Archive for December, 2008

I won’t do my year in review just yet but I wanted to post and say hello before, just in case I don’t get to it before the year is out. My word count is abysmal – horrible really – so I won’t post it until I have something good to report. I have received [...]

Here’s another strange story for you, according to http://www.cbcnews.com. “The box of crackers Debra Rogoff bought from the grocery store had some crackerjack in it _ an envelope stuffed with $10,000. Yet the Irvine woman was more curious than ecstatic about her daughter’s find. After all, who would leave money in such a place? “We [...]

Well it’s finally done. The tree is up and decorated. The presents are wrapped and under the tree. Nothing like waiting until the last possible moment, huh? I hope you are as prepared for the festivities over the next coming days. As a child from a split home I have two dinners just on my [...]

I saw the most interesting article today. It was a very short article that said, last night a woman fell three stories from her apartment balcony and survived with minor injuries. The interesting part? She was naked. There was a man waiting for the bus outside the apartment she lives in and was shocked to [...]

I heard the greatest description the other day, as to how to tell these two genres apart. The difference between a Fantasy story and a Science Fiction story is if you removed the science part the story in Science Fiction the story would cease to exist. (Think Frankenstein.) Some people even consider Space Opera’s to [...]

Well here is my word count since December 1. Monday (Dec 1) – 1,288 words on Gift of Talismans Wednesday (Dec 3) – 753 words on Gift of Talismans, and developed pitch for Beloved Child on Zeros 2 Heros website Sunday (Dec 7) – 1,438 words on Gift of Talismans. Monday (Dec 8 ) – [...]



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      Chinese Whisperings are 10 stories about 10 different people. The twist in this collection is that each new story takes a minor character from the story before and makes him or her into the main character. The whole thing works extremely well. It is not a novel in chapters, and therefore slightly disconcerting when you meet the person or persons from the story before in a completely different setting. But it works wonderfully.”
      by Heike Margot Heike Margot's Blog The Red Book

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