Ground-up Projects
I stumbled upon an online story a couple of months ago through one of the digital fiction feeds I actually pay attention to. It was a really fun, neat little story, and I subscribed to ...
Month: August 2009
Names, Dammit
Neil Gaiman got an interesting question at the reading last week: how does he come up with such wonderful names? Coraline was a typo (he misspelled Caroline on a letter, and thought the result was ...
Telling Stories Around the Campfire: There’s Always One Guy Who Rocks
I went up to the Edinburgh Festival last week, mostly to hear Neil Gaiman read (yes, again). It also meant that I bought far too many books, more than I’d given myself leave to purchase. ...
The End, the Means, They’re All Big Deals
I’m sure I’ve written this post before, and I probably will write it again, but I’m such a dope I seem to always be forgetting about this issue. It helps me to reiterate it, and ...
The Arduino: Bringing Interactivity Out of the Computer
I was invited to sit in on a talk today in the School of Computer Sciences. Yes, I was the only woman there. We won’t dwell on that. What I will dwell on is my ...
Hurdle Hurdled (with as it turns out, a smaller hurdle than I thought)
I did indeed survive to write about my first yearly PhD supervisory committee meeting today. I came out roses, actually. Nice. I’d prepared a summary report a couple of weeks in advance, detailing my current ...
Neural Wiring, To-Do Lists, and Knowing Where Your Keys Are
My day yesterday was full of discovery. I learned things about people, and rather than smiling and nodding and thinking to myself “Wow, people really suck for not being just like me,” I actually absorbed ...
3000 Words a Day
That’s my goal, every weekday, from now until classes start at the end of September. If I can hit it, that will mean approximately 105,000 words in 7 weeks, translating to a finished draft of ...
What’s your favorite myth/story? Please share!
I’m in the process of researching some background/inspiration material for my PhD project, gathering myths & stories. If you have one, please post a comment, send me an email, FB message, note (tag me), whatever. ...