Well, that quiz was way too long...

I Am A: Lawful Neutral Elf Wizard (4th Level)

Ability Scores:

Strength-13

Dexterity-12

Constitution-13

Intelligence-15

Wisdom-11

Charisma-12

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Did you ever wonder what the Mars Science Laboratory Rover has in common with James Bond? Well, wonder no more because I have written a full blog post about it! The post qualified as a finalist in scientificblogging.com's science writing competition, so if you like it please vote for it by clicking the grey widget to the right of the title. You can ( Read more... )

Your result for Which fantasy writer are you?...

Ursula K Le Guin (b. 1929)

1 High-Brow, -11 Violent, -5 Experimental and 17 Cynical!


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In case you missed the announcement on Facebook and/or Twitter, Erin and I got engaged over the weekend! It's finally starting to sink in; at first I had to keep telling myself that yes I did just ask Erin to marry me, and she said yes, and we announced it to our parents and friends ( Read more... )

I just joined twitter! I am marschronicler: http://twitter.com/marschronicler (it's a tie-in to my blog, The Martian Chronicles)

So, I just started reading the epic fantasy novel "Acacia" by David Anthony Durham. It's quite well written, and I'm enjoying it so far, but I've been struck by two things. First, it follows a pretty standard epic fantasy plot: assassin murders the king, then the story follows the king's kids as they try to deal with all the fallout. It's fine that ( Read more... )

Know what I think is interesting? How important connotations are for words. As in, the word itself has a definition, but it also conjures up all sorts of other images and ideas in your brain, and when you're reading, all of that comes into play, not just the strict definitions ( Read more... )

Dude. Spoilers. If you don't want spoilers, then you shouldn't read any more of this post. Spoiled spoilers coming up! Don't say I didn't SPOILERS warn you!

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Done with the "marking up the manuscript and writing notes in a notebook" step of editing! Now comes the "figure out how to make all those changes work together" step, and the "actually writing the second draft" step.

So, I'm making progress but there's a long way to go.

Three chapters left to mark up on my novel: one for each main character. Then I get to start the daunting process of going back and actually making the changes that I've been scribbling in the margins. I'm finding the hardest part of writing a novel is keeping everything in mind all at once. I will probably take some time before diving into the ( Read more... )