June 2005

Your Slanguage Profile Prison Slang: 50% Southern Slang: 25% Aussie Slang: 0% British Slang: 0% Canadian Slang: 0% New England Slang: 0% Victorian Slang: 0% What Slanguage Do You Speak? Though, you know, looking at all these numbers, I wonder where the other 25% went? Bad quiz.

Tim Pratt, via Steph Burgis, asks writers to post the pet subject they enjoy putting into their work, and list what they’d never want to write about. Here’s some overarching themes and subjects in my fiction: 1. Civil war as subplot 2. Blood. Lots of it. And screams. Loud ones. Nearby. 3. Big, strong women

Tom Cruise goes all Palpatine on Oprah. I love geeks.

Well, it’s about that time again, as google searches acting as gateways to my blog have increased a bunch in the last few months, and I’m always fascinated to see how random people get here. Here are the keywords used by unsuspecting search-engine users who find my blog: brutal women (the most popular)brutal (oddly, the

Been working on figuring out an exercise schedule that doesn’t involve me paying out the ass every month. I turned my daily lunchtime powerwalk into a walk/jog yesterday, and that worked well. The route’s 40 minutes at my current pace (as I get faster, I can extend it), so if I bring a towel to

“I’d really love to read slush for Analog.” Buy her latest short story collection. She rocks the house.

I’ve started getting myself familiar with some very basic Arabic. It’s a fun little exercise. Arabic is a neat language to write. The biggest gripe I’ve got so far is the right-to-left reading and writing bit. It’s a bitch. But very pretty.

Went to post another excerpt of God’s War, and realized something in this section is really off. Raine needs to be scarier, the escape needs to be tougher, and the dialogue’s really… off. Need to re-tool. So it goes.

And, it keeps going… (good for Chris for getting back on topic). Here’s an interesting study via BFB about dieting and dying younger. And my question is, why was the firearm unused? These were obviously not native Alaskans. Bears will kill you. In Alaska, there are bears. They are big. They will eat you. I