This started well with exciting narrative style; it broke rules and I was really looking forward to seeing where it took me. The book opens with Theme and Prologue. Check this out. Story, place and time–these are the essentials. 1 The story is simple. There was a boy who bought the planet Earth. We know […]
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I love my editor. Debby Vetter has done a beautiful job editing my story for CICADA. I just got them in the mail today and I’m very, very happy. Yay! I agreed with all of her cuts and she caught a world-building glitch. I had a highschool student in my SF story referring to “paperwork
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You’ve honed your voice to be a well-modulated wonder. Now you have to get in front of people and actually read. In some readings, the author remains seated. Some, they stand. What should you do? Well, it depends on venue, the story and your own preference. If you’re in a small venue with an intimate
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There is a light dusting of snow on the very top of Esja. People call Esja, “Reykajvik’s mountain,” because it sits across the fjord from Reykjavik and defines the look of the city. The mountain is flat at the top, so it looks as if a giant has left a sheet lying on the ground.
This comes via :: Douglas Rushkoff’s weblog I hope people I’ve inspired with my work would band together to help me out in my later years if I needed it. Which is at least part of the reason why I’m sending what I can to support cosmic thinking patriarch Robert Anton Wilson, whose infirmity and
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I disassembled the body today and made patterns. Once I had the basic pattern made, I folded the paper in half, trimmed it to make it symetrical. With the clean, tidy pattern, I cut the cloth and stitched it together. I also started installing the boning today.
I was in Icelandic class and we were talking about what we did over the weekend. I realized that I completely forgot to mention this to you guys. On Saturday, I went to the movie theater at the Krlnglan, the mall close to my house, for a screening of two Lazytown episodes. We saw “Little
To make up for the giant marionette that didn’t attack Reykjavik. Here’s some footage of a real giant marinette. In fact, this is likely what inspired the faux marionette. Enjoy.
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Back at the ranch, our wonderful tenant and cat-sitter has gotten a new job out of town, and is moving out in mid-October. I come home at the end of October, which means that our cats will be without the attention to which they have become accustomed. They have a self-feeder and waterer, but we
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To make the body, I started by creating a fullsize mockup of the bear’s torso. Next, I covered the form in cloth and established the basic fit. In this photo, I’m attaching the boning. Because I am making a pattern of the bear, I’ll pin everything into place, then label each piece of boning and
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Maggie asked: What do you do when you make a mistake, or cough, or have to clear your throat, or take a drink of water? I know that a person can take a break when recording a reading, and one can take a drink then. I also recall readers for the talking books for the
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Last night Rob and I headed out to a friend’s birthday party. Being in Iceland, since the party started at 8:30, that’s when we started getting ready to leave. Don’t ask me why, but every party experience I’ve had here shows that guests don’t start arriving until at least an hour after the stated party
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You have no idea how many things I coveted in that raffle and I couldn’t enter a drawing for a single one of them. It was very hard. So, imagine please, my surprise and delight on seeing this in my feedreader today. The Knight Agency Blog: Critique Winner and Thanks! Thanks to those of you
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The drawings are complete and the winners have been notified. For a complete list, visit the website. If you see your name listed, but have not received an email from me, please let me know. I will be letting the donors know who has claimed their prize tomorrow. (Saturday) Right now, I’m beat and heading
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Another Twenty Epics review, this time at Tangent Online My favorite story in this collection is “Bound Man” by Mary Robinette Kowal. Ripped from the past while playing with her two children in her courtyard, legendary “warrior-god” Li Reiko finds herself six-thousand years in the future where she has been summoned to slay the Troll
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