Fooood.

I think Gluttony was named after me. Last night, I went out to a buffet dinner at the Sheraton and actually ate myself into mild stomach pains.

I'm still feeling the lingering food induced sluggishness today, even after a day's work packing, moving and driving.  It makes me feel... old.

Birthday Presents is picking up nicely on fictionpress.  Most of the readers don't actually leave a review (sadface) but a few are actually following it, which is cool.   I like having multiple chapters, because in the stats you can see how many people get past the first chapter, and how many have actually read the most recent one.  :)

I'm thinking of doing another Game In Play update before I edit the next Birthday Presents chapter, but editing the nano story is really hard - it's like trying to untangle paperclips.  I read back over some of the stuff and I realize that it doesn't actually make sense.  Not only that, but it's also crazy balls.  In 2012, I was up writing at all random hours, which might explain some of the crazy.  I don't even remember writing parts of it!  Also, the story is yet to end. I need to find an ending that puts a cap on the whole frothing pot of crazy.

I've also worked a bit more on Shadechasers (which, thanks to fictionpress stats I know that practically no on reads).  I'm wondering if it's because the main character's name is so weird.  Here's something from Chapter 5:

Pressed against the window seat of the cab in the van, Dawn’s face was as stone.  She wondered when Duck would learn that she was not going to answer that question.  The ugly truth was obvious enough, wasn’t it?  How many trials of this did she have to sit through?  She snatched Duck’s spoon before he could ferry another bit of yoghurt to his mouth, and ate it.  The melting cold sweetness on her tongue brightened her mood just as much as seeing the indignant look on Duck’s face.

I don't know if I'll enter the January Labyrinth Competition.  I've jotted some some line, but it all depends on if I can find a way to use it to develop some characters I have in mind.  All of my entries so far have been from characters that I'm trying to flesh out.  Stephen Theiss eventually becomes a student at Von Hohenheim's Academy, set in the present day on an island powered by alchemy.  Red and Lofae are characters from a story about the scheming of a powerful magic user called Tiam who is trying to seat his candidate on the throne.  And of course, Sasha Suter is from the world of Vert Glace which I talk non stop about.