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February 16, 2010
Things that aren't a secret
It's no great secret that Man Bites World is way past deadline. What startled me though was that I looked through my "goof" file for this project, and I realized I started writing it over a year ago. A quick glance at my LJ from that time shows that I was struggling with the outline back in early Jan. '09.
Now, the revisions for Game of Cages took up a bunch of last year, but reviewing my progress notes suggest that it didn't take that much time. I've just been struggling with this...
Randomness for 2/16
1) Garry Marshal, keeping it classy: "But two things I'm sure audiences all over the world understand: prostitutes and love."
2) Dungeons and Dragons… of the future!
4) I'm proud to say I fit within nine of the categories on this sign, or I would have in the past. How many can you claim?
5) Now for something equally stupid but much less hurtful, a thoughtful dissection of the infamous first edition Fiend Folio. Here's part two. I have a bit of a D&D theme this...
February 15, 2010
My wife and son are watching THE THREE STOOGES
I'm a very lucky man.
In which I disagree with Patrick Rothfuss and John Scalzi
While skimming around Scalzi's blog, I found a link to this post by Patrick Rothfuss about advice for aspiring writers, along with a note by John saying he agrees. I recommend clicking through and reading it (if you want) but the Readers Digest version is that aspiring writers should live somewhere cheap so they have plenty of time to write.
One of the places Rothfuss mentions is Seattle, my own adopted hometown, as though people would need to work 70-hour weeks to survive, and when would t...
If I'm writing a post, then by definition it's not bragging
The V-Day tradition around here is heart-shaped food, and I have a bunch of little kitchen tchotchkes to make that easier–forms for pancakes and special cake pans and whatever. But no one around here likes cake, and my wife is more likely to ask for pear ginger scones for breakfast than pancakes.
Yeah, this post is mostly about food. Sherwood, you probably want to skip this one.
She got her scones, then left for work. I waved goodbye and hustled into the kitchen and got started on the...
February 14, 2010
Here's the Valentine I bought for my wife
What do you guys think?
February 13, 2010
Peter O'Toole on AVATAR
"It's full of blue-arsed Barbie dolls trying to catch rubber turkeys. It was the most gorgeous pile of nonsense I have ever seen."
via Ansible.
Progress
I mailed the galleys for Game of Cages back to Del Rey this morning. Done!
… until I get a call to go over the pages one more time. this time I was less dumb and I scanned the whole galley before I mailed it, so if when the call comes, I'll be looking at the correct text. By the way, individually scanning every page on a flat bed scanner? Takes a while. Yeah, I realize they make home scanners with automatic document feeders, but I'm pinching pennies at the moment.
What that means is...
February 12, 2010
The problem with giving up TV is that you don't have TV anymore.
So, I told my wife I needed to do some scanning tonight so I could mail back my galleys tomorrow. Fine, fine, she answered. We had dinner and the boy made me play the Lego Indiana Jones levels he created.
After that, they started putting on their jackets.
"We're going to the pub on the corner to watch the Olympics."
"What? You're leaving?"
"I'm having a milkshake!"
"Well, I don't know if they have milkshakes there–"
"Mom, they do!"
"But we're going to watch the opening ceremonies. I don't...
Google Buzz = Evil
Maybe I should have used the subject line "Google Buzz: Santa's gift to stalkers and abusive ex-husbands.
