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Friday Round-up

Thank Landsquid it’s Friday, amirite? Space/Science Extreme Planet Makeover (Might be fun for world-building scifi/off-world fantasy) Some confusion over the existence of the Triceratops First One-Fingered Dinosaur Found (It is apparently Dinosaur Week.  But that’s okay, because dinosaurs are awesome.) Picture of how deep into the universe we can see versus time Scifi/Fantasy Thundercats Cartoon Network Redesign  (Whhhhhhy [...]

Of Sleep Deprivation and Haiku

I have gotten a total of 7.5 hours of sleep over the past two nights.  As such, I am admittedly a little, um, what’s the term – punch-drunk?  What does that even mean?  Also, wordpress informs me that I have misspelled my title and now I must fix that. My friends, landsquid love them, have [...]

ABNA Musings

I had a friend say that whenever she saw “ABNA” she thought “ABBA” and that it’s been a very strange week. So the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award submission opened last night.  For those of you who don’t stalk the internet like I do, Amazon accepts 10,000 entries (5000 general, 5000 young adult) and through an [...]

Friday Round-up

Space/Science Discovery Astronaut Hurt in Bike Accident (Poor shuttle astronauts.  They are having a bad month.) Darkness on the Edge of the Universe First Mammoth Cloning Experiment Officially Underway (Poor mammoths.  They are going to look around and wish they’d just been left alone to stay extinct.) Dark Matter Galaxy Detected (bonus gorgeous picture of the Milky Way) [...]

Writing with a Partner – Collaborative Editing

To continue our discussion from last week (tl;dr – writing with a partner is awesome, assuming you find the right partner), this week I am going to discuss the theory of editing collaboratively. I say theory because I have not done this.  Sure, I’ve edited anthologies and other group projects, but that’s still very much an [...]

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