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Jul.08.2012 - 11:49 am
Exemplar
It's been a couple years, now.  After NaNoWriMo was over, and I'd hit the 50,000 word mark, it was tricky getting back in and editing those thousands of hastily written words...
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Nov.18.2008 - 10:48 pm
Catchup time?
Oh my.  I had some things come up, and took a couple days off from writing.  Apparently a couple days ballooned into a week before I noticed!  I'm sitting at about 15,000 words,...
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Nov.07.2008 - 3:27 pm
Archetype or Stereotype?
I needed another character. Worse than Diana Troy? Could be. The narrator and the protagonist were getting boring, like two guys locked in a space ship for days on end might tend...
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Nov.06.2008 - 10:50 am
Action scenes
I write slower than I read. Sometimes I forget that. No, I don't have cyborg gorillas fighting robots... but I really should. After getting to 8600 words (still more or less on...
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Short Story: Enlightenment

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Nov.18.2008 - 11:04 pm
In response to: "Write or Die" Fun application punishes creative sloth in NANOWRIMO
awesome
Nice, I got 502 words in 9 minutes.  My target was 500 in 10 minutes, and very nearly jumped out of my skin when I...
Nov.07.2008 - 5:45 pm
In response to: What Would Shakespeare Do?
Love's Labour's Found.
Except it was sucked into another dimension along with an army of witches as Shakespeare banished them with his...
Nov.07.2008 - 5:38 pm
In response to: Archetype or Stereotype?
despite my deep hatred of
despite my deep hatred of the majority of silly internet memes... there's something fundamentally amusing about...
Nov.06.2008 - 11:33 am
In response to: Chickens, Yes! The Environment, Yes! You? Get to the Back of the Bus!
Just so crazy...
I'm particularly irritated by the "homosexuality must be contagious" unstated premise. Unless you believe...
Nov.06.2008 - 10:24 am
In response to: The Jewel of Medina and Freedom of Speech
First for a reason
I grew up in north Idaho, an area only really known to the nation for fairly regular Arian Nations marches in Coeur d'...
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I've been a fan of science fiction since I was a child, watching original series Star Trek re-runs and reading Jules Verne.
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Snowcrash, To Reign in Hell, The Selfish Gene