I’m headed to Houston to spend the week with the cast of Odd and the Frost Giants. We’re doing intensive puppetry work while I’m there and I’m completing the puppets for performance. I’ve got Thor packed inside a trunk for travel to Houston. Loki is packed inside him, and their skins form a cushion. I […]
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Loki's cheek cracked, so I resoaked his head and stuck him in a vise. # I've got Loki's tail cut out and soaking in the sink. Not surprisingly, he managed to drive a splinter into my palm in the process. # I've got Loki's tail shrinkwrapped and clamped in the vise to dry. # I've
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Today I assembled Loki’s face for the Odd and the Frost Giants production and, unsurprisingly, it didn’t go well. He is the god of mischief after all. I had the pattern that I’d worked out for the rehearsal puppets. When I cut it out of the watercolor paper, it looked slightly odd. so I decided
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Friday was a perfectly lovely day. Puppet building and writers visiting. I spent most of the day working on the Loki puppet for Odd and the Frost Giants, but took a break to hang out with two of the GoHs from MidSouthCon. Conveniently Kurt Busiek and Monte Cook both live in the Pacific Northwest. As
Cutting out Loki's face. The scissors work better than a knife. # Loki's face looks more lopsided than I remember. I think I'll have to use the bonefolder to check. # Also, where is my masking tape? I need it to hold the seams of Loki's face together. # Yeah, I thought Loki's face needed
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Dear Universe, Please give my husband a job. He’s a really good guy and has been looking for a long time now. At least, nineteen months of sending out resumes and looking for a job, seems like a long time. I know that it is hard for everyone. Truly, I do, but I have a
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Well, this video amused me. A lot. The Serenading Unicorn was created by the Henson Company and performed by Allan Trautman. via puppeteers unite
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Pricing gyroscopes for an oscillation overthruster. # I’m attending a production meeting for Odd and the Frost Giants via speakerphone. The downside to designing remotely. # Corretion: I WAS attending a production meeting via speakerphone, but the call dropped. Sigh. # A girl and her cow. Her parents wouldn’t let her have a horse. http://youtu.be/OIQDvZdmTO8
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Last year, I participated in the audio anthology Metatropolis: Cascadia from Audible.com. It was a shared world anthology, built on a story by Jay Lake about what might happen to the Pacific Northwest in the future. Because the stories in the anthology were written specifically for audio, it shaped many of the choices I made
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I’ve just posted the draft of Chapter 17 for those of you reading along with The Transfigured Lady. Mr. Jernigan offered her a hand down from the trolley, but Cora handed him one of the bottle’s of Big Sam’s Magic Elixir instead. She hopped down with the other bottle tucked under her arm. “What are
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Today is my best beloved’s birthday. He is something of a minimalist in aesthetic so doesn’t like to receive gifts. For years, my practice has been to give him subtractive presents. This has been things like gift certificates to remove the item of his choice from a room, or a day without internet. Sometimes, it
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I have Dan Wells in my living room. If you want him back alive, send chocolate, a pony, and a Daugherty Visible Typewriter. All right, all right. You don’t have to send the pony. He came into town on book tour for I Don’t Want To Kill You, which is a fantastic book. Foolishly, he
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My mother-in-law, who clearly understands, sent me a link to a useful picture. Discover Magazine’s blog has a hilarious and unfortunately accurate graph of the writing process. It’s about writing articles, but it could apply to fiction with only a few minor substitutes.
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My dear first readers, You were right. I did need another vaudeville scene but going back and adding that meant that I needed to massage the chapters on either side of the new scene. This is slower than just writing a new chapter, but it’s faster than trying to figure out where to put it
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