Aug

24

Nearly End of Summer Update

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Time can just slip away from you and before you know it, the whole summer has past and you haven’t done nearly as many things as you’d hoped to. The kids will be going back to school shortly so I’ll be able to get back to my normal routine. I have to say I’m looking forward to both of those things. :)

One thing I did manage to do is put together the vegetable garden I’d promised the kids. It’s not as lavish as they would have liked, but it’s doing what we hoped it would. Today we had our first harvest, and you can read about it in my Chef Lisa blog.

After Labor Day, I’ll be working hard at a bunch of stuff, not the least is which The Morgan Affair, which has languished, though not collecting any kind of dust. I’ve gotten a bunch of ideas, including the basic plots of two sequels for it. Whether or not those will get written are a different story, but at least I’ve made a start.

Aug

20

Testing the new phones.

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I’ve joined the 21st and got a smartphone. Itks an Android phone, with apps for posting to WordPress blogs. What fun! :)

Aug

20

Testing the new phone.

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My hubby and I decided to join the 21st century and get smartphones.? We got Android phones, and there’s an app for posting to WordPress blogs.? This is the test of it. :)

Jul

20

Views on Worldbuilding

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I scuttle around the web, looking for articles about worldbuilding. Most of the ones I find are simply a blog writer’s opinions of the worldbuilding in a novel or story. Once in a while, however, I find a gem or two.

Speculative Horizons has an article (blog entry, actually) about making and breaking worlds. It’s not a how-to article, but an examination of how different authors have done worldbuilding in their work. It makes for an excellent read.

I think the most important thing we can take from this article is: “And perhaps most importantly, reveals their world without interrupting the story.”

Jul

19

Word of the Day

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I subscribe to dictionary.com’s Word of the Day mailing list. Here’s today’s word – I thought I should share it. :)

philogyny \fi-LOJ-uh-nee\, noun:

Love of or liking for women (opposite of misogyny.)

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