Lee Burton - Author | Editor

homer simpson is standing on the side of a road waving at someone . ALT: homer simpson is standing on the side of a road waving at someone .

Sending the final invoice for a dev edit of 150,000 words and five months' input.

#amediting

I just rage quit a game I'm not the one playing.

a woman wearing a protective suit and mask is standing in front of a group of people wearing protective suits and masks . Alt: a woman wearing a protective suit and mask is standing in front of a group of people wearing protective suits and masks . In the background, one of the techs, played by Edgar Wright, is waving and saying Hello there.

Confession: any time I say "Hello there," with any slightly quirky twist, I am not referencing Star Wars, I am paying homage to Edgar Wright in Hot Fuzz.

Ah, the famous Archie comic where Reggie brings over his special brownies.

The fact that I broke my shovel trying to pull it from the snow has made me suspiciously doleful. I feel like I've failed my Canadian Excaliburing.

#Canada #Winter #Still #Snowing
#YourChosenOneIsInAnotherSnowbank

boo. boo snow.

maybe it's just obvious common sense to people who aren't me, but one of the most valuable things I've learned about writing over the past 6 years is that there is NO reliable relationship between how good *I* think a story is, whether *editors* like/accept it, and how hard it hits with *readers*

The best part of burritos is when someone else makes them.

Yeah, not just young but bought in, and seeming like they love being there. Not the sorta situation you want to throw a crusty headcase into.

When I'm out shoveling the driveway now, I can hear the neighbors but I can't see them anymore, like ghosts busy haunting their own tunnels and minding their own business.

Underrated concern, for sure. Feels like he'd sour the vibe.

IIRC, it's only the games part of of Sony that's making money at the moment. Everything else is tanking. But from what I hear, the leadership of Sony is so old-minded that they keep making decisions based on 1990s business logic.

It's almost like going to war "because lol" is a bad idea.

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To be honest, I don't get what the big deal about the guy is. Willing to be convinced.

Unfolds like an early-80s sex (pest) comedy where the zany nerds are doing a panty raid, but instead of coming for your drawers, they're coming for your drawer books.

Comic panel of a fella standing on a barren landscape, arms akimbo, saying "This is a fine place to have a nervous breakdown."

He doesn't know how anything works, makes bad assumptions, gets lost constantly, and is ignoring all the items...

And I'm like...

Last week I took my first day off from editing in like a month, & felt I wasted it being burnt out watching Youtube videos. Now I have another day off & I vowed to do better, but seems I've doubled down instead & I'm torturing myself watching a guy do a blind playthrough of a game I know intimately.

"You may have noticed patches of fur and abandoned yeti burrows on your property and wondered why. Well, the answer may be closer than you think.

"Here at the Ottawa Public Library & Yeti Deterrent Centre, these hungry and malnourished writers gather around the Author Food Pellet Dispenser..."

There's been a lot of misinformation going around the past few years, which has led to more people not getting their yeti inoculations. And with the housing market what it is, sadly, standards on front-porch traps & flamethrowers have been slipping.

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Contrarian.

A very fuzzy torbie kitty lies sleeping on a gray cardigan on a bed, next to a "scratch 'n massage cat bed."

Paying the #Cattax for book pushing.

Seems I left my cozy sweater on the bed and someone made a choice.

#HazelTheInternKitty #catsofbluesky

"Demanded" does not mean the same thing as "asked."

For instance:

"Where were you?" she ASKED.
"Tell me where you were," she DEMANDED.

#amediting #amwriting #ThisHasGoneFarEnough

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Elden Ring screenshot of Jarburg, a grassy area with wooden cottages. Little pot guys are dancing in the flowers and there's sparks falling all around.

Fired up my first Elden Ring character from shortly after launch, which was a blind playthrough, so I missed all the NPC stories, including the one where bad things happen in Jarburg, and it was kinda wholesome to see all the little guys vibing and picking flowers. 🎮