wow. i envy you your mom. unless it's something short or purely descriptive, i never showed mine anything - i'm pretty sure my gay-guns-and-gods stuff would make her really nervous. and yeah...that feeling of having gone too long without writing something...like going too long without a smoke. damn, why am i so squirmy and anxious?

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the holy icing on your slaughter-cakes

Yeah, I was a little nervous to show her too much on Nasaulis and Dannan because I was a little worried about how she'd take all of the sexual banter but I should have known better. I finally just sat her down at the computer and let her read a ton of different shorts about the entire crew and after she finished she told me Nasaulis was actually her favorite character. Sometimes I forget how amazing she really is.

I've started to think that the only people who really understand how much crazy is implied when someone says that they are a writer, are other writers. Even at work, my desk ends up covered in little yellow post-its with bits of ideas scrawled across them that I have to remind myself to clean up and take home every week.
The other day one of my coworkers and I were talking about bags and purses and she was complaining how big hers have to be. I laughed and went to get mine, which is twice the size of hers. When she asked me what I was carrying that I needed something that big, I opened it up and pulled out four notebooks and a notepad... each one designated for a different story.
And so the crazy continues.