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Year in Review
I really did get stuff done, writing-wise, but not so you can see it. Sales: 0 Finished stories: Only 1, but it's really good (IMHO). Rejections: 23 (Go, me!) Time spent on revisions: Insane. I did NaNoEdMo on my NaNovel and also had a broken short that I beat with a...
There are times when I love working for a college.
This is one of them. I was last at work on December 21. I'm not expected back until after New Year's. You may now hate me. 😉 Sadly, this is not ending up being insane amounts of writing and working out. But I had a very busy year, and probably need the rest. I'm...
What we did for Nondenominational Winter Holiday.
I don't know why, but I'm feeling down on secular Christmas this year. Perhaps it's residual bad-taste-in-mouth from the lame, trumped-up "War on Christmas" crap from a few years ago. Maybe it's that the S.O. and I are agnostic. Maybe it's that several of my coworkers...
Lakota secede from US
Oh. My. God. WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday. "We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all...
I hate to jinx things, but…
Lizardfic is a lot easier to write the second time around. Okay, chapter one had its hard parts, but that was because it was chapter one, and because I need violence enablers. (I really, really need violence enablers.) Chapter two is my friend so far. Maybe it's that...
Five hundred words.
I started the new, improved chapter one of lizardfic today. I have a daily word count goal of five hundred words. That's doable. There was a moment of, "Oh, no! Start? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers and walk upon the beach. I have heard...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.