The Uncanny Valley is part of a thesis by Doctor Masahiro Mori which “represents the point at which a person observing the creature or object in question sees something that is nearly human, but just enough off-kilter to seem eerie or disquieting.” The article is targetted at SF and Fantasy writers but I couldn’t help […]
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I’m making good progress, I think. I just finished Chapter 8 and am slicing through Chapter 9. Tally ho!
I completely forgot to mention that I taught a puppetry workshop yesterday. Three hours and 64 students. It was a marathon, but they were darn good kids. It was a group of gifted and talented eighth graders and they were a blast to work with. Disciplined, creative, and excited to be there. By the end
This weekend, I recorded Orson Scott Card’s Middle Woman, which will appear as an audio bonus in the next issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show. This has long been one of my favorite stories and I’ve had the passing fantasy of adapting it to puppet stage. This is much better–it’s like puppetry for radio. I sent
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The Fantasy Novelist’s Exam is a very amusing, and fairly telling exam, that I’m sure was written by someone who had read one too many bad Fantasy Novel. I’m happy to say that Good Housekeeping doesn’t fail any of the questions. Well, maybe number 15, but not in the way they mean it.
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I took Max, the light rail, to my physical therapy appointment today. I wrote about 500 words of my NaNovel on the train. It was very easy and once again makes me wonder why I used to own a car. Of course, that’s because it wasn’t raining and all of my connections worked well. Those
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For reasons I don’t understand, the guys in the galley on the Portland Spirit, were trying to do horror screams. This was before the cruise started or any guests came on board. I poked my head in and told them it was pathetic and that after the cruise I would show them a real scream.
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Today was a jam-packed day of adventure. I began my day with a photo-shift on the Portland Spirit. In order to deal with my light-work restriction, they’ve shifted me over to the photo department for a while. It is pretty low stress. Then I trotted over to the Mariott for a quick three hour visit
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Okay, folks,I’m just doing updates at https://maryrobinettekowal.com At some point, I’m going to move all of the existing posts from here to there, but meanwhile, I’ll just be posting there. See ya over there!
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What the heck is that? It’s a Science Fiction and Fantasy festival held in Portland, OR. I went today and will drop in for bits of it over the weekend. I also managed to write 1700 words. Yay me! Oh, and Rob is home for the entire weekend. How glorious is that?
Okay folks, here are the first thirteen lines of my NaNo novel, Good Housekeeping. If you’d like to read the whole chapter, I’m happy to send it. Just drop me a line. Chapter 1 Grace’s cat was sitting on her face. His purr sounded as if a mixer were stirring gravel in her ear. She
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I really thought that I had told everyone what the final result of my audition was, but I just had another person ask me, so evidently I didn’t. Sesame Street cast an in-house puppeteer without going to callbacks, which is pretty much what I expected to happen. Even so, it was a fun ride.
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Well, boys and girls. This would be what we call a corrupted server and this is what happens when you back up your website pages, but not the database. So now we know.
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I only wrote 1746 words today, but I made several good discoveries. At one point when Grace’s daughter, Cassandra, is grousing about something she thinks “a bear like her father,” and I suddenly realized that Grace met her husband while he was an enchanted bear. I don’t know if it will continue to make sense
Like a crazy woman I decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month this year. The goal: write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days. I’m working on a novel called Good Housekeeping, which is a contemporary fantasy. This began a short story which I realized was really a novel in disguise. In prep