My main project right now is the “mermaid book,” a young adult science fantasy adventure… at least that’s what I hope it is. It’s going slowly. I wrote an exploratory first chapter a few months ago, in a tiny break from work stress. Now that I’m working from home as a freelancer, I’ve returned to [...]
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Ages and ages ago, Vera invited a few of us to join her on a whale-watching tour organized by her alumni association. What a fun trip! The weather was absolutely wonderful and my motion sickness never became too much of an issue. We saw plenty of whales, as well as a bizarre sunfish of some [...]
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Jun 5, 2007
|Above World
Lesson learned #1: Do not post potential names on journal for advice, even if sorely tempted. You all had such good reasons for not liking the names I posted, that now I don’t like any of them! But maybe I posted them in the first place because none of them were really speaking to me [...]
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Jun 4, 2007
|Above World, Writing
I love naming things. I spend a ridiculous time on names for my characters. I always have. Making characters was my greatest love in D&D — I used to have a whole box of characters I’d rolled up but never played. And when I started a new game, I’d make a new character anyway. So [...]
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Jun 3, 2007
|Life Stuff
Since last week, I’ve been to Wiscon and back, gotten the con crud, and resigned from my job. Clearly I owe you some entries. But not today. Today, if I can stop blowing my nose for more than a minute at a time, I’m heading to Lulu’s Beehive for some writing with my local buddies. [...]
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