Posted in Games, Writing, tagged online games, ARG, "Artificial Intelligence: AI", alternate reality game, web games, interactive fiction, science fiction, cloudmakers on July 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Here it is, Wednesday. And I am not doing any work on Willow. Why?
Because I can’t stop reading about this stupid alternate reality game.
Last weekend, I watched “Artificial Intelligence: AI” for the first time. It was okay. A little creepy in parts. I totally understand why people say it should’ve ended 20 minutes sooner; but [...]
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Posted in Book Review, Writing, tagged "Francine Prose", Book Review, books, how to write, literary works, reading, Writing, writing advice on June 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Finally, I’m getting back on track with my blog posts. Here’s an overdue book review for you. My reading for the past couple of months have been very slow, but it’s been worth it, especially with this book, Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose.
Finding this book at B&N for $6 was perfect timing. I [...]
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If you noticed, I hadn’t posted anything last week. There’s a good reason for that–I’ve been playing around with my writing schedule, figuring out when was the best time to do work on which writing projects, now that we’ve settled into a normal routine again.
A normal routine. I never thought it would happen. After all [...]
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Cheesehead. Cheese…head. Headcheese. Cheese for heads. Heads for cheese.
As you can see, I’m preparing myself now. Once I get out to Wisconsin, there’s going to be a lot of mocking going on. And most of it will come from Chicagoans, so I might as well get used to it.
Since we’re this close to moving, I [...]
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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 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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As my life continue its shake-up towards new possibilities and destinations, I’ve been pondering more about the role this blog plays. Don’t worry, I’m not shutting it down. Don’t you even start thinking that’s where I’m going with this.
I do want this blog to be more, though, than just a place where I ramble on [...]
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Posted in LaShawn's Work, Short Stories, tagged "Christmas Eve at the Petite Bouchette", Christmas, fiction, LaShawn M. Wanak, literary short stories, Short Stories, short story, Writing on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And another story is up!
“Christmas Eve at the Petite Bouchette” is my first literary story to be published. I got the idea for it when on our way to a relative’s house for Thanksgiving a couple of years ago, we drove by an adult bookstore that had its “OPEN” sign lit up. I wondered, “who [...]
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Dear RoughDraft,
I’m sorry, but I’m leaving you.
It’s nothing to do with you. I like you. I really, really like you. You’re a wonderful program. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have been able to start all my short stories and essays. Well, I would have to use Word, that bloated behemoth who always leaves [...]
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