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Apparently, I'll need a poetry contest

servalan Feb 28, 2012 23:42

So, I'm doing this experiment where I'm outlining a story COMPLETELY before I write it. I bought a copy of KM Weiland's Outlining Your Novel and am working my way through, doing every single exercise ( Read more... )

writing

Off my old computer

servalan Jan 20, 2012 17:38

Whoa. I've finally pulled a bunch of writing off my previous computer. So far, the two most interesting things I've found are:

1) A completed space-opera epic poem. (Around 3K alliterative words.)
2) A half-started collection with the disturbingly current cover copy pitch

Ayn is an ultra-modern office manager with plenty of friends and a good ( Read more... )

writing

Rambling Update

servalan Dec 04, 2011 15:41

Whew! It's been an interesting few weeks since my last update. Here are the key points of loveliness:

( 1) Finally been to Canada! )

apartment, travel, music, ramble, vacation, employment, writing, gig, victoria pond, parents

Egg On My Face

servalan Nov 01, 2011 08:59

Watching Penn & Teller a week or two ago, xyon and I saw a segment where people tried and failed to crush an egg by exerting pressure from the two pointy (well, pointier) ends. Being unable to break an egg had us both enamored ( Read more... )

cooking

Hassidic Amazon AKA the story I'm not writing

servalan Oct 04, 2011 21:37

So, tonight at my writing group, we each created a scene based around a photo of a woman getting a tattoo.

Mine had backstory like crazy. ( See, it's the 1960s )

writing, fiction

No internet! So, driving and cooking

servalan Oct 02, 2011 16:45

Well, this weekend (starting Friday) our Internet went down. I'd love to blame Verizon, but really...the Internet closet (the closet in our house which holds a case-less computer and all of its 10-yo friends) stopped working properly ( Read more... )

driving, internet, food

So much for THAT plan

servalan Sep 30, 2011 09:04

Have you tried, in recent years, to rent a car with a manual transmission?

I hadn't until last night, seeing as I only drive automatic and never learned the other one. Now, I can recall a time when I had to request automatic, and the prettiest cars never came with one ( Read more... )

car

Editor/Beta reader desired - short story

servalan Sep 21, 2011 10:30

Anyone with an editorial eye want to beta an original short story? Vampires, threesomes, Highlander-esque flashbacks. (I got asked to write some vampire erotica last week; can you tell? Although, I haven't heard back from the editor since sending her some questions, so who knows what's really going to happen to this piece ( Read more... )

writing

Friends: Wanna vacation?

servalan Sep 20, 2011 17:20

I'm thinking about taking a Winter Sun vacation in Florida in early November.

Found ridiculously cheap tix to Ft. Lauderdale on Virgin Air and have a "book in the next 15 hours" awesome rate at the 4.5 star Atlantic Hotel.

Anyone else want to go? We could make a friendship week of it...

not even a real update

servalan Sep 13, 2011 12:29

I have this anti-itch cream that I really like the scent of. It drives me crazy that I can't smear my whole body with it (because then I'd be numb all over and have to tell people they shouldn't touch me, or (if they do) that they should wash their hands).

Somehow, this feels like it ought to be significant.