Not writing enough, either?

Well do I have a solution for you!

It's called, "Write or Die," and it's the brain child of someone called Dr Wicked (related to Dr Evil, I'm sure). It's been helping me write when I can't, I just can't. Suddenly, it seems... uh, I can, I can! Look, I actually can!

Why? Because I'm as good as a lab rat in an experiment and ( Read more... )

Firstly, some bad news. Apparently story writing and assignment marking make use of the same part of the brain: the thinking part.

True story.

And right now, after seven days of NaNo, my... err, "thinking part" is worn out from all the use (it's not accustomed to such activity). In fact, in defiance, it's ground to a spectacular halt.

Hence the ( Read more... )

In my sleep, that is. On paper, however, um... not so good.

(Damn, but I write well in my dreams! Of course, by "writing", I really mean live through, experience and envisage sentences, speech and scenes. And, yes, my assessment of how good these bits are is also being carried out in the same theta state in which the creating has occurred, so ( Read more... )

I found myself rereading two lj friends' fics and they were so good I realised I needed to pimp them to you and pimp them good. :D

If you're keen for a bit of off the wall reading, I strongly recommend you give two of cikka's fics a read. They're quick but packed with the most fascinating of characters!

The stories are related, so read in the following ( Read more... )

So, November is... argh, FOUR days away!

Bloody hell. Where did the year go? Oh that's right... TOD stole it, what with all his talk of making Christmas puddings and shopping for presents. :D

So, I was planning on doing NaNoWriMo this year! The "National Novel Writing Month". Heard of it? It's when aspiring authors sign up here and then they try to ( Read more... )

Just finished marking 80 assignments. Then, I have to pick up 25 new assignments on Monday to mark, followed by 45 counselling tapes, transcripts, and essays on Tuesday. I'm hoping to have them all marked before the exams flow in which is in about 3 weeks time.

Err, yeah, it's not going to happen. Plus I'm already as tired as buggery. (An Aussie ( Read more... )

It's much like when a 5 year old runs towards you, waving a piece of paper in their hand, excited to share with you a few scribbles they've just drawn--"See? See? That's a house! And, and that's... a tree!"

It's best to just nod and say, "That's nice, dear."

( Get ready for the pain that's sure to come )

"For Letterstories to begin!"

(Well, he didn't say exactly that. Instead he might have said something about it being a time to speak of "shoes and ships and sealing wax". But I like talking about letterstories better. Erm, sorry Mr Walrus and sorry Mr Lewis Carroll!)

Yes, the time has arrived. I am calling all interested authors to put up their hands ( Read more... )

The Mighty Boosh might be my new love. I stumbled upon it one night while flicking through the sad offerings on TV, and just based on this small snippet (which is actually from episode 3, season 3--I don't know if we got the earlier episodes here in Australia, but I'm going to hunt them down!), I fell in luuurrve.

Here it is for you all to enjoy. ( Read more... )

Probably because... they're not even getting to the recreation of the big bang until weeks (or months) from now. Wasn't the first use of the Hadron Collider just to send a particle around one way? To test it out? And then, in a few weeks, they'll send a particle around the reverse way, to test that out too?

I'm no physicist, but I'm guessing turning ( Read more... )