…I just keep finding cool stuff to post about!
Category: cool stuff
All Things Philosophical reaches 1 million hits
According to my counter, anyway! These aren’t a million separate visitors, but 1 million total hits to the home page of the site (not counting me).
Wee!!
Pointless fanfic
Inspired from the discussion in my previous post.
And surprisingly not the first stand-alone fanfic I’ve ever written. But it should probably be the last.
; )
Myth-taken
I’ve decided I need to read more mythology and folktales. You know, the classic stuff from various cultures. I can’t help feeling that that’s where my next novel’s going to come from. It will be fantasy, but not historical fantasy. It will take place in the contemporary world, but will be about opening your eyes to the fantastic that’s all around us–or, at least that’s all around in the world of my fictional characters. The best fantasy, I think, builds on the classics, the way Mutant Enemy built on classic horror tales of our own culture and other cultures to create the rich landscape of Buffy and Angel. But oh, I haven’t read mythology since I was in Jr. High. I was one of those Greek-Roman-Norse myths freaks at the time, and I even forayed into Native American mythology before “real life” stepped in and I got more interested in gay and lesbian romance novels.
Now I hardly read anymore at all, which is like, doom, if you want to be a writer.
So I need to read stuff. Mythology, folktales, contemporary, ancient, fantasy. Anybody got any good recommendations to re-start my education?
And oh so better than chocolate
I think writing is my favorite thing in the universe. Better than sex (but just barely). Better than anything.
It’s nice to have something you can feel that way about.
Stop and smell the planets
You know, there was a time when I used to get excited about every space shuttle launching, every space probe whizzing past planets, every eclipse. I remember one summer in grad school I was working for the State of CA and there was a partial eclipse that day and I made a point of going out on the office patio and squinting up at the sun just to see if I could see the little bite the moon had taken out of it.
I remember walking out to the patio, passing all the worker bees in their Dilbert cubes thinking, “This is a major event! Look at you people, so intent in your work like that’s somehow of any importance at all compared to this!” Uninspired drones.
And then somewhere along the way, I stopped paying attention to any of that stuff, too. Maybe it just became so commonplace. Maybe the opposite–maybe there wasn’t enough exciting astronomical events out there and I gave up hoping for it. Or maybe it’s just, in the past few years, I’ve been less into the sci-fi and wanting to see it become real, and more into the fantasy/horror genres. Who knows?
Lately, though, there has been a flurry of new!fun!space news. Privately funded space ships. Probes whizzing past Saturn’s rings. I may yet become again the girl who stayed up all night watching the latest fuzzy images of the planet Neptune.
Oh and that meme thing…. which says I’m apparently a wimp lurking in the shadows.
The latest meme sweeping the country… er, world
Ganked from londonkds
http://www.masquerade.com: Posting board site with a variety of themed “rooms” where you must post as a character, rather than yourself.
http://www.masquerade.org: Role-playing game site about the fictional “Masquerade, New Mexico” where vampires, werewolves, magi, etc roam. Sounds like a southwestern BtVS.
http://www.masquerade.edu: Doesn’t exist. Grab it up while you can!
http://www.masquerade.net: Home site for the New Monterey Business Association, “A Community of Businesses United to Achieve the Common Goals of Economic Vitality, and to Reaffirm the Spirit of New Monterey.”
Why could anything so dull get such an interesting domain name?
http://www.masquerade.co.uk: Apparently exists and is in reserve by someone, or my browser just won’t show me what’s there.
Author Nancy E. Shaffer 