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I took a year of astronomy in college, and during the introductory course we had to do one of two things for our semester project: make a sundial or write a paper connecting astronomy to a field of our choice. Art and I do not get along well, doubly so in the fall when I [...]
I’ve been developing my characters over the past two days, and one thing in particular has struck me: I don’t have a clue what it’s like to be a normal teenager. Unfortunately, asking most of the guys I know about their lives back then gives me a slightly slanted bent toward a seventeen-year-old guy’s mind. [...]
I don’t have a TV. Okay, technically my brother took my TV years ago with my permission and gave it back; now it’s just sitting in my room, unplugged. This is perfectly fine by me, since the only thing I watch that isn’t findable online is the national spelling bee finals in the late spring. [...]
Now that we’re a week into National Novel Editing Month, it’s time for a progress report.
Total hours logged: 8.5
Pages filled in idea notebook: 15
Pens sacrified to noveling: 1
I am currently an hour and twelve minutes behind, but I can easily add a few more minutes to the editing regimen every day. To be more accurate, [...]
Yesterday I talked a little about big numbers. Today Paste Magazine discusses what you can buy with Avatar’s earnings. I don’t know about you, but I’ll pass on the triple grande vanilla soy latte. Bring on the space expeditions!
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We don’t really stop to think of how big numbers are. Million dollar budget cuts. Trillions of dollars to implement a new program.
How much is that? I’ve never had anywhere near a million dollars, much less a trillion, and even with my math background, the concept of very large numbers is still mind-boggling sometimes. (Secretly, [...]
I’ve lived in Georgia my entire life and am an alumna of one of Georgia’s private colleges. I also have experience with the University System of Georgia, having attended one of Georgia’s public colleges while in high school.
So of course I was simultaneously disgusted and unsurprised when Governor Sonny Perdue recommended cutting $265 million from [...]
Tomorrow is the first of March, meaning that National Novel Editing Month is upon us. This is my first year doing it because in past years I’ve had nothing worth editing or I haven’t been able to commit to the fifty hours. One can’t sneak around fifty hours as easily as one can fifty thousand [...]
If you follow the world of major sports in the United States, where multimillion dollar contracts are becoming more and more common, it may be surprising to hear about how many U.S. Olympic athletes live from day to day. Most Olympians are not rich by any means; in fact, most of them work jobs that [...]
You may have heard that actor Andrew Koenig’s body was found today. He had been missing for several days before the body was found. This loss is obviously a tragedy for all involved, yet it brings another fact of life to the front: those who are creating sources of humor are not always the happiest [...]