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...still have not rebooted my writing brain. This is getting ridiculous. This morning, I looked at the notes the Hubby made for the ghost ship story and I'm just... bleh. I know how to fix it, but fixing it is going to require a good two thousand more words and I'm kind of tired of writing fiction that's not marketable because it's too damn long. It's already at 5500 words and I don't see how I justify another two thousand for a story like this unless I can turn it into some kind of commentary on the human condition instead of a rather silly and fun ghost story.

*headdesk x1000*

In other news, we saw "Madagascar 3" the other day and enjoyed it thoroughly. Anyone who's seen the Cirque du Soleil will recognize the set-pieces, which are visually gorgeous. Now I want to go to Vegas and see another show. The Hubby and the Boy have never seen it, and they need to.

Today, we're going to see "Brave." Which looks awesome. Pixar has yet to disappoint. And, I don't care what anyone says, I also need "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter" in my life and will go see it next week when Hubby and Boy are at Scout Camp, because it's rated R and thus inappropriate for Boy, and Hubby doesn't want to see it. Horror's just not his genre. I may inflict "Cabin in the Woods" on him when I get it on DVD, because I thought it was brilliant.

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Okay, so we saw "Brave" today, and it was awesome. Beautiful animation, fantastic story, hilarious and poignant, with a good lesson in there about trying to "fix" people by taking shortcuts. Bring a hankie, and stay for a scene after the credits. The Boy loved it, although the Hubby didn't like it as much as we did.

In writing news, I haven't scribbled a blessed thing for way too long. However, the prompt at Writing Excuses this week was "Your characters need to perform a reverse-heist, putting jewels into a safe without getting caught." Well, I've taken that idea and tweaked it my way, and I'm working up characters and plot for it as I type this. I believe I will call it the "Cat-Hoarding Dragon" story for tagging purposes, which should give you some notion of where my very strange brain went with it.

Please, God, let this come in around five thousand words. I do not need to write another Epic Tale.

Also, if you don't listen to Writing Excuses every week, and you are a writer, you totally should be. Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler, Dan Wells, and Mary Robinette Kowal do it, and no matter what they say, they really are that smart and you are not in too much of a hurry to dedicate fifteen minutes a week to it.