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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Jun
28
Word Whore & Fox and Willow Thursday
This is most likely my last post for the next week or so – heading out for vacation tomorrow and my internet will be fairly spotty. Sort of a shame since I really want to write up a post on the new Brave movie and some of the really asinine reactions about it, but that’s probably going to have to wait until I get back to be posted. In the meantime, I may post some beach pictures if I can, but to be honest, I’m hoping to just remove myself from all things electronic for a bit. (Save email. I’ll have my iPad, so it’s not like I won’t have *any* connections to the outside world, but the last thing I want to do is blog. Though there will probably be some writing going on – deadlines remain, after all.) In the meantime, I’m over at Word Whores today –…
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Jun
27
Putting Out
The thing about social networking is that there has to be a measure of honesty about it – at least if you’re trying to make actual connections with people. I tend to go fairly light on the promo stuff most of the time unless I’ve got an interview or something to mention. I probably *should* do it more, but it’s just not me. Call it modesty, if you want, or laziness, or whatever, but I’m not fond of the selling myself aspect of authorship. Probably makes me a Bad Promotion Author, but that’s okay. No one really seems to know what sells books anyway – promo, ads, swag – whatever. In the end it should be about the words, though sometimes it’s really just luck and timing. At any rate, many authors are introverts – so the idea of blogging or facebooking can be fairly intimidating. It doesn’t mean they’re…
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Jun
26
Posering
I used to have hobbies before the writing gig became professional. I won’t say writing was a hobby because I literally didn’t write anything from about college until I was 32 or so. And certainly nothing “serious” until about 2008. Which became BoD and then that was that. But yeah, before then I used to read a lot more than I do today. I used to cross-stitch. I used to do lousy Poser 3D art. I liked the art stuff – even though it wasn’t massively taxing and somewhat equivalent to 3D Barbie, I still found it soothing. It was one way to get out some of that creative juice. When I started writing, sometimes I had trouble imagining what my characters looked like. I don’t usually associate them with existing people like actors or live-action characters (which is why that question is so hard for me to answer when…
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Jun
25
We’re All In This Together…Alone
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Tagged fox and willow, interview, self-wank, social networking, tumblr, twitter, writer stuff
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I stumbled across this Tumblr site a few weeks ago called Hey Author. Whoever runs it is clearly an author, a reader, or someone who is fairly deep into the author culture on Twitter/Facebook. (And obviously has a bug up their ass about self-publishing). But as biting and obnoxious as some of the observations are, there’s a ring of truth to them too. (Some of them are completely over the top, but still – I’ve been “guilty” of several of them.) I’m guessing the author of the tumblr is trying to point out that these “writer problems” are pretty low on the list of real world issues. (But I suspect most artistic problems are. Writers aren’t the only groups who self-wank themselves into thinking they’ve got an emergency out of nothing – lots of artists do it too. Hell, most self-insulated groups do it, from the HOA to the PTA…
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Jun
22
Lego My Legolas
So Lego apparently released a big round of Lord of the Rings Lego sets…and I sorta bought them. All of them. Partially for nostalgia reasons – I grew up with Legos , but when I was a kid they were mostly marketed to boys, and they certainly weren’t quite as slick as they are today. (I seem to remember they had space Legos, and Lego City stuff…and maybe some castle stuff, and that was about it for a while. Now tho? It’s all tied in to current pop culture and they really make an effort to tie things in.) I like putting them together – for some reason I find it a great way to blow off stress, but I also get the added family bonus because Connor and I can work on them together. I let him put some of the smaller sets together by himself – he did Shelob,…
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