Glaciers are shrinking. Go here and see for yourself. Look at the pictures of Alaska from 100 years ago, then the recent ones. What do you care about glaciers? Go here to find out why you should care. And here. And here. And in case you didn’t spot it: If all land ice melted, sea […]
Worked on my pirate fanfiction tonight. I need to post something. It has nothing to do with yet another crappy day at work getting very little accomplished while people appreciate all my hard work then toss more on the pile…there are definite drawbacks to the “miracle worker” appellation. Not there. Here. Bashing my head against
Will you join in our crusade, Who will be strong and stand with me? Somewhere beyond the barricade Is there a world you long to see? Wow.
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Avoiding writing (again), I wandered Orson Scott Card’s Uncle Orson’s Writing Class. And just for the hell of it, clicked on the character naming article. First rule: No two characters in the same story can have their key name (i.e., the one most commonly referred to) start with the same letter or the same sound).
You know the end of that, right? “Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Except for the fact that over-worked, under-funded, highly devoted, under-paid people have to try to fulfill the idiocy. Or be penalized. Quoting from this site: Not a single state will have a highly qualified teacher in every core class this school
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Squee!!! Meet the foundation of my galaxy, Captain Eve Marcori. And the center of HER galaxy, Dr. Ben Alexander. Someone asked if these were anime characters. Well no, they’re not. But they are drawn by an anime fan for an anime fan, so it’s not a surprise they could be, is it? Taro and Rafe
“Does genius burn?” That’s what Jo March’s family used to ask when she was writing frantically in Little Women. That was my first exposure to how other writers lived, and I’ve never forgotten it. Because I do it too. Oh, I don’t have the cap that warned family members of Jo’s mood, and I don’t