‘Cause I’m still a little too giddy to think about anything else just yet.
Some questions came up in yesterday’s thread. I shall answer them.
Q. Don’t you mean “googol”?
A. Yes, you insufferable pedant.
Q. When will the book be out?
A. At this point, we’re aiming for spring 2009, but that could easily change. (And by [...]
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Okay, this isn’t really fluffy, but since it’s a non-fat-related meme, and we are in the midst of the Pre-holiday Cavalcade of Fluff, I’m categorizing it as such.
The lovely Harriet Brown said some very kind things about my writing and tagged me with a “Roar for Powerful Words.” What I love about this meme, other [...]
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So, my first day of conference blogging went well, except for the part where I kinda took the “live” out of “liveblogging.” I wrote up a post this afternoon, e-mailed it to Jessica, and then had to e-mail again and say, “Wait, don’t post that!”
See, I sorta tuned out first thing in the morning when [...]
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(And the tiny crowd goes wild.)
In my capacity as a Bibliophilistine, I was reading the Guardian Books blog this morning, and I came across a line so throwaway I’m not even going to link to it or take the author to task for it specifically. But I’ll tell you what it said, so you know [...]
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In a coincidence that’s meaningful to no one but me, I decided to start writing under my real name (and fantasizing about developing a broader readership) right around the same day I first heard about Kathy Sierra. Since then, I’ve been following the endless discussions about cyberbullying, anonymity, blog civility, to what degree this is [...]
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I always presumed that I would be a writer, without actually doing any writing. I think I thought I was going to get a phone call from somebody one day saying they had a vacancy for a novelist. When I realised that this wasn’t going to happen I thought it was about time to do [...]
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It has virtually nothing in it (fourth kid), but I was amused by these tidbits:
The Expected:
16 months: Loves to look at books. Eats everything we eat.
At 19 months: Repeats all words and speaks in two-three word phrases.
The Much Less Expected:
16 months: Loves babies of all kinds.
19 months: Can definitely put an idea across with only [...]
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I’ve been thinking a lot about creative writing and composition pedagogy since I started this new program–where they intersect, how methods from one field can be applied to the other, etc. Workshopping and peer editing, for instance, are now big deals in composition–but they’re dressed up for the academics in terms like “student-centered pedagogy” or [...]
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Okay, maybe. We’ll see.
I’ve been mulling over a lengthy response to the “Why didn’t Oprah take Bush’s ass to the woodshed instead?” argument I’ve seen several people make, including Lillet and, indirectly, A-Meg–both of whom I respect tremendously, even though I disagree wildly on this point. I’ve hesitated, though, because I know I have a [...]
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Notes from the Fatosphere
