by Katherine Villyard | Mar 29, 2007 | writing mysticism
The hurricane story is not the literary equivalent of a Rorschach test. Out of seven Critters critiques, I had four full groks, two partial groks, and an “Oh, God. Your story is so long and it has so many characters and I give up! I’m not even going to...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 27, 2007 | life, the universe, and everything, picspam
This? This is pollen. On my car. Granted, it’s the one we don’t drive as often, but still. I didn’t think anyone would believe me if I didn’t offer photographic proof.
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 25, 2007 | geekiness
I’ve upgraded the site to MT3.34 with FastCGI. You probably won’t notice unless you comment, but I can tell and that’s what matters! To me, at least! Seriously, it’s cool. Trust me. I also made my URLs prettier, as they were pretty darned ugly....
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 22, 2007 | writing mysticism
I’m distracted by my first Critters critique for the hurricane story, which I expected. I always think I’m being obvious when I write. I give the story to Brian, who understands it completely and effortlessly. I sent it in for critique. *Wonk!* Now,...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 21, 2007 | scripts
Script Frenzy’s teaser site is up! I’m so there!
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 16, 2007 | cats
In other news, my backups are apparently pretty darned good. Yay!
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 16, 2007 | geekiness
Geek post! I’d been using Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire 3624WXCi laptop for about a year now. I really enjoyed my Ubuntu experience until I fell victim to this obnoxious bug. It took a while to manifest itself, too; the problem seemed to get worse every time they...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 11, 2007 | life, the universe, and everything
Things I’ve learned while my sister is in town: Some vague concept of how fencing is scored. The Georgia Aquarium is cool. I don’t like Lipton tea. I think I’ll stick with Tazo. It’s really hard to edit after walking around for several hours....
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 3, 2007 | novels
Editing is still more fun than drafting. What do you know? Whee, edits! Well, obviously, there’s going to be the point where I go blind. Hopefully that won’t happen for awhile, since I didn’t look at it for three months. Some observations: The...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 1, 2007 | writing stats
Jen does this every month. I figured it’d be fun. Story sales in February: 0 Story submissions in February: 7 Story rejections in February: 6 Script queries in February: 11 Script requests in February: 0 Script rejections in February: 0 Script contest entries in...