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> <channel><title>A. Lee Martinez - Author of Divine Misfortune, Monster &#38; more! &#187; Tornado</title> <atom:link href="http://www.aleemartinez.com/tag/tornado/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.aleemartinez.com</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:01:45 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>Still Alive</title><link>http://www.aleemartinez.com/still-alive/blog/03022010/</link> <comments>http://www.aleemartinez.com/still-alive/blog/03022010/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:39:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>A. Lee Martinez</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cell Phone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Conjecture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Damn Thing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Earth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fun]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Game]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Good Fight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Heck]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Imagination]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Meteor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Novel Writing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pain In The Ass]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Professional Story]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Quirk Of Fate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spaghetti]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Talents]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tornado]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.aleemartinez.com/?p=280</guid> <description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t posted anything in a while.  Been busy as heck trying to finish this damn novel.  Writing can be a real pain in the ass sometimes.  Even when you know what you want to write, just the time to write it is a killer.  When I&#8217;m ahead of schedule, a book juste seems to appear [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Haven&#8217;t posted anything in a while.  Been busy as heck trying to finish this damn novel.  Writing can be a real pain in the ass sometimes.  Even when you know what you want to write, just the time to write it is a killer.  When I&#8217;m ahead of schedule, a book juste seems to appear out of nowhere.  When I&#8217;m behind, every page just seems to take forever.  And it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m blocked or anything on this damn thing.  It&#8217;s just putting aside the time and keeping at it.</p><p>Still, I&#8217;m behind, and I really shouldn&#8217;t be wasting much time blogging when I have actual work to do.</p><p>So I bought Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on DVD and watched it again.  Perhaps I&#8217;m sounding like a broken record, but damn if that isn&#8217;t a great movie.  The spaghetti tornado alone is worth the price.  Highly recommended.  And I&#8217;ll try not to mention it again.</p><p>Even before I was a writer, I was a writer.  All that novelology entails is creating a story via imagination and conjecture.  I have this game I play sometimes.  When I see someone on a cell phone, I&#8217;ll imagine that through a quirk of fate, they picked up the wrong signal.  The voice on the other end of the line says a meteor is heading for Earth, and, long story short, you&#8217;ll be dead by the end of the hour.  Then I ask myself, what would this person do with that time?</p><p>Try it sometime.  It&#8217;s a great way to flex your novelologist&#8217;s talents.  Even if you aren&#8217;t a professional story maker-upper like me, you can still have fun with it.</p><p>Okay.  This was a short post.  Just checking in.  Now back to work.</p><p>Fighting the good fight, Writing the good write,</p><p>Lee</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.aleemartinez.com/still-alive/blog/03022010/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
