I seem to be fixated on continually messing with things that I don't need to. I still find myself changing my xanga layout or song, even though I declared it "shut down" a good year ago at least and haven't written in it since. And I'm going through The Gang right now to look for an excerpt to put in the summary, because I always hated the summary ( Read more... )

In Ruff Draft, we're always printing out new instruction pages on how to do things with layouts. We'll use these pages for years, and I have no doubt that Mrs. A will still be passing them out ten years from now to new newspaper staffs. There are now two different ones floating around with my face on them. One has to do with putting pictures on a ( Read more... )

Lately, I have been fascinated with the idea of writing stories that don't end happily ever after. I used to hate character death, but for the past few months, it's become an interesting subject. You can do a lot with the character that is suffering from grief when someone he/she loves passes away. I mean, do they turn mean and lash out? Do they ( Read more... )