* If you write European set Epic fantasy, it is more likely that the food your heroes eat is flavored using herbs rather than spices, since spices were expensive, and had to be imported. * In Sweden, mushrooms were viewed to be cattle food, until the 20th century. Which meant that they did not […]
The writing is chugging along pretty nicely. Or well my Scrivener trial expired, so right now I am revising the Brownie Liason. 🙂 So far I have edited 10 of 64 pages. So, progress! I am aiming at getting 5 pages edited per day, so this draft should take me a couple of weeks to […]
Awhile ago, Laura Anne Gilman jokingly said on Twitter she should rent out her nephew who majors in nanotechnology to Science Fiction writers. I smiled, and shook my head. But this morning it occurred to me: Why don’t I do something similar, but for biology? What I am thinking, is some sort of subscription series, […]
Well, I figured out why I couldn’t update my e-reader. The firmware update isn’t compatible with my e-reader. Which annoys me a bit, to put it mildly. My colon disease decided to flare up last week, which means my immune system is overly active right now. And because of that, I am running a […]
I stepped out of the car, and stared at the house. Once, it had been painted a bright yellow and kept in top shape. Now, the paint was flaking, and the roof was in need of repair. I shook off the bitterness that filled me. You had no choice but selling it to cover the […]
Yesterday in the war room I asked if it was believable if Mages were called Mancers in the US and Witches/Wizards in the UK. It was prompted by a thought that the pixies had to come from somewere, and maybe Magi CIS and the Brownie Liason was set in the same world. The answer I […]
This was the look from my kitchen window this morning. Pff. The Weather clearly hasn’t gotten the message that it is spring…
I posted the old opening last week, so I thought I would post the new opening this week. I promise I will not post a third version next week! 😀 The sound of the phone made me look up from the report I was reading. I stretched out a hand and picked up the reciever. […]
I outlined the first 5 scenes of the Sorcerer , and then I decided to start writing. When I started writing, the words that I typed was in first, not third like the old version. I considered it, and decded that it felt right to tell it in first. And, the opening is SO much […]
Yesterday, my laptop suddenly froze. I cursed, turned it off and went to make dinner. When I turned it on after dinner, I discovered that it was beeping. Not loud, and not all the time but occasionally, it beeps. In fact, it sounds like an EKG machine..Yeah… I don’t like that at all :P. But […]