I’ve spent the last couple of days devouring Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel. It’s been a long time since I devoured a book with this kind of desperate hunger, and I think my compulsion to lock myself in my room in order to finish the book surprised even me. Hirsi Ali is the Somalian-born former Muslim […]
Called in available to my temp agencies and scheduled another interview for tomorrow at 10am with yet another temp agency. That’ll be three agencies I’m registered with. In the meantime, on my tax forms, I put down that my occupation was “writer.” It felt much better than writing “employed.” Anyway, more GW edits. The book’s
If I declare myself and business and report my writing income ($4500), then I owe $1221. If I don’t declare myself a busines and report my writing income ($4500), then I owe $421. This probably wouldn’t have happened if I’d kept all of my con reciepts. EDIT: Final Federal taxes owed: $553 Yeah, right! I
Nickelback: Rockstar I’m through with standin’ in lineat clubs I’ll never get inIt’s like the bottom of the ninthand I’m never gonna winthis life hasn’t turned out quite the way I want it to be(Tell me what you want) I want a brand new house on an episode of CribsAnd a bathroom I can play
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“God’s War is a 97,000 word fantasy novel of faith, blood, betrayal and submission played out in the contaminated deserts of Nasheen, a matriarchal state engaged in a centuries-old holy war with polygamous Chenja.” Hm, no, that’s not right. I typed: Polygamous. No, that means multiple partners of either sex. What’s more than one wife?
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The only thing I hate drafting more than query letters are synopses. That’s going to be next. And I just printed out GW AGAIN so I can go through ANOTHER round of line edits. I hacked and combined several chapters during the last pass, and I need to make sure those run smoothly. I’ve also
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I picked up a copy of The Good German at Heathrow, mainly because it has this winning first line: “The war had made him famous.” This is a beautifully written thriller set in Berlin just after the German surrender during WWII. The novel revolves around the murder of a nobody American soldier (in the Russian-occupied
In general, I’m a fan of brutal critiques. I don’t need anybody pussy-footing around my ego. If I’ve written a shit story, I need to know it was a shit story. The reverse of that, however, is that if I’ve written a good story, I need to know it was a good story. This may
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Some stuff you don’t often hear about being done by women. Women Gladiators: Wiki Gladiatrix Journal of Combative Sport Women Bullfighters: La Diosa Rubia A Few Fighters Marie Barcelo
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Today was the first time since I moved that I managed to finish the entirety of my morning weights routine. Depression, laziness, and an inadequate room set-up for working out were keeping me from bothering to do it properly. Some of it is also that I don’t have a fixed time for getting up in