August 2010

Random Thingies

Just…thoughts. In no particular order. Call all you want. If I came in on the weekend to get work done, I’m not answering the phone. I didn’t come in to let people in, either. Carry your keys. They aren’t that heavy. Yes, I can print you a worthless list, but that wastes both your time […]

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Just a Quick Update

I’m not dead. Think I’ll go for a walk. /holy grail reference Well, my brain is dead–registration is hell–but the rest of me isn’t, and I’m hoping the brain will recover at some point. bllaaaaarrgghhhhh… Still writing, though, and that’s astonishing.

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#teasertuesday Haven

#teasertuesday Haven

Cloth covered Kolya’s eyes. Wet cloth. Not a blindfold. He lay in–in a hard bed or maybe a couch. Someone was singing. “In a canyon, in a cavern, excavating for a mine,” He didn’t know the voice. Even when he realized it should be Jadzia, not Emmie, he didn’t recognize the woman’s voice. But it

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Dunwanna

Dunwanna

I did my best to get everything ready. I ran around all day and I moved furniture and answered phones and questions and I really think we’re set about as well as we can possibly be for tomorrow. So can I not go? I dunwanna. Work is hard. *whine* In other news, I write Kolya

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Save the Cat!: The Blake Snyder Beat Sheet (the BS2)

Save the Cat!: The Blake Snyder Beat Sheet (the BS2)

Recently I raved here about Save the Cat! Some friends wanted to hear more, so I thought I’d break down possibly the most valuable page in any writing book I own–with the clear caution that this alone isn’t enough (unless you are far better at taking a thought and running with it than I am.)

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The One True Way

The One True Way

It always amuses me when people talk of their One True Way, because I am more like Chuck Wendig (on whose blog this post started)–I have none. While that book had to be planned to get anywhere at all, this one will shrivel and die, staring with betrayed eyes as it does, if I so

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Did I Tell You About Starfighter?

Did I Tell You About Starfighter?

Because if you love mansmex and I didn’t tell you about Starfighter, you may now thwap me. I don’t want to say much, because really, I haven’t read much. The author/artist (it’s a webcomic) posts a page when she gets it done–she has a job and a life, after all–which means I’m in the wilds

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