Lenni Reviews: “The Medium-Sized Book of Zim Scripts: Vol. 1: Pigs ’n’ Waffles: The stories, and the stories behind the stories of your favorite Invader” by Rikki Simons, Eric Trueheart & Aaron Alexovich

* This book was given to me in exchange for an honest review.

*This review is cross-posted to Otakus and Geeks.

This book is a collection of not only scripts but behind the scenes stories. I knew I would love this book from the introduction, which has all the wit and humor once comes to expect from a show like Invader Zim. I’m not even one for digging into the background goings-on of a show I like; tending to just enjoy my chosen media and move on (or watch repeatedly). Despite this, I had a great time with the backstories and inspirations for the plots in the episodes.

This book brings even more fun to the original show and has me wanting to binge the entire thing all over again to see the fruits of such interesting labors. And these side stories are fantastically written. You get the feeling of being there with the emotions expressed and interactions of everybody – especially towards the end with the show’s cancellation. It isn’t accurate to say I can’t know what it would be like to work with these people because this book showed me and I am delighted to have read it. I encourage fans of the show to give this a try.

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December 29, 2011 atthequillsmercy

My current list of WIP’s

Inspired by a conversation via Twitter with my friend at Flames and Flowers, here is a list of my current Works In Progress in order to really drive home the reason why I am so overwhelmed, I need to outline:

Winter Boot: A short story which, compared to my other works, is fairly kid friendly. This is all plotted out but needs to be written.
Go Away Girls: The Silver Slide: A novel length steampunk lesbian story starring these ladies. This novel is started but still in the starting phase.
First Brood: Greenhouse: The sequel to Dreamhunter. This novel is about halfway done but needs a TON of editing.
Dijinn story: another in this universe but is still in the brainstorm stage.
Suicide Troopers: scripts for this comic I’m working on with my friend. This will be an ongoing project.
Untitled sci-fi/fantasy m/f novel: This may be an erotic one. I’m not sure. This is still in the outlining stage.
Untitled horror short story: I have two pages of this written and no plans whatsoever. I need to make them. >_<
A list of erotic short story submission ideas about 12 deep as of today. I may get more soon. I just compile them for whenever I have a chance to work on that.
Sketch practice so I can add more to my Deviant Art gallery, my Storm Artists gallery, and my Zazzle shop.

And I’m fairly certain there’s something I’m forgetting. Yes, I have a full time job, overtime, housework, and a 4 year old. Yes, I am clusterfuck crazy. Scary, isn’t it?

There was a time, when I was a younger gal, where I could mentally keep all this straight with only a few notes. But the worlds are getting so expansive with so much detail, I’ve had to use outlines to keep the parameters straight and make sure one world doesn’t seep into the other by mistake.

I have a writing planner AND I utilize Asana to keep on schedule with an ADDITIONAL daily alarm on my phone to ensure I meet (or TRY to meet) my daily goal of 4 pages a day. Sometimes I sit in bed, literally encircled by notebooks as I bounce from one story to another to get those 4 pages.

And somewhere in here, I’m supposed to lose 20 pounds and to a book challenge? Why do I get the feeling I’m setting myself up to fail here. 0.0

September 1, 2011September 1, 2011 atthequillsmercy

Storm Damage – Pics from my slice of Irene

While Long Island wasn’t spared the in terms of damage, we were lucky. We lost power only for a day and the house withstood the storm. The streets however, were a mess.

I feel sorry for the trees. 🙁 I feel even more sorry for the power lines holding the one in that second picture up. To be fair, the lines kept the tree from falling on that house. 0.0

This was above my desk when I went back to work on Tuesday. My stuff was ok, thankfully. ^^

I’m almost glad Ma died before this could happen I know you can register with LIPA if you’re on oxygen and can’t be with out electric, but it still would have been scary. We would have had to evacuate and, seeing as how a power-surge caused a panel in the house to spew sparks and a boiler to catch fire, the house might have burned down if we weren’t there to take care of things.

In the continuing blitz to think about anything else but dealing with my life in general, I have several movie reviews on deck for you guys and I finished that fanfiction entry for Otakus and Geeks. I am working on Greenhouse at a pace that is positively inhuman and have a stack of submission guidelines to work on. I also have to work on some scripts for my go to cover artist to turn into comics.

And as an aside? Allow me to join the chorus of people in saying: Holy shit!! It’s September already!? o_O

November 24, 2010 atthequillsmercy

Because my brain demanded it

Will it be successful? Probably not. Will stick with it? Probably not. Will it make anyone other than me laugh? Probably not.

But I’m doing it anyway. XD

I’m one of the few who would prefer a pat down to a scan, (I have two direct relatives with cancer) but do not relish the feeling of hands sliding over my rolls of fatness, here is my blog on how I will become more TSA compliant.

Because, it’s good to have a goal. XD

In other news, The Short Story Project is still on only I’m including scripts in what qualifies as "short story." So far, what seems to have happened is the idea of the project has kept me writing a few lines every day and brainstorming new ones all the time. Heck, I had three ideas for scripts yesterday in a 5 minute span! That felt awesome. So, even if I don’t finish another story, in that, this experiment was a complete success! 😀