Taking Control of Your Life
Self-discipline:
Once vous can outsource this,
everything else is easy.

-Miss Piggy

One of our regular library patrons always has interesting myth tidbits for me, since he knows I'm a myth geek. Today, he and I got talking about philosophy, and I started trying to track back a quote he was pretty sure belonged to Demosthenes. The gist was this: Man created the gods and myth to explain the world. So I had to do some looking, ( Read more... )

"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."
Fred Allen, US radio comedian (1894 - 1956)

We've been having an excellent time here in the Mile High City thus far--we visited the zoo, walked around 16th St. Mall, and spent a lot of time with family. I'm keeping busy between events doing the work that I managed to bring along--as I told a friend recently, as a freelance writer, your boss just never gives you a day off ( Read more... )

I don't have anything profound to say, so I figured I'd just offer some of my recent favorite quotes ( Read more... )

L: Oooh! Debauchery!
T: Liz, do you drink?
L: No.
T: Do you do drugs?
L: No.
T: Do you have sex?
L: No.
T: Then what do you know about debauchery?
L: (proudly) I play D&D!

"I was writing She-Ra spin-offs before Fan-Fic was even cool."

Richelle Mead, author of (most recently) Vampire Academy

This is particularly amusing to me, because I was writing spin-offs for DuckTales and Star Wars long before the word Fan-Fic even existed. Hurrah for kindred spirits!

George Lucas, explained why the Writer's Strike doesn't affect him. Apparently, he hasn't written for years. He showed the interviewer a nifty gadget they used to build action scenes for the prequels ( Read more... )

I was out of town and then down with the flu, so I've been away from the computer. (Most of the time I've been in bed, asleep, so I've been missing a lot of what's going on lately.)

One thing that I haven't missed is the WGA screen-writer's strike, and how brave all the folks are who are out there doing that. If you read just the New York Times, ( Read more... )

"Realizing that authorial intention plays no part in an interpretation -- god, that's so freeing!"
Lara M. Zeises in an interview with Done Home Books