Links:
• I’m a fan of saving the environment, but doing without toilet paper is further than I want to go by a long shot.
• What’s the next puzzle craze after sudoku? Article with sample puzzles. The nurikabe was really easy.
• Limyaael’s Non-Villain rant. There’s no reason that you need to assume a villain in order to have a story. Mainstream fiction and many “classic†novels get away quite handily with having no villain, or only one truly despicable character in a populated world where many other shades of morality exist.
Writing Summary:
Goals for the past week:
Two reviews – one on the OWW, one off.
Revise ATfD. Almost done.
Although there’s a large energy barrier to critting, I really enjoy it. I like taking things apart and seeing how they work, and I like the chance of discovering something really good.
I should write more short stories. (I won’t, of course, because I don’t have short ideas.) It’s so nice to be able to go over a whole story in one sitting, and keep it all in my head at once. I need more practice with endings, too, and they’re a lot faster to get to in a 2k word story than a 90k story.
Goals for the coming week:
Revise (and submit) ATfD.
Write post about beginnings of novels.
Tasks for later:
(OWW) Catch up on reviews to be returned. (Only one or two left.)
(Trapped Magic) Finish unstickynoting ch 11-15, Finish ch 1-3, Type ch 4-10, Notebook notes for ch 11-15.
Other stuff:
I’m in the early stages of creating my own WordPress theme. Since I don’t know PHP at all and my CSS is built on a weak foundation, this is slow. But fun.