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Wordle
Link to a wordle using my new WIP:
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2480991/The_Measure_of_Angels
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Willpower and willingness
I read an article in Science Daily about the difference between willpower and willingness. It claims that if you try to force yourself by focusing on willpower (I WILL!), you may sabotage yourself. If instead you focus on willingness by opening yourself to wonder (Will I?) rather than trying to force behavior through willpower, you will be more ( Read more... ) -
The Siren Call
I hear the siren call of a short sf story I started writing last year. It's been nibbling away at my subconscious for a while now. I must finish it. The novel is still there, in a very zero draft incarnation. It's dogging me, demanding to be revised and finished, but for some reason, I balk. It's the damn short story. No, actually, it's my writer's ( Read more... ) -
Day Three of NANOREMO and Procrastination Excuse #431
I'm doing a National Novel Revision Month this time -- have draft novel, needs a serious revision. Parts need to be rewritten, expanded, cut out entirely. The one nice thing is that revision is far easier than creation, at least in my view. I do a lot of revision after writing a section -- I tend to revise each section before moving on to the next ( Read more... ) -
District 9 and Hamster Wheels
Saw it last weekend -- enjoyed it overall. I had a bit of a problem with the aliens at first. Might be my grand aversion to insects that look even passingly like grasshoppers or cockroaches, and the fact that they were quite humanoid, which always makes me suspicious. But by the end, I was really into the film and was glad I went. It had a great ( Read more... ) -
Terminating Metal Earworms
Went to see Terminator: Salvation on the weekend with the spousal unit and kiddies (they're both over age 12). Was good, but once again someone steals the film from Christian Bale.
A year ago it was Heath Ledger's Joker who stole the film The Dark Knight from its protagonist, Batman, alias Christian Bale. I found Bale's Batman to be flat and ( Read more... ) -
Nearest Book
Seriously.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Cambone: No, no -- you said that they were turned over for torture ( Read more... ) -
*does the happy dance*
I'm so happy!
Writer's block seems squashed. Have written 3500+ words in the last few days on my novel. Have revised another 4000 words of the first few chapters. Almost ready to post to OWW for crits.
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Editors, rejection letters, cabbages, kings . . .
John Scalzi sums it up better than I could:
My short take on this is that the editor in question said something stupid and bigoted, was surprised to have that stupid and bigoted comment aired to the world, and has since gone out of his way to be obnoxious to the folks who have commented on his stupid and bigoted action and/or have decided that ( Read more... ) -
42 Corpses
42 dead creatures on the secondary highway between the main highway and my home. I counted the corpses as I drove back this morning from the local big-box book store, which is my usual haunt on Sunday morning. 36 dead gophers and 6 dead grackles, who bit the dust trying to eat the dead gophers.
It was unnerving and got to me thinking how we ( Read more... )
