Does anyone know of a web hosting/social networking site designed to let kids set up their own site? I happen to know a little person who does not want to use a folder on my personal site.
Go, little copy edit! Fly!
StandardFly like the wind!
I just dropped the copy edit for Game of Cages off at the downtown Seattle post office. It ought to arrive in NY tomorrow, which is good because it’s due on Tuesday and Monday is a federal holiday.
::crosses another item off list::
Tomorrow is a family day, and Sunday I dig into the rough draft of Man Bites World.
Nobel Committee to U.S.A.: “Here’s a piece of candy for being our friend again.”
Standard“Please don’t scare us any more.”
Ha ha! Startling!
StandardI have a copy edit due on Tuesday, 10/13. It has to be there, inside the publisher’s offices, on that day. Express overnight mail, people!
Monday, 10/12, is a federal holiday, and all the post offices will be closed!
Luckily, I should be able to put it in the mail tomorrow.
ETA: (because I didn’t want to put this into a new post) My Amazon.com sales ranking for Child of Fire seem to be following a steady routine, at this point. Early in the day, about 8 am PST, the rank is around 14K. Later in the day, (say, about now) it’s up to 28K.
I know it doesn’t mean anything, but I wonder what it means. (I know: Nothing.)
Dammit
StandardI was so close to finishing my copy edit this morning. This evening, maybe. I also have to work up the dedication and acknowledgements.
Still. So close. Ah, well. I expect I’ll make a couple last decisions after work today and put it in the mail tomorrow, well before deadline.
Also, there’s nothing like a rigorous copy edit to make you question the strength of your relationship with your mother tongue. Apparently, I need to work a bit on the difference between “each other” and “one another”.
Remember last June?
StandardI hope you do.
Anyway, I wrote a post about a book called Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence, which was not only about the way real fights differ from what we expect, but is also about how we deceive ourselves about what we can do and what we can’t. My original post is here: blog / LiveJournal.
Well, last night I had another “Meditations” moment: For quite a while now, I’ve been a morning writer. Physically, I’m a night person, but I could never get anything accomplished at the end of the day–too tired, too distractible, too many other things to do. For years, I’d come home from work and get nothing done on my projects. Once I started waking early and writing before work, I was much more productive.
But why, exactly, was that? Did I say tired and distractible? That’s just me defining myself as a person who can’t do some perfectly reasonable thing, and last night I walked out of my day job after a full day’s work and my usual morning writing session to head to the library.
There, I put in another two and a half hours on the copy edit. I expect to finish the whole thing today.
Can’t write/revise/whatever at the end of the day? Why do I tell myself these things? And how long is it going to take for me to break that habit?
Jim Hines Explains It All
StandardBrickCon 2009
StandardI wish the photos had turned out better, but still, they can’t help but be pretty cool considering the subject matter.
For instance, a huge diorama of the zombie apocalypse:
or an equally huge epic fantasy layout:
Of course, I posted multiple photos of the dioramas. Check them out.
There’s also a set of steampunk creations, a WWII layout, space ships of every kind (many of which I’m sure come from TV or movies I don’t recognize) and other fun, wild stuff. Really amazing.
I uploaded them at their full size, so if you’re really interested, you can see them fully blown up. Here’s the whole set.
Randomness for 10/6/09
Standard1) A new type of cloud is recognized. And it’s beautiful.
2) Manly men = Straight men, now and in the past? Not so.
3) Cops have their water hoses, but what do protesting farmers have?
4) Paul Krugman answers readers’ questions about the economy.
5) Facebook status updates from comic book superheroes. So damn funny I can’t stand it.
It’s really easy to grind your own
StandardI have a couple of gadgets that can turn chuck into ground beef, and I really recommend using one of them. Pre-ground beef just isn’t safe.