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Ficlet: Stupid Human Tricks
I once knew this girl. She wasn’t like the rest of us. She had a special power, one that made her the envy of every woman who ever knew her. You know how some women joke about how they just Read more…
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I has a LiveJournal novel
Or at least I will, when it’s finished, but you can go ahead and friend it now if you’d like to read the cleaned-up version: Friend it, link it, help me generate buzz. These three things would be muchly, muchly Read more…
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I has a collage!
I wasted three hours Friday afternoon throwing this together, and most of my lunch hour today cleaning it up. It is by no means expertly done, but I think it captures the spirit of The Hero Factor and its main Read more…
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Ten thousand!
10,095, to be precise. That is my total Summer Write word count so far. It’s nowhere near what my word count should be, mind, but still, it’s a nice milestone to achieve. Only 139,905 more words to go….
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Time is not on my side
I wrote the second act of Hero Factor according to what Jane Espenson refers to as the Love Boat method–that is, I wrote all of the scenes for one plot thread, then doubled back to write the scenes for a Read more…
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Out for the weekend
I’m off now for a much needed three day weekend, in which I’ll do my darnedest to catch up on my word count. I’ll post word count updates on Twitter via text message, and possibly also here via phone post, Read more…
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Another (Rough!) Hero Factor Excerpt
Share time! This is mildly spoilery, but I don’t think it’s too revealing of the major plot points.
Just remember, this is very, very rough.
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GLP
I’m totally procrastinating, but I wanted a more professional looking layout, and I fell in love with this one by . I love the girly swirliness, and the colors coordinate well with the rest of my site. The only thing Read more…
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C. A. Sizemore
This morning I logged into Twitter and was stunned by tweets from CASizemore, a notable member of the fiction podcasting community, saying that he came home to find his wife collapsed and not breathing. A few hours later, he posted Read more…
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The problem with Alphasmart is that there’s no word count function, and so I’ll write and write and write and think I’ve written thousands of words, and feel really good about myself, and then I’ll plug it in and upload Read more…