Archive for December, 2007
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
I was talking with a friend the other day when he produced the following nugget of wisdom. Keep in mind that this a conversation he held entirely with himself. I was just a bystander:
"I wish I could poop like a rabbit."
(Long Pause)
"Actually, I wish I could not just poop like ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Tip of the hat to Lou Anders who passed me this link; they've made glow-in-the-dark cats in Korea.
When I wrote "The Calorie Man" this questionable little trick had been performed on rabbits. It provided the creative spark for Cheshires, and also formed the basis for the grain-sniffing IP ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
A while back, John Klima approached me about doing a short story for his Logorrhea anthology. I could write anything I wanted, as long as it was based on a word that had won the National Spelling Bee. Almost immediately, I knew which word I'd take.
Macerate has ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
I just hit the 150,000 word mark with my novel. I haven't gone in to start trimming yet, but I know that some sections will need to grow still and I've got some final scenes to write yet, so I'm guessing that the final product will end up being ...
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