A little nerd humour for the BC election today. North Vancouver has become the ultimate battleground for a pair of intergalactic candidates. Reddit user hpka spotted these Simpsons-inspired campaign signs on the Mount Seymour Parkway. Read the full article at the Vancouver Sun.
Read More Spotted on Reddit: Kodos, Kang in Tight Race in North VancouverWell, I suppose I’m nothing if not amazing under pressure! After last night’s blog post, I promptly took a nap because I was exhausted (one of the reasons I figured I was not going to make my deadline; that and the expanded story). Then, as many writers do, I woke up at eleven-thirty at night […]
Read More Ha! I Made My Deadline After All!I hear this a lot from other writers. “OMG, I have to stop writing the current story I’m working on and write a new one because it’s screaming at me to be written!” I used to have real problems with this too. The end result, of course, is that you never actually finish anything. Well, […]
Read More How to Keep Your New Stories from Taking Over Your Old OnesThis is great stuff! There’s no bigger pet peeve of mine than someone pontificating on high about the “right” way to do something. We all have our own ways of doing things, and there are many paths to the top of the mountain. What worked for you is what worked for you; not what works […]
Read More The Ten Worst Pieces of Writing Advice You Will Ever Hear (and Probably Already Have)“I have a cold mind and a warm heart, whereas most people have cold, troubled hearts and warm, muggy minds, which they mistake for sincere feelings.” ― James Tiptree Jr.
Read More Cold Minds and Warm HeartsAs a writer, I suppose it’s no surprise that I like playing word games. I scored 9 out of 15 on this quiz; can you beat my score? The average is, apparently, 6 out of 15. Mostly I played it because I wanted to know what a group of fireflies was called. Take the quiz […]
Read More Strange Animal Group NamesIf you’ll recall, I said a while back that I really enjoyed Jenna Moreci’s vlog. This is her latest, and I think that this is a system that I can get behind! I will probably use it to deal with my high fantasy novel, which has run into some roadblocks.
Read More Outlining System: Jenna Moreci VlogWriting has been so much a part of my life that I’m really quite annoyed that I can’t do as much as I used to. ~ Anne McCaffrey
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