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Tom Hiddleston Stole my Pterodactyl!

I had a 220-day streak. I had a pterodactyl. His name was Steve. But last night, somewhere among the fifty fifteen tabs working on the website and the fifteen fifty Tom Hiddleston pics/gifs/videos and the other stuff I’ll get to sometime, I lost track of the 750words tab and forgot about it. I broke my […]

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Keeping History Straight

Keeping History Straight

The Dream’verse is a big place, and a lot of people live in it (this happens with universes) and a lot of books take place in it (seven and counting.) For years I’ve been looking for a way to keep track of things in the name of consistency.* I tried spreadsheets, but spreadsheets are unwieldy

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Time-wasters and Other Things

Time-wasters and Other Things

The last few days I’ve been learning things on the blog of the awesome Marian Schembari. (If you like the Twitter and Facebook buttons, or the threaded comments, or the pic in my About page, be sure to thank her.) One of her suggestions is to have a look at what I’m tweeting about, and

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Save the Cat

Save the Cat

When they tell you that writing a script can help your novel–listen. Like many writers, I am a rabid collector of writing books. Until fate brought Save the Cat into my hands, though, I’d resisted moving beyond novel-writing books. Not because I doubted they would help at all. Because I felt I should focus, since

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Wiki, Wiki, Wiki!

I just love saying it. Well, there’s also the fact that I started building one to help me keep track of my worlds.  Check this out: Free and Easy Wikis.  It’s great.  It creates a table of contents with links automatically.  I can make page after page, and find what I need with a few

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Dvorak Later

So it’s been…how long? Less than a month, I think.  And the verdict is? I’m still not as fast as I’d like.  And I make a lot of errors when I’m not paying enough attention.  Sometimes my fingers just go back to QWERTY without me, too.  But I am getting better.  And it has been

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LinkBlogs!!!

How cool is this?  Blog-City came up with another toy for me.  Linkblogs.  With a click, I can show you what odd corners of the internet I’ve wandered off to this time. hee hee, this is awesome.  So should you care to know, look over to the right.  It’ll display the last three.  I haven’t

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