March 2010

On “The Elements of Style”

So I won’t be spending the month of April toasting 50 years of the overopinionated and underinformed little book that put so many people in this unhappy state of grammatical angst. I’ve spent too much of my scholarly life studying English grammar in a serious way. English syntax is a deep and interesting subject. It […]

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…wait, what?

So…now I have two parts in the play. They’re in the same scene. I’m not sure how this is going to work. XD Two hours on EdMo today. I almost finished one whole scene! Whee?

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NaNoEdMo So Far

Starting on day one, of course: 99 80 60 10 0 240 180 30 40 10 40 60 849 divided by 60 = 14.15 hours so far. I think I need to buckle down a bit. Which is going to be hard, as I sort of accidentally volunteered to join a production of Alice in

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I…made an icon?

Tonight I made an icon. I like it lots. I don’t usually choose to write on my person’s face, but I felt it fit this one. And the second line–I was looking for a font that looked like a scream, but this one actually works better. I ended up walking the line between art *snerks

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NaNoAUGHMo

Yeah, this is not going so well. I knew it would be this way, though. Hiro is an utter mess, and besides, editing always starts like this. A whole lot of AUGH and why did I DO that? and hell, what did I mean to write instead of “the revenant bit of his hand” and

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