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Tom Gauld, my new favourite cartoonist
42. Jetpack Discovered in tom gauld’s Flickr photostream. …hits the nail right on the head with this one.
The movie deal (now with picture!)
EXTRY! EXTRY! Local writer sells story to King film-maker! Read all about it!
Some of what I wrote tonight
More writing in Once I Was You, involving an old French song and a pastoral vacation. This bit is set on a world called Cloedine, where our POV character is taking a break from her work as an envoy. She keeps hearing snippets of some ancient song: À la claire fontaine M’en allant promener I …
Millions just fell from the sky
The now-defunct site ficlets.com had a feature called “Inspiration”, which would offer you an opening line, an ending line, and a smattering of CC-licensed pictures from Flickr to try and give you something to write about. One time the ending line I got was “…millions just fell from the sky”, and here’s what resulted: Take …
RZR wordle
Apparently this is a visualization (from Wordle) of my short story Resurrection Radio, mapping the 1000 most used words in the story. Larger words appear more often in the text. It seems my POV character mentions his friend Kayla’s name an awful lot.
The last few days
On Thursday we went to the Corb Lund concert at the Westman, and it was fantastic. The opening acts were quirky and alt-country, so they meshed well with Lund and his band. The headliners played a lot of my favourites, which made me happy. All in all, there was near enough not to matter to …
Lazy Sunday
Today I sent away a story, previously published, to a podcasting site in the hopes they’ll want to make it an audio story. Not sure if they’ll bite — I really don’t know if it’ll translate well to the audio format — but nothing ventured, nothing gained. Then we went over to our friends’ place …
Another start
Not sure where this is going, but here’s what I wrote tonight: Once I Was You Every time your heart beats, a ghost spins off. Invisible, a perfect copy of your state of mind, he or she ascends, rising into the dark of the eternal night, bound for the edge of time and the unimaginable conflict …
Jenny, who is a dog
So a while ago I wrote two episodes in a semi-continuing series on ficlets, and tonight I wrote the third. The story is far from over — in fact, in all candor, I have no idea where it’ll wind up — but it’s been fun to write it so far. Here it is, to date. Jenny, who …