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I’m one of those proud nerds who loves looking at a map when I open a book. So when I created the world of Koleth, of course I wanted to include maps.
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A few weeks ago, I celebrated my 25th birthday, and a few weeks before that, my sixth wedding anniversary. You’d think that at some point, I’d start feeling kind of like an adult or something, right?
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A few days ago I found myself writing “his fingers plucked at the strings” in one of my stories. Well, wait. That doesn’t look right. I’ll get the same kind of weird cringe when I see phrases like “his eyes watched” or “his foot stepped”. Why is that, though? It adds unnecessary words. In modern
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I don’t think I can log onto Facebook anymore without seeing one of those personality tests: “Which Hogwarts house do you belong in?” “What Disney Princess are you?” “What city should you live in?” And right alongside them: “50 things only introverts will understand” and “Only nerds will get these jokes”, etc. So while we’re
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Real dialogue sounds something like this: “By the way, did you know they’re making Pacific Rim 2? Oh, and dinner’s ready.” Cue five minutes of shouting and vague TV noises while Boxy shoots at zombies while some cheesy horror flick is playing on the second monitor, followed by: “What?” Seriously, that was last night’s
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What is a Critique Partner? If you’re like me and you cut your teeth writing for fandom, you might be more familiar with the term beta editor. I much prefer critique partner, because where beta editor implies a one-sided relationship (“you read my stuff and tell me what you think”) critique partner implies a more
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Some of you may remember my previous post about my new puppy, Baldur. It’s been a few months since then, and my itty bitty puppy is growing up.
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Saturday was Free Comic Book Day. While I was making the rounds, I bought the first three issues of Loki: Agent of Asgard, and the new Amazing Spider-Man issue 1. In medias… what now? I’m a lifelong fan of Spider-Man. He was my first super hero; his was the first super hero movie I watched, and his were the
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(Warning: Since this is about Supernatural and its approach to plot and characterization, there’ll be unmarked spoilers all the way up to Season 9.) While I’m posting disclaimers, I should include another biggie: I really love Supernatural. It’s a fun show, I watch it every week, and Castiel is by far my favorite character. That
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I have a hard time reading in public, because I’m very… let’s say interactive with my reading. I make faces, I get up and pace, I yell at the characters, I (carefully place a bookmark on my page and then) hurl the book across the room. It’s such a common practice for me that I sometimes
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Creon: My dear, I woke up one morning and found myself King of Thebes. God knows, there were other things I loved in life more than power. Antigone: Then you should have said no. Creon: Yes, I could have done that. Only, I felt that it would have been cowardly. I should have been like
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