Term of the day…
Heathen Philosopher: One who has left his fly open. (1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue).
The agony of metadata…
Okay, I’ll confess: the reason I have three Yowler stories that aren’t released is simple: setting up the home page is proving to be a pain in the neck. You see, I had this brilliant f’ing idea: the home page would look like a Wikipedia page. It would provide a long, detailed explanation of the [...]
A writing post-mortem
Yesterday, I posted a very silly bit of Dr. Who fanfic to my livejournal. It was quite literally the first thing out of my head. I was putting daughter Kouryou-chan to bed, and she was whining that she hadn’t had time to read. I explained to her that we’d used up the time playing board [...]
Storyboarding A Novel with Post-It Notes
Storyboarding Princess Jera I’ve recently begun experimenting with storyboarding my longer works the way Elmore Leonard does. He uses 3×5 cards, but I figure that with my crabbed handwriting and tragically bad organization, 1×1.5 post-it notes is going to work just fine. The story to my left is the rubble of Princess Jera, a novel [...]
Bubble, bubble: What to do when there’s no chemistry?
Damn. So, I had what I thought was a great idea for a story, salvaged out of the back of my brain with no real thought for the characters involved. It seemed simple enough, inspired by the absolutely ridiculous PS2 game Interceptor Robot Hoi-Hoi San: what happens when an archaic sex ‘droid awakens to find [...]
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