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Writing goals, I need some.
Yeah, I've set a pretty leisurely pace for The Conscience of Abe's Turn. I've posted the Prologue. And BTW, I've formally licensed the RSS feed under the CC BY-ND License (though I haven't set up the RSS feed itself to note this), what after I got pissed at big-media-minded bloggers, who just don't get it. Note that the series itself is "All rights ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday to Me!
Today I turn 38. Interestingly, it occurs 6 months from the December holiday season. Most of my family also has birthdays during this time of year. So I tend to divide the year into two seasons: the Holiday season and the Birthday season.
Every year around this time, I look back at the past year and wonder what I've accomplished. And in 2 more ( Read more... ) -
My First Video, in My Messy Basement Studio
I've been wanting to play with video for some time now. So I did a short video commentary on the latest episode of Gilmore Girls and posted it on YouTube. I just set up my relatively new MacBook in my basement, next to all the sound equipment I use for podcasting. Because I really wanted decent sound on the video. That means you can see in the ( Read more... ) -
A New Gilmore Girls Fansite
So, I know I haven't posted in a long, long time. What I've been up to... I started my own business. And I've been spending a lot of time building a fansite for one of my passions, my all-time favorite TV show, Gilmore Girls. The site is Gilmore-ism.com. Originally, it was only a database of Gilmore Girls quotes. And it still has an abundance of ( Read more... ) -
Blog Boost: The Artsy Asylum
I like Susan Reynold's blog, but I don't know why. Maybe it's the literary writing, though that doesn't usually do anything for me by itself. Maybe it's the photos. Maybe it's just the color scheme. Hmm ( Read more... ) -
Children and Toilets
This is a story I recently wrote for Mur Lafferty's ISBW crit contest. It was odd (for me) in that it has a female protagonist. So I wrote and submitted it under the pseudonym Joanna T. Knight, which is an anagram of "Jonathan T. King." I did not win, but I was not expecting to, either. There were a number of great entries, and at that point, as ( Read more... ) -
Stories...
Over the past week...
I finished Character & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card. Near the end he gives an example of the "in his mind-in her mind" thing, an example that actually works and did not disorient me. I have a theory as to why it worked.
I also read The Minister's Daughter by Julie Hearn.
I finally finished the classic story game Day of the ( Read more... ) -
Stories...
Lately, I've read Spellbound by Nora Roberts. It wasn't my favorite.
I've also read Heartbeat by Sharon Creech for my daughter.
I've started watching Stunt Junkies, which is ripe with characterization ideas.
I watched The Baxter as well as Must Love Dogs and Charlie Chaplin's City Lights, the latter which will be the subject of tomorrow's "be ( Read more... ) -
Stories I've been reading...
... or watching or playing or listening to.
I reread The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, or at least portions of it, for the latest episode of be the story.
I read Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop by Kate Wilhelm and loved it so much I made it the subject of last week’s be the story ( Read more... ) -
Are you a story geek?
I'm trying out dPolls.com. Are you a story geek? What do you think? (The dPolls live HTML unfortunately doesn't work with LJ.)
-TimK