Posted in Book Review, Fantasy Writings, tagged anthology, Book Review, Carlton Mellick III, China Mieville, Christopher Fowler, Elizabeth Hand, Eric Schaller, fantasy, Haruki Murakami, horror, Kathe Koja, Kelly Link, Luis Alberto Urrea, M. Shayne Bell, Peter Dickinson, Terry Dowling, Theodora Goss on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Time for another Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror book review. I’ve done one for 2004 and 2006, and today’s review will focus on the 16th annual 2002 book. I’m beginning to see a theme to these anthologies. The 2004 had lots of vulgarity and warped ickiness to it that truly turned me off, while the [...]
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Posted in Poetry, Writing, Writing Musings, tagged life, national poetry month, personal, Poetry, poetry prompts, Writer's Digest, Writing, writing and poetry on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
For a couple of weeks now, I’ve been digging poetry.
It’s not because April is National Poetry Month. I didn’t even know it was until I saw it mentioned on one of the blogs I visit. No, I’ve been reading the 16th Annual Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Anthology (which I will do a book review [...]
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Posted in Daniel, Poetry on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
5:53pm
Spoken in the bathroom:
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“The angry poop is scared and mad.
It wants to fight.”
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Wow.
What else can you say to something like that?
Maybe I should bring back his Word of the Month.
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Posted in Writing, Writing Musings, tagged Writing, fanfics, fanfiction, Anime, Ranma, Sailor Moon, FFML, fandom on April 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from someone who liked to know if I finished a story I started years ago. She had all eleven chapters of it and wanted to know if I wrote any more.
The premise of that story? A girl named Lita accidentally gets zapped into another world, where [...]
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It’s wet. It’s cold. It’s soggy. It’s icky. Not good weather to go apartment-hunting in. While I’m out sloshing about, here are a couple of blog entries I found interesting for all you writers out there.
A fellow writer, Fox Cutter, has a post on how to write what you know (or don’t know). It’s pretty [...]
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