Well, 74,716 words later (that’s about 315 pages) and I’m willing to pull the zipper on this bag and call it a draft. As of about (say…) 15 minutes ago I hit “Save” on the last chapter of the first draft of the novel I’ve been working on for the past year or so. It […]
Via Warren Ellis: Why I hate Florida. And more importantly, vindication for all those times people looked at me funny when I said, “I don’t eat Domino’s for political reasons.” The catch, of course being that I would have needed to know that it was Domino’s before sinking my teeth in. There are limits to […]
A little late on this one but: Mournful for Octavia Butler’s passing. I’m grateful for her contributions to literature and am grateful I had the chance to be exposed to her through Parable of the Sower many years ago in school. (Well, maybe not “many” but it sure seemed that way when I thought of […]
I’m a little bit panicked because I have this overdue assignment. I’m supposed to write up this long and detailed discussion of cytoarchitecture for my German class in Russian. Unfortunately, there’s isn’t much concentration that’s going to happen in this house, as CM’s parents have come over to hang out with my mom. This was […]