Monthly Archives: November 2011

Nov
4

It’s Friday!

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…and quite honestly I’m up to my ears in stuff, so not sure what to talk about today. Actually, I’ve got a ranty mcrantypants blog that’s been brewing up in my head for weeks now about women in gaming (or how women are portrayed in gaming, etc.) but I’m not sure I really have the literary chops to say what I  want to say without it coming across as “Guh, sexism bad. Y U always show bewbs?” So I’ll sit on that for a little bit longer. Tell you what though – if I had the time/money I’d seriously look into starting up my own mini-gaming company. Thanks to running a mostly female gaming forum for eight years, I’ve got artists and writers and game modders galore. What I don’t have is honest-to-god programmers and 3D render whizzes. Gaming engine, yes. Original mesh creator? No.  But perhaps I’ll just put… Read more
Nov
3

Word-Whore Thursday: Fear Itself

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Just a little note to say I’m over at Word-Whores today, talking a little bit about fear. I’m afraid of an awful lot at times, though I’d guess most of it tends to be irrational (although I suspect most creative types are irrational nutjobs when it comes stuff like that. But that’s what makes us creative, right?) That’s what I tell myself, anyway…. >_<… Read more
Nov
2

Running in Circles

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Ever feel like your head can’t shut down? Like your brain is on a hamster wheel, but instead of doing its thing and chilling out for a while, it just runs and runs and runs and you end up in some wretched state of mental exhaustion where you have a billion things to do and you can’t actually stay focused on any of them long enough to do anything at all? And then you feel like a complete and utter failure because you can’t even manage to keep your kitchen sink empty of dishes? Yeah.… Read more
Nov
1

No NaNo

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I was actually debating doing NaNo this year. I’ve done it before and won and it is fun, but there’s just too much going on with me right now. NaNo is one of those things where you really have to want to do it, otherwise it becomes a bit of a slog. At the moment I feel like I’m walking a pretty tight rope between work and writing, family and personal stuff and I just can’t see adding the insanity of NaNo into the mix right now. Or maybe I’m a little jaded since I’m under massive deadline pressure with this third book. I’d love to have that sort of time and I don’t.  I’m sort of consumed with the book, and that leaves very little time for anything else. And while I do work okay under some pressure, right now I just don’t need the added bonus of anything… Read more