• Archive for July, 2007

    Write-a-Thon Week 3

    by  • July 2, 2007 • WRITING, WTF • 0 Comments

    Off to a good start this week, in a way. I decided to take a break from To the Happy Country for today, and I started work on a new ghost story set in my home province of Saskatchewan, called The Empty Slough. It’s meandering, but that’s fine: I fully expect to draft it...

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    Write-a-Thon, Week 2 Complete

    by  • July 1, 2007 • WRITING • 0 Comments

    Whew. I just ran right to the end of the stuff I thought up yesterday and today, and I have a vague idea what’s coming next, but I have some time tomorrow to think it over and plan it out. Plus a lot of time in the next week to work on it. Here’s...

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    Things You Learn Surfing the OED

    by  • July 1, 2007 • WRITING • 0 Comments

    Here I am, looking for a K-word to complete an acronym for a Superhero Teams Control Board — the Shoopah Units Control K_______ — and what do I find? A beautiful new word: kakistocracy “The government of a state by the worst citizens.” That’s just begging to be used in a title somewhere. There’s...

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