by Katherine Villyard | Dec 31, 2006 | life, the universe, and everything, nanowrimo, novels, scripts, short fiction
Yes, it’s the obligatory New Year’s resolutions post! I’m sure you can hardly wash. Yay! Write more. I did poorly with the short story deadlines, but maybe they were too short. One short story a month, excepting March, June, and November, which...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 30, 2006 | novels, scripts, selling fiction, short fiction, writing stats
Short stories completed: 1 Scripts completed: 1 Novel first drafts completed: 1 Short stories that somehow morphed into novels-in-progess: 2 Short stories that were pulled from circulation and completely rewritten: 1 Short story submissions: 32 Short story rejections:...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 27, 2006 | cats
Dear Circe, I can promise you that you’ll never have to take another pill, will never need any more bloodwork. There will be no more vet visits. No more sucky car rides. Goodbye, little ballerina kitty, who two months ago could jump over my head at the ripe old...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 25, 2006 | life, the universe, and everything
One year, not too long after my parents had divorced, my mother tearfully announced that there would be no Christmas this year and stormed off to work. No money, you see. It just so happened that my mother also used to rescue half-dead plants from the office and nurse...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 22, 2006 | geekiness
Thanks to Mark Paschal (the author of OpenID Comments for MT), OpenID is back. I’ll probably never know why Brian’s OpenID stopped working–my guess is that it’s just borked–but the LJ account I was using to test was missing a piece in the...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 22, 2006 | cats, picspam
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 22, 2006 | geekiness
The Parable of the Managers. Goest thou, oh managers of IT, and learnest thou the truth of the way of the profit. For I hath toiled in the codebase of Ahimelech, and many times I hath reverse-engineered and finished the undocumented projects of those servants who hath...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 17, 2006 | geekiness
Because I had geek envy, I upgraded my version of Movable Type. Thus far it looks like it was completely painless. Of course, I did RTFM first. 😉 Hopefully you won’t notice at all.
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 16, 2006 | geekiness
Brian migrated his site to Drupal. I have geek envy. If I had any content other than my blog, I’d consider migrating myself. Just for fun, you know. Because I want to play with the geek toy! But no. I’m sticking with Movable Type for now, because I’d...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 14, 2006 | writing mysticism
I’ve been thinking about this lately because I just finished NaNoWriMo and am now working on a short story and the two of them just make me feel more aware of mechanics lately. I usually start with a setting or situation, and then have to find characters and a...