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Project Songbird: Week 1

I’ve been listening to Stephen King’s On Writing, in which he shows some disregard for the act of painstakingly plotting your work before you get writing, saying that this often kills the story. So I’ve been working on that and the still very vague outline I have for the project in Scrivener, and I’ve beenContinue reading “Project Songbird: Week 1”

Project Songbird: a start

Over the course of the last nearly two months, I have scratched out a little over 25 000 words of blog. It has been immensely satisfying to keep writing daily, and to maintain my unbroken streak as yet. At some point, I’m going to have to symbolically end my streak. Obviously. Today I’m starting aContinue reading “Project Songbird: a start”

PoP! goes my heart!

Ah,another cheesy soundtrack from another Hugh Grant rom-com; and by no means, his best one. It does however, contain the epic line: “I googled you, and you are good!” in his most peculiarly English upper-class inflection. This has become a standard pronunciation of the verb “to google” in my family – to the extent thatContinue reading “PoP! goes my heart!”

Holding out for a Hero

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where’s the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds? … I need a Hero! So I’ve been thinking a lot about how to get started with writing my book that I have the cool idea for. It’s kind of a bit intimidating,Continue reading “Holding out for a Hero”

Book review: G.S. Denning’s Warlock Holmes

I’ve been listening to my Audible library trying to get through some of the things I bought on a two-for-one credit sale a while back. I’ve got some highbrow stuff floating through the archive, but, well, also some gentle, familiar, and plain comedy stuff. One such two-for-one purchase was the first two books of G.S.Continue reading “Book review: G.S. Denning’s Warlock Holmes”