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Wednesday Funny
Yeah, so it's not alliterative, but frankly, don't you need funny on Wednesday more than Friday?
Anyway, I should have more writing/revision-related posts soon, but in the meantime I wanted to pass this along to the rest of you. Tor posted a new SF advice column that is absolutely HILARIOUS. (Full disclosure: the writing and art are done by two ( Read more... ) -
"Paranormalcy" ARC Giveaway Contest at LTWF
I rarely (i.e. never) pass along contests here, but given that most of you already read Let The Words Flow anyway, I don't think it'll be tooooo big an annoyance. ;) And if you AREN'T reading LTWF, you should be!
Anyway, they're having a giveaway of the ARC of PARANORMALCY, a book I've been dying to read ever since I heard sjmaas describe it as a ( Read more... ) -
Now I can die happy!
Today The Rejectionist passed along a seeeerious time-waster, but as it's probably not quite as much of a time-waster as the Wordle thing, I figure it's safe to pass it on to you guys. Basically, you paste in a chunk of text (as with Wordle) and the program analyzes it and compares it to a bunch of authors and figures out who you write like. It is ( Read more... ) -
Correspondence from the Front: Revision update
I've gotten off to a rather rocky start with my revision process. I suppose it's only fair, because when I started writing the first draft I got through the first 30,000 words of it almost without a hitch--it's about time I hit some speed bumps. Part of the problem has come from outside the writing sphere--I got the mother of all migraines this ( Read more... ) -
Everything is better when it's in rainbow!
I spent my weekend (and my birthday... and the two days since my birthday...) outlining my first draft of THE IRON WOOD. Granted, I have had some other things to do, like go out to dinner with my friends on my birthday, and attempt to go see the Tim Burton exhibit downtown today only to be turned away by the huuuuge line, and console ourselves ( Read more... ) -
On kangaroos, markets, and Tim Tams.
It occurred to me this morning that while I've been talking endlessly about writing, my WIP, the publishing world, etc., I haven't actually blogged yet about living in Australia, which is probably one of the more interesting things I could talk about. So here goes ( Read more... ) -
Team Players
The other day I posted a comment on a blog that was seriously misinterpreted. It had the unfortunate timing of showing up right after another comment, so close in fact that I didn't see the other comment before I posted--but coincidence made it possible to read criticism into my comment, because of its placement. I was mortified when the first ( Read more... ) -
And with a week to spare...
...I've finished the first draft of The Iron Wood ( Read more... ) -
Twists and Surprises
Well, the book is coming along, and I'm anticipating finishing the first draft long before my self-imposed deadline. Yeah, it's as much a shock to me as to anyone else, trust me. But for some reason, the act of setting myself a public deadline (and opening myself up to judgment should I fail to meet it) seems to have lit an even bigger fire under ( Read more... ) -
Writing as Work--and Love
I have a friend who is, I think, a good writer. I haven’t actually read anything she’s written because she’s a bit shy about sharing it, but she’s a fantastic editor, a terribly creative person, and she reads about ten times as much as I do, and so I’d put money on the assumption that she’s probably not half bad. She always says, though, that she ( Read more... )