For a story I’m writing that’s set in the future, I needed to research this sea level rise I’ve been hearing about. With the temperature rise from global warming, the sea levels will also rise, for two (more…)
Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print by Lawrence Block
One of our requirements for school is to write five reading journals each semester. Here is a portion of one of this semester’s journals.
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Check out this interesting article about the upcoming Harry Potter book. Scholastic has agreed to print Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on paper that has a minimum of 30 percent post-consumer waste (more…)
A friend of mine, Ray Bartlett, writes for Lonely Planet, and is now doing podcasts for them as well. His first podcast, Sapporo Snow Festival (under “Ice Sculpting Heats Up”) was just recently posted (more…)
Did you know vampires are fascinated by counting? Or that plants such as hawthorn or a branch of wild rose will repel them? I didn’t either, but as part of researching vampires for my novel, I learned (more…)
A good friend of mine, Mike Rosenberg, has a blog called The Naked Vine, where he expounds on a variety of affordable wines. He’s doing such a great job, the Cincinnati Weekly wrote an article about Mike (more…)
A few days ago I wrote about some research I’d done about pandemics. At the same time, I also learned about disease transmission. Those flu pandemics that hit fast and burned out after several months (more…)
(If you haven’t read day 0, day 1 and day 2, you might want to check them out first.)
Day 3 dawned bright and early. We started off the day with another round of critiques, and by the end of the (more…)