when i think of heaven, i think of you.. do you think of me too?

[same_sky]

I'm giving myself five minutes and fifty-one seconds to write a journal entry, but then I have to go to bed (the length of the song I'm listening to.) Of course, now the song is half over because I've been sitting here trying to figure out what to say. It's been a shortly long, nice lonely weekend. Indecisive, too! M has had to work much too much, but we had fun with friends J & A last night, and I've been shackled to the da..rned computer all weekend working on stuff. Well, I've also spent time reading, which was nice. And cleaning, although that part wasn't nice at all, except that M helped, and I didn't have to spent three Saturdays in a row cleaning after all.

Pet peeve of the day: Dialogue that loses track of time, and the fact that it's almost always wrong. Pretty much every single time an author mentions time in a dialogue, it's complete crap. Two characters will discuss the weather in three sentences, and then the narrative mentions that five minutes have passed since the beginning of the conversation. This drives me crazy. It just doesn't take that long to talk, and it's so obvious that the author has just taken that long to write that part so they forget that the conversation in words has not been nearly that long. Am I the only one that this bothers? I have hardly ever seen anyone get this right. Actually can't think of a single time but perhaps that's just because when it's sensible I don't notice it. And would you like to know why this comes up tonight? ... Clearly, because the song I was listening to was over before I finished the first paragraph but I was embarrassed to admit that I had been sitting there for over five minutes and hadn't come up with any more to say than that the weekend was alright. Now this whole thing is weirdly disjointed and I probably shouldn't even post it and give the masses proof of my utter incohesiveness and rambliness but then again, if I don't post it, then I've just utterly lost fifteen minutes of my sleep without even getting anything out of it, and that would just be wrong. But then again, no reason to make it twenty, so.. good night. ;)

Comments

[totte.livejournal.com]

I just noticed in my book a conversation that started in late morning, and lasted for all of 90 seconds. When it was over, it was near midnight. I would have taken that personally if I didn't know that you haven't actually read that part.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I rest my case. ;) And how do you know I don't secretly read your book when you're not home?! Err, nevermind.

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure you told me it would only take me 2 minutes to read this post, but you were wrong! It went on for, like, TEN MINUTES!

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Wow, you read a lot slower than I thought. :p

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

hee! :P

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Medication time!