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  • Vices

    I own too many clothes. This won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has been around me at this time of the year in past years. Around this time in the fall my choir has its annual rummage sale, and I purge my closet to get things to donate. The theory is that after…

  • Metaphors for cheese

    Had a busy weekend. Not, sadly, on the revisions front, but I went down to the Puyallup Fair with friends. Class it under research: should I ever have need of a strange fair event for my characters to attend, I have now witnessed Mutton Busting for the first time. For those, like me, who have…

  • Fertilizer?

    No serious thinky thoughts this week: I’m home in the bosom of my family, and they often want to go out and do things. (In my father’s case, very self-improving things like polishing the inside of my car headlights. I can’t really complain, since I brought several items home to take advantage of his lifetime…

  • Zero-sum games and reality TV

    Followers of this blog will already be aware that I have a couple guilty pleasure reality shows categories that I watch: cooking for one, and this season I’ve been following the Glee Project. For those unfamiliar with it, they auditioned young singers with a 7-episode role on Glee next season for the winner. It was…

  • Sentence conditioner

    A busy weekend in the non-writing quarters of my life, and a busy week before that in revisions. I still have some spots that will need changes later in the novel, but the beginning I’m pretty happy with, so I started in on the sentence-detangling step. I have, you see, an affliction I call Convoluted…

  • 10,000 hours

    Short update today. Head-down in the latest book 2 revisions. I encountered an interesting bit of synchronicity the other day, in that I encountered a mention of the idea of 10,000 hours of practice leading to success in two very different places. I decided to sit down and calculate out how close I was to…

  • Awesome advice

    Writing advice of the night, courtesy of my (non-writer) sister: Me: Dammit, I need my characters to walk into a trap, but it can’t be too obvious to the reader that’s what it is. Sister: Cover it with leaves and sticks.

  • Dance!

    Out visiting a friend in Colville, Washington this weekend, and got to see some Irish step dancing and listen to a really great band. I did Scottish and English Country dancing back in the day, rather than Irish, but they share some steps and have a very similar feel. It made me really long to…

  • Wolf Haven

    Field trip, today! I maintain it was research related. (And it was! Sorta.) I headed on down to Wolf Haven, near Olympia. I went once in middle school as part of a camp field trip, and had very pleasant memories. I was extremely impressed on how well it held up. The volunteer who led our…

  • Face-eating

    I’ve always wondered why faces are so tasty. As a little explanation, I saw Cowboys and Aliens yesterday. I had fun, but it wasn’t all that great as a movie, for a number of different reasons. The protagonist appeared to have had his personality surgically removed along with his memories at first, though perhaps I’m…

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