Kelly McCullough's Blog, page 90

Who Do YOU Write Like?

I'm sure many of you have already seen this thing that has been going around the Interwebs: "I Write Like" It's one of those thingies where you put in a couple of paragraphs of your writing and a program analyzes it. I tried it, and the first result was Dan Brown.

While I appreciate the idea that I write like an international bestseller, (I mean, who wouldn't?) I see my prose as a bit more breezy, chatty, etc., so I thought I'd try a few different paragraphs in the same book. The results w...

Up-coming Events

I've got a new book coming out in August, and, consequently, I'll be out and about town promoting it. I thought I'd invite all y'all to a few:
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Tuesday, July 20, I'll be interviewed on KFAI's "Write On Radio" show. They're going prime time, so the show now starts at 7:00 PM. You can find KFAI on your dial at 90.3 Mpls/106.7 St. Paul or streaming live at http://www.kfai.org/writeonradio (look for the button in the sidebar). Also, for those in other time zones, there is a running archive at t...

Yesterday's Astronomy Photo of the Day (from NASA)

What's happened to that moon of Saturn? Nothing -- Saturn's moon Rhea is just partly hidden behind Saturn's rings. In April, the robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn took this narrow-angle view looking across the Solar System's most famous rings. Rings visible in the foreground include the thin F ring on the outside and the much wider A and B rings just interior to it. Although it seems to be hovering over the rings, Saturn's moon Janus is actually far behind them. Janus is one...

Smart Things

I've posting intermittently because I'm ugly bust right now and through to the end of July, but I hope to get back into the groove in August with post from the frontiers of the new series where I am learning about writing secondary world fantasy which I have not written since I was a larval writer back in the previous century. It's been highly educational. In the meantime, here are a bunch of other folks saying smart things about writing.

Snurched from Jay Lake: Jeff Vandermeer being very funn...

Friday Cat Blogging Feline Sprawl Edition

Sprawlrus



Anonysprawl



sprawling cafe style



I don't want to sprawl and you can't make me!



Okay, maybe you can, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Pens and Knives

I'm having surgery today. Nothing complex or life-threatening--scheduled surgery, in fact. But I will be going under knife and anesthesia, and I've personally known someone who simply never woke up from routine surgery. These moments are an amazing reminder of how much I want to accomplish, and a good kick in the ass to get to work on my goals.

See you all tomorrow.

I Had to Post This

This photo is from Yves Smith's economic blog, which is a very good source of cute animal photos and dire economic news. I enjoy both. I especially enjoy cute photos of rats. So here is one.

Friday Cat Blogging

OMG, there's a lolcat at the end of the runway--waveoff!



I'z not ignoring you, I just can't be bother to notice you.



Even basement cat likes white fluffy blankies



Disgruntled cat is disgruntled

From Chandra and Hubble and Astronomy Photo of the Day

What is that strange blue blob on the far right? No one is sure, but it might be a speeding remnant of a powerful supernova that was unexpectedly lopsided. Scattered debris from supernova explosion N49 lights up the sky in this gorgeous composited image based on data from the Chandra and Hubble Space Telescopes. Glowing visible filaments, shown in yellow, and X-ray hot gas, shown in blue, span about 30 light-years in our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Light from the original ...

Kind of Sort of THE END

I'm trying something new. In the next few days, I plan to finish the first draft of my novel ALMOST FINAL CURTAIN (the second vampire princess of St. Paul book). I'm nearly there. In fact, I just wrote "THE END," but I didn't mean it.

Consistently, my beta readers tell me something along the lines of "the ending was a bit rushed." Today, I decided to just give into the impulse completely. Instead of roughing out the scenes, I just wrote a synopsis of the last few pages.

My plan, and I do have ...