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Why, yes, it IS my first thrice-damned quiz…
I got it from Jen; can I blame her for my posting a quiz? 😉 http://www.scifi.com/sfw/column/sfw13339.html I got an 80. "A score of 66 or higher—You're a E.E. 'Doc' Smith, Larry Niven, Greg Bear, Vernor Vinge, Charles Stross or Nancy Kress. Ideas come first for...
Note to Self:
It's fine to have a programmer's aesthetic when writing fiction. Just make sure you declare your variables and functions up at the top. 😉
Reversing Myself.
Up until this point, I've been very firm in the idea that I should not rewrite old stories. (I'm not sure what the definition of "old" is, in this case, but...) Well. I believed quite firmly that "Median Effective Dose" was the single best story I'd ever written when...
Sigh.
Deciding a scene needs to be moved to the beginning of the story is one thing, but then there's rewriting every scene that came after. Oops. But as long as it makes the story better, that's more important than an increasing wordcount... right?
So, gee, Katherine, where’ve you been?
Getting my gallbladder hacked out. I'd hoped, in my naïevete, to get some writing done in the week off work. But no. I also thought that I'd finish an involved novel critique I'm doing for someone, and that was also Not Meant To Be. I should get crackin' on that,...
Whoa.
So, I went to introduce the love interest, and... This scene needs to open the book. I just accidentally incorporated information that used to occur in an unlovely infodump that I planned to edit out later. No, really, I didn't plan it, but it works. I love when that...
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.