So I thought I would share something interesting (to me) that I learned yesterday ( Read more... )

I outlined my help_pakistan fic last night and I am SO HAPPY with it. Emmanuelle's only request was that France and cheese are mentioned, so I wanted to tell a ghost story that had some sort of connection with France. This turned out to be marginally harder than I had expected, as when I googled around, it turned out that France does not have a ( Read more... )

Radiolab says purple prose writers are more likely to develop dementia as they age.

Link goes to Radiolab's website, where you can listen to the story, or download it as an mp3. It's about 15 minutes long. (Radiolab is a very interesting sort of science-y show on New York Public Radio. I recommend it!)