Jun 30 2006
New post up today: A 10-Year Plan on the main site. This short piece is a 500-word essay I wrote to accompany my application for Hollins University. I’m guessing it’s an exercise used to determine if an applicant can spell and grasp the fundamentals of grammar. Given that I live with a worse Grammar Nazi […]
Apr 13 2006
The more I learn about the writing process, the more amazed and infatuated I become. The elements that I’d missed or misunderstood when I was younger have helped me learn to treat my stories more like sculptures. Writing is a process and there’s nothing delicate about it. An idea that fades or fails on the […]
Mar 31 2006
Well, having decided my own ideas for mapping new worlds wasn’t the best (given that Jon frequently wrinkled his nose at them), I came up with a new idea for creating natural looking continents. Yes, that’s right. Cows. The best breeds of cows I’ve found for this type of project are the Ayrshire and Holstein. […]
Mar 30 2006
Coolness! I was poking around online looking for info on Eva’s California Poets in the Schools and a Google search on her name brought up an online version of Metamorphoses. I lost my printed copy long, long ago, but it’s neat to see our work still hanging around out there on the web :) : […]
Dec 01 2005
Verified Word Count: 50,013 I did it. I’m a NaNo winner and a novelist.