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Note to self.
Apparently, what one does when one doesn't know what happens next in a story is upgrade Movable Type to version 3.2. (Mmm, yummy new antispam features!) And, of course, resist the urge to say, "But I don't want that to happen, that's awful!" Sigh. Someday I'll really...
I don’t know what happens next in this story.
Maybe I should tweak the website. Or install more Movable Type plugins. Or make a page on this site to show people how cute my cats are. Or install more Movable Type plugins! Or all of the above! *heavy sigh* Or not.
Four and Twenty Blackbirds, by Cherie Priest
I'm not sure what led me to go to the Southern Gothic panel at Dragoncon. I suspect it was the panel description: What is it about the American South that haunts the literary psyche? Some of horror's Southern voices will talk about what it is like to live in the...
Cliché story
I started a second story for Scalzi's cliché challenge. I'm a lot more enthusiastic about this one, since I get to write aliens, woohoo! Of course, the fact that I have characters and a milieu and a general situation does not mean that I have a plot. Oy. But...
Upon Reflection…
I've decided that you give up on a story when it's about Jebi Knight Mary Sue, leading the oppressed rebel army of big business against the forces of evil market restrictions, led by the terrifying Darth Nader. Short of that, you give up on a story when you run out of...
A Question.
I have a question, for those of you wiser than I. When do you give up on a story? Never? When you run out of markets? When you decide it sucks? I'm considering pulling a story from circulation. I just... feel it's flawed. I wrote it over a year ago and I'm a better...
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.