STAR WARS like you've never seen it before! And an incoherent book rec

Oh my word, this is hilarious and exactly what I needed after reading Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson which I now see a lot of people on GoodReads did not get at all and think is one of her lesser works, but I so disagree or I will if I can only stop sobbing long enough to draw breath, uh, where was I?

Oh, yeah:

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Thanks to reveilles for the link.

REC: Writing in the Age of Distraction

Having spent the last couple of days feeling horribly guilty for not writing 1000 words a day on my latest WiP and even more guilty for spending time reading books, doing housework and hanging around on the Internet instead, I think Cory Doctorow's latest column for Locus may just have saved my sanity.

It's amazing to me how I can keep learning the same hard lessons, and keep forgetting them and having to relearn them, on a regular basis...

Lightning strikes twice

The Wild Swans are STILL MAKING MUSIC?!!

And their new demos are every bit as lovely as anything on Bringing Home The Ashes, too. Wow.

Hey, maybe this means that eventually I will not be the only person on LJ to have "Wild Swans (the band)" in their Interests!

My life in tweets

• 10:25 gave 5 stars to Catalyst - tinyurl.com/83w5l3
• 10:42 Late morning and I am still in my PJs, have done NO work of any kind, what is WRONG with me?
• 14:28 House vacuumed, shower taken, am out of PJs and have finally stopped crying over CATALYST... progress at last!
• 19:16 Made poppy seed cake using new stand mixer. Mixed it low speed & forgot high, afraid it would turn out heavy, but doesn't seem so. Yay?
• 21:01 Reading KNIFE aloud to my two oldest sons (at their insistence -- and amazingly they don't seem bored yet) = very strange experience.
• 22:11 The Wild Swans are still making music! They are invincible / I am in awe (tinyurl.com/9l4j8b).