I refuse to let myself go two weeks without posting here. Very very *nearly* two weeks is quite bad enough, methinks. So. What can I say?
Finally saw The Mummy last week, it was great. Saw WALL•E a couple of weekends ago, and it was also great. Fantastic. I loved it so much, I can’t wait [...]

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I was looking at my writing goals just now — they’re tacked up on my wall, eye level in front of me; now accompanied by another 3×5 card with “DO NOT GIVE UP. NO MATTER WHAT!!!” written in about four vivid shades of Sharpie. I realize that not all of my goals have a date [...]

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I put aside all of my writing projects early this month — okay, all two projects; Selene and Olivine — and since then, I’ve been brainstorming lists of things I like, things important to me, things that move me. I find, as I do this more, I hit things that really and truly resonate with [...]

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We’ve been watching Crusade lately, and on the whole mourning how short-lived it was, the silly things the network did to it, and how fantastic the characters are. I especially love Gary Cole; Office Space may have typecast him after Crusade, but I’m going to put that behind me because he deserves recognition for the [...]

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Over two months ago I made some firm naming decisions for Olivine: ancient and modern names for the capital, the country and the world. I struggled for many months with the world-name; “Olivine” is what I call it, but the world itself I wanted to be something different, something unusual. (I admit there was a [...]

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Did some character work on the Selene story last night. I got some interesting back-story, and although I panicked for a bit about whether there was enough middle story to tell (back and forward-story are off-limits, due to contest requirements) but I think I’ll be okay. The point is, it’s going somewhere, it’s interesting to [...]

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I never posted this week’s Booking Through Thursday; it requires writing and I just can’t think of something at this moment, so I’m waiting on it. Got a character name for my short story; story has no codename yet so I don’t know what to tag it. May have found a character name for my [...]

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