Monthly Archives: July 2011

Links From Blogging 101 Class – Facebook and Twitter Resources

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Cat

More links from the Blogging 101 class, this time dealing with Facebook and Twitter. Continue reading →

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Links from Blogging 101 Class – General Social Media Links

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Cat

As part of the Blogging 101 class I just finished up teaching for Bellevue College, I organized a bunch of my links into a handout. Here is the General Social Media Resources section. Continue reading →

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Links From the Blogging 101 Class

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Cat

As part of the Blogging 101 class I just finished up teaching for Bellevue College, I organized a bunch of my links into a handout. Here it is online for ease of clickability, but I’m going to break it into separate posts for easier posting and post one chunk each day because it’s 11 pages long as is. I’d be happy to answer questions or discuss any of the links or the overall list philosophy in comments. Continue reading →

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Watch Out for Parasitic Fairy Bites

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Cat

A scene from early on, illustrating one of the dangers of the wilds near Tabat: parasitic fairy bites. Continue reading →

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Sentence from Today’s WIP, The Super Hero and the Coffee Goddess

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Cat

She’s taking over midtown, sending out hyper-caffeinated, zombified office workers, fingers twittering, moving with a flash mob’s speed, spreading faster than a video of a tickled kitten. Continue reading →

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Work in Progress, Plus an Exhortation About the Write-a-thon

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Cat

As many of you know, I am working on a Big Fat Fantasy Trilogy and chunks of it have become my write-a-thon goal. I hope to have a complete rough draft by the end of July and am well on track for that. Interspersed in the narrative are little set pieces. I thought I’d share a recent one and mention that if you support me in the Clarion West Write-a-thon, you will get at least two more of these AND the first three chapters of the book over the course of the Write-a-thon, even for the smallest of donations. Continue reading →

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Filling In More of The Moon’s Accomplice

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Cat

And all along the side of the boat, on the inside of the railing, were pictograms scratched by former prisoners. Some were easy to decipher: Six Flowers, Sun and Rain, Riverfern. Others were harder, lacking an established alphabet. A clamshell might be that, or some other concept, or food, or the sea, and coupled with what could have been a candle or eel or sprout, who was to know the precise name of the former prisoner, fate as unknown as Shyra’s, who had scratched that, in letters no more than a fingernail high, in the space beside the hasp to which Shyra had been secured for the duration of the journey? Continue reading →

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Items I Covet

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Cat

This is a Wonder Woman comic written by Samuel R. Delany. Samuel fricking Delany. In issues 202-203 she abandons her super powers and becomes a super agent. Note the label “The Women’s Lib Issue”. So full of AWESOME I’m surprised it could be scanned without shattering the lenses of every piece of A/V equipment in a five block radius. Continue reading →

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Some Words From This Morning

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Cat

This is from the BFFT (Big Fat Fantasy Trilogy). I have the first book completely blocked out now, so I’m going to fill in all the blank spots, then block the next and do it and so forth. Anyway, this is from early in the book and is the first appearance of Teo, who is a major character. I’m actually switching my Clarion West writeathon goals over to novel chunks to make them a bit more in alignment with my highest priority, which is finishing this trilogy.
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