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Alas, poor Script Frenzy!
I don't think there's any way I'm going to be able to do Script Frenzy. I'm just going to be putting in too much overtime this month. I'll keep working on the script, but I'm officially giving myself permission to not finish.
Um. Oops?
My creepy government conspiracy Script Frenzy script is coming out humor. Maybe it'll get creepy later. Maybe it's meant to be funny. If not, oops. It's also going slowly, which is bad, because I'm supposed to write 20,000 words in June. And I should be writing...
The Reading
The Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading went well. I read seven minutes of "The Last Wasicu." I expected to be more nervous, but it was oddly non-terrifying. I guess all the high school drama club paid off. I'm writing this at Jay Lake's party, off on a couch in the...
Kitty Fight Club
The first rule about kitty fight club? Is you don't talk about kitty fight club!
A farewell to pantsing?
If I look back over the stories I think have been the most successful and easiest to write, they have something in common. A sense of structure. Even before I wrote the first word I had some idea of the story's structure. It's a lot easier to write that way than to...
Kitty Legal
Because Brian double-triple-dog-cat dared me. EXT.BALCONY - EVENING DENNYCAT and ALANCAT are sitting on the balcony sniffing catnip and eating tuna. AlanCat is also washing, with a smug air. DENNYCAT That was a great trial. We kicked their mangy asses! ALANCAT We...
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.