocha's for a discount...nom nom nom.
- A film, an experience, and more
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- mcdougherty
- July 27th, 2010
It's been a while since I've posted, but I'm feeling the need to pick this ol' girl back up again.
After seeing "behind the curtain" a bit at San Diego Comic Con I've realized I've been holding myself back a bit. Time for that to change.
- I am ready for some fun...are you?
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- mcdougherty
- January 10th, 2010
Thanks to Chris Brogan's "Are You Ready for Fun" post on his website, I've taken five minutes and really got a shot in the arm. I'll admit to being completely stuck in my own head. I'm going to ask you to do the same. Just take a five minites and really give this video some time.I took some time and wrote down each of the Eight Principles and am currently trying to find a way to make that a strategy for 2010.
What do you take away from this?
- 238 days till Browncoats: Redemption releases at Dragon*Con
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- mcdougherty
- January 7th, 2010
Things are getting pretty intense, for me at least, because the film will be done and released 238 days from today. I'm not counting, but it's really 237 days 5 hours and 36 minutes at the time of this post.
How do you ramp up for the end of things?
- 2010 will be filled with ass kickery
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- mcdougherty
- January 1st, 2010
2010 started with something that just made me smile...being in a room of people who I would have never met had it not been for being crazy enough to think making a feature film would be possible. These people, made up of complete strangers to me this time the year before, came together and made this film happen. Without them, and several others that couldn't be there, I would not be looking at this year the same way. I would not be looking at this year being not just mine, but OURS! ( Read more... )
