Question of the day: What sort of person asks an author WHEN one of her (female) characters is "finally" going to be raped? Seriously, I want to know. And who, when the author says, "Never, I don't want to write that," responds by telling her, "I thought you had respect for your work. That's just unrealistic ( Read more... )

1. Chris, Rachel and I are in the early stages of the sixth season of Lost, but not watching an episode tonight because she's at the high school with her best friend, attending their film festival. Chris has already seen all six seasons and keeps assuring us, "It never stops getting weirder," every time we insist it has gotten the weirdest it ( Read more... )

Help me out with a little something I'm trying to research for my current writing project ( Read more... )

When I was riding home today I heard someone say that something was an oxymoron, and I silently agreed as I pedaled past, but now for the life of me I cannot remember what the oxymoron was.

Only 2.5 hours of writing on the new project today, but about 1000 words written. Yay!

Instead of working on my current projects, on a whim, I spent part of today planning out a 25,000-30,000 word cross-genre novella that can be submitted to an e-book publisher in September for an anthology. I wasn't convinced at first that I even had an idea that would fit with the confluence of the two genres in question, but then I started coming ( Read more... )

Cutest book review EVAR.And in writing news... Don't you love it when you realize that you've got at least 30 scenarios to write for the backstory and THEN it'll all be impossible unless you figure out who held a certain kind of job at the business you're writing about (and there are never more or fewer than 7 people in the type of job in question ( Read more... )

I just wanted to say that if I'm posting here less than in the past (there was about a month between my previous post and the one before it!) the reason is that I'm actually very busy writing. I've completed two out of seven parts of the current project and I'm working on writing a tremendous amount of backstory in order to go forward with the rest ( Read more... )

Jim Hines has a very interesting post about this topic.For my part, I have an experience of reading the original text of Huck Finn that may not be like many other people's. I was a junior in high school taking a number of theatre classes at the Society Hill Playhouse as part of their Philadelphia Youth Theatre program, which they were paid by the ( Read more... )

As many of you know, "Mark Reads Harry Potter", which started off life as a blog called "Mark Reads Twilight" (although perhaps "rips apart Twilight" would have been more accurate) has morphed into just "Mark Reads" and he is now tackling The Hunger Games Trilogy. I recently read the three books and basically enjoyed them, though I don't feel like ( Read more... )

Today's Get Fuzzy strip reminds me of a certain someone in the news just now for having zero understanding of copyright, plagiarism, fair use and/or common decency and tact:


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