anacronyms

We’re leaving tomorrow morning for Mayne Island, where there is no connectivity, so you won’t hear from me until Monday.
Things of note that happened in 2005:

I sold my first story. Against type, it was also my first submission. For a short while, I was 1/1; 100%. That didn’t last long, because:
I also got my [...]

I’ve been following Miss Snark’s Crapometer postings. If you’re a novelist (published or not) you should be too.
I think that these (to date) 57 synopsis critiques are far better teaching tools than any dozen books on writing. You get to see all the mistakes, and Miss Snark points out every flaw. Further, it [...]

As I write this, Batman has just lost his Batmobile. Conveniently, the Batcycle was hidden very obviously ten feet off the road.
HouseApe 3.0 and I are watching the Batman movie (1966) which we picked up at the grocery store for 6.99. It’s so far beyond camp it’s actually sort of cool. Lee Meriwether [...]

Christmas Day has always been a hell of a grind for Chris and I. As of this morning, we’ve spent seven of them together, and this one just past was the best.
We are both divorced, and each of us shares a child with another parent. Chris’ ex lives 20 minutes away, while mine moved 5 [...]

I grew up surrounded what I will call the Christmas Myth1. Even though we were not a religious family (I was in a church twice, I think, before I reached the age of weddings and funerals), I knew who Jesus was and of the events surrounding his birth. I still, sometimes, feel the warm mystery [...]

I wonder how long it will be before I encounter the first child named ‘Galadriel’ or ‘Arwen’.

It must be strange for people who live in the southern states. Today is wall to wall Christmas specials, wall to wall people learning the true meaning of Christmas in a variety of sappy and dimwitted ways, and each and every one of them takes place in the snow. From reading PBW, I know that [...]

Found via Lisa S, via Mindy:
Luca Turin’s Perfume Notes. Who the hell would have thought that a blog about perfume would have even been sustainable, let alone interesting? Not me, that’s for sure. But it is. It’s very interesting.
There are story ideas there, I can feel it.

Mindy sounded a death knell1 for simile and metaphor over on her blog. She laments
Simile is dead because the good ones are taken and the ones we come up with to replace them sound strained or are so esoteric that nobody understands them.
Simile is a bit harder to get by a reader than metaphor because [...]

It seems to me that the person who is first in to a new genre, or the latest revival of an old genre, stands to make a buttload o’ dough. Anne Rice, for example.
To that end, and considering that everyone and his or her dog are writing genre fiction these days (although some with less [...]