Browsing All Posts published on »November, 2012«

Sometimes You Just Have to Cackle Evilly and Say, “My Bear Will Defeat You All!”

November 15, 2012 by

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I don’t know about you but I certainly wouldn’t laugh at someone who made a robot teddy bear. I’d be sidling up to them saying, “Hey, wanna be my friend?”  

Acquainted With the Night

November 14, 2012 by

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 I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain – and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and […]

World War Z

November 13, 2012 by

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World War Z is book by Max Brooks about the zombie apocalypse, framed as a series of interviews after the fact. Its structure is this brilliant, interlocking thing where each story/interview is complete in itself but the larger story proceeds step by step taking you from the first outbreak to where they are now. It […]

Why is the Weekend Over? I Wasn’t Done With It.

November 12, 2012 by

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Me: Could we please add an extra day to the week? We could call it Rocketday. Or Napday. Rick: Why not both? Part of the weekend right? Me: Second weekend! Like, after Tuesday: Rocketday and Napday. Then Wednesday. So my new phone arrived on Friday. His name is Marco (say hi everyone). I am still […]

A Certain Predilection For Getting Dragons Drunk

November 9, 2012 by

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Okay, so recently I’ve noticed that there are certain… similarities between the two series’ I’m writing. Not in story or character but some of the underlying ideas are the same. Fundamentally, this is not surprising. An author’s obsessions tend find their way onto the page somehow. And my doctorate — if it achieved nothing else […]

Seven Bar Jokes Involving Grammar and Punctuation

November 8, 2012 by

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1. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. 2. A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave. 3. A question mark walks into a bar? 4. Two quotation marks “walk into” a bar. 5. A gerund and an infinitive […]

Should You Be Writing Right Now?

November 7, 2012 by

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This is a terrible, terrible flowchart because it opens with four questions instead of one. And then, whichever direction you go you end up in the same place. Which… okay, fine. That’s true. The answer to, Should you be writing right now? is always going to be, Yes.  

Archer’s Goon

November 6, 2012 by

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I just found out that once upon a time they made a TV series of Diana Wynne Jones’ Archer’s Goon. Brilliant book. So I was… excited and wary. We watched the first episode last night and I’m still trying to figure out if I want to watch the rest. It was terrible but in that […]

Help Me Save the Infant Laptop

November 5, 2012 by

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This morning I was going to write something clever, or maybe even funny, or at the very least less incoherent and probably less about ducks. I was going to raise the bar. As the bar is on the floor after the last couple of weeks of fever posts I thought this would not be hard. […]

Why a Duck?

November 2, 2012 by

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I am having trouble with consciousness this morning. This might be because of the three times I’ve had to answer the door when I was trying to be asleep. Or it might be the painkillers. Or it might just be that the transition from the dream world to the conscious world has been more than […]

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