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Judge
Yesterday I was fooling around with the new template I’m using for my business site and realized that the template designers actually built a typo into the stylesheet. The stylesheet of the website which I am using to advertise my writing and editing abilities. There are three sections where the designers want me to be … Continue reading
Dressing your pig
For you loyal six readers of Carthage, I apologize for the lack of updates lately. My recent illness wore me out and all my spare energy has been going to Thanksgiving planning and trying to hit my daily word count for NaNo. It’s going well…ish. I mean, I’m on track to finish 50,000 words at … Continue reading
One good way
A good way to lose all your oldest friends would be this: to go through all the old comments on your blog where they were being super funny at each other and stick those comments into a novel, making them into thinly disguised “fictitious” conversations, and then try and get the novel published, thus profiting … Continue reading
Work
I’ve decided to get back to writing fiction again, because the words in my head have reached critical mass and I can’t spend all day blogging at you people, especially as I don’t remember who any of you are. There is something very daunting about looking at that blank stretch of Word doc, and something … Continue reading
Here’s what I know…
“I tried revising my monster book,” I told my dad. “It was awful. Just terrible. It turns out I have a really hard time writing an original monster hunter, since I’ve never been one or met one.” “Write what you know, eh?” my dad said. “I told you that.” “So now I’m writing a book … Continue reading
Near/Far
Been spending the week fighting with my novel’s heroine because I want her to do something foreign to her character, e.g. anything interesting at all, and she wants to stay at home and draw fish and never meet anyone. If I were really good at this I’d recognize that I myself am this woman, and … Continue reading
Buckle my shoe
I finished the first draft of my first novel last month, and am now hard at work on the first draft of a different novel. (Stephen King says to work on something else before revising in order to clear your head, and he would know.) It’s much easier this time, which is a relief. My … Continue reading
Catch up
I began the week 5000 words behind on my NaNo word count. But I’ve been catching up, slowly and steadily, writing 6.5 pages a day, partly because Michele’s rabid production levels are shaming me into it and partly because I was offered a blogging job this week for a furniture design website and realized, my … Continue reading
Too Many Twinkies
I have too many options. (Suffragettes in graves around the world are rolling over restlessly, or perhaps heaving a finally-satisfied sigh.) I have only to turn on the computer to know that this is true. Because in the computer age, my office (the computer) is also my shopping mall, my newspapers and magazines, my cinema, … Continue reading
Office
I went to the zoo this morning in search of someplace quiet to work but I guess I picked the wrong day because it was swarming with kids. At the zoo! That’s the last time I buy a chocolate bar from one of those “keep kids off the streets” programs. If they’re on the streets, … Continue reading