I still want to start a more public blog.  In fact, it seems to me that the drama of the past month and a half were (at least partially) attempts to distract me from starting a blog.  So now I know I really should ( Read more... )

I want to start a blog, a proper writing venture ( Read more... )

Thought for the day: I don't have to know the road if I can see the next step ( Read more... )

I have a question. Those of you who have seen Being Human: does the first season end depressingly?  Does it get unnecessarily dark and angsty?  Because we watched the first two episodes last night, and we found it very intriguing and well-written, but with signs of decending into an angst-fest.  For reference, we like Supernatural, but Torchwood: ( Read more... )

Today I tried out for a Christmas drama at my church.  Though I might not be able to be in it anyway, as the tentative performance dates are the same weekend as the annual choir Christmas concert, which I am very much not going to skip.  But it was fun.  I've always wanted to do drama, but other stuff has come first ( Read more... )

So there's this thing in my head, and I want to write it down...

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I have been accused of saying nothing new.

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Can I just say that Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein is boring, pedantic, frustrating, and boring?  I'm reading it because it's the origin of the word "grok" and... I'm not terribly impressed.  Am I right that Jubal Harshaw was intended to be an Author Avatar?  In any case, I'm sick of the preachiness poorly handled with ugly, stilted ( Read more... )

Ever find that you have a hard time writing in your own "voice ( Read more... )

Two different clients of mine seem to be near to making two different coworkers of mine asplode with frustration.  I do my best to help, but I'm only on the technical side of things, and am therefore stuck with telling them how what the client wants is not working at all and the project is doomed to failure if the client doesn't do what I ask.  ( Read more... )