Techie Things I Love About Writing

One of the things I love most about being a writer (besides the writing) is reading about writing (second only to watching movies about writers but that’s a totally different topic). It is through this pursuit that I discovered a neat little blog called Writers in the Virtual Sky. WITVS is run by a writer [...]

On Writing Graphic Novels Writing the Story First

When I was participating in Script Frenzy I joined a group on Zhura for people like me who were participating and asked everyone there didn’t they think writing a graphic novel was easier than writing a film script. One person replied with “No! I’m still stuck on the pictures,” (disclaimer: this may not be verbatum). [...]

On Writing Graphic Novels

Of all the categories of people you would think would be easy to find online wouldn’t you think it would be graphic novel writers? I mean come on, people!
Maybe I should explain. I am a member of a website called Zhura.com (I wrote about them here if you want an overview) and this website is [...]

Politicking Sarah Palin

Welcome to my first political blog post–ever! I swore I would never write one of these but I was watching this video and I couldn’t help but wonder about all those people who say that Sarah Palin is a liability (that’s not what the video says) because she has no foreign policy experience.
Not that this post [...]

The First Time I Played Dolls

Today was the first time I played dolls since I was maybe fifteen…possibly older…hopefully younger. Anyway, I had an existential crisis when I did. Here is the direct quote that made this crisis possible:
“He’s so nice for letting her hop on! Does anyone else want to hop on?”
O.M.G.
Little kids just have no clue what they’re [...]

Reality TV, The Wireless and Missed Birthdays

There is a conformity in reality TV that I never noticed before last night but when you’re watching a show that you’ve never seen before and you think you have just because of a certain line someone says there’s a problem. The problem is in the way people who are on these shows speak. There [...]

Defend Yourself!

No I was not eaten alive by four children last weekend–even if I did feel like it. Moving on…
I hate the term “Defend your design.” I had to do this again yesterday for my Advanced Web Design class. First of all it sounds like someone has attacked you to begin with. It is an implied [...]

My First Battle Scene

Last night I finished my first battle scene. Well, it was more like a battle chapter. Proving once again that I can do anything I think of rather than letting myself talk myself out of everything.
It’s great and it took up an entire chapter but the main thing is that I finished what I started [...]

99 Comments (of Beer on the Wall) and Tying it All Together

99 comments…OK so that makes zero sense so I’ll begin at the proverbial beginning (gosh it feels good to spell proverbial again).
I Googled Stephen Fry a few seconds ago 1) because I Google everything and 2) because I used to go to his site quite a bit and I missed it while I was thinking [...]