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My Friday Night Party-Time House Party... Part II

I'm sorry.

I know, the last few posts have just been these things where I just link to what I put up over at the Indie Writer's Blog. Um, this is another one of those posts.

It's Valentine's Day. I have a flash fiction piece up about a girl and her abusive mad scientist boyfriend. With Pictures!

It was a retelling of the story Briane Pagel put up early in the week. I tried to be clever with it. But I didn't have the time I needed to make it as good as I wanted to. I could have, but I'd have post...

It's a Friday Night! And I'm Ready to Par - T

And no one throws a party like an a fella talking astronomy. Which I do, kinda, in a rambly, I'm-not-sure-where-I'm-going-with-this sort of way. Please check it out over at the Indie Writers Monthly blog.

Funny, it was supposed to be a 'weekend filler' post, where I put up a picture and a link and then make a barely coherent flippant remark. I was going to schedule it for tomorrow, but then I kept writing, I might have cried once or twice, there was drama... humor...

So it went up this afternoo...

IWSG - It's February! What The..?

The great Alex J Cavanaugh once dreamt of a world where folks like me, the unstable, wishy washy, highly sensitive writer could vent their fears into the world without fear of reproach. Yes, that’s the same Alex J Cavanaugh whose novel, CassaFire, is just $.99 this week.  

 

As for me, I’ve been waist deep in revisions for some time now. I’ve been piddling with this story for a few years now – and complaining about it for almost as long.

 

The reason I’ve been mired in endless revi...

The Habits of a Super Successful Reviser

JK ROWLING ONCE SAID something about Harry Potter. I don't know. I'm told that having the first few words of a post be something search engines like helps draw traffic to a post. We'll see.

Regardless Saturday, Jan 25, 1:02 p.m. eastern time. I've been working on yet another revision of my never to be finished novella/novel (it's really close here) and I figured I'd take a break to show you how hard it is to actually revise something.

9:22 a.m. - I awake. Extremely late for me. I have been slee...

5 Tips About Fun!! By Brinda Berry

5 Tips About Fun During the Longest Winter Ever
Thanks, Rusty, for switching blogs with me today. It's like that whole switching bodies thing. Like that  Freaky Friday  or  Big  movie. Actually, no. It's nothing like that. This will be a lot more fun than switching bodies. Speaking of fun...
Segue to 5 Tips About Fun since Rusty and I are the experts. (Stop laughing, Rusty.) I get the ho-hums in January and look for things that can boost my spirits. I really hate...

Where I Ramble... But Hope You Think I'm Deep

I have another post up at the Indie Writer's Monthly blog this morning. Today I'm tackling diversity, not in my writing, but in my reading habits.

Hint: If the books I read are any indicator, I might be a white supremist.

Please, go check it out.

Math: I Don't Always Get You, But I Still Love You

SO THERE COMES A POINT sometimes, were I just have to put up my hands in surrender, and admit that I have no idea what in the world is going on. It can hurt my pride a bit, but it needs to be said.

So, while I was off searching for my 'weekend filler' posts I've been putting up all weekend over at the Indie Writers Monthly blog I stumbled upon something that made me stop and, well, spend a few minutes pondering.

I found this post over at Sploid about the sum of all positive real numbers be...

Science Discovers Secret To Writing a Best Seller

[Edit, Since I discovered the paper and wrote this, I noticed that the interwebs have exploded with people linking to, and commenting on this story. Since this isn't actual news to most peoples at this point, please enjoy the picture I inserted.]

Seriously, that isn't link bait. It's an actual thing. I found this paper over the past weekend wherein the geniuses at Stonybrook University have finally cracked the code to writing a best seller.

They poured over the texts of thousands and thous...

A Conversation With Jay Noel

I FINISHED READING JAY NOEL'S Dragonfly Warrior over the weekend. I was floored by it. He did an amazing job. You can read my full, rambling review, over at Goodreads. But the gist of it is that this was something I couldn't put down and think everyone should read. So please, drop what you're currently reading and go pick this up.

On Saturday afternoon, as soon as I'd finished, I sent Jay a few questions about his novel, and he was kind enough to respond. Please see what he had to say below:


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I Do Hang With VERY Famous People

Funny thing, I watched that show on SyF last night, Helix. It was okay, but there were plenty of things about it that really bothered me. Like in that I'm-not-sure-that's-how-a-crisis-response-team-would-behave sort of thing.

Actually, I got that feeling a whole bunch of times during the show.

BUT I tweeted something along the lines of this:


Sure, it might not be my very finest effort, but it was my snarky way of saying that while I enjoyed the show, it was overly serious. I don't know if there...