Lilith Saintcrow's Blog, page 163
October 30, 2013
Sarcasm and Proportion
I was lying in bed this morning thinking about getting older. (As one does.) Which led me to think about proportion. Once I hit 30, I began to have a standard response to all sorts of things. It’s encapsulated in one word, largely rhetorical, said with varying degrees of sarcasm or wonder. “Seriously?” You seriously […]
October 29, 2013
Fantastic, Gone Wrong
So I found out what was killing my website over and over again. After going through a server move, several rounds of turning off and turning on plugins, and having my webhosting company push a VPS–I laughed at that–I finally took a look at things and deleted the wiki. And magically, things cleared up. Apparently […]
October 28, 2013
Adventures in Cataloguing
I decided that I should probably catalogue my library this weekend. I’ve been looking at software to do so for a while, and I finally settled on Collectorz–it starts out cheap and does everything I want. I looked at Bookpedia as well, but some of the features weren’t quite what I wanted. I may change […]
October 25, 2013
Emphysema Joe Comes Home
“I’m going to hurt you.” I blinked at my phone. Now, conversations with my writing partner Mel often begin this way, so it wasn’t completely surprising, but the air of seriousness coming through that simple text message was troubling. So I started typing. “Whatever it is, I’m sorry. What the hell?” Next came the pictures. […]
October 24, 2013
Crepuscular Book
I’m definitely going to finish Jeremy Gallow. From here the book will only get faster, and the zero draft will be incredibly messy, but at least it will be done. This book has been waiting for its time patiently for a couple years, and I’ll be relieved to get it out of my head. Of […]
October 23, 2013
The Corral
There’s a new chapter of Selene up today, and a short announcement: regular weekly posting will resume in December. Here, have something different: Writers that draw primarily on the imagination rather than on observation have to be careful. A string of strange events soon becomes meaningless, unconvincing and of no interest, however brilliant the individual […]
October 21, 2013
Idiot Repetition? I’m Your Girl.
Last weekend I took my first piano lesson. After being told I wasn’t musical all during my childhood, I was afraid I wouldn’t even be teachable–but the instructor assures me that yes, I am, and I’ll just need practice. Loads and loads of practice. This I can do. Throwing myself at something repeatedly until it […]
October 18, 2013
SquirrelMath
Soon I’ll tell you how this little bastard resurrected himself. But for now, I’ll just show you him doing mathematics during a melee. (Look, just don’t ask. I’ll explain later…)
October 17, 2013
Home Ec
Home ec classes used to be pretty cool. Then, the food industry happened. The convenience food industry that’s so powerful and entrenched today was just taking root in the 1950s. And as it began to aggressively market its products to a growing US middle class, it faced “one real obstacle,” Moss writes: the “army of […]
October 16, 2013
Like Usual
It’s Wednesday! Which means another chapter of Selene is up. Next week’s chapter will bring us to the end of Part I, and after that there will be a short hiatus while I finish writing Jeremy Gallow. Apparently he does not want to wait around any longer, and I’ve a short break in my schedule […]
