According to the school age kids at work (namely the eight through eleven year olds), Smallcreep looks like someone from Pokemon. No clue who, just "someone from Pokemon." The Squonk looks like a "demented bunny. Are you sure you're drawing that right? It looks weird." and Russel is Ozzy Osbourne ( Read more... )

-Just finished re-reading the The Death Gate Cycle for the first time since I read it in 2004. It is still as fun as I remembered. Now, five years later, I can see a few things that kinda grate on my preferred style, but...the authors know how to tell a story. And I am moderately certain that the Gegs on Arianus (with their Kicksey-winsey) and ( Read more... )

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Linked here, unlocked for a week or two is a nigh-comprehensible comprehensive (oy) list of my writing. Ask a question about something. Ask anything about any idea listed there, and I shall attempt to answer it. A complete list of characters. Dialect. history. what form of currency a setting uses. ALMOST ANYTHING ( Read more... )

Last night's entry got better after I went and hugged dad and got a severe talking-to from Curtis. Curtis is getting rather good at calming down emotionally distraught people lately. It just...seems weird.

Anyways.

I may have realized sometime between last Thursday and this morning at 2am where some of the writing-induced problems with Torch ( Read more... )

"This...I'm sorry this is what every teacher who wants this scholarship is going to sound like. You need something to make you stand out. Don't write this to a scholarship committee. Of all the characters you write about, pick one and pretend you're sitting at a table with them. Tell them why you want to be a teacher. Write your essay to themAnd if ( Read more... )

You will not join the speculations section on the Fuse.

You will especially not join the spoilers section on the Fuse. You left the Fuse because large portions of the fanbase scared you and you wanted to have one show unspoiled by a scary fanbase ( Read more... )

Ok, so I have gone outside four seperate times now with a camera, planning to photograph Tortuga. EACH TIME the pictures go black. Pictures of my feet, the dogwood tree, the sky come out fine, but my car - on a sunny day - gets blacked out. SERIOUSLY WAT. Photos will come, sometime, if I can actually TAKE THEM. Also pictures of the Asylum Satellite ( Read more... )

I figured out the voices in a way that doesn't yank BtTatT out of the realm of shaky pseudo-science and into the realm of complete fantasy.

*victory dance of geekery*