by Carol Berg. Warning: This is the first half of a two-book series. If you’re going to buy one, just get both. I am so regretting my foolishness, because I just finished the first one, and now I don’t have the other one. The story’s about a jerk who ends up getting left to die […]
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Writer’s block is my subconscious’s way of telling me I’m about to screw up in a big way. I can write mediocre stuff, no problem. But if I try to force my characters to move out of character, ZZZT. As soon as I give up on whatever I’d planned, I’m fine. I don’t even have
Some guys, dressed up as Indiana Jones characters, roll a 5-million-block boulder down a San Francisco street. Hey, either it sounds freakin’ hilarious, or it doesn’t. RUN, INDY, RUN!
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Ian Healy, a writer buddy I met at PPWC, opens the floor for questions. I started to type out a lame question, then suddenly realized the best favor you can do for a writer is ask a question that requires a creative answer. Here’s what I asked: In case of zombie attack, and barring “the
A Zelazny novel, The Dead Man’s Brother, was found among his papers and should be published February 2009. Now, I’ve read a lot of stuff that Zelazny wrote that wasn’t much good–pulp gone askew. But I’ve read most of it anyway. (via Gaiman)
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I’m Much Ado About Nothing, which should come as no surprise, although I tend to think of myself more of a Midsummer’s Night Dream. Your Score: Much Ado About… You scored 33% = Tragic, 67% = Comic, 32% = Romantic, 23% = Historic You Scored Much Ado About Nothing! First published in 1600, Much Ado
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So Ray’s trying to dare me on to making up stories for her. Making up kids’ stories is pretty durned primal, though, so I struggle. Ray picked out the character names, the subject material, and specified that it was supposed to be exciting. We’ll see. Today’s installment. I’m trying not to edit too much from
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They Might Be Giants has three albums of kids’ songs! Here’s “Never Go to Work” and “The Alphabet of Nations.” Which takes me to what is (usually) my favorite TMBG song: Particle Man! Update: Tiny Toons did a version of Istanbul (not Constantinople). Wow. I missed some stuff in between being too old for cartoons
