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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-30

Nifty new site – http://sheneverslept.com/newsandreviews/archives/370 # I want to write the story this illustrates. RT @NathanFillion The stuff of which nightmares are made. http://yfrog.com/5ejb6zj # Because survival is important: RT @tamoor Surviving a Bengal Tiger Attack – What You Need to Know http://bit.ly/4kgHav # Do -you- know what a Mori bird is? http://bit.ly/10pKJS # I [...]

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-30

Nifty new site – http://sheneverslept.com/newsandreviews/archives/370 # I want to write the story this illustrates. RT @NathanFillion The stuff of which nightmares are made. http://yfrog.com/5ejb6zj # Because survival is important: RT @tamoor Surviving a Bengal Tiger Attack – What You Need to Know http://bit.ly/4kgHav # Do -you- know what a Mori bird is? http://bit.ly/10pKJS # I [...]

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The White Part of the Apple

They found her on the playground. It was October, and the ground was cold. There was a yellow leaf stuck in her hair, which spilled like black ink over the mulch. Her dress was white. Her face was white, covered in ice, and it frosted her eyelashes. Her lips were purple . . .

True Blood Season 2, Episode 12: “Beyond Here Lies Nothin”

In interviews, Alan Ball has stated that the writers very deliberately split the characters up into isolated groups of two and three. This was a terrible idea, and they must know it—Ball has said that they won’t be doing the same thing for Season 3. True Blood is an ensemble piece, and hacking apart your ensemble is just plain dumb.

Trailer Boy Makes Good: An Interview With Ken Scholes, Author of Canticle

…part of writing for me is playing “what if” with the morality of the cultures and societies I’m writing about. In the Named Lands, the sense of what’s acceptable and unacceptable has been honed by a culture of survival. Certainly, I personally eschew any philosophy that relies on exploiting or manipulating others as a part of its practice or belief (think House Li Tam.) But by using empathy and digging into those characters, I can imagine and comprehend why members of that House might do what they do believing that it is necessary to keep humanity alive and moving forward — and then write the characters from that understanding.

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-28

Did cooking make us human? http://bit.ly/CtN7E # Interesting game projects – http://bit.ly/vztnS # Thanks for the #followfriday and RTs! l@DonP @staciebenton @ecurbmp @daj42 @ShawnScarber @GrayRinehart # Powered by Twitter Tools

The Good Window

Ned’s wordwind fluttered in V-formation around her, spilling little white lies in its wake, immediately retracing its path to cross them out. Words swirled through her hair, pale tendrils lifting as paragraphs tornadoed above her head. Ned pinched the slowest phrases between her fingers, popping them into her mouth before they could escape.

I Am A Browncoat

The catch-phrase of this project has been Browncoat all the way. ‘We are mighty!’, said the crowd at the Dragon*Con Browncoats’ Shindig, and the cast and crew of Redemption are echoing those words.

Twitter Updates for 2009-09-24

New story: "A Mori bird waited for him on the railing, its claws wrapped around the wood…It smelled of licorice." http://tiny.cc/CxSwe # Powered by Twitter Tools