drupagliassotti @ November 30, 2008 # 2 Comments
Woo-hoo! Came in just under the wire this time, but I’m happy to have made it at all. This month was pretty hectic. You can see my official NaNoWriMo page here, and my unofficial list of NaNoWriMo novels here, if you’d like to get an idea of my previous years’ attempts. At 50,076 words, of [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
(Caveat: Anything I write during National Novel Writing Month is subject to significant change or deletion during the longer editing phase to follow! So don’t get too invested in any scene I quote here … this is “rough draft” at its roughest! … Also, if you haven’t read Clockwork Heart, the text below contains SPOILERS.)
drupagliassotti @ November 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This week I ran into two professors who began talking about their use of Facebook, and it’s caused me to do some thinking about my own use of Facebook, blogs, and the web in general. One prof said that she didn’t want to friend students until they’d graduated, because she saw Facebook as a private [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Last week I read Pandemonium, a first novel by Daryl Gregory, in which the world was altered in the mid-1940s with the appearance of demons — or perhaps Jungian archetypes — that seemed to possess individual humans for hours or weeks to satisfy their mysterious urges. The public has given these demons names based on [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Quotation marks are primarily used to indicate that what lies between them are somebody’s exact words, either spoken or written — which is why we use the marks to indicate spoken dialog in journalism or fiction, or to indicate precisely reproduced written words in a scholarly paper. The Associated Press style guide, used by U.S. [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 15, 2008 # 3 Comments
(Caveat: Anything I write during National Novel Writing Month is subject to significant change or deletion during the longer editing phase to follow! So don’t get too invested in any scene I quote here … this is “rough draft” at its roughest! … Also, if you haven’t read Clockwork Heart, the text below contains SPOILERS.)
drupagliassotti @ November 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Today I’m spending at home on a much-needed “writing day,” and while doing a little side research into Victorian-era tissue preservation chemicals — pre-formaldehyde — I ran across this fascinating website: Madame Talbot’s Victorian Lowbrow and Gothic Lowbrow. I’ve tagged this post as “steampunk,” even though what she offers on her site isn’t really steampunk; [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
(Worked 8 hours on my boys’ love paper yesterday, and I think it’s much improved, although it still needs cleaning up and formatting. But now, on to other subjects….) I haven’t blogged much about simplicity or frugality lately, but in this horrid economy, I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about economics and debt. I’m [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I had to take a short break on NaNoWriMo this week, you know, earn my salary, but last night I wrote another couple of pages and moved things another step forward. I can’t tell if my pacing is too fast or too slow! Sometimes I feel as though everyone is blah-blah-blah talking too much, and [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 5, 2008 # One Comment
Friend Hendel Thistletop of the Belching Dragon sent me this interesting video! The artist begins to show off what the heart can do at about :53…