November is approaching, so thoughts on the oncoming Nanowrimo do pop up in my mind ( Read more... )

It took some time, but yes, I've finally caved ( Read more... )

'Are you listening?'
'Yes,' said Tiffany.
'Good. Now... if you trust in yourself...'
'Yes?'
'...and believe in your dreams...'
'Yes?'
'...and follow your star...' Miss Tick went on.
'Yes?'
'...you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye.'The previous post was about dreams. But ( Read more... )

I don't consider myself an ambitious person. Though this is, as is usually the case, a matter of definition. For example, I am a perfectionist, who wants to deliver good results. So when I say I'm not ambitious, I mean I don't have a picture in my mind of "that's where I want to be in ten years time". I don't want to be a CEO or an incredibly ( Read more... )

Unbelievably, I have actually written fanfic again. There's no excuse, apart from having watched the first season of Gargoyles and it just had to be written. It's real fanfic allright - I wrote it in 2-3 hours, it's short and not of high quality, but it was fun to write. I think I at least got most of the typo's out. ;)

( With friends like these... )

As I created the Nation-Geekfest post, I realised I never wrote a book review on it. I read it in December, so thankfully it is still relatively fresh in my mind ( Read more... )

I actually enjoy watching speedskating once in a while.
So how on Earth have I managed to miss this?!

(Skip the first two minutes. Warning: do not try to drink hot beverages when watching; it will snort out of your nose due to some serious laughing)

Having a birthday leads to birthday gifts, which leads to another book review. I got 6 books from the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. And I've already finished reading the first two (Mister Monday & Grim Tuesday), which always indicated that it was a mighty good read ( Read more... )

Nabbed from damanique, because it is such a lovely opportunity to go crazy with it:

Give me the title of a story I’ve never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never ( Read more... )

I've done a couple of book reviews, where for the first book I wrote everything. But for the later books, I could then not really say anything except "like the first book ( Read more... )