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Life is good
Well, I haven't updated in rather a long time, but I haven't had terribly much to say. My time has been dedicated to work and Flora. I plan to get back to writing soon -- I wrote myself dry October-December, putting down about 105,000 words -- but my brain's all refreshed now. I've been reading loads, and I have something to type up -- I would ( Read more... ) -
Quick question
Poll: Does anyone here like reading dialect in books? (Dialect heavy enough you sometimes have to say it out loud and from one or more characters who speak frequently.) -
British Airways: Avoid
How long have I liked British Airways? Well, that's over. I have more than 50,000 Avios (air miles), which is enough for a round trip to London. I have to pay about $250 in gov fees. Fine. Not great, but fine ( Read more... ) -
Debate Online
There's no point in arguing with stupid people on the internet. I know this, and yet I am tempted regardless. Why? Tell me why? They are incapable of understanding the most polite and fundamental explanations of things that needn't be arguments at all . . . like whether "jelly" means something different in UK English than US English. Is it ( Read more... ) -
Awesome Writing Words
Anagnorisis (/ˌænəɡˈnɒrɨsɨs/; Ancient Greek: ἀναγνώρισις) is a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery. Anagnorisis originally meant recognition in its Greek context, not only of a person but also of what that person stood for. Anagnorisis was the hero's sudden awareness of a real situation, the realisation of ( Read more... ) -
Quick Book Recommendation
Between Silk and Cyanide: a Codemaker's War 1941-1945 by Leo Marks. I spent the end of Friday and all of yesterday reading this because I couldn't put it down. -
This is why I keep a books read list . . .
This evening, I began reading Jessica Day George’s Dragon Slippers. I was more than a hundred pages into the hardback when I began feeling increasingly uncomfortable déjà vu. Although I had no memory of reading the book before, certain things were familiar. I knew what was going to happen. It had the mudslide feeling of inevitability: I didn’t ( Read more... )