Browsing the blog archives for January, 2010
Everyone despises baggage claim. You stand there forever waiting for the bags to come out and you get really excited when a new one comes out, only it’s not yours. After about fifteen minutes of “Is it there yet?” your bag finally comes out, but long after you’re gone, that one ugly brown plaid bag [...]
The infamous Westboro Baptist Church (look them up yourself if you don’t know who they are; I don’t want to give them more traffic) decided to plan a protest at Twitter Headquarters in San Francisco.
They didn’t expect people protesting their visit in a grand and random fashion, as shown on Laughing Squid. This is how [...]
Mia was still behind by day seventeen, but thanks to her newfound love of warring against herself and BattleJesus, the rate at which she fell behind was substantially slower. In fact, she felt herself catching up! She walked across Wrimonia and saw a group of people carrying signs in front of one of the forums [...]
In case you’ve been living under a rock over the past few days, some company named after a fruit released some new product called the iPad.
Yes, the iPad. Get all your menstruation jokes out now. Twitter certainly did, as iTampon was trending all day yesterday. The Internet was definitely bleeding heavily. Maybe it could have [...]
Day fifteen arrived, and Mia knew that there was no way she was going to get to the halfway point by the end of the day because she couldn’t write seven thousand words in one day. There was no way, she told herself as she walked around the square that morning. The sky was much [...]
As you may have heard, the Menifee Union school district in California banned the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
That’s right. The dictionary. Why? Because a parent complained about the definition of oral sex. According to the parent, the entry wasn’t age-appropriate.
What did you expect, rainbows and butterflies everywhere? Let’s try to define oral sex in ways appropriate for [...]
The daily 1667 didn’t come easily that day, but it certainly wasn’t as troublesome as it was on past days, either. The next day Mia had exhausted her idea supply. Even worse, her characters acknowledged it.
“But I don’t wanna play today, Mia,” Amy said as she walked around a gallery. “Can’t you just leave me [...]
The first step in revising my novel (and here’s where I admit that the revising has gone untouched for several days–oops) is analyzing each scene and its place in my novel. For me, this involves writing down each scene and the major action on an index card. Let’s look at the last scene I copied [...]
Every day when I log into this site, I check my spam queue. Akismet’s spam filter does a pretty good at catching spam, and I’ve had only one false positive through my entire use of it. Most of the time I see real spam that deserves to be trashed. Today was the same. Lately the [...]
Mia looked at her calendar. Day thirteen. Crap, she thought as she looked at her word count: thirteen thousand, five hundred forty-seven words, and not a single one of them written yesterday. She stared at the computer screen, thinking that maybe if she willed the words to appear, maybe they actually would show up magically. [...]