Monthly Archives: September 2006

Footie Thoughts

9/30/2006 – 1:31 pm

I played pickup yesterday and did quite well, thank you. Scored a half-dozen goals and had the best outing this side of thirty I’ve ever had.
I also had a revelation as to a possible reason why this happened, and it has a lot to do with who I was playing with. I’ve mostly [...]

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Real People

9/28/2006 – 1:35 pm

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One of the classes I’m taking is subtitled “The Researched Story” and one of the things we’ve discussed—but haven’t definitively answered—is the question of writing about historical personages and how to handle them. In short, the author must decide how to balance fact from fiction.
That was last week. Just [...]

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Non-Sciffy

9/26/2006 – 11:37 pm

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I’m about a grand deep in words for my final project for my researched story class, tentatively (and blandly) titled “Miss Pavlichenko.” The target is 5-6K words. The good news is that the professor really liked my research prospectus and hinted that the core idea I’m wrestling with—attractive woman [...]

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Audiobooks Revisited

9/24/2006 – 7:18 pm

I’m taking a long, hard gander at that Audible subscription plan. Again, it’s $150 for 12 audiobook downloads or $230 for 24. One needs to work within their catalog but, surprisingly, some of their really, really long selections only count as one download. It’s not based on length but title, even thought [...]

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Wisconsin Book Festival

9/23/2006 – 12:23 pm

FYI, I just checked the schedule for the Wisconsin Book Festival and noticed this talk scheduled for Sunday, Oct 22:
4:00 – 5:30 PM, Orpheum Theatre
Genre Fiction and the New Wave Fabulists
A discussion with Neil Gaiman*, Peter Straub, and Gary K. Wolfe
Panelists will discuss their work in the broader context of genre writing. They [...]

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My Fickle Heart

9/22/2006 – 1:44 pm

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Well, I just submitted my research prospectus for the story I need to write for my creative writing class. I said before that I was finally going to tackle “The Wendigo Killers,” which has been kicking my ass for over two years and just refuses to budge. I lied.
Allow me to [...]

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A Reflection on Who I Am (and Who I’ve Always Been)

9/20/2006 – 10:41 pm

First things first. The shake up at Elmo FC has yielded terrific benefits. One striker scored, one midfielder scored, two defenders kept clean sheets, and the keeper posted a shut-out giving me a total of 88 points and helped drag me back into contention—only 19 points separates me from 2nd place (currently [...]

By Trent | Posted in - England/EPL, School | Comments (1)

Titus Groan and Other Reads

9/19/2006 – 2:55 pm

I finished listening to Titus Groan the other afternoon and I swear there was a breeze in the kitchen as all the oxygen flooded out of the house. I stood looking at my iPod and, after several seconds of silence, said “Wow.”
Peake’s book is better than it has a right to be. It’s [...]

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Reading With My Ears

9/17/2006 – 9:22 am

For school I just finished Elizabeth Costello and liked it way more than I thought I would. On the flip side, for the same class I read about half of Beckett’s Mercier and Camier and really can’t stand it. I enjoyed Waiting for Godot but this one’s leaving me cold.
I’ve almost finished the [...]

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Submission

9/13/2006 – 12:09 pm

I dropped a gently edited version of “Castleneff” in the mail yesterday, bringing my total number of stories submitted since January 1 to 29. That was my total for last year and 2006 still has a few months to go.
I’m more selective in where I send stuff now and more selective in what I [...]

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