Okay, so this is interesting.

Last November, I had to write a research paper on the local area here.  I had to write about something, a physical location, within Butte County, California, that was over fifty years old and of significance to the community.
( ...And then they turned it in a to a TV News segment without asking me... )

( In which I rant about bad writing... )

So lately I've been wanting to write some profound LJ posts.  I've got a range of topics I want to do essays on, from politics to racefail.  And all I've got to say, as I sit here catching up on Leverage off the DVR, has nothing to do with any of it.

My profound thoughts are thus:
( In which I ramble about badly written pron )

Castle's intro now has some quote that goes something like "There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people. Psychopaths, and mystery writers.   I'm the kind that pays better."

totally true.  as proved by a random plotting conversation between me and my cowriter.

phantascene  : Do we be kind for once, or is there no sense in ( Read more... )

Okay, so it's winding and raining like crazy outside.  Inside, I'm bored and taking a writing break.  Alas, not writing on novel.  I haven't unburied that muse yet.  chi1013 issued a challenge and I'm chasing that one while I've got it.  So in between words (occasionally waiting until I've hit full paragraphs!) I'm surfin' da netz.  Found things I must ( Read more... )

I should be asleep.  But I'm not.  so I'll update the book list!

Completed in 2009:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel DeFoe
Harry Potter 6 - JKR
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Conquistador - S.M. Sterling ( blah.)
Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling
Shadow's Return - Lynn Flewelling
On the Edge - Ilona Andrews
The ( Read more... )

It's NOON and it's still far too early in the day for this shit.

http://www.mtv.com/photos/exclusive-stephenie-meyer-female-force-comic-book-preview/1622037/4269671/photo.jhtml

A STEPHENIE MEYER COMIC BOOK????? She has such a fantastic life story that it has to be told in comic-book-visual form, with occasional interludes courtesy a very Boris ( Read more... )

First, I see this:   http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_documents/0803_meyer_infringement.pdf
courtesty this:    http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/37882246.html
(yeah, I know, since when is ONTD a viable news source? But the only other articles I've found were pure opinion pieces, too, so might as well use ONTD because ONTD's the only one ( Read more... )

i'm baaaaaaaa-aaaack!!

ALL IT TAKES for me to get healthy is to give the bug to at least two people apparently.  Maggie and sibling are BOTH sick now. 0=cD
but it's not my fault 'cause i don't think it's contagious?  dunno.  me not a bio-chem-sicko major.
anyway, so upon my return to LJ, what is the writer's block?

Writer's Block
Is health care a right ( Read more... )

from lj's 'writers block' thingy...

Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” He is believed to have called it his greatest literary work ever. Can you write a story in six words?

... omg.  No...

but that IS brilliant.