It's taken me three days to write this, and I'm guessing some of it is moot, but I still feel the need to say something. To those of you out there that haven't heard on your local or national news stations, there was a shooting at UAHuntsville on Feb. 12. Here is a link to the official statements on what happened that day, as well as any other ( Read more... )

 So, earlier I had made a post about the new MMO, Star Trek: Online, which hits shelves tomorrow. I enjoyed, through several server crashes, the progress that was made during the open beta, and I did my best to contribute in the form of reporting as many bugs as I could find. I don't think they could get to all of the ones I brought up, and there ( Read more... )

In the limited experiences I've had with MMOs, I've never really had any of them in particular reach out, grab me, stick their claws into my brains and rot my time and sanity away into oblivion. World of Warcraft, however fun in a relaxing "gotta catch 'em all" attitude of rep grinding or skill grinding or level grinding, really just gave me a feel ( Read more... )

Everyone has their preferences on how they like to write all of their drafts. Some like to use fancy word processors like Microsoft Word so they can use it for planning and outlining as well as writing; I personally like Scrivener for Mac OSX because of the extra features. Some prefer simpler programs like Wordpad or Textedit, just so they can get ( Read more... )

I did a bit of thinking, and Birdie did some knocking of sense into me, and I found what the problem was that I was having. When you hear about some famous or well-known person having a blog, there is an incredible urge to run to it and see what that person has to say, knowing that you will find one of three things. These three things will appeal ( Read more... )

I just can't put my finger on it and come up with a valid reason why I feel like this ( Read more... )

I still am in shock as I look at the telltale purple bar, the numbers from every day's word count, the shouts of joy from many others going through the same emotions. I can't believe I won. As of right now, my novel is finished at 54,042 words. I never thought that I would get through it. Seriously, as much as I've been raving about it, and from ( Read more... )

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I don't usually make plugs like this, but I just found out about this today, and it really sucks that we don't have cable right now, or that it airs on Tuesdays ( Read more... )

I never considered myself an able-enough writer to do this, but I guess after seeing all of those writing panels at D*C this year put the bug in my ear again. I truly understand now that my biggest problem in writing is not in the desire to write or having the ideas to write, but being able to turn off that inner editor and just write. It's what's ( Read more... )