January 2009

The (over-emphasized) Dangers of Mary Sue

In fandom, and increasingly out of it, a character too perfect to be believed, whom all the good guys love and all the bad guys fear, usually with a tragic past, is called a Mary Sue.

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More Shades and Hues

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Back to Editing

I’m not flailing. I’m making progress. I know, keep telling myself that. But it’s true. Once I rewrote the beginning, the part I had trashed when I began the last rewrite, I couldn’t move forward anymore. Finally I realized it was because I’d rewritten the next part so recently. So I’m back to One-Pass.  I

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What the hell??

No, really. What the hell? The pics are from a fashion show in Paris.  Now, don’t get me wrong.  I’m all for bishounen in skimpy outfits–the skimpier the better.  But what the hell is that on his head?  And why is this part of the fall/winter collection (boy’s gonna be awfully cold…), and what the

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Sick and Tired

In that order. Or maybe not. But I am sick, and I am brain-dead, and I can accomplish nothing tonight.  Except, of course, to lose my temper at my dear little one who simply cannot learn that there are times at which she should stop attempting to push mommy off the cliff of sanity. Sigh.

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On the Highwire in a Three-Ring Damned Circus

I may have to run away from home (and the internets) to get anywhere on this blasted re-write. Damn it.  3900 words.  That’s eighteen words added today. Bleh. I didn’t do too bad in other things.  Actually cooked dinner AND did dishes, and looked over the kid’s homework and quizzed her on multiplication while I

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