Nancy Fulda has an excellent post about her theory on Why Modern Readers are Less Tolerant of Description, which rings totally true to me. One hundred years ago, or even fifty years ago, the average reader did not travel widely and did not have access to full-color photographs or television. They had never seen pyramids, […]
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I now own a 500GB external harddrive. Our other one was 50GB which we’d filled. I spent the evening dumping files and now have 20GB of free space on my computer. It is still running sluggishly. Before you suggest…. I’ve run anti-virus software, AdAware, defragged, restarted, checked on processes running, shut down all background programs
Having decided that the cellphone story was, in fact, dull, I’m going to reneg on my promise to finish it via email. It fails because my initial idea was for a high adventure serial, but that was in the scenario where I could send 1000 character texts instead of 160. Action sequences build no momentum
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The planners of Denvention are really on their game. I’m not sure when I’ve known about my programming so far in advance. Granted, these are preliminary schedules, but here’s the list. Schmoozing 101 – Wed 13:00 Survival Tips for the Beginning Writer – Wed 16:00 How to Give an Effective Reading – Workshop – Fri
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Oh, my horsey friends, please double-check my book learning. I’m figuring that Character A will take about 2 and a half hours to cover four miles on a deer path through a heavily wooded area. She’s got about fifty very short characters with her, so isn’t walking at top speed. Returning, she’s mounted on a
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Fantasy Magazine has Sean Markey’s Sorrowbird up today. I think you might enjoy it. I. How to Build a Mourning Dove First, take your husband’s awkward, enthusiastic letters from the night-stand drawer, the ones he wrote on his way from England to India. Take those smooth papers and wad them up tight. Keep your sorrow
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I remember when I got my computer thinking that 40GB was a monstrous amount of space and way more than I could ever possibly need. Today, I had a program freeze up and decided to defrag the hard drive. The computer refused because I didn’t have enough space. I had less than 1GB left. I
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I know I’m a little late to the game, but I’ve finally added tags to my website. Oooo…. We also, if you are inclined to comment, have added some toys to the comment section. If you look right above the comment box, you’ll see a button with two arrows on it. Click that and you’ll
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Our friend Daddi is in town for a big expo and he brought us several packs of our favorite Icelandic treat. Flatkökur are flat cakes, that sort of look like burned crepes. Made with rye flour, they are sooooo tasty and I’ve missed them a lot. There’s nothing comparable here.
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No, seriously. I get this much fur every time we furminate him. Which we’re doing daily. I mean, you don’t even get a sense of the height of the mound in this photo. Why isn’t he bald?
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I don’t talk about my writing process all that much on this site because every writer has their own way of figuring things out. That and I generally find it dull, but the motorcycle ride yesterday reminded me of a trick that I find handy and you might, too. I spent a lot of time
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New York – The Players Theatre will host Hands together: New York Artists Gather for China Earthquake Relief to Benefit UNICEF presented by Matrix Music Collaborators on June 14, 2008, 3pm, 115 MacDougal Street (between W3rd and Minetta Lane) in Greenwich Village, New York. Admission is $45 / Package of Four for $125. All proceeds
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If anyone has time, I could use help with two tasks. 1) I recorded a story (not mine and I promise it’s good) and I need to listen to it to make sure that we didn’t leave any of my stumbles in it. I’m tuning out my own voice. The story is two and a
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For the first time since Halloween, I left the city for non-work reasons. Rob and I took a ride on his motorcycle up to a little town on the Hudson. So cute and so many antique stores. We didn’t buy anything, but it was so nice to have the leisure to just poke into shops
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By request, this time, it’s a quiz. What do you think I really meant when I said each of these things? I have to go repair the moose, sew some curtains and carve a donut. Not in that order. Are we inside him? When he comes, I’ll grab his britches. Do you want the tumor
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