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So I have been planning my National Novel Writing Month 2007 effort (and furtively writing notes on it at work, thankyou Alt+Tab). This year looks promising: previously I've had school all day and school stuff to do all night (regardless of whether that largely consisted of drawing in the margins and playing minesweeper, it was still time- ( Read more... )

"
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
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- Kafka

Oh wow.

I just decided maybe I wont escehw NY's resolutions this time at all. I will have one, and only one. I just got mail from the NaNoWriMo people, and they have started a thing called the Adventure Log for the postings of Big Fun Scary Things people are planning on doing in 2007. But this wasn't what actually spurred my resolution at all ( Read more... )

MEME!

OK, I'm sure this one's been around before but, anyway. Handwrite an entry, scan/photograph it, and post it. I tag all of you.


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I feel all in bits, most of me given over to trying to get this stupid story done. Sometimes it seems the dullest thing in the universe. Now and then I write a few words and I love it. Also, isn't the word "encompasses" wonderful? It sounds almost like a made-up word - "enheartened", for example - but it isn't. Someone took "compass" and made ( Read more... )

this intrigues me. (Not that I ever used any of those fonts)Actually, I change fonts quite often, but I have a love of sans-serif. I also like Terminal, just because I think programming fonts are pleasant. My default font is Nimbus Roman No9 L, an OpenOffice default. I don't like Times New Roman any more. Nimbus Roman is very clean, with slight ( Read more... )

I am doing some sort of miniWrimo thing, in which I try and do another 2000 words of quality work for my Eng Ext 2 major work in a night. That is, I have to hand in a substantial draft and talk about it to my class (;_;) tomorrow, so I have to make up in one night all the work I didn't do enough of in the holidays. WOE. Bring on the caffeine.

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I've written a short story about a vengeful parrot. It is based on an article (Don't read it before the story!) I read a few days ago. Kind of inspired by the 'Revenge Tragedy' unit we're doing in Extension (1) English... thought I'd have some fun with it. Enjoy, criticism welcome.

Also, phear my CSS design! Imagemaps and layering! Go moi!

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