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September 5, 2008
Short and very sweet
Yesterday was my birthday, and I had a wonderful day. Remember how it used to take Niki Media days to get a story up (and then it was all wrong)? On my birthday I met with a dashing computer wizard named David Albert who put up in one day, a forty-four page story and my introduction to it.
Soon I will be blogging there as well as here.
Is life getting better or what? God bless you, David, and long may you reign!
So, at last, for Jez an...
August 13, 2008
Velociraptor sisterhood -- LOOONG but so important to me
Velociraptor sisterhood -- LOOONG but so important to me
I get asked a lot of questions about my writing, but there’s one that I find very exciting, and that hardly ever gets asked.
It’s the question: why do I love to write about strong female characters, or shy girls who grow out of being shy and become leaders?
The main reason I do this is because I was a shy girl when I was young, and went through all the pains of being teased and of only remembering in the middle of the night that perfec...
August 12, 2008
Cute? FAKE! The Olympics take a sudden downturn
Cute? FAKE! The Olympics take a sudden downturn
I still keep a diary (maybe that was why I found the diary entries in Vampire Diaries easy to write). And for maybe twenty years I’ve called it “A Very Minor Song” which is supposed to be a pun because of all the poetry—songlike stuff—inside it. But just now I found out that the Olympics’ very major song—the one where elfin Lin Miaoke sang “Ode to the Motherland”—was a fake. Actually, it was Yang Peiyi singing, an adorable little girl...
August 1, 2008
Children's Literature-Barnes&Noble
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"This book is suspenseful, mysterious, and a page turner"
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February 5, 2008
I Ought to Make a Real Blog
I Ought to Make a Real Blog
I really ought to make a real blog somewhere--either here on on my website. I'd planned to do it on my website but I keep making announcements instead...sigh...I broke off right in the middle of a story to write this.
Also, I should read a number of blogs to find out how to blog. I'm so uninformed that I don't really know. Should I just talk about what I do? That's boring. I write. I write. I write some more and when It lets me off the...
February 2, 2008
My favorite quote
My favorite quote
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. — e. e. cummings
This is my favorite quotation of all time. I lost track of it for a while, and then couldn't find it again because there are no words which are particularly unusual, and I didn't want to misquote it completely. But whether y...
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