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When people meet me and learn that I’m from North Carolina, the first thing that they say are, “But you don’t have a southern accent.” It happens so often, that you get major bonus points for not saying it. There are variations, of course, such as, “You must have worked hard to lose your accent.”
To celebrate finishing the proof-reading of the Autumn issue of Shimmer, I offer you a wordsearch based on the Autumn issue. Each word represents a story in this issue. Halloween Night by John Parke Davis Skeletonbaby Magic by Kathy Watts Pray for Us, St. Dymphna by Bryan Lindsey The Angel Wood by Angela Slatter Interview
For the fiberglass resin I’m using, I have to use 99% resin to 1% hardener. At the moment, I’m having to face the bitter truth that I mis-judged the amount of hardener and didn’t put enough in. This means that the fiberglass I just put on the bear’s face is remaining a gooey, toxic mess.
I noticed this on Oliver’s blog and it amused me. HowManyOfMe.com There are:72people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? If I use my maiden name, there are 3007 people. According to this site, there are 3,956,182 people in the U.S. with the first name Mary and it is the 5th most
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I edited two stories and submitted them yesterday. My requested rewrite went off to the editor last week, so now it’s just a waiting game. I finished proofing the Autumn issue of Shimmer, which goes to the printer on Tuesday. In short, no more writing reasons to put off Good Housekeeping, so I pulled it
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Speaking of paper art… I love cut paper. I started getting fascinated with it when I was working on Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen. When he was writing a new story, he would tell it to an audience while making a paper cutting. At the end of the story he would unfold his cut
Oh, I really want to see this. I know I mentioned the trailer earlier, but Andrew over at Puppet Vision, just spotted the updated trailer for Dante’s Inferno. What do you think the chances are that it will come to Iceland? Ah, I crack myself up.
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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