Since my deadline is 9 hours away and I really don’t want to work on any more edits, this seems like a wonderful time to go blogging!
I heard a few days ago, but I’ve been waiting for the right moment to announce this news:
I got a job.
Yes, I know, this goes against all sorts […]
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For anyone who’s wondered whether anyone is putting out amazingly cheesy and badly dubbed movies these days, I would like to bring The Tower of the Firstborn to your attention. If you follow that link you will find a movie titled in Italian from 1998, but you will notice that it was released on DVD […]
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I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows earlier this evening, and I have to say that although it isn’t the best book I’ve ever read (and I mean that in the nicest way possible), it was quite enjoyable. Like visiting old friends, if you will - and really, they are old friends, characters […]
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I’m far from the first to comment on this story, in which a frustrated British author recently sent chapters of various Jane Austen books to eighteen different publishers to see if she’d have more success than he, but I have a few comments to add.
First of all, sending a published author’s work in to see […]
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John Scalzi, who almost always has something interesting to say over on The Whatever, has posted some interesting thoughts on simplicity in writing today. People have left plenty of comments, and I feel the urge to add my thoughts on this particular section:
The point of all this is that I think simplicity, for want […]
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I woke up this morning with a knot the size of Kansas in my neck, which has the unfortunate side-effect of giving me a splitting headache that occasionally makes it feel like my right eye is about to pop out and brings up black spots across my vision when I stand up or move my […]
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It’s hard to tell how much of the fact that I stayed up until 5:30 this morning reading is because I love all things Pride and Prejudice, because the particular book I was reading was so entirely captivating, or because with my glasses off I couldn’t see the clock and thereby had no way of […]
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I wrote just over 1500 words yesterday; deleted some things from the manuscript’s Need To Do list and added a few more.
On the docket for today:
Catching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix before noon to get super-cheap tickets.
Potentially cashing in my piggy bank change so I can go buy books. (Yes, it’s actually […]
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Today’s a Writing Day. I can feel it in my bones. I woke up at 3:30 and almost got out of bed to start writing because I felt wide awake and wanted to write. Most days it wouldn’t have mattered much, but I actually have to be somewhere at 9am, and I can’t miss […]
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I know I’ve been curiously absent as of late. I’ve been traveling and thinking about reworking my overall online presence, and I think it’s time to make some changes.
Basically, this is how it all boils down: I’ll be more active on this blog from now on. You won’t necessarily get “All writing-related material, all the […]
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