9 and 10
We recorded Chapter 9 and 10 today, so my part of the process is over for the moment. Rob will edit it together, and then we’ll see if I need to do any pick-up lines.
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Trained Monkeys
So, after getting back from building monkeys, I had to go online to try to cancel an eFax service. It’s not that I didn’t like the service, but it certainly wasn’t the best online fax service in the world. Plus, I’d already completed the project that I had intially purchased the service for. Here is
Serendib Puppet Design Blog
If you’re interested in the design process, I’d suggest clicking over to Miss Emily DeCola’s website where you can see the design process for the monkeys we are building. It’s interesting stuff and the monkeys are so cute it’s painful. I mean look at their little haircuts! They come like that naturally. How can you
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Caddis fly
While we are on the subject of very cool bug, -e- sent me a link to The Zymoglyphic Museum Curator’s Web Log: “Designer” Jewelry with Insect Larvae which features the art collaboration of Hubert Duprat and a caddis fly. The caddis fly larvae create a wearable tube out of the materials in their natural environment.
Finished fiberglassing the bear
Round two of fiberglassing the bear went much better. The glass on thmpts in the morning after he left so the fumes would have a chance to dissapate. This is way I was not going to do the fiberglass work at the workshop. Today I did the last of the fiberglassing for an audience of
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Sold! – “Chrysalis” to Aoife’s Kiss
I got word this morning that Aoife’s Kiss would like to buy “Chrysalis.” I am very happy that this story has found a home. Chrysalis : The Husiths undergo Chrysalis to become an adult, but the enzymes involved in the process scramble their memories. As a culture, they are obsessed with documenting their pupaehood, which
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The original scene of Portrait of Ari
If you are curious about how Portrait of Ari started, I can tell you the whole sordid story. I started writing a novel when I was in highschool, and things being what they were, it took me ten years or so to finish the thing. The plot is flawed beyond repair, and believe me, I
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Good Housekeeping – Chapter 1
Okay folks, here are the first thirteen lines of my NaNo novel, Good Housekeeping. If you’d like to read the whole chapter, I’m happy to send it. Just drop me a line. Chapter 1 Grace’s cat was sitting on her face. His purr sounded as if a mixer were stirring gravel in her ear. She
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Network Migration
So, sometime on Friday evening my website will go down as they migrate the system to a new server. The process is supposed to take 24 to 48 hours, but I’m not sure how much of that will affect me. So please, no phone calls wondering if I’m dead when the site vanishes.
Why the prolonged silence
I’ve been having some trouble with my computer for the past week. Basically, I got hit with a host of spyware and trojans that took forever to get off my machine. It meant that going online was a slow process if I could get on at all. Sure, the computer was connected, but it was
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A Pro-Sale!
I can’t believe it. Strange Horizons just wrote to say they want to buy Portrait of Ari at pro-rates! I’m beside myself with excitement–really, it takes two of me to express my joy fully. Here’s the letter. Dear Mary Robinette Kowal, We’re pleased to accept your story “Portrait of Ari” for publication in Strange Horizons,
Carp and Diva
I am building a giant carp for a new opera called Carp and Diva. I haven’t heard it yet, but the libretto is as silly as the title sounds. Since some people have asked what it is that I do, exactly, for a living, I thought I would show a bit of process. I start
Weeding
The weather has been unabashedly lovely. Which meant that I charged out to do some yardwork. Actually, mostly I went out because Rob had already done some and I felt guilty. In the process I remembered that I suffer from allergies, something which has not bothered me for the past two years. Why? Because I
Black-eyed peas and collard greens
Last night we had Sue and Albert for company to join us in the traditional New Year’s Day menu. We nearly had a small catastrophe because this was the first time I’d made black-eyed peas from dried; I usually use the canned ones. Although I soaked them overnight, I did not allow enough time for
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