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Holy hand grenades, Batman!
I generally think of myself as bad at plot. Maybe I think this because I sometimes end up writing a first draft in which I follow a character around a setting and nothing happens to him or her. (This is generally what's wrong with the hurricane story, by the way--I...
Gadget lust!
Check it out! It's a teeny tiny laptop that runs linux. I could even carry it in my purse if I bought a bigger purse. I fondled one at the store today. People kept asking me if I needed help. No! Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script! I could...
Lots of work for not a lot of prose, and nonfiction reading.
My outline for the novel codenamed Lizardfic is currently 5008 words. That's longer than most of my short stories. This is more outlining than I've ever done for any project, ever. On the other hand, stalled novel, yo. Horrible feeling. Must unstall novel. I'm...
Outlining is HARD.
Outlining is hard. Let's do hard-core coding instead! Seriously. I'd ask y'all to tell me that it was only this bad because I'm a complete pantser and usually pull shorter stories out of my ass out of my subconscious like Athena leaping from the forehead of Zeus, but...
Things you can learn from a grrl’s purse.
You can learn things about a grrl from what's in her purse. Here's some of what's in mine: Two Epi-Pens. Two inhalers. Puppy linux CD Knoppix S-T-D CD Cellphone. PDA. Screwdriver. Thumb drive. Pens. Titanium spork from Think Geek. What do you carry around with you?
Edit, edit, edit.
I've been collapsing characters in the hurricane story. It's done some cool things to the minor characters that have been combined. I still haven't tackled the plot stuff. I think I'm a little intimidated by it. I have a pretty good idea of how this story is broken,...
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.