Monthly Archives: January 2007
Site Updates
• Added snippets from my Google Reader Shared Items to the sidebar, thanks to code from Mike Crute and help from a friend. • Turned off the rich text editor that was eating my paragraph breaks.
Conflict Box
This isn't the book I meant to work on today. I decided to catch up on the He Wrote, She Wrote writing workshop blog, and Jenny Crusie's post on the Conflict Box struck me as useful. Diplomacy is at a … Continue reading
Dvorak Update
Found a nice tutorial and am starting to learn letters that are off the home row. Also found this site, which calculates wpm and errors made. I can do the first lesson (eight letters aoeuhtns) at about 45 wpm with … Continue reading
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Alan Garner (1)
I don't know how I managed to miss Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen when I was a kid, because I would have loved it then even more than I did yesterday, which was a lot: gripping plot, and the … Continue reading
Writing Links
• Via anghara, tightropegirl on writing what you love instead of what you think you should write. • Via fairmer, I think , this essay by Zadie Smith in the Guardian on what makes a good writer: Writers know that … Continue reading
Fast vs Slow
I was saving this for Sunday's roundup of links, but it keeps getting longer and longer. Links are at the end. For the approximately two people reading this who haven't heard, there's a discussion going on about fast writers and … Continue reading
Site Updates
• updated the list of projects on the main page • updated the writing project timeline
Still Muddled
If writing a novel is like taking a cross-country road trip to visit a friend's new home, then I never had a map, lost the very sketchy directions I'd written down, and have forgotten whether my friend moved to California … Continue reading
Ping!
Middles are fun. My WIP has been creaking along very slowly lately. Last night a bit of plot finally went Ping! and fell into place, and everything is moving forward again. I had wondered if I were slogging because I … Continue reading
Books Read, 2006
SF unless otherwise noted: 13: Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees 12: His Excellency, Joseph J. Ellis [history] 11: Devlin's Luck, Patricia Bray 10: Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn 9: Vellum, Hal Duncan 8: Tall, Dark, & Dead by Tate … Continue reading
