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On realizing my favourite characters are twenty…
Someone asked a very good question on the NaNoWriMo Facebook page: How old are your favourite original characters? I blinked and then had to do math. Math! And man, did I feel strange afterwards. My favourites are twenty-years old. You read that right. Twenty. My first short stories with them were written when I was eleven. I am now thirty-one.I then did some even more scary math because people then wanted to know how long I’d been writing. The first stories my mom has saved are from kindergarten, though I apparently was writing stories a bit before that first saved one. This means I’ve been writing stories for twenty-five to…
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I am a Geek
Most of you are now saying something along the lines of, “Well…duh…” I am, if nothing else, proud of my geekery. I know things like the fact that today is Neil Gaiman’s birthday and screw up on the dates of a good friend’s birthday even though my friend makes me smile more often than not. I love crime shows, anime, science fiction. I adore fantasy, Christmas movies, and toys. I listen to every kind of music except country and yodelling (I really do think they’re somewhat related). Among my adoration for rock, hip hop, and rap, I even have a peculiar love for spoofs and unique sounds like dubstep violin…
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Writing, Life, and Questions
A couple of things, dear readers… November has snuck up on me this year. Normally, I’m doing NaNoWriMo at this point. I haven’t missed one since college. However, I don’t know that I’ll do NaNo this year. I think taking my focus off of what I’m doing to write 50,000 words (which turns into whole other books I need to finish and edit) is really doing myself a disservice this year. I don’t need another book in my head. I need to finish the one that I’m editing now and get the darn thing sent off already. If, instead of doing NaNo, I focus on editing (rewrites, the bane of…
