A good friend who reads this blog regularly and uses it to keep tabs on me wondered recently whether I’m all right, because I haven’t been posting.

I guess I haven’t been, have I? (Personal aside to Master Jedi, should he read this:  Yes, that is a rhetorical question! Yawannamakesomethingofit?)

So I began to wonder why I haven’t been ( Read more... )

rocketscientist  posted this on her journal, and I was so greedy to get something from her that I actually agreed to do the same:

"The first five people to respond to this will get something of my choice made by me sometime during 2009. I make no promises on when this will get done and I reserve the right to be as utterly random as I desire. What's the catch? If ( Read more... )

I explained to someone recently that in my line of work (housewifery with occasional bouts of part-timing), the holidays are my equivalent of an annual Board meeting.  For weeks before, the workload builds steadily. The actual coming together of people from farflung corners of the globe is intense, and the hours are long.  Afterward, there is a ( Read more... )

I almost fell off my chair laughing when I ran across this utterly wonderful --- and breathtakingly comprehensive ---  list of plots the long-suffering editors over at Strange Horizons, an online speculative fiction magazine, would rather NOT see more of, thank you very much!

It's worth the click, I promise.

http://www.strangehorizons.com/guidelines/ ( Read more... )

I seem to have committed fully to this Star Wars story.  I'm having a lot of fun with it.  I'm so committed, in fact, that I actually posted the preamble over at TF.n.: http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/29656880/p1/

Or maybe I should be committed?

mysfytvisions  posted this a little while ago, but I have been consumed with holiday stuff and holiday people since Thanksgiving, so I missed everything:

“For last year's words belong to last year's language.
And next year's words await another voice.
 And to make an end is to make a beginning.”

~T.S. Eliot

It's that time of the year again... so here's ( Read more... )

It seems that quiller77  has tagged me for a chore. I've been bookwormed!

My tasks are to:

1) Open the closest book- not a favorite or most intellectual book- but the book closest at the moment, to page 56

2) Write out the fifth sentence, as well as two to five sentences following

3) Tag five innocents [or more]

4) Do the same for your manuscript

OK, for quiller77 , ( Read more... )

The world has turned quite a few times since my last entry.  I have a newfound respect for content managers across the web.  It’s not easy filling space on a regular basis.  No wonder there are so many meaningless re-treads of articles out there.

It’s a lot easier to talk out loud on the page when the focus is turned inward. Mine hasn’t been, ( Read more... )

Actually, it's about philosophy, so I just had to try it. Turns out I'm a Modern thinker... not so ancient as I sometimes feel after all!

Your result for The Find Your Philosophical Era! Test...

The Modern    (9% Ancient,  25% Medieval,  50% Modern and  6% Post-Modern!)

Congratulations! You are: a Modern!

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http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/11/07/havrilesky/?source=newsletter

Thanks, Heather whoever-you are.

I think....?