There is only a trice of my lunch-hour left to update, so, without further ado:

New columns:
Learning to build something new in the rubble
What you can control

A feature from the FC:
God in the water

Check out WriterChai, a new project by the Orlando Writing League, a local writers' group that gathers regularly to support each other in whatever writing ( Read more... )

Three years!


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Agony Faithful
50,032 / 100,000 -- 50%

Half a book!
Half a book!
Half a book!

Cool.

I'm in the mood for a bit of a crossover. Aren't you?

The fifth Doctor meets Captain Picard (with added Adric! Since we just saw "Castrovalva" yesterday, I'm feeling a little sentimental for poor misunderstood Adric):

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My little brother and I used to create Star Trek episodes as kids with our action figures, Dad's video camera, a few shoeboxes and ( Read more... )

The people who like to warn us about the increasing polarization of society are hideously accurate. We are no longer one nation; we are two, and both sides are fighting a nasty social civil war whose weapons are twisted rhetoric, snap judgments about other human beings, and the sponsorship and encouragement of a capture-the-flag world where this ( Read more... )

Agony Faithful

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I'll be experiencing my very first tropical storm tomorrow. We're expecting 60+ mph winds, some tornadoes and a lot of rain*. Real Floridians don't seem to be terribly worried -- this is certainly no Charley. For the two transplanted New Yorkers who call this little house home? You'll forgive us if we're just a tad nervous, right?

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Dear Fay,

As a fairly weak tropical storm, I know you are probably the most ideal introduction to the Atlantic hurricane season that I could possibly desire. However, can't you have waited until next week, after the nice men from the roofing company replace my leaky, broken and cracked roof?

I bite my thumb at thee!

Hoping for mild water damage,
Karen

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I cannot, cannot, cannot say this often enough.

If you are a writer submitting your work to a market -- any market, no matter how new or small -- and your cover letter ends with "I appreciate you're time," you are shooting yourself in the foot.

Yum. Okay, I normally don't make cookbook recommendations, but I can't help it with this one.

I've been using Jacques Pepin's Fast Food My Way in my kitchen for a while, and I've come out with fabulous meal after fabulous meal. Tonight's dish is salmon in mirin, a beautiful dish I wouldn't have thought of making on my own, and it took about six ( Read more... )