I have just sent off my first batch of pleas for reference letters, to the middle of the list (The list has nine people on it.). Waiting to hear back from U of T about whether technically-retired-from-academia-Super-Humanist-Professors can still write reference letters, 'cause I don't want to send her a request only to have her politely write back ( Read more... )

I have written the last line. Sometimes I will write the first line and the last line and this helps. In this case, it did not help, because while I had specific markers and a beginning and an ending, the tricky bit with this story was all the low-action-points in between. However, I have written what in my head I tend to call The Conversation of ( Read more... )

Here's a question for all you rock and myth-buffs. I won't elaborate too much, because it will be confusing, but: Plato says Atlantis sank in approx. 9500 BC. As this is inconvenient to the founding origin-myth for my Paxverse, I have decided that Plato heard about it second or third-hand, and then twisted the story for his political ends (not ( Read more... )