Ok, so I tried that "I write like..." meme that's going around, but the results are pretty silly. Not like I expected anything else.

For the first chapter of my current novel-in-progress, Antonia's Fire, I got H.P. Lovecraft. Then for the first chapter of The Willow Maiden, I got Douglas Adams. That's even odder. So I tried my one comic short ( Read more... )

The weather cleared up yesterday and Stephan, Chris, and I had a nice visit in Bloomington and a lovely walk in Yellowwood State Forest. Much of southern Indiana had some flooding in all the rains of Wednesday. The trail was quite wet , so we had to cross many impromptu streams. We also had to drive through some running water a couple of times ( Read more... )

I escaped from the Starship Ellen Denham!

I killed Calimac the awful green thing, The Slow Train the medibot, Clarkesworld the red-shirted ensign, Digitalclone the cyborg, Dwarvanamazon the cyborg and Aamcnamara the security officer.

I salvaged Wild Patience's commbadge, an FYNIXSOUL-190 phaser, an Edenvelocityzroian raygun, a Snurriian deathblade, ( Read more... )

Athena finally decided to eat a piece of fish I cooked for her yesterday evening, then *drumroll* proceeded to eat some of the first can of wet food that had been offered that morning that she refused to eat. So now the fridge is full of opened cans she wouldn't eat and all the other crazy stuff we tried to feed her ( Read more... )

Grabbed from maggiedr and others:

1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother's & father's middle names)

Hannah William

2. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother's dad, father's dad)

Almon Chester

Hey, I like it!

3. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 2 letters of your last name, first 4 letters of your first name)

Deel

Now that just sounds stupid. Maybe no ( Read more... )

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a non-same-sex marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by those who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

Personally, I'd love for my friends in same-sex relationships to be able to have the same benefits society extends to me and Stephan.

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haulellen_denham goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as The Tacky Fairy.1mpenitent gives you 18 pink lime-flavoured nuggets.araken tricks you! You get a wet rag.babarnett tricks you! You lose 3 pieces of candy!kannibal_kat tricks you! You lose 2 pieces of candy!larryhodges gives you 1 dark blue banana-flavoured pieces ( Read more... )

I snagged this from snurri. Go to Yearbookyourself.com and upload a photo of yourself, then it will paste it into different yearbook photos from 1950-2000. I'm posting the photo from the year I graduated and my actual senior picture, then a few other particularly silly ones behind a cut. They don't have every year represented, but I challenge others ( Read more... )

Hmm, this doesn't exactly sound like me, but I suppose being a giant serpent would have its advantages.

Your result for The Mythological Profile Test...
Jormungand

You scored 50% Esotericism, 48% Power, and 4% Malevolence!


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Wordle.net does some pretty interesting visual things with words. I haven't decided whether its useful to writers or just another time waster, or possibly a little bit of both. But it is interesting to see which words I used most often in the first scene of my novel. I like the prominence of words like "trees," "world," and "daughter." I wasn't ( Read more... )