Letting work on Tibbens proceed slowly but surely... by which I mean, after the hectic work-cycle on Merlin, am taking it slightly easy for a little while, reading through Tibbens and marking up copy with thoughts. I think the whole second chapter may be re-done. Mmmm... many thoughts. Anyway, I'm at work on that, which is nice ( Read more... )

The feeling I was trying to capture in one of the moments in my novel reminded me of this...

``Neither this country, nor anything else outside the Golden Wood, is what it was when Celeborn was young.''

I stepped over to my Two Towers, and found the dust jacket already marking the spot in the book where that line resides. =)

Though the night is over, the all-nighter is not yet done; 'tis always so, with the best all-nighters ( Read more... )

What The Wild Hedge Held is done.

No words I could put here would be adequate to express the depths of my joy.

Get your red-hot soul-fry, right here. $2.48 for a sola colata, $3,48 for a spoon to dig out those pesky remnants of teenage angst. $4.50 if you want to get rid of your bad alliterative habits, or $4.44 if you'd like to pick some up. Need some obsessive-compulsive? Some's available for the price of typing it twice. How about schizophrenia? ( Read more... )

"Stay where you are, poor beast. Stay in your forest and keep your trees green, and your friends protected. And good luck to you. For you are the last ( Read more... )

x_ea_x pointed to interdictor, who's in New Orleans and painting a frightful picture of what's been going on there. It reads like something out of the twilight zone, or bad sci-fi. post-holocaust sci-fi.

Here's something some of you will get a kick out of: a mysterious woman stealing a doctoral dissertation.

Yeah. So...

Well, that's odd. *arches eyebrow* huh?

This happened a few weeks back, and I meant to mention it. Anyway, my barely-two-year-old-nephew was asked by the girl next door, "is that your orange juice?"

"Veritably," said he.

That is all. :)

I finished reading through Tibbens out-loud today... I think I've decided that it's a bit... mmm, I can't think of the right word. You know how Lewis has these underlying (very subtle, I know) themes that he's trying to bring to children throughout the Narnian Chronicles? Well, Tibbens sometimes feels like that... not so much in the blatantly ( Read more... )