Susan’s recommendation of Shaun of the Dead on my last post has got me looking at my Netflix queue, and, well, it’s getting a little grim in there. I like the dark and gritty stuff as much as the next person, but this list would depress a cheerleader on E. Documentaries and indie flicks and [...]
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Oh, the glamourous life of a starving writer.
Today, I am downloading and filling out applications. I started out with this long list of places I had to go and people I had to talk to, but it turns out a lot of this can be done via the web, mail, email, or some combination of the above. Which means I don’t have [...]
Writing Software Review: Liquid Story Binder
This may be the ideal program for those who make their notes on the backs of gas-station receipts, along with pages of timeline sketches, alternate outlines, and checklists for each scene. As the name suggests, it works as a virtual binder for your novel. It’s great for storing random snippets of text, images, and even sound files, along with your novel itself — several alternate drafts of your novel, if you like.
I’d like to thank all the little people…
Theresa111 has named me for a Rockin’ Girl Blogger Award!
If I understand the rules correctly, I’m now supposed to pick five other bloggers for the award, so here are your Rockin’ Girl Bloggers:
Carey Sessoms at Carey Says Ums blogs about whatever takes her fancy; sometimes humorously, sometimes seriously. But always in a distinctive lyrical style.
Deborah [...]
This would be funny even if my brother wasn’t in it.
But he is. He’s the one in white.
The birds are way more artistically productive than I am.
Home sick yet again. I’m getting really tired of this. But the fuzzy-headedness and spacing out part is done, so I think I might be able to write something more than five-minute blog posts today. This is good because lately I’ve been treating writing as a spectator sport — reading other writers’ blogs, reading books [...]
