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Clarion Write-A-Thon Part IV | Writing and Other Afflictions
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Writing and Other Afflictions. If it was easy, everyone would do it. –Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own. Clarion Write-A-Thon Part IV. On June 19, 2015. Once again into the breach, dear friends! A 14-year-old American boy of Japanese heritage enters a prep school for shapeshifters and must figure out which shape is his while staying one step ahead of the federal investigator tracking him down for the bank fraud that got him into the school. It’d mean a lot if you could support me. Enter your comment here.
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Early Plot Questions: Does My Hero Have To Save The World? | Writing and Other Afflictions
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Writing and Other Afflictions. If it was easy, everyone would do it. –Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own. Early Plot Questions: Does My Hero Have To Save The World? On July 7, 2015. In the end, you know, all I can do is write the story I want to write, but I’m still at the stage where I have the freedom to decide what that is. If there’s an internal journey AND a world-saving journey, then I need to figure out why THIS hero? What makes him* the one who can do this? I do think that for a series, there sho...
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February | 2015 | GirlWonders
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8230;whatever the girl is wondering about. New(ish) stories, new essay. February 17, 2015. February 17, 2015. Usually I’ve done a brief celebratory blogpost whenever a new story or essay comes out, but I’ve been remiss of late. I’m behind by several stories. My story “Griefbunny”. Comes to mind) and was helmed by one of my all-time favorite authors (Cat Valente) for several years. It also received a very kind write-up in Tangent. Good work, little story! Finally * found a home, after much revision, at.
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2015: The most difficult year | Non-Trivial Things
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Just busy being awesome. 2015: The most difficult year. I own a lot of books. And despite the fact that I read a lot, I have a lot of books I haven’t read. Right now I own over a hundred books which I have not yet read. Um, significantly over a hundred books. *cough* And I tend to buy books when I’m sick or tired, which means that over the last year, I’ve bought too many…. No new books. Noooooo. This entry was posted in reading. December 2, 2014. So you want to read YA. 2014 in 140 characters! On The Yea...
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Tell me what to nominate for the Hugos! | Non-Trivial Things
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Just busy being awesome. Tell me what to nominate for the Hugos! Seriously. Help meeeee. As previously mentioned, I read a lot of books last year, but most of them were not published in 2014. As of right now, I only have three things on my “NOMINATE THIS” list. Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories. Eds Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios,. Because good grief that was a good anthology. Because it’s now one of my favourite books of all time. The Birthday Unending, written (curated?
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January | 2014 | GirlWonders
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8230;whatever the girl is wondering about. January 21, 2014. January 23, 2014. So for those braver than I who regularly post reviews of what they read, here’s one devoted reader who much appreciates it. It so helps when deciding which of a million worthy works I ought devote my time to reading. 2 Stop-Time, Conroy. 3 Patrick Melrose/Never Mind, Aubyn. 4 Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (unfinished). 5 The Circle, Eggers. 6 Zizek, Sublime Object of Ideology. 7 Jennifer Silva, Coming Up Short. 20 Dani Shug...
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Books I’m making grabby hands at | Non-Trivial Things
http://jasminestairs.com/2015/02/22/books-im-making-grabby-hands-at
Just busy being awesome. Books I’m making grabby hands at. Remember how I said I wasn’t going to buy books in 2015? Library or gift cards only, unless I knew the author well enough to hug them on sight. (And I am not a huggy person.) This is a list of books that is gonna make that resolution OH SO HARD. The Book: Bordello girls solve a series of murders during a steampunk version of the alaskan gold rush written by Elizabeth Bear. The Boy Who Lost Fairyland. By Catherynne M. Valente. The Book: Agnieszka ...
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Quotes | Non-Trivial Things
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Just busy being awesome. 2014 in 140 characters! I’ve spent most of my Christmas vacation sleeping outrageous amounts, interspersed with playing Sim City on my iPad, and it has been GLORIOUS. So in lieu of writing a long retrospective on the year, with lists and feelings and such, (which would take away from the all-important sleeping time) , I decided to instead give you an insight into my twitter favourites, circa 2014. Eliza Tiernan (@candy luminous) July 12, 2014. Continue reading →. January 4, 2015.
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Why the love? Give your characters a reason to want each other | A Readers Feast
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Writing and reading are a feast for the mind. Give your characters a reason to want each other. July 24, 2013. Writing about relationships — whether romantic or not — in fiction is hard, but I think you can make it a little easier if you think about that relationship as a character. I recently read “Wormwood is also a Star,” a novella by Andy Stewart. That appeared in the. Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It is an inventive and enjoyable story, part murder mystery and part romance. Although I...
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