I've come to the conclusion that most memes are only fun for the people doing them, but I feel like doing this one anyway. So nyaah.

Google "You know you're from [your location] when ... " and copy/paste the list to your journal, bolding the true statements.

( 14,000 lakes FTW )

Last time I went over each book in detail, but do you all really care for me to rehash all the mediocre books as well as the good ones? This go-around, I’m going to try just listing all the books I read, then highlighting a few of them. Feel free to ask my opinion on books I don’t talk about.

Books read, in order of date finished:
Devon Monk, Magic ( Read more... )

Hello, blog. It’s been a while. I’m sorry I neglected you. I’m pretty hopelessly behind on the writing meme, but I’ll chuck up the answers to the next number of questions anyhow.

12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you’d like to share?
You may be tired of hearing about my sentient superpowers ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed I was taking a class that involved going to see the Hippopotamus Orchestra, but instead of anything to do with an orchestra or hippos, the entire class was eating ice cream and learning about the reasons boxes used for shipping were the way they were (these shipping boxes were not like our shipping boxes, but in very boring ( Read more... )

11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?

This is yet another question that’s tricky for me to answer as a short story writer. Once a story is done, so is that character. They never come back, so I don’t really form long-term relationships with them. The most fun character I’ve written was probably Jack, the ice superpower main ( Read more... )

After waiting three days to write this post, I think I might return to the post-per-day method, since no one weighed in in favor of one or the other, and I found that this post became a much bigger deal when I had to contemplate writing out the answers to three questions instead of just one.

8. What’s your favorite genre to write? To read?
I write ( Read more... )

I’m beginning to wonder if this meme might be less tiresome for all of us if I did it in larger chunks, say 3-4 days at a time. Fewer posts for everyone to read and/or skim and/or skip, and less of a necessity of me remembering to update every day. What do you all think? Do you like the daily dose of my writing process, or would you prefer it in ( Read more... )

6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol’ pen and paper?

I am most comfortable writing sitting in my bed with my laptop in the evening. (And I just answered all three questions with a single, not even run-on sentence! Whoo!)

Because I feel like it’s a bit of a cop-out to write a one-line (well, plus the ( Read more... )

5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?

Age-of-character wise, I think my youngest human character was a toddler named Clara from my story “Rag Doll.” She didn’t do much-the main character was her doll, Mindybaby. Mindybaby herself is probably technically my youngest ( Read more... )

4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters.

The first story I can recall writing was a picture book I made in preschool. It was titled “The Dog Who Wanted to be Rainbow,” and it is awesome, though tragically lacking in speculative elements. One thing that I found interesting when I unearthed this gem in a box of old school projects a few ( Read more... )