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F*cking Ponies!
I’m almost over the summer hump and will return to a normal blogging schedule after. Until then, behold this little piece of awesome:
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Weak Words: Just the Adverb, Ma’am
I had this post planned awhile ago but all I saved was the title. I vaguely remember what it was about, but it ties well into a discussion I am having with Liz Poole about feedback I received recently. First, here’s a general rule that I learned the hard way. If you are going to…
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Prince of Cats
Hello! Yes, I’m still alive, just super busy. Lots of work combined with home stress has been sucking up my hours. I’m still writing, because writing comes before blogging, but even that is slow going. I’m at the 1/3 mark and really I should be at the finished and ready to query mark. I need…
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Turning it down from 11
Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately. You know how they always say publishing is slow during the summer? Yeah, not so much if you work in production. I am currently the busiest I’ll be all year (most likely) and while I’m not as crushed as I was in my old department, I am merrily…
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August Wilson
If your education was anything like mine, the only plays you were exposed to in high school were the Shakespeare you read in English class (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, maybe King Leer or Macbeth) and whatever your school performed for the yearly musical (Guys and Dolls again?). Maybe around senior year you got yourself a…
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Why Oh Why? Oh Me. Oh My! (…times seven)
It’s hard to keep track of topics when you’re on a variety of soap boxes. I’ve written in two different live journals, hosted a podcast, and now how this blog/journal. Sometimes you think you’ve written about a topic when you haven’t. Or, you think you’ve written about it in one place when really it was…
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Customized Google
Once upon a time in the early days of the intertubes, like last year, you and I could Google the same phrase and get the same results. As we continue down the path of Minority Report where every advertisement ever is customized for our interests and needs of that moment, Google is not so simple…
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Anti-Social Socializing
I am not anti-social. In fact, I love being the center of attention. I have wanted to be the storyteller since I was five, lying about the size of the frog I caught1. The trick is, there are a lot of social situations where I cannot be the center of attention, and in those cases…
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A New Game
My wife created a new game last night, one I found to be fun and a great exercise in creativity. (Of course, the pressure of making her laugh mounted as the game went on). It’s simple. One person names an animal or fish. The other person chooses what activity that animal likes best to participate…