Monthly Archives: July 2007
Weekly Summary July 22 (Retreat and Podcasts)
Back from a writer’s retreat with Merrie Haskell, Julie Winningham, and David Klecha, where we swam in the lake, played minigolf, and, yes, wrote. I wrote the story I’d developed a couple months ago (~2600 words; my short stories are … Continue reading
Links
Lolcat-style science — My favorites are Michelson (I lived in a dorm named for him, my senior year) and the minerals. limyaael on science fiction and fantasy hybrids — Some good points. I learned last year that dealing with reader … Continue reading
Food, Harry Potter, and Links
Adventures in food labelling Found at the grocery store: Ready-to-Eat peaches — First, they still have to be washed, so technically they aren’t ready to eat. Second, what would constitute non-ready-to-eat peaches? Green ones? Blossoms? A potted peach tree (just … Continue reading
Weekly Summary July 1
Yesterday I did my first volunteer stint at the park, which mostly consisted of more detailed training. Watered the butterfly garden, made hummingbird food and filled feeders, fed the fish and turtles and frogs, sent visitors with questions to the … Continue reading
Park Volunteering, Revising
Elizabeth Bear remarks: It’s harder to revise old text to anything like not sucking than just to write new less sucky text from scratch. It’s like the suck gets ossified in. Thursday I had my volunteer interview at the park … Continue reading
