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Tag: writing life

  • Current Work

    Been doing a lot of handwriting on Bellica since the 14th. I think I’m about 15? Maybe fewer; not sure. 15 chapters away from the end anyway. Kind of excited and scared about that. In other news I’m working on getting my poetry book glasstown published, so stay tuned for news about that. I’ll post…

  • The Muse smiles upon me

    Tonight I wrote the first poem I’ve penned in over a year.  (Link.) This simple fact makes me want to cry tears of joy.

  • So close to the climax

    Feminist author rants about avoiding sexism with the written word.

  • Adopting words: senticous

    Now, this is really a great word if you’re looking for the perfect word to describe a cat, or a cactus, or a briar patch, or someone who’s rather harsh. The word is senticous — what does it mean? Read below.  senticous adj. 1657 : prickly, thorny He pricked himself on a senticous bush as…

  • show me your words

    So now that my weekly word-blogging has begun, perhaps some of you would like to start using those words? In a poem perhaps? You could speak of the bimarian quality of Canada (that word is next week, folks) or what is vanmost on your mind when you think of this Great White North. You could…

  • The Smell of Hope in the Morning

    We’ve come to the end of an era, my friends. Not a particularly lovely era. A dark age, to be precise. We’ve come through the night and a new day has dawned, bright and shining (and misty in Nanaimo) — a new day, and we can have hope again, because change has come.  He’s human,…

  • Happy New Year! (First Post of 2009)

    And, because I hate myself, I’m doing getyourwordsout   this year. I’m pledging 200K words. That’s just under 17K a month. Can I do it? Oh yes. I think I can.   By which I mean I MUST BE FRIGGIN INSANE.  Actually, though, when I looked over my word count goals that I’d set for this year ANYway, I realized…