Jason Sizemore, at Apex Digest, has been very supportive of me and of Shimmer. This was on his blog today. A Writer’s Vanity – Hunting for Hubris This is my own personal horror story. In it, I play the guy whose pride won’t let him ask for help when he sees that he needs it. […]
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Ha ha! Take that, Icelandic language. I’ve been working with a pocket dictionary and asked my teacher to recommend a more comprehensive one, which I picked up on the way home from class yesterday. Last night while doing my homework, I discovered that my brand-new dictionary was missing WXYZ and most of U in the
For homework last night, we had to write about our normal day. Needless to say, most of the words I needed were not in the normal lesson… I have no idea if any of my declinations are right; conjugations I feel pretty good about, it’s all those darn declining nouns and adjectives that make life
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Avast! Vikings were sea-farin’ plunderers, so for TLAPD, I’ve recorded a choice phrase in Icelandic. Ég er sjóræningi, þu lÃtilmótlegur gamalreyndur sjómaður. Aaar! Translation: I am a pirate, you scurvy sea-dog. Aaar! [audio:vikingpirate.mp3]
Here be this pirate video from Lazytown. This be what they were filmin’ me first day o’ the set last year. Arrr! Ye might also enjoy watchin’ Aye, Robot An’ fer the comic fans, here be a page o’ pirate comics.
Avast! Here be an instructional video on “How to Talk Like a Pirate.” Make note of it for when you be preparin’ your submissions for the Pirate issue of Shimmer. Arrr. I expect each of ye scurvy dogs to be talkin’ like a pirate this fine day. And to make sure ye do, this journal
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I got a rewrite request for one of my stories so I’m going to take a break from the Good Housekeeping novel. I’m giving myself today and tomorrow off, which will push my self-imposed deadline from the 20th to the 22nd.
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I got an email today from Debby Vetter at CICADA talking about the edits of my story, “This Little Pig.” In the body of the email was this line: We’re hoping to get your story into the January/February issue of CICADA… Yay! Last week, I saw an interview with her which said that the January/February
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41,001 / 50,000(81.0%) 2495 words First: “Aye me, too, poppet.” Last: The Faerie Queen’s banner waved from the tent mast.
I’m building a polar bear costume for a childrens’ hospital here, and for the head, needed a life cast of someone’s face to build on. Back in Portland, I have several life casts of different people that I sculpt on when I’m making a mask. Wigforms are lovely things for wigs, but they are not
38,506 / 50,000(76.0%) 2446 words in two hours. I spent the day playing with Rob and stayed up ridiculously late to write. Well, and then I was also seduced by Captain Future and Danger Planet, which should really have an exclamation point in the title. First: In the center of the rocky ground, the earth
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We biked to the Kolaport today because the weather is gorgeous. In the course of browsing, I found a booth that was selling off someone’s entire collection of science fiction. 500 kronur for seven books. I managed to limit myself to seven, which was not easy. I now have first printings of: The Stars My
Well, I had to delete 1700 words yesterday, because I realized that I had taken two different wrong turns in the plot. The interesting thing with both of them is that in both cases I was clearly stalling while I tried to figure out what happened next. Much earlier in the process, I had made
I saw a variant of this on Deanna Hoak’s blog and thought it looked like fun. I went to my webstats and looked at the search terms people use to find my website. In other words, these are actual phrases people have typed in, and then clicked through to get to my site. Looking at
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Oh my. Jason Sizemore is running a poll about the Apex issue six stories of which my “Cerbo en Vitro ujo” is one. The comments make me chuckle because everytime someone compliments a story it’s with phrases that would be perjorative if it weren’t about horror. Who knew that disturbing people was so much fun?
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