Today S.C. Green wrote a post on PLC about humanizing one’s villains. Now, I am in complete agreement with some of the things he says- you should always know why your bad guy is doing what he’s doing. What’s his motivation? Side note- You should know the motivations of ALL your characters, major or minor, [...]
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A kind friend clued me in to the fact that my commenting was broken. Should be fixed now. I’m kind of relieved, as it explains why my commenting sections have always been a desert wasteland. Durr internetting is hards! Ok, on with the show.
I just finished The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas. Blurbed on the [...]
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This weeks 500 Club post is up at PLC, prompts by yours truly. Here’s the rest of my entry below.
“So, what happens if they don’t get you to the church on time?”
I squinted up at the cleavage in my face. A reporter bent over me, her face schooled into an expression of concern. We [...]
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I am playing this week’s 500 Club over at The Parking Lot Confessional. Here’s my entry. You can play too, just read today’s blog entry and respond to the prompt.
First Shy broke a window. Then I broke a window. He used his fist, wrapped in his t-shirt. I threw a rock. Crows flew, scolding, at [...]
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Friday, February 12, 2010
I’m no fashionista. I don’t have the body or the patience for it. But that doesn’t mean I don’t know genius when I see it.
Alexander McQueen was one of my kind, and by kind I don’t mean to elevate myself to him, God no, but I do mean one of my weird breed, someone who [...]
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Legion (red band trailer) From Youtube via io9.com
It’s horror-fantasy Armageddon time, bishes! Special effects are a little low budget, but this trailer reminds me of the sort of things S.C. Green and Chad Fopma write, in a good way. There’s also a diner scene that harkens my mind to The Sandman, 24 Hours in Preludes [...]
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I guess I wouldn’t call it a resuscitation. Not at this point. At this point it’s more a touch of chicken bones and circles scrawled in chalk, smoke biting the tender pink insides of the nose as I dance. Awake. Awake. Arise.
Arise, blog and LIIIIIIIIVEEEEE AGAAAAAAAIIIIIN.
So I changed jobs, got married, had [...]
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Today’s inspiration is my Mom.
I have always been an avid reader and from the time I first received an allowance I would spend my money on books. By the time I was a freshman in college I estimated that I had invested roughly a grand on paperbacks. That is a lot of dusting, vacuuming, and [...]
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Okay, so I got really tired of the “back” button not functioning properly, which was a design flaw of the DFire template, so I decided to switch it up. Predictably, the only blog template I found that I really liked was designed by the Saudi Squad, which meant that half the display was in [...]
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If you live in Phoenix, pretty much any time from October to June is a good time to visit the Desert Botanical Garden. A friend of mine was visiting from Chicago last weekend and so we went and took a lot of pictures. She is a semi-pro photographer, and I am a rank amateur. [...]
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