This post was going to be about kung fu, and how it completely kicked my ass tonight. My face turned so red that one of the sifus made me sit out some of the kicks. I wasn’t going to sit out — I was going to keep going even if it meant passing out or [...]
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Jun 29, 2008
|Hockey
No one will care about this except me, but the Kings traded Lubomir Visnovsky to Edmonton. I really liked Lubo! He was one of my favorite players on the team. Waaaah! Now that I’ve been following hockey for two seasons, I see how easy it is to get attached to not just the team, but [...]
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Jun 29, 2008
|Jade Tiger
Jade Tiger is now available on Fictionwise! I believe this is my first piece of fiction available in that format. My favorite part is all the reviews quoted in the listing — some of which I hadn’t seen before. (I was late in getting on the Google Alerts bandwagon.) Speaking of ebooks, I’ve been rethinking [...]
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Jun 25, 2008
|Jade Tiger, Martial Arts, Writing
My kempo school had a version of the 5 Shaolin Animals that ended up in Jade Tiger because — hey! — I hadn’t even studied kung fu when I wrote it. Tonight, we reviewed the aspects that my current school associates with each animal, and I feel the need to put them into a chart. [...]
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Jun 23, 2008
|Martial Arts
I’ve missed a full month of martial arts. That’s the longest period of time I’ve gone without martial arts classes in the eight years since I started practicing. I never thought I could survive that long without it, and in a way, I couldn’t. But let me go back a few hours. Back to the [...]
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Jun 22, 2008
|Above World, Writing
I’m heading over to Lulu’s Beehive today to get started on Above World revisions. A bunch of local writers are meeting me there. We’ll eat bagels, drink coffee, gab, and write our little hearts out. I’ve spent the week recovering from Blue Heaven and trying to incorporate about 15 critiques of the first 50 pages [...]
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Jun 19, 2008
|Geekery
I think I know why I like Twitter. I like it for a lot of the same reasons I originally enjoyed blogging: companionship in the void. But life is crazy these days, and it’s become harder and harder to find time to blog. Twitter takes a few seconds to read, and even less to update. [...]
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Jun 19, 2008
|Above World, Geekery, Writing
Wordle.net creates a tag cloud of whatever text you put in the box. This is tremendous fun! Here’s the cloud for the first chapter of Above World: (Click for larger view.) I can see how this might be useful for seeing which words one overuses. When I paste in the whole novel, the word “back” [...]
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Jun 18, 2008
|Above World, Adventure, Writing
Last week I attended Blue Heaven, a novel workshop held on Kelley’s Island, Ohio. Here’s how the workshop worked: For the first few days, the 12 of us sat in a big circle and critiqued the first 50 pages of everyone else’s novel. From Thursday on, we broke into small groups to discuss full novels. [...]
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Jun 5, 2008
|Movies
I saw The Incredible Hulk tonight! A buddy from work got us all tickets for an advance press screening at the Arclight (the best movie theater in the known universe). Here’s my brief review, minus spoilers: Very fun. Very green. Edward Norton is fantastic. If you enjoyed Iron Man, you’ll like Hulk, too. It’s not [...]
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