There will be a real post later today and one at Mad Genius Club too. Right now, I’m running to an appointment… however, I want to make this very clear:
If I find out one of you jokers sent my characters to wake me this morning, that joker will be DEAD. That’s dead with a capital Malice.
I should have wakened up at six thirty, so I could do the posts before the appointment but I thought “another ten minutes” which probably would be another ten minutes, except that I swear I kept dreaming I was waking. WORSE I dreamed I was awakened by my space opera characters, one after the other.
If you men think you’d love to be awakened by Athena, revise your dreams. No, seriously. She stands at the foot of the bed and glares. And taps her foot.
Lucius is worse. I’d forgotten he was raised as a nobleman. I got the raised eyebrow and the “you’re falling down on the job” “Now, Sarah, really!”
And Nat… People who train recruits should not wake me.
So, due to the fact that I was “awakened” every five minutes, I got up an hour late.
It’s the characters’ fault. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Even if I can feel Athena glaring at the back of my head.
According To Hoyt 
As the author, you have the opportunity to visit a terrible vengeance upon them. I think you are obligated to your readers to do so.
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I hate it when I dream I wake up, again and again and again.
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I went through an extended period — weeks. Months! — of dreaming I was waking up. Sometimes for several hours That was what drove me to getting the CPAP.
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Does the CPAP cure the snoring?
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Yes — or so other household members have led me to believe. And unlike slitting the throat it appears to lack significant negative side effects.
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It does help, but it will need to be readjusted from time to time.
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Cure is a hard, demanding word. No, it removes the snoring and the grogginess, the falling asleep without lots of coffee, micronaps while driving, and general sluggishness and constant pain, and replaces them with an odd roaring-wind noise while you sleep, inability to sleep on your side/toss and turn while asleep, highly dry mouth and sinuses if the machine runs out of water, and dependence on electricity while you sleep for your quality of life. (The logistics of camping now include a car battery and battery-powered CPAP. So much for faint dreams of hiking.)
That said, this spouse far prefers the CPAP noise (it’s become background noise to me now) to the highly interrupted sleep of jerking awake every time the snoring gets too loud to stand.. or the snoring and breathing stop.
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I slept in today too– I was dreaming that we were at a restaurant and I was trying to find a bathroom… ummm… (We as the gang here).
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I already found it. Back and left.
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No, it is not true that I’ve been sending your characters to awaken you. It is also not true that I’ve been working on improving my psychic powers . . .
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Hey, at least they all had familiar faces. I can think of much worse characters to be woken by.
On a totally unrelated note, happy national cheeseburger day!
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Interesting. You may have discovered how to create servitors, by accident. Now, if you also start seeing them while awake… By the way, getting rid of them can be a lot more difficult than creating them. Especially if they are accidental creations, with no attached destruction method or expiration date, or no attached servile attitude :) (reference – the story about a ghost allegedly seen in the house where the creator of the pulp character ‘Shadow’ once lived, a ghost with a wide brimmed hat and wearing a cape).
Nope, we are all totally innocent. Don’t blame any of us. (shuddup, Christopher) :)
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Ah. Well. I think all writers create those. In our very first house, Dan saw one of my characters he hadn’t read yet… it’s gone on like that.I feel better since I read Heinlein had the same issue.
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I have a couple. Unfortunately those are ones I haven’t managed to write yet in spite of having had them most of my life so they are becoming a pain. I think they are insulted that I didn’t start with them. I try to keep telling them that I didn’t because I want to be better when I finally write their stories, but I don’t know how well that is being received. Not all that well, I’m afraid.
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Yes. Those are the worst.
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I have been to a card reader once, otherwise I have always done my own readings. I was in my mid-twenties, and she gave me most of the usual, including a dark man. Then she added to the description. Sounded a hell of a lot like one of those characters, one who first came to me when I was about sixteen or seventeen so he’d been in my head for nearly ten years by then. Damn interloper, they shouldn’t try to intrude in my real life. Even if it was just in a card reading, it was supposed to concern my everyday life, not my stories. :D
(and yes, she was an amateur but she could still have been cold reading me, however well I was trying to keep a poker face there I’m not that good with it)
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Of course, there are always the ones who will insist if you don’t write this scene RIGHT NOW (at 2 hours past your bedtime and not-enough-hours until the alarm will go off), you will lose it forever and that story will be roont — ROONT!, I tell you!
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Well, I had Elizabeth von Sarmas inform me that she intended to come to Germany with me, so I’d better bring research reading and plan to visit the site of the battle of Blenheim, or else. That’s when I discovered I’d been suckered into a four book trilogy. (And for those interested in such things, barring wild life rolls, the first novel in that trilogy will be out in mid-December.)
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Had I the means to issue commands to your characters and have them obeyed, be quite assured, milady, that I would have FAR better uses for such power than the provision of impediments to your sleep.
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I think somebody got me on the wrong distro list. Anybody else see this?
//TOP SECRET//
***/***/*** ****
Reference internal file 7-AV
Report: Experimental Applications Director
Notification: DEPT. HEAD – Project HH, CC: SCIENCE LEAD, LOG-7
Re: Experiment on AM, 18SEP2013
Evidence, limited success obtained (see appended transcript), targeting requires refinement. No further information on targets *********, no further information on target location *********, no further information on contemporary assignment available.
Additional information available for Future/Past time-sifting working group, re: future, please forward (attached) to relevant department head(s).
Note: Consider science department’s request for read-in on subject details: may be necessary to allow finer targeting re: the beam.
Note: Consider resource dedication to subject Chupik. Sufficient goats in stock for evaluations?
Note: Field surveillance team reports no additional subjects seen following subject ****, glaring or otherwise.
Full report to follow
//TOP SECRET//
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The concept of, “forwarding”, in respect to Time Traveling Agents, would seem to gain new dimensions (so to speak).
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At the back of your head, or in the back of your head?
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Deeply relaxed now, Sarah. Now, when I count to three, you will awaken and you will believe your characters are talking to you. One . . . two . . . three!
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Sorry, you are responsible for your own characters. Mark’s come at bedtime. Instead- Mine are in front of me while I am having the first cup of coffee and looking for the sun to come into my front window. And, they’re always next weeks, there is a whole chapter to type first.
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Wasn’t me, I have an alibi … besides none of them my orders.
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I dreamed that I woke up this morning and had a bowl of ice cream which would interfere with the testing I was having today. I was quite glad to finish waking up and realize it was a dream.
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