Brevity! Use fewer words! After the obligatory “we-are-going-to-cut-this-short-after-the-intro” joke, we talk about how we can be appropriately brief, even in the context of writing epic fantasy. Mary offers us some rules of thumb for story brevity in the short fiction she writes, and Howard talks about how he accomplishes the extreme brevity of language required […]
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Last September, I took a month off from the internet. During my vacation, I told people that they could correspond with me by paper letter. Some people did. Some people still are. Every letter delights me. When I write back, I find that I slow down and write differently than I do with an email.
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When I started going to Regency events I looked for tutorials on how to do a Regency hair style. Most of them were for ladies with long hair. My hair is no longer than my shoulders and has been shorter than this. I’ve learned that with a sufficient number of bobby pins, I can approximate
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I am very pleased to announce that next year, I will be attending the 39th ConFusion as the Special Guest of Honor. The line up looks like it is going to be great fun. The Pro GoH is Charles Stross, along with editor GoH Scott Edelman and Fan GoH James Nicoll. And there will be puppets. Oh yes.
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I have to thank Madeleine Robins for pointing out that the carriages in French and Belgium at this point were called dilligence. By the way, if you have not read her truly excellent The Sarah Tolerance Mysteries, allow me to recommend them. If Jane Austen writes comedy of manners, Madeleine Robins writes mystery of manners.
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Despair! (Hat tip to Two Nerdy History Girls)
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Enjoy the master classes by Bogie, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Kay Francis, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, George Brent, Merle Oberon, Patricia Neal, Mickey Rooney and more. They still teach most of this today.
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You’re a geek, too, right? I thought so. Nothing particular gave you away, just the fact that you hang around here made it a good bet. Which is why I thought you’d like to know about Geek Seekers. My friend Monte Cook is putting together a webseries with Jen Page which promises to be hilarious
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Today’s preview does not contain a description of the dress, but the circumstances in which one would wear such item. The January wind whipped off the coast and lifted sails and skirts alike. Despite the chill, Jane stood at the rail of the Dolphin, feeling as if a series of stays were releasing their laces
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For the past several years, we have been trying — as typewriter collectors — to identify the typewriters on the shelves in Richard Castle’s office. Yeah, the fictional character in the show Castle. I was pretty sure we were looking at a Royal and an Underwood, but not certain. Even then, which models? In the
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If you aren’t familiar with SOPA allow me to show you this handy video which explains what it is and why it is bad for the internet. More specifically, why it is bad for you. SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act. While I believe that content creators should be paid for their work, this
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My husband is working on a video project and searching for normal folks who embody informal science. He would love to find a woman and/or ethnic minority. Also, while the subject need not live in a rural setting, their story must be relevant to rural life – the target audience is small towns and rural
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To the person who sent me the “Mr. Darcy proposal scarf” from Etsy, thank you. It is cozy. I’ve never received wearable fan mail before. I found the etsy shop that it comes from, but am resisting the urge to email the shop owner and ask who sent it. My feeling is that if one
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In Shades of Milk and Honey, when Jane first sees the professional glamourist, Mr. Vincent, she describes him as, “Tall, and very broad of chest. His hair was chestnut and curled about his head like Bacon’s portrait of Jean- Baptiste Isabey.” In Glamour in Glass, we see him again. His brown curls were tousled in the fashionable wind- swept
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Hey, there’s a quiz about Shades of Milk and Honey over at Goodreads. How well do you remember the book? It’s only ten questions long! Take the Shades of Milk and Honey quiz.
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