I think it's important to have days like this, away from the grind of the real world to fill one's head with other things ( Read more... )

Everyone must watch the Martian immediately ( Read more... )

Sorry for people who saw the last post twice - I saw a typo and fixed it, not realizing that the "Use current time" option would use the time of editing. Alas.

So that this doesn't become just an apology, here's a meme about me

So what have you been up to? / Major life changes? Same old same old?Same job, new team that has seen 3 changes in a ( Read more... )

This trailer for The Little Prince movie made me cry, because The Little Prince was just so important to my life, and the trailer made me remember the sentiment of reading the bits of the story that were quoted in the trailer.

I have a very curious habit when it comes to books, because I almost only ever borrow them from libraries. I guess I developed that habit because I had the fortune of having access to many good libraries 1 in my time 2, and my reading habits outstripped my spending ability 3When I turned 16 I was in a good library located near the lecture theatre my ( Read more... )

Another thing I need to keep in mind: actions speak louder than wordsI think I do a pretty good job writing conversation, including situations where characters say one thing but mean the other. The trouble is that I tend to pad out the bits between conversations with thoughts, rather than actions. Even in the instances where I use actions, I like ( Read more... )

For once, an article on the personality of creative people makes me understand myself a bit better, and also allays some concerns that I had.

Again stealing things from other people's memes, I found a topic from this post about fannish growing up where the poster is asked to write about how life and age and experiences has changed his/her taste in fannish stuff ( Read more... )

Someday I want to write a story that includes thunder that rattles glass in its panes. I'm listening to thunder rattle the glass in my bookshelves right now and it is a glorious sound.

tenebris and I got to talking about what we considered "wardrobe essentials". I thought it was a pretty misleading term, because what I absolutely had to have in my wardrobe is as follows ( Read more... )